**Apologies for cross-posting **
Dear colleagues,
This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for our panel at the GAA
2015 conference (see below) is approaching. We are looking forward to
receiving further abstracts!
Best regards,
Dominik Mattes and Hansjörg Dilger
---------
Call for Papers: The making and unmaking of “crises” and “emergencies”
in global health
Panel organized on behalf of the Work Group Medical Anthropology (German
Anthropological Association) at the German Anthropological Association
Biannual Conference 2015 “Crises: reconfigurations of life, power and
worlds” (30 September–3 October 2015, Marburg University, see
http://dgv-net.de/home.html)
Convenors: Dominik Mattes and Hansjörg Dilger (Freie Universität Berlin)
Keynote address: Prof. Ruth Prince (University of Oslo & Cambridge
University)
Abstract:
The recent Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the struggles of the global
health bureaucracy and humanitarian community to intervene, and the
resistance these efforts were met with locally pose yet another example
of the complexity of managing public health crises in an interconnected
world. In this workshop we focus on those moments when health issues are
defined as crises (unleashing cascades of medico-technical interventions
and financial flows) and when they stop being crises or emergencies and
are remade into something else. We explore the often highly contested
processes of exceptionalizing and normalizing health issues, shed light
on the political, social, economic, and cultural factors that influence
these processes, and take into view their far-reaching social and
cultural consequences.
Workshop submissions may address how newly emerging health issues are
turned into crises and how they transform conceptualizations of life,
health, death and the physical and socio-political body. How are social
relations reconfigured and new forms of sociality conceived? How are
these changes experienced by individual actors, and do they engender new
forms of subjectivity? We also explore what happens when health issues
cease to be framed as crises and undergo processes of normalization,
which may entail reduced public, political and financial attention as
recently witnessed with regard to HIV/AIDS. How do these shifts manifest
themselves in the experience of health experts and the patients and
people affected on the ground? Finally, papers may address the overall
role of anthropologists in regard to emerging health crises. What
perspective do they add to perceptions of health emergencies that are
otherwise shaped by biomedicine and epidemiology? How can
anthropological views and methods be incorporated more systematically in
disease outbreak scenarios? Can anthropologists contribute to public
health discourses that determine the emergency of certain medical topics
on the global health agenda (and the irrelevance of others)?
Please submit both a long version (1,200 characters including spaces
max.) and a short version (300 characters including spaces max.) of your
abstract to [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]
<mailto:[log in to unmask]>.
Deadline: 15 February 2015
--
Dominik Mattes
Doktorand/PhD Candidate
Freie Universität Berlin
Institut für Ethnologie/
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11
14195 Berlin
Germany
---
https://fu-berlin.academia.edu/DominikMattes
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dominik_Mattes
*************************************************************
* Anthropology-Matters Mailing List
* http://www.anthropologymatters.com *
* A postgraduate project comprising online journal, *
* online discussions, teaching and research resources *
* and international contacts directory. *
* To join this list or to look at the archived previous *
* messages visit: *
* http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML *
* If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all *
* those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: *
* [log in to unmask] *
* *
* Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new *
* CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com *
* an international directory of anthropology researchers
*
* To unsubscribe: please log on to jiscmail.ac.uk, and *
* go to the 'Subscriber's corner' page. *
*
***************************************************************
|