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Subject:

AEGIS Conference: Call for papers

From:

Virginie Tallio <[log in to unmask]>

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Virginie Tallio <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:36:35 +0200

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Dear colleagues,

We are organizing a panel on "Biomedicine, Governance and 
Experimentation" during the European Conference on African Studies. The 
conference will take place from 4 to 7 June, 2009, in Leipzig (Germany).

You will find below and enclosed the call for papers for this panel 
(constituted of three sub-panels). Do not hesitate as well to circulate 
it to your colleagues who can be interested.

Paper proposals should not be longer than 400 words and have to be 
submitted through the ECAS website before the 31rst of December, 2008.
You will find also on the website some practical information:
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~ecas2009/

Best regards,
Babette Müller-Rockstroh and Virginie Tallio



Call for Papers

On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation

The Max Planck Fellow Group LOST (Law, Organization, Science and 
Technology) organizes a panel during the 3rd Conference on African 
Studies on “Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation”. The conference 
will take place from the 4th to the 7th of June, 2009 in Leipzig (Germany).
Contact: Babette Müller-Rockstroh ([log in to unmask])
Virginie Tallio ([log in to unmask])


In Africa, biomedical research and health services have been conducted 
jointly over the past century, shaping landscapes of healing and 
scientific experimentation. This conduct leads to the emergence of 
interstitial spaces where regimes of governance, techno-scientific 
practices and social reproduction are undergoing significant changes. We 
invite papers that explore these shifting constellations and the 
emergence of new relationships between bodies, politics and science.


Panel 1 - Biomedicine and governance: theorizing the relations between 
science and administration

Chair: Babette Mueller-Rockstroh
Discussant: Wenzel Geissler

The African health crisis and the hollowing out of state capacity have 
expanded the scope of intervention. In many countries medical care has 
virtually collapsed as a result of failing structures, devastating 
pandemics, conflict and war. As a result, the continent is increasingly 
viewed through biomedical lenses and becomes re-shaped accordingly. In 
these circumstances various international, state, and non-state actors 
are called upon to provide medical services and do medical research 
under neoliberal principles of governance. In this workshop we want to 
focus on biomedical practices, forms of organizing medical care and 
research, and on corresponding legal regimes that all together aim to 
enhance well-being by controlling disease. We want to examine how 
biomedicine constitutes an armamentarium of political technologies that 
ensures social and spatial order by governing bodies and by making 
populations accessible to medical intervention. We want to find out how 
this armamentarium is transformed by its encounters with individual 
sufferers, afflicted populations, and institutional environments.

Panel 2 - Africa as a laboratory: questioning implementation research 
and humanitarian innovation

Chair: Virginie Tallio
Discussant: Vinh-Kim Nguyen

The media and international organizations predominantly depict Africa as 
the continent of famine, epidemics and wars. They privilege the view 
that Africa mainly deals with ongoing humanitarian crises and frame the 
continent as prototype the states of emergency. This prepares the ground 
for emergency interventions which require a different legitimation than, 
for instance, development projects. In an inversion of the classical 
modernist model of experimentation – where evidence of the efficacy of a 
technology permits intervention – in these scenarios, the exceptional 
intervention validates itself as being effective and enables to learn a 
lesson for the next occasion. Implementation and experimentation thus 
become blurred. Medical care and research are the most evident fields of 
this newly emerging form of experimentality, which includes also other 
forms of socio-political and economic governing and humanitarian 
innovation. It is also mirrored in the emergence of new actors in the 
field of humanitarian intervention such as P.P.P.s or private 
foundations. These issues will be explored in this panel.

Panel 3 - Experimental subjectivity: emerging forms of citizenship in 
African contexts

Chair: Wenzel Geissler
Discussant: Shalini Randeria (To be confirmed)

This panel will explore the intersection of emerging regimes of 
governance (i.e., classical state formations as well as humanitarian and 
development programs and nation-building technologies such as truth and 
reconciliation practices) and techno-scientific practices with 
subjectivity in African worlds. Rather than seeing Africans as passive 
“subjects” of government or intervention, this panel will explore how 
worlds and subjectivities are re-made as political and material 
technologies are incorporated into ethical projects, forms of 
self-fashioning, or political projects. The goals of the panel are (1) 
to highlight the ways in which political and material technologies are 
translated—i.e.  appropriated, sublimated or resisted, to name a few—by 
Africans (2) to explore the unintended consequences, working 
misunderstandings and otherwise unexpected that results when these 
technologies are deployed and circulate across African worlds (3) to 
describe the impact of these phenomena on subjectivities.  We take 
subjectivity to encompass registers of identity, narrative, citizenship, 
and self-fashioning.

-- 
Virginie Tallio, PhD.
Research Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
PF 11 03 51
D-06017 Halle/Saale
Germany
Phone + 49 (0)345/2927-586
Fax     + 49 (0)345/2927-502
http://www.eth.mpg.de

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