With apologies for cross-posting
Dear colleagues,
we are pleased to annonce that it's now open the call for papers for our panel "Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa"<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5164>, which will be held at the next European Conference on African Studies<https://ecas2017.ch/> in Basel, 29 Jun - 1 July 2017.
Please find the call for papers below and follow this link<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/ecas/ecas2017/panels.php5?PanelID=5164> to propose a paper by 19 January 2017.
Best wishes,
Michela Fusaschi<https://scienzepolitiche.uniroma3.it/mfusaschi/> (Univ. Roma3) and Giovanna Cavatorta<http://iris.ehess.fr/index.php?1312> (Univ. Roma3 & EHESS)
Gender, body politics and humanitarian fields in Africa
Short Abstract
In the field of the anthropology of humanitarian governmentalities, this panel aims to discuss researches on gender policies and body politics in Africa.
Long Abstract
Humanitarian projects promoting biopolitics of the body and aimed at enforcing women's and gender rights (e.g. campaigns for the abandonment of the so-called "FGM/C" practices, promoting sexual health, targeting lgbt and sexworker groups, etc.) are highly spread in Africa challenging local sex/gender systems. In these fields transnational, governmental and grassroots social dynamics articulate with each other and different representations of gender violence and empowerment circulate. We propose to consider these projects as social arenas in which moral economies are elaborated and negotiated and relations of power among different gendered subjectivities are defined and deployed.
The overall objective of this panel is to contribute to a critical anthropology of human rights, gender and body politics in the domain of humanitarian governmentalities in Africa. We seek contributions offering a strong analysis of both sited discourse and social practices in order to gain anthropological insights into the complex moral, social and political stakes.
Which representations of healthiness and pleasure are allowed to be expressed? Which "traditional" and "modern" gendered bodies are produced and how are legitimized? How to disclosure neocolonialist approaches underlying in neoliberal biopolitics? When and which positioned definitions of structural violence, gender violence and empowerment emerge? Considering these projects in terms of politics of redistribution, what about extraversion in this sense? These and other questions could be addressed.
This panel welcomes papers in English and French.
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