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Call for Papers for the Panel 'Missing out on Manifest Destiny: Anthropology on the Periphery of the American Dream'
17th World Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
Manchester (UK), 5th-10th August 2013
Track G (General)
Panel G25 - Missing out on Manifest Destinty
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1631
Panel Organisers: Lucy Pickering, Seumas Bates, Poppy Kohner (University of Glasgow)
Panel Abstract
The American dream is one of progress and prosperity, it is a vision enshrined within one of the nation's foundational documents as the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yet these goals are not, it seems, easily achievable for all of the United States of America's citizens. It is this inequality of access to a national vision, and the experiences of those who feel positioned on the margins of this dream, by that by choice or circumstance, which is at the core of this panel. Bringing together scholars interested in America as an imaginative yet lived space, it asks the questions, what does it mean to be an American today? how useful is it to speak of a single America? and what can we gain from exploring the overlaps and dissonances of diverse experience within a country which exists as both nation and ideational space?
Please use the online application to submit your abstract (http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=1734) and provide the following information: paper title, short abstract (max. 300 characters) and long abstract (max. 250 words), name, affiliation and full contact details
Deadline: 3rd August 2012
Lucy Pickering
Sociology
University of Glasgow
40 Bute Gardens
G12 8RT
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