Call for Papers - Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future
British Museum/SOAS/RGS, 4 - 7 JUNE 2020
Paper Session: (Re)scaling the Anthropocene
Organisers Hannah Fair and Viola Schreer (Brunel University)
The Anthropocene has been described as a profoundly 'scalar project' (Hecht 2018), in which (inter)personal, local, regional, national, global, and planetary scales constantly emerge and collapse. Emerging from social, cultural, economic, technopolitical, and scholarly processes, scales are mutable, function discursively yet have material effects: they reveal and conceal; they support political claims; and they both define and defy disciplinary boundaries.
This panel brings anthropologists and geographers into dialogue about how a focus on scale can produce more nuanced understandings about the Anthropocene and enrich different disciplinary perspectives. Concretely, we ask: how we can productively make use of (re)scaling both as object of analysis and a methodological device to explore how the Anthropocene is experienced, contested and negotiated across multiple settings? How can (re)scaling help anthropology to bring its traditional focus on the local to engage with the planetary? How does the Anthropocene reconfigure relations between the human and the non-human at multiple levels? How can such a rescaling be mindful of the conceit of the Anthropos as a universal subject position (Nixon 2017), and bring decolonial, feminist and queer analyses into its understanding (Davis and Todd 2017)? What distinctive tools and perspectives can more-than-human geography and multi-species ethnography bring to these questions?
We are particularly interested in papers that sit at the intersection of anthropology and geography and address the question of (re)scaling in the Anthropocene. Possible topics could include (but are not limited to):
Conservation
Rewilding
Extinction
Engagements with non-human others
Climate Change
Disasters
Toxicities and waste
Digital Natures
Abstract submission
CFP closes 8th January 2020. Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters and an abstract of 250 words. Please submit abstracts to https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8290. Any questions please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Kind regards
Hannah
Dr Hannah Fair
Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Anthropology
Brunel University
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Recent publications
Chua, L. & Fair, H. 2019. Anthropocene. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology. http://www.anthroencyclopedia.com/entry/anthropocene
Fair, H. 2018. Three stories of Noah: navigating religious climate change narratives in the Pacific Island region. Geo: Geography and Environment 5(2), e00068. Available on-line: https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.68<https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.68><https://doi.org/10.1002/geo2.68>
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