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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** Apologies for cross posting ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Jen Clarke" <[log in to unmask]> Date: 12 Apr 2011 17:56 Subject: Call for papers: ASA 2011 To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Dear colleagues, We are seeking contributions to the following panel for the ASA ( Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth conference) in Lampeter this year, at University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 13th-16th Sept 2011. Please note that the submission deadline is Friday 29th of April. Apologies for cross-posting; please feel free to circulate. ASA11: Vital powers and politics: human interactions with living things. http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa11/callforpapers.shtml http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2011/panels.php5?PanelID=938 <http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2011/panels.php5?PanelID=938> Panel Title: "By leaves we live": the vital politics and poetics of the tree Panel Short Abstract: Inspired by the idea that "by leaves we live" ( Patrick Geddes) and by art, poetry, philosophy, forestry and political activism, we invite creative responses that consider the vital poetics and politics of the tree and it's social forms and associations, from a variety of approaches and contexts. Panel Long Abstract: In 'Poetics of Space' Gaston Bachelard muses on the image of the lone tree. Referencing Rilke's poetry, it is described as a figure of being 'concentrated upon itself', concentrating 'the entire cosmos': 'always in the center, of all that surrounds it' (1994[1958]: 239-240). The tree, thus, is the muse and focus for our panel. The tree is rich in symbolism, a recurrent figure in religion, myth and storytelling, a resource upon which many people base their survival, shelter, craft and play. Yet the tree is not merely a 'lone' figure and so its social forms and associations, its politics and poetics, are also our concern. As Geddes wrote: 'by leaves we live'. Human life is intricately bound up with different forms of tree life; orchards, coppices, forests, sacred groves, and plantations are testament to this. Relations between such forms (perhaps understood as place or landscape) and 'lone' tree (as being or organism) may also be productively explored. Various practices have seen human societies attempt control or domination, for instance industrialized forestry's monocultural plantations, yet even here there is a resistant and somewhat mythical liminality; the forest remains powerful, threatening, even magical. In its life-course and the variety of interactions with the living and non-living constituents of the world around it, the tree is the prism through which we propose to consider vital powers and politics. We invite creative responses to the poetics and politics of the tree and it's social forms and associations, from a variety of approaches and contexts. For general information about the conference theme, see here: http://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa11/theme.shtml -- Jennifer Clarke PhD Candidate Department of Anthropology University of Aberdeen http://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/staff/details.php?id=r06jc8 http://jenonartandforestsand.wordpress.com/ Vivez sans temps morts The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. ************************************************************* * 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 * ***************************************************************