*Call for Papers *(Deadline for abstracts Friday September 30th)
Society for Psychological Anthropology (SPA) biennial meeting, New Orleans,
Louisiana, March 9-12, 2017
Panel Title: Bureaucracy, the Individual, and Conditions of Possibility
Organizers: Yael Assor (University of California, Los Angeles), Abigail
Mack (University of California, Los Angeles)
Speaking to a developing interest in the lived experience of bureaucracy,
this panel explores the complex, unfolding relationships between emotion,
affect, rules, and procedures in the enactment of bureaucratic projects. At
the same time, the panel attends to the ways in which bureaucracies are
embedded in and perpetuate particular political interests. We understand
bureaucratic processes and the people that participate in these processes
as mutually constitutive. Thus, while individual subjects shape and inform
bureaucratic projects, so too does individual experience become inflected
by bureaucratic logics. The dynamic play between bureaucracy and the
individual arises in both corroborative and unsettling ways, a dialectic
worthy of close consideration.
Together, we ask: What are the conditions of (im)possibility afforded to
experiencing subjects within fields of bureaucratic practice? How does the
dynamic between bureaucracy and the individual subject open up conditions
of possibility for both (re)production and subversion of power? How are
policies and procedures dynamically shaped by the lived experience of those
creating and executing them? In turn, how do people working in
bureaucracies negotiate their own moral experience with the practices and
ideologies of these institutions? What potentials for change, what kinds of
(im)possibilities, exist within bureaucracy from this analytic perspective?
If interested, please send abstracts (limited to 250 words) by September
30th to Yael Assor *and* Abigail Mack:
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