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Dear Colleagues, Apologies for cross-posting. Please consider submitting a paper proposal to the panel "Generational Affects: Anthropological Ways Toward Re-Enchanting Disenchantment" (panel no. 30) Adam Kingsmith and I are organizing at the next IUAES Congress, which will take place on 7-11 October 2020 in Šibenik, Croatia. Panels should be sent through the online submission system by 23 March 2020: https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/abstract-submission/ Call for Papers Panel "Generational Affects: Anthropological Ways Toward Re-Enchanting Disenchantment" (panel no. 30) Convenors: Adam Kingsmith and Lisa Richaud Panel Abstract: From President Macron's recent public address blaming the French for being "too negative" to state-led promotion of positive psychology in post-socialist China, governmentality seems increasingly veered toward saving present and future populations from "negativity". But what are the operations of the "negative" that make it so central to state and market concerns? Put differently, what can negative affects do, in an age of ecological anxiety, economic insecurity, migrant melancholy, suburban despair, technological FOMO, outrage against state brutality, depression, grief, fear, boredom, loneliness? Rather than dismiss these pervasive feelings, this panel focuses in on affective modes of being that context-specific emotional regimes condemn as unproductive or threatening to social order. Following the ongoing "affective turn" in the humanities and social sciences, it invites ethnographic case studies to investigate how dysphoria operates, in order to better understand the imaginaries and sociality that shape and are being shaped by future generations. To these ends, we welcome papers exploring: - Negative affects as diagnostic tools for understanding social conditions and practices; - Irruptions against explicit definitional acts or staged atmospheres that manage or promote certain affects and dismiss or condemn others; - Physical and discursive spaces, events - ranging from the most obviously traumatic to the most mundane - and other insecurities through which affects materialize; - Politicized and structured feelings, emotions in the public sphere and power structures; feminist, queer, intersectional feelings; emotional labour, affective activism. Any questions and queries should be sent to Lisa Richaud ([log in to unmask]) and Adam Kingsmith ([log in to unmask]). We look forward to receiving your abstracts! Lisa Richaud (Université Libre de Bruxelles) and Adam Kingsmith (York University) ************************************************************* The Anthropology-Matters mailing list is is administered by the ASA. AM is used to communicate with postgraduate & postdoctoral anthropologists working in the UK and abroad to provide alerts to: new issues of the Open Access Anthropology Matters journal, and events of anthropological interest in the UK anthropology community such as conferences and seminars or funding opportunities. To join the list or view 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] To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 **************************************************************