Dear colleagues,
We welcome submissions for our ASA 2019 panel Recognizing diasporas:
transnational struggles for voice and visibility.
Abstract: Diasporas, exiles and other migrant groups often seek justice for
experiences of displacement and marginalization by engaging in recognition
struggles. This panel examines how quests for voice and visibility are
reconfigured through transnational media connectivity and populist distrust
of elites.
Long abstract: Demands for the public acknowledgement of historical
injustices and quests for affirmative self-images of marginalised groups
remain a persistent feature of global cultural politics. This politics of
recognition is especially pertinent for diasporas, exiles, refugees and
other migrant groups. Separated from their homelands as a result of violent
ruptures or economic meltdowns, they inherit traumatic pasts and suffer
stigmatisation in their new sites of residence. While there is a sizeable
literature of critical social theory on recognition (Taylor 1992; Fraser &
Honneth 2004), the abstract and normative character of these debates makes
them negligent of the unexpected lived consequences that recognition
struggles have for those in whose name they are waged. A small
anthropological literature does look critically at recognition (Fabian
1999; Povinelli 2002; Shneiderman 2014), but the concept has received
little attention in the anthropology of diasporas and transnationalism.
This panel aims to discuss struggles of diasporas, migrants, and exiles to
make themselves matter across localities through a politics of recognition
that promises an emancipation from harm caused by inaccurate, demeaning or
untruthful representations. We call for contributions that answer the
following questions through the empirics of ethnography: how do diasporas
negotiate conflicts over voice and visibility in an age of transnational
media connectivity and viral reality (Postill 2014)? How are identity
entrepreneurs in migrant groups held accountable when their pursuit of
recognition becomes oppressive rather than emancipatory? What is the role
of populist suspicions of representation by experts and elites in
transforming today's affective geographies of recognition?
Convenors: Rik Adriaans (University College London), K. Zeynep Sarıaslan
(Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO))
Please send your abstracts (a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
and a long abstract of fewer than 250 words) by April 8th, 2019 via the
online platform → https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/asa19/p/8010
The Association of Social Anthropologists annual conference
“Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges“ will take place at the
University of East Anglia, Norwich, from 3-6 September, 2019.
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Dr Rik Adriaans
<https://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/people/academic-and-teaching-staff/rik-adriaans>
Teaching Fellow in Digital Anthropology
University College London
Room 133, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
https://ucl.academia.edu/RikAdriaans/
<https://ceu.academia.edu/RikAdriaans/>
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