Dear Colleagues
We are inviting paper proposals to the panel Silver Linings: The creative potential of uncertain times, at the 12th Annual Ethnography Symposium Politics and Ethnography in an Age of Uncertainty, to be held at the University of Manchester, 30th August - 1st September 2017. http://www.confercare.manchester.ac.uk/events/ethnography/
Convenors
Jessica Symons (University of Manchester)
Luciana Lang (University of Manchester)
Symposium keynotes: Professor Emma Crewe (SOAS, University of London); Professor Bruno Latour (Sciences Po); Professor Bill Maurer (University of California, Irvine); Professor Hugh Willmott (CASS Business School, London)
Please submit a 500 word abstract or proposal by Tuesday 28th February 2017 to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> . Decisions on acceptance will be made by 30th March 2017.
Short Abstract
This panel calls for ethnographically-inspired accounts of communities or people who have engaged creatively with rapidly changing socio-economic and political contexts. It seeks to explore the iterative and discursive processes through which creative activity is dispersed, focusing on the way people respond to uncertain circumstances.
Long Abstract:
The creative industries are currently valued at £84.1 billion per year to the UK economy (DCMS 2016). Music, theatre and arts are combined with digital and film sectors to celebrate and promote original and innovative output on an international stage. The British, it seems, are increasingly recognised as 'global leaders' in creativity - an 'innovative nation' (Creative Industries 2016). Yet creativity is not just about particular sectors or individuals. It also represents a particular adaptive and productive approach to different circumstances.
Urban contexts are particularly demanding on communities with regards to adaptation and the current trend for resilient cities implicitly asks for creative responses to rapid change. Ethnographers and those using participatory research methods are well positioned to identify and understand those that engage with uncertainty and respond adaptively and productively to it.
Through shared insight from multiple ethnographic contexts, this panel will explore and compare the relational dynamics of people who adapt productively to their circumstances. It will consider the individuals, communities and situations that stimulate such behaviour and identify similarities and differences. It will attend to the value that adaptive individuals bring to their communities and how to profile characteristics of an adaptive community. The panel discussion will look for patterns across different contexts, communities and countries to ask what makes adaptive/creative activity distinctive and, in particular, what can be learned from such situations.
We look forward to receiving your paper proposals.
Best wishes
Dr Jessica Symons and Dr Luciana Lang
University of Manchester
Dr Jessica Symons
Urban Anthropologist
School for Education, Environment and Development
Arthur Lewis Building
The University of Manchester
Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL
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