Dear All,
Apologies for cross-posting.
Please see the cfp below, if of interest - perhaps to scholars studying
transition, work, existentiality, or the imagination.
Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth 2018
Conference
Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination
University of Oxford, 18th - 21st September 2018
Paper proposals due: 20th April 2018
Application details here: https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.
php/panels/6841
And do email us with any queries!
*Panel: Temporalities of Work, Money, and Fantasy *
Short abstract
This panel explores the ongoing existential dynamics of what kind of a life
one can or cannot lead, as manifest through the domains of work, money, and
fantasy. Papers will illustrate how different modes of temporality unite
these fields as a constellation - from routines to daydreams to life plans.
Long abstract
Around the world people of all walks of life plug away at jobs and means of
earning money - some meticulously strategized through years of preparation,
some stumbled upon through chance or spontaneity. Simultaneous to the
conditions people finds themselves in, many envisage alternative worlds or
improved situations and ponder the counter-factual of routes not taken.
This panel invites ethnographic approaches that appreciate the existential
dynamics underlying peoples' relationships with work and money. As people
apply themselves to means of income, while coordinating responsibilities
and social ties, they may fantasize and variously contemplate the past or
future. Work, money, and fantasy hence operate as a nexus, nestled within
the routines and rituals of daily lives. Papers may address such themes as:
constructions of the life course; transitions out of education; labour
migration; aspiration and imagined futures; inner speech and affect; job
dissatisfaction and changes in career; un/under-employment; caring
responsibilities; schedules and escapism; loans and debts; assets and
investments - including emergent forms and their associated reveries such
as cryptocurrencies. The conference theme will be articulated through
approaches that examine the social, material, and symbolic on the one hand,
and the imaginations and desires that such conditions evoke on the other
(Strauss, 2006; Irving, 2017). The panel explores these dynamics as
constellational through the over-arching theme of temporality - from the
minutiae of daydreams and shifts in mood, to weekly or seasonal cycles, to
inter-generational dynamics and imaginations of the life course through the
lens of work or money.
*Convenors: *
John Loewenthal (Oxford Brookes University)
Patrick Alexander (Oxford Brookes University
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