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*CALL FOR PANEL PAPERS
*ASA 2012:Arts and aesthetics in a globalising world
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 3rd-6th April 2012
*CFP: The aesthetics of suicide
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/Short abstract:
/This panel explores the aesthetics of suicide, from its status as a
bodily, visual performance through artistic representations to
depictions by the modern news media, social media, and scientific charts
and graphs. Papers are invited that consider the aesthetics of suicide
around the world.
/Long abstract:
/Suicide is receiving increasing anthropological attention in South
Asia, as well as around the globe. This panel explores the aesthetics of
suicide: the various ways in which different visual portrayals of
suicidal behaviour shape popular or scholarly understandings, and how
such portrayals relate with the aesthetics of bodies, societies, and
their problems more generally.
While suicide is often understood as a problem of the mind, it is
primarily a problem of the body. All suicidal acts begin and end with
the material body: non-fatal self-harm may be destructive of only one
part of the body; self-inflicted death may destroy the totality of the
body. But in either case, it is the physicality of the act that defines
such behaviour. How do acts of self-harm relate to other kinds of body
modification, and interplay with notions of beauty and disfigurement?
But the aesthetics of suicide extend well beyond the body. Rich
traditions of suicide representations exist across art forms. Both old
and new forms of news media, from television to Twitter, have the power
to rapidly disseminate depictions of suicide, most recently leading to
political revolution in Tunisia. Graphic depictions of suicide rates
have since Durkheim been used to say something about the wellbeing of
nations, encouraging forms of humanitarian assistance. In what ways
might images of suicide and suicide's images create suicide as human
problem, across different places and epochs?
Papers are invited that explore the aesthetics of suicide from these or
similar angles.
To submit a proposal for this panel or to find out more, please follow
this link to the appropriate page on the ASA's website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1289
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Submissions need to be made before 7 December.
Many thanks!
Tom Widger
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