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Dear colleagues,
we kindly invite you to submit an abstract to our panel “Belonging through
Uncertainty – Chaos Navigation in Young People's Lives” at the DGV
Conference (German Anthropological Association) “Belonging: Affective,
moral and political practices in an interconnected world” at Freie
Universität Berlin from 4-7 October 2017.
To propose a paper, please email abstracts of max. 1.200 characters (incl.
spaces) and a short version of max. 300 characters (incl. spaces) to
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*Belonging through Uncertainty – Chaos Navigation in Young People's Lives*
Convenors: Mario Schmidt (University of Cologne) and Franziska Fay (SOAS,
London)
The panel scrutinizes social, imaginary and material practices of,
primarily but not exclusively, young people that creatively exploit their
own or other people’s feelings of uncertainty in order to navigate through
crises. Instead of assuming that political and socio-economic uncertainty
necessarily lead to chaos, the organizers invite papers that focus on
phenomena such as economic speculation and gambling, political and moral
interventions, religious divination, youth gangs and student movements. By
exploring the potential of uncertainty, especially in relation to the
construction of belonging, we follow the assumption that "uncertainty is
productive" (Cooper/Pratten 2015). Considering ways in which uncertainty
shapes young people's ways of being in the world and belonging to places
and people can enhance a more varied understanding of the category
“belonging”. We are interested not only in how a feeling of belonging may
counter or outdo uncertainty, but rather how belonging emerges or is formed
as a result of uncertainty.
We are especially interested in contributions (English or German) that – by
using ethnographically saturated data – discuss practices that form new or
stabilize existing socio-cultural groups not despite uncertainty, but by
recognizing and experimenting with it. This includes exploring how and why
young people claim affiliation with particular groups, precisely in
situations of uncertainty, and the purpose this serves in regard to
remaking and transcending modes of belonging to a collective. We
particularly invite presenters that offer ethnographic insights which serve
a comparative use that goes beyond a singular focus on one 'southern'
region or 'south-south' comparison, but instead draw attention to the
similarities between and productive forces of uncertainties that make young
people belong across the world.
Best wishes,
--
Franziska Fay
PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology
Department of Anthropology and Sociology
SOAS, University of London
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