Hello all, please see the following CfP for a panel I have helped organize
and will be chairing.
> *CFP AAA 2017: Last Call*
>
> Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory
>
> Co-organizers:
> Serena Stein, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
> Andrew Ofstehage, PhD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
>
> Land is often mobilized discursively as wastelands (Voyles, 2015) or zones
> of hidden potential and promise for capitalist development (Yeh, 2013) to
> justify frontier expansions worldwide. Land, landscapes and soil are also
> increasingly recognized as powerful actors in agrarian narratives and
> encounters, as agentive materials that help create their own history and
> futures (Kawa, 2016). This panel centers upon the encounters, memories, and
> afterlives of soil, putting forward the analytic of ‘sedimentation’ to
> recognize, reconsider and unsettle the dust upon which we tread in
> so-called development contexts of extraction. In particular, sedimentation,
> as a social analytic, aims to rethink processes and potential shapes of
> accumulation in extractive spaces, in terms of strata (tempo, order,
> verticality); accretion (formation, connection, growth); and provenience
> (origins, indigeneity, and future archaeologies) of resources taken from
> the earth, as well as the (im)material objects, spaces, imaginaries, and
> discursive remains. Presenters will draw on multi-species and
> actor/non-actor encounters (Haraway, 2007; Ingold, 2000; Raffles, 2002;
> Tsing, 2015), materiality of things (Stoler, 2016; Bennett 2010), and
> memories and afterlives of land and soil encounters (Gordillo, 2014) to
> examine the placeness, temporalities and relationalities of encounters in
> and through land, with attention to disparate histories, political
> projects, and livelihoods in the Global South that help to constitute the
> material and narrative lives of soil.
>
> Submit paper abstracts to Serena ([log in to unmask])
>
or Andrew ([log in to unmask]) no later than 12 pm (EST), April 13.
>
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Marissa J. Smith, Ph.D.
http://marissajsmith.wordpress.com/
Instructor, Cultural Anthropology
De Anza College
Cupertino, California
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