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Dear colleagues,
We extend an open invitation to submit a paper proposal to this panel
in the EASA Conference.
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1303
Please submit your paper by using the link on the EASA website.
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Under pressure: gender ironies and performances in contexts of extreme uncertainty
Convenors
Julie Billaud (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Humboldt University)
Julie Castro (EHESS)
Short Abstract
This panel will investigate the ways in which actors caught in situations of extreme political and economic uncertainty routinely respond, through
performance and irony, to different sources of pressure related to
their gender.
Long Abstract
Contexts of armed conflict or chronic economic vulnerability together with the
increased influence of global forces (militarization, economic crisis
and the development of inequalities, hegemonic extension of development
discourses and practices, etc.) deeply impact on gender identities,
dynamics and relations. This panel will investigate the ways in which
gendered actors caught in situations of extreme political and economic
uncertainty routinely respond to these different sources of tension. How do 'subaltern' men and women resist or challenge or compose with the
transformations of gender identities and relationships ? We are
particularly interested in papers that highlight the ironic and
performative dimensions of the ways people manage with local norms of
gender and the global forces which attempt to reshape them, and how these
unfold in everyday practices. Irony is intended here both as a way to
capture and respond to the inconsistencies, contradictions, ambiguities
generated by those encounters. Following Marcus (2001), we argue that
the ethnographic situations where irony prevails exemplify and document
with great acuteness the uncertainty that marks the contemporary world.
Caught between local constructions and global politics, the ironies of
gender appear to be very useful in the comprehension of the ways
contemporary uncertainties reshape social realities.
Julie Billaud
Postdoctoral Fellow
"Legal Cultures" programForum Transregionale Studien
c/o Humboldt University
Tel: (+49) 1523 660 0350
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