Apologies for cross-posting.
Dear all,
Asta Vonderau (Stockholm University) and I, Jenny Lindblad (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) are inviting paper proposals to the panel Navigating Scale (abstract below) for the Annual Conference of the Swedish Anthropological Association (SANT) in Stockholm, 6-8 April 2017.
Deadline for submission is the 7th of February (send a 250 word abstract of your paper proposal including institutional affiliation, email and the title of the panel to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>). Link to the conference page: https://sant2017.wordpress.com. If you have any questions, feel free to contact us. Please share with potentially interested parties.
Kind regards,
Jenny Lindblad
Navigating scale
Convenors: Asta Vonderau, Stockholm University and Jenny Lindblad, KTH Stockholm
"Globalization is a crystal ball that promises to tell us of an almost-but-not-quite-there globality. This is powerful stuff for experts, politicians and policy makers" (Tsing 2000:332). Although anthropological fieldwork is an ultimately localized practice, in their fields anthropologists are constantly confronted with diverse modes and practices of scale making. For instance, questions and processes of climate change, economic developments, or issues related to migration are often framed as "global" by institutions and in political discourses. At the same time, they can be negotiated as local, regional, national, or global in more diverse or locally specific ways by other actors. Taking its cue from Tsing's suggestion to not take "global forces and local places" as simply for granted, our panel makes scaling the object of its analyses.
* In which ways do different actors change and navigate their contexts of action and endow their concerns with different levels of significance?
* What are the material and political channels that enable (or hinder) scaling processes?
* How can scaling be investigated by means of ethnography?
* How do anthropologists themselves engage in processes of scaling while assembling and navigating their fields of research?
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KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Div. of Urban and Regional Studies
SE 100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
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