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Proposals must be made by the 5th JANUARY 2014. To send a proposal, go
to: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2751
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh. Thanks!
CfP: *** Linking the moral and the political economy in the European
periphery ***
Panel Convenors: Theodora Vetta and Jaime Palomera
Chair: Susana Narotzky
- Summary:
This panel will focus on the current 'remaking' of the European periphery,
with its accelerated processes of dispossession, to explore how moral
arguments around provisioning are simultaneously linked to economic models,
forms of regulation, and actual everyday practices of livelihood.
- Long Abstract:
In The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith contends that human beings
tend to identify with what others feel, and to form moral judgments based
on this. We determine whether the feelings of others are just or unjust,
correct or incorrect, depending on whether we sympathize with them or not.
Because we tend to sympathize more with those who are affectively connected
to us, the privileged space for moral sentiments is that of intimacy. This
approach somehow resonates with anthropologists' general conception of
moral economies. Theorists have traditionally confined their analyses of
morality to the strict sphere of kinship, friendship and community. Yet the
difference is that anthropology has the capacity to expose the ways in
which moral economies are articulated with the political economy, i.e. with
the sources and forms of structural inequality. In this panel, we invite
anthropologists to explore the current 'remaking' of the European
periphery, with its accelerated processes of dispossession, as a way to
scrutinize how moral arguments around provisioning are simultaneously
linked to economic models, forms of regulation, and actual everyday
practices of livelihood. Following this broad question, presenters are
asked to reflect on the following questions: 1) What are the material and
ideological conditions of possibility that increasingly impoverished people
face when designing life projects? 2) How do they negotiate different moral
frameworks in their pursuit of a better life? 3) What is the relationship
between authoritative models of the economy and the real economic projects
and practices of ordinary people?
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