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French Anthropological Association - CFP “Taking position” Disciplinary and professional crossbreeding around spatial questions

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Etienne Bourel <[log in to unmask]>

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AFA Symposium - June 2016, ENSA Strabourg, France
“Taking position”Disciplinary and professional crossbreeding around spatial questions
June 30th - July 1st 2016
Anthropology seems to durably establish itself, in collaboration with other disciplines, trainings andpractices than those which, until then, were strictly reserved for it. It enters other areas thanuniversity and academic research and commits itself to associative activities in link withcontemporary issues. This interdisciplinary symposium, which is organized by the FrenchAssociation of Anthropologists (AFA) and hosted by the Strasbourg National School ofArchitecture, in partnership with the University of Strasbourg, aims at scrutinizing more particularlysome spaces as a pretext for questioning disciplinary and professional crossbreedings. Through thispotentially common spatial “alibi”, the objective of this meeting is to increase awareness of manyoperational concepts still confined to the boundaries of their own discipline among anthropologists,architects, geographers, 3D modeling producers, designers, theorists of aesthetics, etc.,. The idea isto encourage dialogue between theories and methodologies, as well as around their mutualappropriation and transformation.
The notion of space is one of the most polysemous terms, able to expand the shadow of itsdefinition, like a demiurge, on any speech and any production. As far as this call for proposals isconcerned, space will necessarily be understood in its concrete territorial thickness so as to avoidtreating it like a simple portmanteau word. Its immaterial dimension needs to be linked to itsmaterial one. Nevertheless, thinking together both the specific features of each of our ownapproaches and the way they meet around the studied phenomena remains a necessity. The materialspace has been treated in a few founding researches: Bororo villages described by Claude Levi-Strauss; the Kabylian house seen by Pierre Bourdieu; the social morphology of Eskimos society byMarcel Mauss. Following those, the book by Françoise Paul-Levy and Marion Ségaud, entitledAnthropologie de l’espace (1983), more clearly formalized a specific research approach thatprovides an overview of the richness of societies’ spatial modelings. However, what this physicalspace is, does not reach consensus. For many people, considering that it is just one of the manydimensions of a complex reality, it cannot constitute on its own an object of study. This call forproposals is clearly in line with this perspective. It considers that one needs to develop a relationalapproach of space while taking into account its physical existence. Like Gustave Fisher inPsychosociologie de l’espace (1981), the aim of this call is to try to describe and understand how aspecific material environment can influence action but also, following Gérard Althabe, how actorscannot be seen as outside the field in which they are taking place: each "production of the space"(Lefebvre, 1974) is always also a socio-historical construction that has obvious politicalimplications.
Several lines of research, are privileged. They are not hermetic to one another nor exclusive.
Disciplinary, professional and associative hybridisation (bridges)Which are the possible dialogues, frictions and contaminations between disciplines and professionsthat share space as a matter of interest? How may Anthropology enter new sectors of action? Whichare the new careers and the lasting or punctual collaborations emerging then? To answer thosequestions participants can present academic itineraries or research experiences carried out bymultidisciplinary teams. Here, the accent will be put on what happens (advantages and limits) whenanthropologists meet other scientific, professional or associative actors working on space.
Sharing places, methodologies and theoriesWhether we speak of “unity or place” or “genius loci”, what can be said about space as embeddedin a given soil – or screen – carrying several layers of meanings? How to work with it today or inthe future? This place, close or far, might be the one anthropologists experience during theirfieldwork: how to define it? It also may be the one architects design and imagine in situ. For them,as for geographers and many others, observation is a common instrument. However, it may bedifferently mobilised: anthropologists will be mostly receptive to the social interactions which agiven place is the setting of; architects will take into account the existing topography and landscapein order to try to transform it while respecting it. Beyond observation, this theme will welcomeproposals which question disciplinary methodologies: how are they differently brought to actionand how do they mutually influence one another? Starting from those methodological reflexions, itwill be possible to analyse which theoretical approaches they can serve or not.
Places and identities of interstitial spacesHow does a place convey identity issues? Space will here be approached through empirical studiesat a small or medium scale. Descriptions and analysis will then focus on socially and historicallycontextualised experiences. This theme will privilege “hybrid spaces”, the ones anthropology hasoften worked on, and that literature has defined as “interstitials”. But, they might also be defined asmediation spaces, bonding or disconnecting ones, as spaces creating solidarity or conflicts, and aresometimes informed by imaginaries and potentialities. Those spaces could also be recalled as“proximity areas” where the Other and insiders mix up together and that forms of dematerialisationtransform and divert from the archetype of an idealised public space. Therefore, they reinventthemselves while eluding the neoliberal hold (or being eluded by it). Which are the politicalmeanings of socio-spatial identities in a context of State resignation? How is proximity lived andperceived? A special focus on exclusions based on gender, class, age or “race” will be encouraged.The analysis will have to present places informed by resistant and emancipatory actions, collectivedynamics or informal arrangements.
Contemporary cultural dimensions of spaceWhich are the emerging cultural dimensions of space? What does the “institutional culture” do tospaces, especially to urban ones? Answering these questions will allow exploring terms such as“creative cities”, “clusters”, “digital cities” and “third places”. An in-depth analysis of thedynamics, the consequences and the actors involved in the institutional projects will then bepossible.
Communications may be based on European or non-European fieldworks. Any supports forpresenting them will be accepted, from the academic traditional ones to the more unconventionalones (commenting models, digital editing, performances, etc.). Interdisciplinary communications orcross-communications (researchers, practitioners, association members, etc.) are encouraged.
Proposals of one and a half page maximum must be submitted before the 15th December 2015 to thefollowing email address: [log in to unmask]
Please, mention clearly your professional and institutional affiliations and a valid email address.The organising committee will contact you by January 2016.
Organizational committeeCatherine Deschamps (Anthropologist, ENS d'Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Seine / EVCAU / ICT Université Paris Diderot – associée)Pauline Guinard (Geographer, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris, UMR LAVUE –Mosaïques, UMR IHMC (associée)Judith Hayem (Anthropologist, Institut de Sociologie et d’Anthropologie Lille 1/Clersé)Annalisa Iorio (Anthropologist, ENS d'Architecture de Paris-Val-de-Seine, IIAC/TRAM)Yves Lacascade (Anthropologist, Clersé)Barbara Morovich, (Anthropologist, ENS d’Architecture de Strasbourg/AMUP)Magalie Saussey (Anthropologist, CESSMA)
Scientific committee :Maurice Blanc (Sociologue, Université de Strasbourg, Laboratoire Sociétés, Acteurs, Gouvernement en Europe)Barbara Casciarri (Anthropologist, Université Paris 8, LAVUE)Alessia de Biase (Architect and anthropologist, ENSA-Paris La Villette, Director of LAA)Catherine Delcroix, Sociologist, Université Strasbourg, Director of Laboratoire Dynamiques Européennes)Nicoletta Diasio (Anthropologist, Université Strasbourg, Laboratoire Dynamiques Européennes)Elisabeth Essaïan (Urban planner and architect, ENS d'Architecture de Paris Belleville)Philippe HAMMAN (Sociologist, Université de Strasbourg, vice-director of laboratoire Sociétés, acteurs, gouvernement en Europe)Gaelle Lacaze (Ethnologist, Département d’Ethnologie, Université Strasbourg, Laboratoire Dynamiques Européennes)Cristiana Mazzoni, (Architect and Urban planner, ENSA Strasbourg, Directrice Laboratoire AMUP)Bruno Proth (Sociologist, ENS d'Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine / EVCAU / ICT Université Paris Diderot – associée )Florence Rudolf (Sociologist and Urban planner, INSA Strasbourg, vice-director Laboratoire AMUP)Nadine Wanono (Anthropologist, CNRS, IMAF)

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