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Dear colleagues,
We would like to welcome paper proposals to the panel "Capitalism and global anthropology: Marxism resurgent" at the IUAES 2013 Conference, Manchester University, UK, 5-10 August (panel details bellow).
Deadline for submissions of abstracts is July 13th -- submissions can be made using the "propose a paper" link on http://www.nomadit.co.uk/iuaes/iuaes2013/panels.php5?PanelID=1651.
Please don't hesitate to contact us for any queries/additional information...
With best wishes,
Patrick Neveling ([log in to unmask]) and Luisa Steur ([log in to unmask])
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Panel PE39
Capitalism and global anthropology: Marxism resurgent
Convenors: Patrick Neveling (University of Bern); Luisa Steur
(University of Copenhagen/SOAS)
Short abstract:
This panel engages with Marxian and related analyses of social dynamics
as structured over time and place in the larger context of global capitalism.
Contributors should be explicit about their theoretical/methodological approach
and how it is situated vis-à-vis or within Marxist anthropology.
Long abstract:
Recent turmoil in the capitalist
world system - signalled as the "crisis" - confronts us with the
shortcomings of mainstream anthropology. Following the
"globalisation" debate of the 1990s and its flat ontology of global
versus local, many anthropologists already lost sight of the elementary
structures of capitalism and their cyclical seismic changes. This briefly
changed with an interest in "neoliberalism", which ironically however
soon became yet another way of not speaking of capitalism. In response to the
"crisis", then, we now see an even more defensive move toward
"ethnographic theory" and "ethnographies of hope",
sheltering behind the totems of fieldwork, the cultural, and the experiential.
The lack of historically and geographically engaged theorizing in this move
will lead to another dead-end in understanding the social in the context of
capitalist change.
In this panel we hence seek to
engage instead with the renewed interest in Marxian and related Polanyian,
Braudelian, and other analyses of social dynamics as structured over time and
place in the larger context of global capitalism. We look towards an
anthropology that allies itself with history, sociology, and geography and can
become a dynamic contributor to the social sciences by focusing on
anthropology's strengths in studying the lived entanglements and critical
junctions of past and present dynamics of capitalist integration and exclusion.
We invite contributors to this endeavour to be explicit about their theoretical
and/or methodological approach, discuss how it is situated vis-à-vis or within
Marxist anthropology, and relate it to their empirical research.
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