Dear list members,
Please consider submitting a paper to our panel no. 81 “Anticipating
Afterlife” at EASA’s Biennial Conference in Barcelona, 23-26 July 2024. The
deadline for paper submissions is 22 January 2024.
Convenors:
Sabine Klocke-Daffa, University of Tübingen
Sophia Thubauville, Frobenius Institute Frankfurt am Main
Short Abstract:
Worldwide, funerals are figuring among the most elaborate social events.
Moreover, burial commodities and places cause high costs to the deceased and
their survivors. This panel wants to discuss the creative ways in which
people deal with the challenges they face when preparing for the afterlife.
Long Abstract:
For many societies worldwide, social security is one of the most pressing
issues to be addressed. If states have few social benefits to offer,
individuals must make their own provisions for times of crisis. Rather than
relying exclusively on formal ways of support, new possibilities have been
sought which allow for maintaining familial obligations and social norms
without threatening individual economic wellbeing. However, some forms of
social security have been so successful that they have been adopted in
diaspora communities in host countries with very sophisticated social
security systems. Caring for the future entails the care for the life of the
living as well as for the afterlife of the dead. Funerals are figuring among
the most elaborate and costly social events consuming large amounts of
financial and material resources. Some diaspora communities are also faced
with the high costs of repatriation of bodies of the deceased. In order to
cover the expenses, new forms of safeguarding have been accessed and
creatively developed. Among them are rotating credit associations, funeral
and life insurances, and the negotiation of "death benefits" as part of work
contracts. Getting engaged in one of the "caring units" are locals as well
as external family members and international diaspora communities. This
panel aims to discuss the creative ways in which people deal with the
challenges they face due to the high cost of caring for the afterlife. We
invite papers that focus on forms of social security, on funerals, and /or
care for the afterlife.
Best regards,
Sabine and Sophia
Dr. Sophia Thubauville
Research associate and head of library
Frobenius Institute for Research in Cultural Anthropology
Norbert-Wollheim-Platz 1
60323 Frankfurt am Main
Germany
phone: + 49 (0)69 798 33240
<http://www.frobenius-institut.de/> www.frobenius-institut.de
DGSKA-AG „Familie im Feld“
https://familieimfeld.org/
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