Apologies for cross postings. Please circulate the following call for papers for a WCAA-IUAES sponsored panel at the RAI conference on 'Anthropology, Weather and Climate Change', June 2016
Panel title:
Disciplinary Dalliances and Disciplinary Transformations in an Age of Climate Chaos (panel jointly sponsored by the WCAA and the IUAES)
Short abstract:
Climate effects cannot be combated without concerted global action. Further, alliances across disciplines are now being seen as necessary for such global action. The panel will investigate these emerging collaborative practices and their consequences for anthropological and other forms of knowledge.
Long abstract:
It is frequently noted that climate effects cannot be combated without concerted global action. Further, alliances across scholarly disciplines are increasingly regarded as necessary for effective action on a global scale. Climate research has begun to involve anthropology in a variety of new partnerships -- between social sciences and STEM sciences, between anthropology and other social science disciplines, new forms of collaboration between the different sub-fields of anthropology, new kinds of encounters between longstanding hegemonic anthropological tradition and anthropology from elsewhere. Needless to say, all of these partnerships are enmeshed within existing hierarchies of knowledge production and global systems of power. How have they worked out in practice? Are they producing the hoped-for insights or talking at cross purposes? Are they exacerbating disciplinary defensiveness or dissolving boundaries?
This panel seeks to investigate these emerging collaborative practices and to open up a conversation about their consequences for anthropological as well as other forms of knowledge.
Panel co-convenors:
Chandana Mathur (National University of Ireland; WCAA deputy chair) and Andrew 'Mugsy' Spiegel (University of Cape Town; IUAES treasurer)
Deadline for paper abstract submission: 8 January 2016
For information about the conference, please see http://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-weather-and-climate-change-2016
For information about the panel, http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2016/panels.php5?PanelID=3818
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Andrew D Spiegel PhD
Emer Assoc Professor in Anthropology
University of Cape Town
P O Rondebosch
7701 Cape Town
South Africa
Treasurer, International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Member, Advisory Board of World Council of Anthropology Associations
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