Dear all,
You are warmly invited to consider sending a paper abstract for EASA 2020
panel 48:
*The circular economy: between promises of renewal and unequal global
circulation *
Convenors: Patrick O'Hare (University of Cambridge)
Dagna Ram (University of Lausanne (UNIL))
This panel invites anthropological engagements with the promise and effects
of circular economies in a world of global commodity and waste flows. It
will explore intersections between circular economic practice and theory,
with the aim of examining alternative and non-hegemonic traditions.
Link:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8552?fbclid=IwAR0CmwLQdicYUkM63MZV1Ku9svcZVQl85ByGrt7dF8tbCMbsaTlQwNI8cRM
Deadline: 20/1/20
Long Abstract
Aspirations towards circular economies are ever more present and popular in
policy circles. The EU has adopted an ambitious "circular economy action
plan", while in China the circular economy (xunhuan jingji) has been
enshrined in law since 2008. While such policies are often constrained to
regional or national scales, examples of dumping, recycling,
over-consuming, and over-producing indicate the spread of "circles" across
global geographies. As such, circular economies materialise not only
through "circularity" but also through global circulation. Although the
multivalent concept is meant to represent an intervention in all aspects of
the economy, it has particular salience with regard to waste. This panel is
thus especially interested in the uneven circulation of waste in both its
direct material forms and through its representations in circular economy
thinking. Despite flourishing disciplinary studies of waste,
anthropological engagements with the circular economy have largely
consisted of critiques, either of the basis of circular cosmologies
(Graeber 2012) or of the new exclusions and continued exploitations that
circularity permits (Alexander 2016). Does anthropology have more to
contribute to a concept that is increasingly restructuring global flows of
virgin commodities, recyclables, and waste? With circularity present in one
of anthropology's foundational economic analyses - the Trobriand Kula Ring
- what can earlier cyclical models identified and used by economic
anthropologists tell us about current imaginaries? What are the frictions
that emerge as concepts and materials travel across different geographic
contexts? What are alternative, non-hegemonic ways to think and practice
circular economy?
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