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Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting.
I would like to invite paper proposals to the panel "Industrial worlds:
anthropological gazes on materiality, class and value" at the IUAES 2013
Conference, Manchester University, UK, 5-10 August (panel details bellow).
I would also very much appreciate if you could circulate this
information among other colleagues who might be interested.
The call for papers is now open and it will close on the 13th July.
All the best,
margarida
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IUAES 2013 Conference - Evolving humanity, emerging worlds
5-10 August - Manchester, UK
http://www.iuaes2013.org/
Panel PE49 - Industrial worlds: anthropological gazes on materiality,
class and value
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1672
Convenor
Emília Margarida Marques (Lisbon University Institute / CRIAnthropology)
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Short Abstract
The panel calls for contributions that address the intricate
relationships between the recent Western re-industrialization rhetoric,
the actual lived experience of current and past industrial work, and the
contradictory dynamics of capitalism, unfolding into myriad social
processes, behind both.
Long Abstract
Manufacturing industry is back to the Western public discourse, as well
as to some public and corporate policies. US politicians claim that a
welcome homecoming of the country's auto industry is occurring, while
EU's Horizon 2020 Strategy elects the support to industrial development
as a flagship initiative, and neo stakhanovist rewards are established
in Russia. Throughout this rhetoric, industry is deemed a sound basis
for wealth in opposition to the evanescence of finance; industrial
plants are portrayed as reliable suppliers of the jobs and living wages
that the 'new economy' has failed to provide; and a territorialized
notion of economy seems to supersede the globalization talk.
Anthropology has for long engaged with the industrial work and worlds
from a variety of theoretical stances, subfields and even national
traditions, whilst conceptual tools like materiality, class and value
have been developed and proven core to those analyses. The panel calls
for contributions that connect with this diverse patrimony by tackling
the intricate relationships between the recent re-industrializing
agendas, the actual lived experience of current and past industrial
work, and the contradictory dynamics of capitalism, unfolding into
myriad social processes, behind both. Topics may include (among many)
the re-industrialization rhetoric itself, the changing material and
symbolic value of industrial wages and their making (including how do
they compare to tertiary ones) or the permanence of lost industrial
worlds in people's lives, be it through retirement allowances that still
materialize the value of past work, and/or interrelated processes of
nostalgia, memory, heritage, or locality.
Propose a paper
<http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1672>
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Emília Margarida Marques
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology | IUL - Lisbon University Institute
Portugal
www.cria.org.pt
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