Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the call for papers for our ASA 2018 panel:
Recognition and innovation: How creativity is evaluated and envisaged. You
can propose a paper at https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa18/index.shtml
Please see below for more details.
Yours, Lola Martinez (SOAS, Oxford) and Iza Kavedzija (Exeter)
Panel Long abstract:
'The imaginary is what tends to become real', André Breton
Latour's actor-network theory emphasizes how the assemblage of systems of
objects and information, rather than 'heroic' individuals, produces the
novum (imaginative leaps that are scientifically plausible). In contrast,
Deleuze and Guattari's original formulation of assemblage in their long
essay 'On Kafka' celebrated the role of the individual in
deterritorializing, re-assembling and creating new forms of knowledge,
objects, and artwork. Deleuze and Guattari argued that such reassamblages
can also reveal the social networks of power. Their analysis of Franz
Kafka's writing, which went largely unpublished during his life, also
acknowledges that not all creativity need be understood in terms of its
perceived originality. Creativity can hinge on the recognition of others,
on changes in political context, or within new formulations of knowledge
and value.
By asking how creativity is evaluated and recognized across various
cultural contexts we can trace the various forms of imagination involved.
In this sense, the imaginary becomes real - not only though
materialization, but by becoming a social fact. This panel seeks to further
the discussion of the human imagination and creativity by turning its focus
to the question of innovation: How are individuals or groups encouraged to
be pioneering? When is an idea deemed ground-breaking? And how can/does
anthropology explore innovation? More importantly, how might
anthropologists from various sub-disciplines work together to move beyond
ontological discussions of 'being' in order to explore the social processes
of 'making' and 'becoming'?
Paper proposals must consist of:
- a paper title
- the name/s and email address/es of the author and co-authors
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words
All proposals must be made via the online form, not by email. There is a
'propose a paper' link beneath the long abstract of each panel page. Go to
the panel page you are interested in and then click on this proposal link
to make your proposal directly to that panel.
Proposals will be marked as pending until the end of the Call for Papers
(April 20th). Convenors will then be asked to make their decisions over the
papers proposed to their panels by May 2nd and to communicate those to the
proposers, marking them up within the login environment (Cocoa).
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