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Dear all,Just a reminder that tomorrow, Friday, 8th April is the deadline for paper proposals for the panel 'States of Care' - which will run at the African Studies Association Biennial Conference in Cambridge this September. The Call for Papers is below. Abstracts of 250 words should be submitted directly to the conference website, here: http://www.asauk.net/asauk-biennial-conference-2016/ We look forward to your contributions! Koreen & Leila Panel:States of Care Organisers:Dr. Koreen Reece (University of Edinburgh - [log in to unmask]) Ms. Leila Sinclair-Bright (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh - [log in to unmask]) Abstract: How might care help us understand power? What happens to our understandings ofthe relationships between citizens and states, clients and institutions, when we re-consider them in terms of care? This panel invites papers that experiment with applying care as a way of rethinking power relations in Africa, ranging from the state to publicinstitutions, businesses to churches, and NGOs to families. Care is a concept we tend to associate with the intimate spaces of kinship orthe clinic, and it frequently serves to separate these concerns from larger political projects to which they are ineluctably linked. And yet, care is richly suggestive, speaking to mutual but differentiated obligations, rights and responsibilities, the productionof hierarchy, questions of value, affective dispositions and professionalised skills. Care also often emerges as a concern in times of socio-political crisis. This panel seeks to radically reframe discussions of legitimacy, corruption, patronage, paternalism,dependency and development in Africa terms of expectations, experiences, and practices of care. Such an approach challenges Weberian notions of the neutral state and opens for consideration the question of how expectations of neutrality and/or care clash, contradictor work alongside each other. Furthermore, the framework of care might help us to trace connections between the state, public institutions, and the family, and to understand interrelationships of these spheres. Bringing political anthropology into discussionwith work on kinship and the state in Africa, we invite papers that reimagine power in terms of care, both conceptually and in practice and performance. ************************************************************* * 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. * * ***************************************************************