Hello,

Apologies for cross-posting.

Please find a final CFP for a panel on 'Watershed Ethnography' at the
RAI Anthropology
and Geography Conference next June. *The deadline for abstracts is this
Wednesday, 8th January.*

Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future Conference
will be held 4 to 7 June 2020 at the British Museum, Clore Centre, SOAS,
Senate House and Royal Geographical Society.

Panel Session: Watershed Ethnography
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8309

Convenors: Patrick Bresnihan (Maynooth University) and Jeremy Trombley
(Cornell University)

Short abstract:
In this panel, anthropologists and geographers will explore how
ethnographic methods can contribute to watershed thinking in different
contexts, as well as the ways in which the watershed concept intervenes in
ethnography to incite a new methodology.

Long abstract:
A watershed is an area of land from which water drains to a common
outlet—generally where a river flows into another river, a lake, or an
ocean. Conventionally understood as a topographically defined catchment
area, separated from its neighbours by ridges, the watershed as a
physical-geographical unit is linked to human geographies of place-making,
territory, exchange, and political ecology. However, the use of the
watershed as a way of conceptualizing space and a scale for understanding
and managing socio-environmental processes is relatively recent, dating to
the nineteenth century. This panel brings together anthropologists and
geographers to explore how ethnographic methods might contribute to
watershed thinking and, in turn, how watershed thinking might inform
innovative forms of ethnographic theory and practice. While 19th century
anthropology played a role in the articulation of the watershed concept
(Schmidt 2017), ethnographic research developed through attention to
smaller scales of human organization, like islands, villages, and
neighborhoods and later, an abiding concern with understanding communities
in relationship to global political-economic structures, networks, flows,
and infrastructures. Inspired by a new generation of environmental
anthropology, geography, and science and technology studies, panelists are
concerned with the emerging hydro-social connections, forms of expertise,
governance, collective action, and space- and place-making practices that
watershed ethnography might reveal.

The full list of conference panels can be found here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#all and the deadline for proposals
is the 8 January 2020.

Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300
characters and an abstract of 250 words.  On submission of the proposal,
the proposing author (but not any co-authors listed) will receive automated
email confirming receipt. If you do not receive this email, please first
check the login environment (click login on the left) to see if your
proposal is there.  If it is, it simply means confirmation got spammed or
lost; and if it is not, it means you need re-submit, as the process went
wrong somewhere.

A paper can only be submitted once and only one paper can be submitted per
person.

Please do get in touch if you want to discuss paper ideas.

Patrick


-- 
Dr. Patrick Bresnihan
Department of Geography
Maynooth University
(+353) 01 708 3756
https://tcd.academia.edu/PatrickBresnihan

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