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Dear list members,
the Call for Papers for the upcoming European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) in Lisbon, from June 26-28, 2013, is open from now until January 16.
This is to inform you about a panel on "Crude Moves: Social Fields of Global Oil"
Conveners:
Andrea Behrends, Nikolaus Schareika, Thomas Bierschenk
Abstract:
Crude oil for global markets brings tremendous change to less or least developed producing countries. The panel seeks to understand the specific dynamics unfolding around oil sites. It aims at combining these insights with new theoretical approaches within the emerging anthropology of oil. Recently, for instance, such well-grounded studies have challenged established theories like that of the ‘enclave economy’ or the ‘resource curse’. Their focus lies, on the one hand, on the interaction of human actors with the materiality and the technologies of oil and, on the other, on social creativity and new forms of practice triggered by oil production. ‘Crude moves’ addresses scholars who study social fields around the production, transport, marketing, contestation or governance of oil and who build on new empirical data in order to present innovative theoretical generalizations in this field of knowledge. We invite papers that focus on particular communities or groups of actors that are affected by oil production and, at the same time, on the interface between their practice and global developments in the particular environment this resource creates. Further fields of inquiry might broach the issues of the workforce, trade, the financial sector, international intervention, but also rebel movements, displacement, migration, youth and others. Particularly interesting, but not exclusively favored, are engagements with Science & Technology Studies and the concept of materiality.
To hand in an abstract, please go to the ECAS Website at:
http://cea.iscte.pt/ecas2013/cfp.shtml
Best regards,
Andrea Behrends
http://www.ethnologie.uni-halle.de/personal/dr_andrea_behrends/?lang=en
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