Dear Colleagues,
We now welcome abstracts for our session on Sovereignty in an Unequal World at the Vienna Anthropology Days (19th-22nd September). You can submit your abstract through the conference website at https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/online-paper-submission/ by the 1st of June. We offer to publish the best papers from the session in the Journal of Extreme Anthropology /https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/JEA/issue/view/586 )
Sovereignty in an Unequal World: Anthropological Perspectives?
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The notion of sovereignty understood as the authority of the state to govern over its territory has been resuscitated both on the Left and the Right, from Podemos to Trump, thus taking once again the center stage in political debates. We could ask if we can imagine a progressive vision of political sovereignty, such as the one sketched by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi in their recent book, Reclaiming the State. But as anthropologists, we may first want to inquire into the general human desire and need for sovereignty, into its appeal and promise in all its different manifestations - be they individual, collective, political or religious, on in between. Rethinking sovereignty and its meaning for people across the globe becomes even more topical in a world where sovereignty has become a scarce resource and where different forms of slavery thrive - from actual slavery and human traficking to debt and different types of dependence. In a disenchanted, extremely unequal world, sovereign moments, and collective rituals capable of bringing such moments about, become rare. This panel invites papers from across anthropology, ethnology and other social sciences to think theoretically through the notion of sovereignty, while grounded in ethnographic fieldwork. And to think sovereignty through unconventional or extreme examples - think of Bataille, de Sade, Nietzsche 'in practice' and anywhere they may possibly manifest. In particular, anthropological considerations of the following themes will be welcome: (1) sovereignty and the state, (2) sovereignty and crime, murder, torture or tyranny, (3) sovereignty and religion, (4) sovereignty and economy, (5) sovereignty and excess, luxury, wasting, exploitation, (6) sovereignty and the sacred and ritual.
There will be a special issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology devoted to the question of sovereignty, thus offering a possible venue for publication of the conference papers.
Tereza Kuldova, PhD
Researcher
Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo
http://www.tereza-kuldova.com/
Editor-in-chief of JEA: Journal of Extreme Anthropology
https://www.journals.uio.no/index.php/JEA/index
Founder of the Extreme Anthropology Research Network
http://www.extreme-anthropology.com
Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Street Gangs: Scheming Legality, Resisting Criminalization
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Luxury Indian Fashion: A Social Critique
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Urban Utopias: Excess and Expulsion in Neoliberal South Asia
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The project 'Gangs, Brands and Intellectual Property Rights: Interdisciplinary Comparative Study of Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs and Luxury Brands' has received funding from The Research Council of Norway through a FRIPRO Mobility Grant, contract no 250716. The FRIPRO Mobility grant scheme (FRICON) is co-funded by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological development and demonstration under Marie Curie grant agreement no 608695.
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