Dear Colleagues,
Please consider submitting to the following panel:
*On Coral Ethnographic Research: Thinking Concepts, Inheritance, and
Speculative Gestures*
AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting 2019
Vancouver, BC, November 20-24
Panel Organizers: *S*ofía Rivera (University of California, Davis), Annet
Pauwelussen (Wageningen University),
Chair: Amelia Moore (University of Rhode Island)
* If interested in participating please send your abstract along with a
title and your affiliation to: [log in to unmask] before 5 April
Panel abstract:
Recent research on corals has taken scientists and labs as the primary
entry points to inquiries about the slow and accumulative disappearance of
corals in warming and increasingly acidic seas. This scholarship has asked
how corals have become barometers of planetary health and climate change
(Helmreich 2016); it has delved into controversial practices of restoration
and assisted reproduction (Braverman 2018; Moore 2018); and has attended to
questions of intimacy and proximity among corals and peoples (Hayward
2010). Others gesture towards other forms of politics that do not rely on
the premise of the individual (Haraway 2017; Helmreich 2016; Gilbert 2017).
A few works have also expanded on “uncontrolled equivocations” regarding
what a coral *is* as it plays out into conservation practices (Pauwelussen
and Verschoor 2017). This panel calls for papers on various kinds of coral
ethnographic research at the intersection of science and technology
studies, arts, political ecology, and geography, amongst others.
The panel invites papers concerned with corals that are not exclusively
local, yet not necessarily planetary. How do ethnographic engagements with
various practices in which corals are made and unmade bring forth
conceptualizations of endangerment, extinction, politics, care, reef
futures, memories, markets, fishing, reproduction, and others? What other
concepts emerge from various ethnographies? What are some of the challenges
for pursuing ethnographic research in places with continuing colonial
legacies entangled with marine conservation practices? Inspired by Haraway
(2014), this panel asks: How do various scholars inherit those legacies and
what kind of imaginations and speculative gestures do these generate?
We welcome submissions of abstracts addressing practices of:
Assisted reproduction - Restoration - Conservation - Invasive species
- Ornamental
coral trade - Political ecology - Fishing - Deep corals - Interdisciplinary
marine research - Development -Off-shore exploration and exploitation
- Underwater
infrastructure - Climate change and small islands - Corporations - Tourism
References Cited:
Braverman, I. (2018). *Coral Whispers: Scientists on the Brink. *Oakland:
University of California Press.
Gilbert, S. (2017). Holobiont by Birth: Multilineage Individuals as the
Concretion of Cooperative Processes. In *Arts of Living on a Damaged
Planet: Monsters. *Pp. M73-M90.
Haraway, D. (2017). Symbiogenesis, Sympoiesis, and Art Science Activisms
for Staying with the Trouble. In *Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet:
Monsters. *Pp. M25-M50
Haraway, D. (2014). Speculative Fabulations for Technoculture’s
Generations: Taking Care of Unexpected Country. Kirksey, E. (Ed.) *The
Multi-Species Salon. *United States of America: Duke University Press.
Hayward, E. (2010). Fingeryeyes: Impressions of Cup Corals. In *Cultural
Anthropology. Special Issue: Multispecies Ethnography*, 5(4)*,*577-599.
Helmreich, S. (2016). How Like a Reef: Figuring Coral, 1839-1910. In *Sounding
the limits of** Life: Essays in Anthropology of Biology and Beyond. *Princeton:
Princeton University Press. Pp. 48-61.
Moore, A. (2018). Working Together to Restore the Reef: Naturalizing
Corporate Forms of Coral, Labor, and Responsibility. In *Editors’ Forum:
Theorizing the Contemporary. Society for Cultural Anthropology. *
Pauwelussen, A. & G.M. Verschoor. (2017). Amphibious Encounters: Coral and
People in Conservation Outreach in Indonesia. *Engaging Science,
Technology, and Society, *3: 292-314.
Dr. A.P. (Annet) Pauwelussen
Postdoc Researcher Environmental Policy Group
<https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Chair-groups/Social-Sciences/Environmental-Policy-Group.htm>
Wageningen University, The Netherlands
LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/annet-pauwelussen-7575682/?originalSubdomain=nl>
Academia <https://wageningen-ur.academia.edu/AnnetPauwelussen> Researchgate
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Annet_Pauwelussen>
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