Dear all, we invite paper proposals for our panel (P081) at the:


15th EASA Biennial Conference: Staying, Moving, Settling
14-17 August 2018, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden


*Mobilising policies: indolence, zealousness, discretionality and beyond
[ANTHROMOB]*


*Convenors*


Jérémie Voirol (Graduate Institute Geneva)

Diego Valdivieso (The University of Manchester)

Juan del Nido (The University of Manchester)



*Short abstract*

Drawing on mobility beyond its spatial connotations and thinking broadly of
policy, authority and governance, this panel studies how policies
organising flows of people, information or resources are themselves
mobilised, created, invoked or subverted by those responsible for their
application.

*Long abstract*

In the particular form of the bureaucrat, studies in the social sciences
have long been concerned with how those in a position of relative, direct
authority over the lives of others translate, interpret and mobilise
various forms of knowledge to activate or hinder the distribution of
resources or status (Weber, Herzfeld, Auyero, Lipsky, Bainton et al.).
Broadening the concept of mobility and breaking it off from its versions
purely linked to spatial movement, we seek to address how street-level
bureaucrats and public servants but also doctors, external consultants, Big
Men, technicians and many others are officially or de facto directly or
partially in charge of sanctioning, monitoring and deciding how resources,
humans, their bodies, their status, benefits, among others, move, shift,
settle or not. In this vein, this panel invites submissions that address
the following questions:

How do individuals inhabit the institutional position of blocking or
allowing someone's or something's movement? What different kinds of
knowledge do they leverage, within and outside the institutional forms, in
order to decide what moves, flows and shifts and what does not? What is the
role of their subjectivity and positionality in the scope and legitimacy of
their decisions? Besides discretionality, what other engagements,
motivations, emotions, perhaps overzealousness, indolence, compassion,
meticulousness, morality, do those in charge of such decisions operate on,
and to what ends? What are the politics of mobilising policies and of
policies mobilisation? How do those in charge of these decisions engage
with these policies beyond discretionality and why?


If you are interested in proposing a paper, follow the link:

https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6438


All the best,

-- 
Diego Valdivieso Sierpe.
PhD. student in Social Anthropology
The University of Manchester
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