Dear all,
Sorry for the double posting, but I could not receive from the mailing list
in a readable form the text I had sent (and I also forgot to indicate the
deadline, March 31, 2008). So here it is again.
10th EASA Conference 2008: Experiencing diversity and mutuality, Ljubljana,
Slovenia, 26-30 August 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS, DEADLINE MARCH 31, 2008.
FROM MEDICAL PLURALISM TO THERAPEUTIC PLURALITY: MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AND
THE POLITICS OF DIVERSITY, KNOWLEDGE, AND EXPERIENCE FROM MULTIPLE
PERSPECTIVES (W014)
Convenors: Leonardo Menegola [log in to unmask] - Uršula
Lipovec Čebron (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Ljubljana)
[log in to unmask] - Clara Saraiva (Institute for Scientific Tropical
Research) [log in to unmask]
Short Abstract: This workshop will explore different aspects of the
tensions and complementarities between biomedicine and 'other' medicines.
Through ethnographic evidences, we will contribute to the study of diverse
practices of suffering and healing by focusing on how social representations
and cultural constructions embedded in the encounters between "the West and
the Rest" migrate, transform, or collide at the intersections of emergent
scenarios of contemporaneity. At the crossroad of medical pluralism and
therapeutic plurality, human experiences, social representations, and
culturally embedded practices linked to "suffering" will reveal a vast
ethnographic territory, across which migrational processes will constitute
one among the transversal concerns of this workshop.
We will outline dynamics of exclusion and inclusion between biomedical
and alternative practitioners of healing in contexts of education and
associations; and within processes of legalization in institutional
practices and formal professionalization. We will examine the interactions
occurring between distinct discursive practices and systems of meaning—as
carried out and reproduced by different social actors—to investigate
socially relevant ways in which diverging, pre-established schemes and
representations interact with reference to symptoms, illnesses, models of
affliction and wider socio-moral notions of personhood and the Self. By
looking at the embodiments, feelings, and sensations through which people
make sense of suffering, illness, and healing, we will focus on the
political and performative meaning of such experiences as forms of
resistance, opposition, defence from systems of hegemony, and on the
politically authorized, socially recognized ways of performing both
sufferance and healing. We will explore the strategic references made to
"experience" (e.g. through the mundane world of sensing) by non-hegemonic
medicines that rely on the creation of experiences of intersubjectivity and
mutuality between healers and patients.
The Workshop will be divided in three Sections and a final Round Table
Section 1: Cultural Diversity as Knowledge and Practice
Section 2: Politics and Challenges of Integration
Section 3: The Medical Anthropology of "Experience:" Illness, Suffering,
Healing
Section 4: Round Table: Healing as Plurality, Politics, and Experience
Chair: Melissa Park, Chiara Pussetti, and Carlotta Bagaglia
Discussant: Mariella Pandolfi (UQAM), Galina Lindqvist (Stockholm
University) and Dough Hollan (UCLA)
You can access this workshop (with further information on the 3 + 1
Sections) and the link for proposals directly at :
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa08/panels.php5?PanelID=364
Please forward this to anybody likely to be interested!
Further information
Leonardo Menegola
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