EASA2018: Staying, Moving, Settling, Stockholm, August 14 to 17, 2018
Call for Papers: (P031) The Balcony
Our website for this panel with more information is: https://thebalcony2018.wixsite.com/the-balcony-easa2018
The call for papers is now open and closes at 23.59 CET on 9th April.
Paper proposals to be submitted through this EASA Nomadit link: https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6708
We urge you not to submit papers at the last moment as the EASA system gets jammed on the 12th hour!
Convenors:
Árdís Ingvars (University of Iceland), Ebru Soytemel (Aston University),Konstantina Isidoros (University of Oxford)
Short Abstract: The Balcony invites anthropologists to flock back to balconies - defying Malinowski - and engage in "deep play" to create intricately rich and innovatively theoretical ethnographic magic about balconies and humans in their myriad interactions, like Catalan pot-banging and Danish hyggeligt
Long Abstract:
Malinowski instructed us to get off armchairs onto the verandah, then off verandahs to get in amongst the 'natives', to feel as well as hear their 'imponderabilia of everyday life'. (1961: 25). Abandoned and ignored, balconies are rarely mentioned in passing in ethnographic texts. Yet balconies are prolifically everywhere in human life: novels, fine art, theatre, political speeches, royal marriages.
Only four texts can be located where a balcony takes centre stage: Ghannam (2002) on gender and class from balconies, Pande (2012) on 'balcony talk', Srinivas (2010) on cinematic balcony seating and Cowan (2011) on urban gossip from balconies in 15th-18th century Venice. Otherwise Chopra's single sentence of male domestic workers locked on balconies (2006: 158) and Bille (2013) on candles and string lights on Danish balconies to create hyggeligt exemplify the briefness of balconies in anthropology. Existing theories easily promise limitless application, such as Bourdieu's 'the world turned inside out', Lefebvre's (1991) 'Seen from the window', Heidegger's notion of dwelling, yet there is no actual body of ethnography to analytically play with.
The Balcony invites ethnographers to flock back onto the balcony in its myriad forms, as often invited into armchairs by our interlocutors to gaze upon and philosophise the 'imponderabilia of life' from their balconies. We seek intricately rich and detailed ethnographies in classical kula-esque tradition, supported by innovative, cutting-edge "deep theory" in the recent HAU tradition - we welcome anthropologists to "deep play" (Geertzian cockfighting, 1973) with us on balconies, engage in "thick description" and storytelling, and make new theoretical magic.
See our new website for more info, ideas and inspiration https://thebalcony2018.wixsite.com/the-balcony-easa2018
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