Dear colleagues,
This is a reminder that the call for papers for the Australian Anthropology
Society's annual conference entitled 'Life in an Age of Death'
<https://www.aasconf.org/2018/home/> is open until 16 July 2018. The
conference will take place in Cairns, at James Cook University, on the 4-7
December. Information about panels can be found on this page:
https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels
In particular, I draw your attention to a conference panel I am
co-organising with Simon Theobald, on the topic of 'Visions beyond
precarity: envisaging and practicing alternatives to neo-liberal modernity'
<https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7021>
Since the publication of Judith Butler's (2009) Precarious Life, precarity
has become one of the key interpretive metaphors of current anthropology.
In conjunction with 'neo-liberalism', precarity is now recognised in
countless diverse ethnographic locations, from Japan (Allison 2013), to
France (Thorkelson 2016), to Iran (Khosravi 2017), a by-word for an age as
much as an explanatory schema. Conceptually, in order for precarity to
exist it must necessarily be compared against that which it is not -
stability, and for the nearly half of the global population that is under
30 years of age, precarity describes not so much a state of exception, but
the norm. This panel seeks broadly then to explore the ways in which
individuals, communities, and societies come to envisage and attempt to
practice alternatives to 'precarity'. What are the visionary landscapes and
ideologies that communities create as they engage with and against
precarity? What ethical value are deployed in attempts to overcome (or live
with) precarity? How are these enacted at local, communal, and national
levels? What variants do these forms take? Taking anthropology not just as
a descriptive discipline but one that informs meaningful change, we ask,
what do our informants show us about the possibility of other worlds?
Probing these questions, this panel provides a forum through which to
consider how current anthropological debates on precarity might be
reconsidered in conversation with local idioms of being, and what new
understanding of so-called precarious lives can emerge as a result.
Best wishes,
Justine
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*Justine Chambers*
Associate Director, Myanmar Research Centre <http://myanmar.anu.edu.au/>
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology
School of Culture, History and Languages
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
Tel: (AU) +61 (0)402671434 | (MY) +95 (0)9786487203
http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/justine-chambers
*https://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/
<https://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/>*
I acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional
lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing
cultures in human history.
--
*Justine Chambers*
Associate Director, Myanmar Research Centre <http://myanmar.anu.edu.au/>
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Anthropology
Coombs Building, Rm 7226
College of Asia and the Pacific
The Australian National University
Tel: (AU) +61 (0)402671434 | (MY) +95 (0)9786487203
http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/justine-chambers
*https://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/
<https://anuanthropology.weblogs.anu.edu.au/>*
I acknowledge and celebrate the First Australians on whose traditional
lands we meet and work, and whose cultures are among the oldest continuing
cultures in human history.
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