Hi Marissa,
Consider also presenting this at the 4th Oxford Desert Conference June 8-9th. It would be great to have your contribution.
www.geog.ox.ac.uk/events/deserts/
Related topics are most welcome from interested dryland researchers.
Best
Troy
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Subject: CFP AAA 2017: Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory
Hello all, please see the following CfP for a panel I have helped organize and will be chairing.
> *CFP AAA 2017: Last Call*
>
> Sedimentation: Extraction, Soil and Memory
>
> Co-organizers:
> Serena Stein, PhD Candidate, Princeton University Andrew Ofstehage,
> PhD Candidate, UNC-Chapel Hill
>
> Land is often mobilized discursively as wastelands (Voyles, 2015) or
> zones of hidden potential and promise for capitalist development (Yeh,
> 2013) to justify frontier expansions worldwide. Land, landscapes and
> soil are also increasingly recognized as powerful actors in agrarian
> narratives and encounters, as agentive materials that help create
> their own history and futures (Kawa, 2016). This panel centers upon
> the encounters, memories, and afterlives of soil, putting forward the
> analytic of ‘sedimentation’ to recognize, reconsider and unsettle the
> dust upon which we tread in so-called development contexts of
> extraction. In particular, sedimentation, as a social analytic, aims
> to rethink processes and potential shapes of accumulation in
> extractive spaces, in terms of strata (tempo, order, verticality);
> accretion (formation, connection, growth); and provenience (origins,
> indigeneity, and future archaeologies) of resources taken from the
> earth, as well as the (im)material objects, spaces, imaginaries, and
> discursive remains. Presenters will draw on multi-species and
> actor/non-actor encounters (Haraway, 2007; Ingold, 2000; Raffles,
> 2002; Tsing, 2015), materiality of things (Stoler, 2016; Bennett
> 2010), and memories and afterlives of land and soil encounters
> (Gordillo, 2014) to examine the placeness, temporalities and
> relationalities of encounters in and through land, with attention to
> disparate histories, political projects, and livelihoods in the Global South that help to constitute the material and narrative lives of soil.
>
> Submit paper abstracts to Serena ([log in to unmask])
>
or Andrew ([log in to unmask]) no later than 12 pm (EST), April 13.
>
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Marissa J. Smith, Ph.D.
http://marissajsmith.wordpress.com/
Instructor, Cultural Anthropology
De Anza College
Cupertino, California
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