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Panel Call for Papers, AAA meetings in Toronto:
Working title: Trust as traces: past, present, and emotive relationships
This panel takes the 2011 AAA theme of 'traces, tidemarks, and legacies'
as an opportunity to rethink relations of trust and distrust. Drawing
inspiration from the understudied but frequently referenced emotive
nature of trust, we examine how traces and legacies of past and present
relationships come to form a basis of trust or distrust that is distinct
from the rational analysis of risk or advantage. The panel thus explores
a broadened approach to the topic through a variety of ethnographic
settings. Some possible approaches we would like to consider in this
panel are:
What can we learn from using the concepts of trust and distrust
(particularly as emotions or social interactions) to rethink themes that
have not foregrounded such an approach in the past?
What happens when traces of trust do not exist, or are in conflict with
the political or social needs and expediencies of an encounter or
relationship?
How do other emotions and affects, such as fear, melancholy, or hatred
intersect with the traces of trust and distrust, changing their meaning
in the present?
How do objects function as the material embodiment of past traces of
trust or distrust, creating new relationships in the present?
Contact Chris Kaplonski ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>) for
more information or to submit an abstract by 31 March, 2011.
My paper, 'In documents we trust: secret police files in the
rehabilitation of the repressed in Mongolia,' will use the concept of
trust to explore how and why the process of political rehabilitation in
Mongolia has come to be grounded in documents that may well have been
created through torture. In other words, why 'trust' documents that
contain suspect information?
--
Christopher Kaplonski
Senior Research Associate
Mongolia& Inner Asia Studies Unit
The Mond Building
Free School Lane Cambridge, CB2 3RF
and
Department of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
Tel: +44 01223 769337
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