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Dear Colleagues, Just a quick reminder that the deadline for paper proposals to the panel Ordinary Crisis: Kinship and Other Relations of Conflict, to be held at the ASA 2015 Conference in Exeter, UK, on the 13th-16th April 2015, is fast approaching! Please find the original call for papers below. Papers may be proposed via the panel page on the ASA website, until midnight on Monday, 1st December, 2014: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3375 Look forward to receiving your submissions, and meeting you in Exeter! With thanks and best wishes, Koreen ReeceUniversity of Edinburgh CALL FOR PAPERS ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth) University of Exeter13th-16th April 2015 Ordinary Crisis: Kinship and Other Relations of Conflict Can crisis and conflict create, or sustain, social relations? This panel explores the analytic and ethnographic potential of using conflict and crisis to trace theoretical symbioses between kinship, politics, economy, and religion; and the ethical implications of our entanglements in intimacies of crisis. ABSTRACT In the discursive proliferation of crisis – political, public health, economic, environmental, religious, personal, or otherwise – the most urgent crises are often framed in terms of their adverse effects upon, or (worse) origination in, the ideally-harmonious home. And yet our expectations of family stability are often closely linked to shared experiences of negotiating misunderstanding, conflict, and crisis with kin. In what ways might conflict or crisis create and sustain social relations, rather than simply disrupt them? Can the ordinary crises of kinship provide perspective on larger socio-political crises, and vice versa? How do discourses around the nature of crisis shape intervention in the family on the part of the state, the church, the corporation, or the humanitarian organisation – and the family’s responses? And finally, what are the methodological and ethical implications of anthropologists’ entanglements in the intimacies of crisis, whether in families, organisations, or the lives of informants? Drawing on McKinnon and Cannell (2013), this panel seeks to examine the enduring and yet obscured symbioses of kinship with political, economic, and religious relations – in both their ethnographic and theorised forms. We invite papers that explore these interdependencies specifically through the lens of crisis and conflict, understood as dynamics that may be intrinsic to and constitutive of social relations. ************************************************************* * 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. * * ***************************************************************