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*** CALL FOR PAPERS *** AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC 29 November - 3 December 2017 ________________ Identity politics versus naïve workerism? Revisiting race, class and gender in the era of Trump and Brexit Panel Organizers: Louis-Philippe Römer Visiting Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College Vito Laterza Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo The 2016 election in the United States and Brexit have been interpreted as signs of ascendance of right-wing populism in the Global North. Within the efforts to interpret this rising movement, a narrative has emerged of a “white working class” whose anger is directed toward an establishment that allegedly privileges immigrants and ethnic minorities—these disenfranchised groups are curiously re-cast as “cosmopolitan, multicultural elites.” From liberals who blame “identity politics” for the rise of Trump, to social democrats and leftists who see intersectionality as an impediment to class solidarity, heated discussions about identity and economics, race and class have returned to the mainstream. As the political commentariat debate “white-lash” versus “economic anxiety” as explanations for the rise of global right-wing populism, economic reductionism is gaining ground both as an analytical approach and as political strategy. Anthropologists have analyzed the entanglement of race, class, and gender in multiple settings. Especially among scholars of the African Diaspora, there is a long tradition of analyzing race, gender, and class identities and economics as mutually constitutive. Recent debates cover familiar ground, yet there seems to be a difficulty with retaining the insights gained from past interventions and contributions. In this panel, we raise following questions: what factors are contributing to the re-visiting of race-versus-class arguments? Why are scholarly contributions and interventions made in past iterations of these debate fading into the background? Is there something about our explanatory models and scholarly practice that might be contributing to the current re-hashing of race vs. class debates? We welcome papers that: 1) seek to theorize the relationship between race, gender, and class (in any context) 2) analyze what anthropologist have contributed and continues to offer to these debates 3) think about ways in which anthropologists can transform concepts, modes of analysis, and scholarly practices to help shape the debate 4) explore how the positionality of anthropologists, intellectuals and public commentators in terms of their own race, class and gender identities shape the knowledge they produce Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by Friday 7 April 2017 to [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> — Dr Vito Laterza PhD Anthropology (Cantab) Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University of Oslo http://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/people/aca/vitol/ http://humaneconomy.blog ************************************************************* * 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. * * ***************************************************************