Dear colleagues,
we invite papers for our SIEF2019 panel (Econ02) on
*** "Fake it 'till you make it": anthropological explorations of 'falsity' in times of rapid social transformation ***
The deadline for submissions is *15 October* and abstracts should be submitted through SIEF’S website, at https://nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2019/conferencesuite.php/panels/7217
The conference will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, between 14-17 April.
*The panel ethnographically explores practices that blur boundaries between 'falsity' and 'truth’, such as pretence, deception, camouflage, and counterfeit in relation to economic crises and austerity, welfare withdrawal, deregulation of labour, moral economy, ethics, and hope*
Long Abstract
Processes of rapid social transformation, ranging from austerity and privatisation to turmoil and displacement, are often represented in terms of a radical break that distinguishes between past and present. For many people the certainties, assurances, and affirmations of the past have become unsettled and given rise to experiences of insecurity, precarity, and grievance. This panel hopes to complicate dualist narratives, and to explore the nuances that operate in people's attempts to align continuity and rupture, presence and absence, that which was and no longer is. To this end, we propose to focus on the multifarious practices that blur boundaries between 'falsity' and 'truth', and which serve to critique, modify, or subvert the constellations within which they unfold. We understand 'falsity' to be an open-ended concept and we approach pretence, deception, camouflage, and counterfeit as necessary conditions that make life, 'things', social relations, belonging, and hope possible. Moreover, we call attention to practices of faking, pretending, mimicking, simulating, and parodising, and we problematise their (im)moral, (dis)enchanting, affective, paradoxical, and ambivalent implications. Finally, we inquire the fabrication, reproduction, but also subversion of 'falsity' and 'truth' or 'reality', and we attend to the creative labour that goes into their (un)making. We invite papers that engage these questions ethnographically, in relation (but not restricted) to economic crisis and austerity, state restructuring and welfare withdrawal, labour and processes of deregulation, materiality and decay, moral economy and ethics, and temporality and hope.
Convenors
Deana Jovanovič (University of Manchester)
Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki (University of Helsinki)
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Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki
Postdoctoral Researcher
Crosslocations - Rethinking Relative Location in the Mediterranean
Social and Cultural Anthropology
University of Helsinki
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