Dear colleagues,
Below is a panel proposal for the American Anthropological Association
meeting in Vancouver. I am looking for papers dealing with China or Laos.
If you are interested, please send me a 250-word abstract until March 25th.
With best wishes,
Minh Nguyen
*Care and Privatization in Marketizing Socialist Asia*
Panel proposal for the American Anthropological Association’s Annual
Meeting 2019
Vancouver Convention Center November 20-24
*Convener: Minh Nguyen, University of Bielefeld, Germany*
This panel takes as a starting point a broad conceptualization of care as
the processes involved in creating and sustaining selves, bodies and social
relationships (Nguyen, Zavoretti and Tronto 2017). As such, care is a
social field in which support, nurture and solicitude are given and
received, and at the same time a political one that is ridden with
inequalities and manipulations, where social actors compete for power in
defining how it should unfold.
In Laos, China and Vietnam, Asia’s former state socialist countries that
are rapidly marketizing, care is not just becoming a frontier of
commodification, but also a moral trope that powerful institutions rely on
for legitimation. Above all, the state and the market are found to be
zealously deploying the discourse of care for their goals of producing
particular kinds of citizen and consumer subject while disciplining those
who deviate from the new economy’s norms and standards. It would be,
however, no surprise for anthropologists that people in these places do not
just endorse these norms and standards, but also co-opt, negotiate with and
contest them through alternative meanings and even non-compliant practices.
This panel will focus on such negotiations and contestations around care in
market socialist Asia. Papers will reflect on the possibilities and
politics of care arising from the workings of institutions such as the
welfare state, local communities, the family, charitable organizations and
movements, labor markets and private companies in the market socialist
economy. Of particular interest is the interface between care and
privatization in contexts where socialist institutions and practices
continue to require an emphasis on redistribution despite market-oriented
imperatives of private accumulation and private responsibility.
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