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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** > > From: Saida Hodzic <[log in to unmask]> > Reply-To: Saida Hodzic <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: AAA 2008 CFP: Practice and Politics of Transnational > Medical Research > > CFP AAA 2008 > Field of Frictions: The Practice and Politics of Transnational > Medical > Research > > We invite submission of ethnographically grounded paper proposals that > analyze the productive aspects of transnational medical and public > health > research. We are interested in papers that address research > collaboration > across disciplines and national boundaries and that focus on > contemporary > social and public health problems. Papers focusing on Africa are > particularly welcome. > > Anthropology of medical research in international health has > traditionally > focused on > ethics and political economy in the encounter between “Western” > bioscience and subjects/patients in the global South. The rise of > clinical trial sites > sponsored by foreign governments and/or corporate entities in low and > middle-income countries has provoked us to ask who benefits from > this new > knowledge and to rethink the epistemological possibility of consent. > Parallel to this line of inquiry, anthropologists are moving to a > wider > field of analysis focused on the complex and uncertain subjectivities, > relationships, and predicaments of persons involved in the > transnational > production of bioscientific knowledge. > > This field of frictions – the “unequal, unstable, and creative > qualities of > interaction across difference (Tsing) – is shaped by legacies of > colonialism > and current structures of neoliberalism. Yet, postcolonial subjects > occupy > the roles of researchers, experts, and social engineers as well as > patients. > How are knowledge, rights, capital, and survival negotiated as non- > profit > and profit industries forge alliances and pharmaceutical industry > comes > together with development industry and university researchers? What > kinds of > frictions develop in interdisciplinary and transnational research > projects > in which epistemes, cultures, and interests converge? > > Possible foci include: Representations – of expertise, suffering > Production – of pathologies, cures, treatments, subjectivities, > forms of > sociality > Social constructions – of new categories of disease > Collaboration in the context of a donor/recipient relationship > Medical and scientific “capacity building” > > If interested, please email us your abstract draft ASAP. The final > abstract > is due March 14. > > Organizers: > Johanna Crane Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University > [log in to unmask] > > Saida Hodžić Women and Gender Studies, George Mason University > [log in to unmask] > > ------ > H- ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************