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Re: CfP: "Uncertain futures"

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Darach Murphy <[log in to unmask]>

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Darach Murphy <[log in to unmask]>

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Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:31:56 +0000

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Hi there.

Can someone let me know how I can unsubscribe from Anthropology
Matters email list. I can't do so though the 'Subscriber's corner' as per
the bottom of Anthropology Matters emails because I never registered and
have no password etc.

Thanks in advance,

Darach

On 16 December 2015 at 09:47, Boris Boller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Call for papers: Dossier «Uncertain Futures» in Tsantsa, the journal of
> the Swiss Ethnological Society  22/2017
>
> Dossier Guest Editors:
> Valerie Hänsch (Chair of Anthropology, University of Bayreuth) Lena
> Kroeker (Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, University of
> Bayreuth), Silke Oldenburg (Seminar of Social Anthropology, University of
> Basel)
>
> Uncertain situations are an unavoidable part of social life. Societies,
> however, differ in their ways of perceiving situations with an uncertain
> outcome and in how they respond to them considering the (material and
> immaterial) tools at hand. When dealing with uncertainties, actors try to
> change the situation itself, to shape their life, and to secure their
> future. Therefore, responses entail either individual solutions or
> collective approaches. Furthermore, social institutions, such as
> authorities, may be involved in dealing with the problem. Thereby,
> preferences of certain ways of dealing with uncertainty differ culturally.
>
> In contrast to risky or threatening situations, uncertain situations are
> characterised by difficulties to assess and anticipate them due to
> 'non-knowledge' and/or the inability to produce the necessary knowledge.
> Risk, by definition, is based on calculations of damage and occurrence
> probabilities and, thus, on figures which are not available in uncertain
> situations. Due to the inability to assess uncertain situations and what
> would be adequate responses, they are imbued with strong emotions and can
> rarely be dealt with based on purpose-rational calculations.
>
> The topic of "Uncertainty" has inspired a vivid debate among
> anthropologists in the recent years.  Various situations have been
> described, for instance responses to (natural) disasters (Macamo und
> Neubert 2012; Oliver-Smith 1986), displacement/migration (Colson 1971;
> Hänsch 2012; Jackson 2013), hunger crisis (Spittler 1989), diseases,
> especially HIV/AIDS (Whyte 1997; Haram und Yamba 2009; Jenkins et al. 2005;
> Kroeker 2015), as well as growing up and living in war and conflict zones
> (Vigh 2006; Christiansen et al. 2006; Oldenburg 2014; Lubkemann 2008).
> While these situations are not basically unknown, their impact on life
> during and after the uncertain situation definitively is.
>
> Visions of the future play a pivotal role in dealing with uncertainties.
> The future may, on the one hand, be perceived as exciting, open and full of
> daydreams, or, on the other hand, be plagued by worries and fear. Both
> perceptions result from current and past interpretations of culturally
> embedded everyday lives.
>
> Time, being an abstract topic, can hardly be studied in anthropology
> without making reference to empirical works. Responses to uncertainty are a
> particularly eligible field for studying the dimensions of time. Dimensions
> of time unfold in relation to imaginations. Immediate visions of the future
> may, thereby, differ from long term aspirations and from those visions
> which will affect future generations or after (earthly) life. Therefore,
> this multiplicity of imaginations points at a multiplicity of notions of
> time, which may even exist concomitantly. Hence, we speak of competing
> visions of the future and, thus, of futures in the plural.
>
> Expectations and preparations which are meant to realise desirable
> developments and to prevent undesirable ones can tell a lot about
> conceptualisations of the future. However, so far, the future has hardly
> ever been explicitly analysed in ethnographic studies even though uncertain
> situations have been described in plenitude. For this dossier we therefore
> seek contributions, which connect dealings with uncertainty with a temporal
> perspective on future(s). We are particularly looking forward to empirical
> examples (contemporary or historical) as well as theoretical discussions on
> uncertainty and future(s).
>
>
> The following questions guide our interest:
> 1)      Which temporalities influence assumptions on how the future can be
> shaped and influenced: Do these visions and practices derive from present
> and past experiences and/or are they aiming at an immediate, mid-term or
> distant future? How at all is time and in particular the future perceived,
> debated, and experienced under the conditions of uncertainty?
> 2)      Which formal, informal, institutional and individual strategies,
> tactics and visions exist or evolve when trying to control uncertain
> situations? And how is knowledge produced? How do people juggle
> eventualities, contingencies, risks, and chances? What do investments into
> future lives tell us about conceptualizations of the future which may
> differ from “western” perceptions of time?
> 3)      How does the engagement with uncertainties change imaginations
> about the future or provoke radical departures and alternative ways of life?
> 4)      Regarding different historical and biographical experiences: Are
> there differences between generations of how futures are imagined?
>
>
> General guideline
>
> Languages: German, French and English
> Please send us your abstract of the proposed paper by 31st January 2016:
> [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask],
> [log in to unmask]
> Abstracts: max. 500 words
>
> Articles: Length of the text: 40’000 characters (incl. spaces and
> bibliography). Contributions are peer-reviewed by the editorial commission
> and external peer-reviewers. For more information and guidelines, please
> visit the Tsantsa website: http://www.tsantsa.ch/en/
>
> Contributions: Once the article is accepted, it must be supplemented by
> •       a short (max. 500 characters) summary,
> •       a brief biographical note, institutional affiliation and full
> correspondence address (including phone number and e-mail), in English,
> •       4-6 significant key-words.
>
>
> Timeline
> End February 2016:      Notification of accepted papers
> 30. June 2016:          Deadline for the submission of articles
> 15. September 2016:     Review feedback to the authors
> 1. November 2016:       Submission of final articles
> May 2017:               Publication Tsantsa 22 (online open access 2018)
>
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