Dear all,
We organize a panel at next year's DGSKA (Deutsche Gesellenschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie) conference in Munich (25-28 July 2023).
The Call for Paper runs until 15 December 2022. Please consider submitting an abstract and circulate widely.
Many thanks and best wishes,
Janina and Giorgio
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8. Troubled Knowledge: Health, Harm and the Environment in late Industrialism (Workshop)
Janina Kehr and Giorgio Brocco
Over the last decades, a growing number of scholars in the natural and social sciences have shown the devastating health effects of environmental pollution on humans and other living beings. Hydrocarbon extraction, chemical pollutants within extensive plantation regimes as well as the environmental effects of global supply-chains are only some examples of contemporary economic, industrial, agricultural and medical activities, which are deeply gendered and racialized. All this has contributed to environmental degradation, the breakdown of biological and social systems as well as the increase of chronic health problems, hitting particularly the most precarious, in both the Global South and North. While numerous public actors corroborate the validity of such knowledge, other actors, however, contest not only the intertwinements between environmental pollution and health issues but also its anthropogenesis.
We wish to discuss in how far anthropological methods provide the necessary time and depth to further knowledge on experiences and relations through which growing levels of toxicity, pollution, and atmospheric warming manifest as health is-sues, as well as to understand the controversial and informal forms of knowledge production that surround this. Therefore, we ask: Through which knowledge practices do economic and political actors try to obfuscate the connections between pollution, toxicities and human and more-than-human disease? Which role does anthropological knowledge play in ongoing debates about the health effects of late industrialism? How do people and activists on the ground produce and spread de-colonial, anti-ableist, participatory and collaborative knowledge about the relations between health and environments? In which ways do daily living experiences, that anthropological knowledge is based on, challenge and complicate existing causative models about the dis/juncture between environmental pollution and health effects in human afterlives?
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Deadline 15.12. 2022
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