Dear all,
Contributions are warmly invited for the Cre05 panel, 'Making accounts
count: imagination, creativity, and (in)coherence', at the ASA
Conference, 18-21 September 2018.
Discussant: Professor Alessandro Duranti (UCLA)
Short Abstract:
This panel explores the creative work involved in making accounts of and
for oneself and others in various ethnographic contexts. What and how
are these accounts produced, and what are the ethical, political, and
affective dynamics of imagining selves/others in order to produce such
accounts?
Long Abstract:
Accounting for oneself, and making accounts of and for others, requires
creative work. Anthropologists have considered accounts and processes of
account-making from the perspectives of politics and identity
construction, ethics, and intersubjectivity, among others. We want to
ask what might be gained from explicitly considering the imaginative,
affective, and effortful dimensions of our interlocutors'
account-making. What happens in the gap(s) between accounts, their
makers, their audiences, and their objects? Building on Levinas' (1961)
work on the face-to-face encounter and Butler's (2005) discussion on the
rhetorics of selfhood, responsibility, and incoherence, this panel seeks
to respond to Hollan and Throop (2008), Lurhmann (2011, 2012) and
Astuti's (2012) calls for further attention to the varieties of
imaginative practice involved in relations between selves and others.
We invite participants to consider the following: What kinds of
imaginative work take place in creating accounts of others and selves?
How are these accounts produced, rendered, articulated, enacted, and
felt? What kinds of politics are involved in account-making? In what
ways do groups of people draw (in)coherence from divergent narratives in
order to produce collective imaginings? How do they account for those
divergent narratives? And what voices do imagined others have in these
creative processes? Contributions are invited which consider the
practice of account-making from micro-interactions to large-scale
collective projects, from intimate intersubjectivities to physically and
temporally remote others, and which incorporate human, non-human,
material, and immaterial others.
To submit a paper, please visit:
https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6827.
Submissions close at 23:59 GMT on 20 April 2018.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards,
Amy Binning, Corinna Howland, Rosie-Jones McVey, and Christina Woolner
(University of Cambridge)
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Corinna Howland
PhD Candidate
Division of Social Anthropology
University of Cambridge
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