CALL FOR PAPERS
ASA (Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth)
University of Exeter, UK, 13th-16th April 2015
Dear Colleagues,
In this panel, we seek to explore how the lifeworlds of nonhuman animals
are shaped by practices of exclusion and inclusion, such as breeding,
immigration regulations, and contagion. We invite papers that consider what
effects our concepts of racial purity and contagion have on other species.
ABSTRACT
What effects can our concepts of race, classification, and taxonomy have on
other species? Animal studies in anthropology have convincingly
demonstrated that both the hierarchies inherent in racial classification
and the distinctions we draw between humans and non-humans seep into the
ways in which we imagine human Others. But how do these concepts affect
non-human Others? Other species may not be aware of, or able to reflect on,
the categories we impose on them, but racialised thinking still shapes
their worlds. For example, how are concepts of race and ethnicity
incorporated into breeding practices, and how do they affect the
physiology, biology, and well-being of other creatures? Are the movements
of different species restricted by the same fears and regulations which
surround immigration? How do seemingly 'natural' boundaries between
different species shape the ways in which we imagine the spread of disease
and contagion? In this panel we seek to explore an ethics of co-existence
which is shaped by practices of sorting and selection in multi-species
communities.
Please follow the link below to propose a paper via the ASA website:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2015/panels.php5?PanelID=3381
Best wishes,
Rebecca Marsland & Chrissie Wanner
The University of Edinburgh
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