Dear colleagues,
we wish to draw your attention to the CfP for our panel 'Upland
Pioneers - Future Aspirations, Moral Imaginaries and Emerging
Religiosities in Southeast Asia' at the upcoming EuroSEAS conference
in Berlin, 10-13 September 2019
(https://www.euroseas.org/content/call-papers).
Please find the panel description below. We cordially invite
interested colleagues to submit an abstract of 300 words before the
mid of May to [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Kind regards,
Oliver Tappe and Rosalie Stolz
---Panel description---
Upland Pioneers – Future Aspirations, Moral Imaginaries and Emerging
Religiosities in Southeast Asia
Convenors: Rosalie Stolz (University of Cologne) and Oliver Tappe
(University of Cologne)
Ten years after the publication of James Scottʼs (2009) widely
received “The Art of Not Being Governed”, the image of the “state
evading” anarchic uplander, though subject to much debate, continues
to shape our imaginations of the socio-political dynamics in upland
Southeast Asia. In order to open up new conceptual terrains we propose
to substitute this image by the trope of the “upland pioneer” that
encapsulates the idea that the people of upland SEA maintain a
“pioneering ethos” (Pierre Petit) and a future-orientation shaped by
both hope and uncertainty. Instead of discussing responses,
resistance, and other ‘re’-active positions towards external forces –
from the developmental nation-state to global capitalism – we shift
our focus more consequently to proactive attitudes and practices that
shape the relationship between upland communities and the external
forces. We wish to illuminate the manifold practices of imagining
worthwhile futures, initiating and shaping socio-economic change, and
gauging its cosmological and moral dimensions that are currently
taking place in the uplands of mainland Southeast Asia.
We aim to explore two intersecting layers of future-making:
Aspirations of economic development and emerging religiosities. The
corresponding dialectic between sociocultural change and an assumed
moral order is of particular concern here: How do pioneers fathom and
re-configure economic and religious frontiers – and handle the moral
ambiguities of breaking new ground? The materiality of moral ambiguity
and the transformation of spiritual landscapes provide hitherto
under-researched fields of empirical investigation. This change of
perspective, inspired by anthropological approaches to hope and the
good, renders visible the diversity of forms of engagements with
“development” and “the state”, conflicting and plural value-regimes,
religious and cosmological transformations.
We aim to gather ethnographically-based contributions that engage with
processes and conundrums of future-making in upland Southeast Asia. In
particular, we encourage fresh perspectives on exploring uplanders’
aspirations and imaginations as well as local narratives and practices
that underlie (economic and religious) future-making strategies.
--
Rosalie Stolz, M.A.
Institut für Ethnologie/ Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Universität zu Köln/ University of Cologne
http://ethnologie.uni-koeln.de/content.php?kid=240
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalie_Stolz
https://uni-koln.academia.edu/RosalieStolz
Recently published:
Stolz, Rosalie. 2018. “'Spirits Follow the Words.' Stories as Spirit
Traces among the Khmu of Northern Laos” Social Analysis 62 (3):
109-127. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2018.620306
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