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*Call for Papers "Embodied Belonging: In/Exclusion, Health Care, and
Well-Being in a World in Motion"*
Workshop on behalf of the Work Group Medical Anthropology at the German
Anthropological Association Conference “Belonging: Affective, moral, and
political practices in an interconnected world” 4-7 October 2017, Freie
Universität Berlin
Convenors: Claudia Lang (Cermes3, Paris) and Dominik Mattes (Freie
Universität Berlin)
Keynote: Sarah Willen, University of Connecticut
Increasing human mobility and worldwide migration processes of varying
scope are provoking new experiences and practices of belonging related
to the body, health care, and well-being. This is significant not only
for those leaving their home countries and arriving elsewhere as
newcomers, but also for the members of so-called ‘host communities’ who
are confronted with social and material transformations of their life
worlds resulting from large-scale human migration. In this workshop we
aim to address how (embodied) belonging is re-imagined, negotiated,
contested, practiced, constrained, and (failed to be) achieved in the
context of such societal encounters, and which are the effects on
involved people’s well-being and health care. In exploring
health-related transformations in people’s lives caused by dis- and
re-emplacements, we propose embodied belonging as a provisional term to
connect social, moral, and political-legal aspects of belonging with its
affective and sensorial dimensions. Workshop papers may address but are
not restricted to the following questions: How does belonging matter in
the suffering, (health) care and well-being of migrants and refugees,
but also the homeless, disabled, and otherwise socially disadvantaged
among the ‘host communities’? Which are the effects of particular
politics of belonging and corresponding administrative regimes on
institutional setups of health care provision? What are the consequences
with regard to people’s capacities to maintain and re-create a sense of
belonging and to sustain their well-being? What is the role of religious
and ‘alternative’ healing practices in achieving and sustaining embodied
belonging and well-being? How are the body and the senses entangled in
perceptions, disruptions, and re-creations of belonging? How are
(in)capacities to belong and respective consequences for people’s
well-being shaped along lines of social division such as gender, age,
religious affiliation, ethnicity, and legal status?
Please send your abstract of max. 1.200 characters (incl. spaces) and
also a short version of max. 300 characters (incl. spaces) directly to
the workshop organizers.
Email: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
Deadline for the submission of abstracts: 15 February 2017
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Dominik Mattes
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter | Research Associate
Freie Universität Berlin | Institut für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie
DFG SFB 1171 "Affective Societies“
Teilprojekt C03 "Verkörperte Emotionen und affektive Zugehörigkeit
im Migrationszusammenhang: Sufizentren und (neue) Pfingstkirchen in Berlin"
Habelschwerdter Allee 45 | 14195 Berlin | Raum JK24 122a
Tel. +49 (0)30 838 60528
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