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*Apologies for cross-posting* Just a reminder that tomorrow (27th Feb) will be the final day for submitting paper proposals for the European Association for Social Anthropologists (EASA) conference in Tallinn, Estonia (31 July - 3 August 2014). We invite you to submit an abstract for our Invited Panel (IP06) : *"Collaboration, (in)determinacy and the work of translation in development encounters <http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3032>"* *Short Abstract* Our panel explores the implications of collaboration discourses and practices in socio-economic development programmes, and reflects on the work of translation in creating and negotiating conflicts, uncertainties, and new social, political and environmental relations.*Long Abstract* This panel will explore collaboration discourses and practices in socio-economic development programmes, and their implications for the translation and materialisation of different worlds. In times of crisis (environmental, economic, moral), collaboration has emerged as an alternative paradigm to the certainties once held by development planners and practitioners. While giving rise to expectations of intimacy between development actors, collaboration also fosters uncertainties about the kinds of worlds it aims to affect among differently-positioned subjects. Processes of translation in development can be problematic and productive, involving relationships and objects that are at once material and imaginative, instrumental and meaningful. In a departure from perspectives that see translation as unilateral, and from those focused on the incommensurability of 'local' and 'scientific' knowledge, this panel examines the potential of collaboration and its frictions for challenging existing assumptions and ultimately generating different worlds. Through the reconfiguration of relations among individuals and groups, humans and non-humans, development encounters emerge as processes of ontogenesis. We aim to also address the political and historical implications of transformative and fragmented ontologies, at work in new technologies of collaboration in development. We invite analyses that consider explicit and implicit translations in development programmes, and explore how key terms, such as community, nature, indigeneity, marginality, poverty, (etc) come to be determined/underdetermined. We encourage reflections on development projects as material and moral, political and poetical, effective and affective; and ethnographic insights into the experience of collaborations and conflicts in everyday life, as well as in moments of sudden change or disruption. *Convenors*: Sophie Haines (University of Oxford) Piergiorgio Di Giminiani (Pontificial University of Chile) All paper proposals must be submitted via the conference website. For more information on the conference, and rules and guidelines on how to submit a paper abstract, please consult http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2014/cfp.shtml You may submit your proposal (including: title, short abstract and long abstract at: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=3032 The deadline for paper proposals is 27 February 2014. Kind regards, Sophie Dr Sophie Haines Research Fellow Institute for Science, Innovation and Society University of Oxford ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * 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 * * To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and * * go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. * * ***************************************************************