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Dear colleagues, please consider submitting a paper for our panel at the Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future Conference (British Museum/SOAS/RGS, 4 - 7 JUNE 2020) Hedging bets in more-than-human worlds: joint futures of veterinary and conservation interventions Convenors: Ludek Broz (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences) and Liana Chua (Brunel University London) As more-than-human regimes of value and governance, veterinary and conservation interventions overlap and intersect in numerous ways. For example, veterinary care is often key to conservation projects, such as endangered species monitoring programmes and rehabilitation centres that aim to ‘return’ rescued animals to ‘the wild’. Veterinary authority and logics also legitimate biosecurity measures that seek to protect ‘native’ flora and fauna from ‘invasive’ species. Both fields, moreover, are constitutively structured around anticipatory devices, such as pre-emptive biosecurity restrictions, programmes for vaccinations, euthanasia or reproduction, and predictions of likely population trends. We invite panellists to ask how the future in conservation and/or veterinary medicine serves as a ‘guiding trope in the present’ (Nielsen 2014), and on what temporal scales it is located, or indeed evacuated (Guyer 2010). We seek contributions that empirically/ethnographically flesh out how the two fields (separately or jointly) build their capacity to imagine, foresee, speculate, and predict, so as to intervene, act upon, enact, precipitate or prevent different versions of the future. Specifically, we encourage curiosity about the structural, political, imaginative and other means through which the two fields build authority and hedge their bets on various futures—particularly in situations where there is a significant risk of failure or being proved wrong. Abstract submission CFP closes 8th January 2020. Proposals should consist of a paper title, a (very) short abstract of <300 characters and an abstract of 250 words. Please submit via https://nomadit.co.uk/rai/rai2020/conferencesuite.php/paperproposal/8349 If you have any questions please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Kind regards Ludek ************************************************************* * 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: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * 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 click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************