Dear colleagues,
we would like to draw your attention to our panel ‘SOCIAL NEGOTIATIONS
ALONG FRONTIERS: DYNAMICS, LIMITATIONS AND CLOSURES’ at the biannual
congress of the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) in Konstanz
(29.9.-2.10.2019).
Please, send your abstract of max. 1.200 characters (incl. spaces) and
a short version of max. 300 characters (incl. spaces) to Michaela
Haug: [log in to unmask]
*DEADLINE: 15 FEBRUARY 2019*
Panel 33: Social Negotiations along Frontiers: Dynamics, Limitations
and Closures
Michaela Haug, Timo Duile and Kristina Großmann
Frontiers constitute spaces where intense and often highly conflictual
negotiations between various actors from different scales are taking
place – struggling e.g. over access to resources, identities,
development goals or different visions of the future.
Initially introduced by Turner (1893) to explore the specific
situation of territorial conquest of the American Middle West, the
frontier concept is meanwhile applied by numerous scholars to analyze
social, political, economic and environmental transformations in rural
and often remote regions around the globe. Frontiers are thereby
understood as processes of territorial expansion, as actual
borderlines or in terms of social relations and hence as socially
constructed. Focusing on specific actors, Li (2014) explores an
“indigenous frontier” while other authors distinguish e.g. between
“capitalist frontiers” (Tsing 2005), “frontiers of control” (Geiger
2008) or “conservation frontiers” Acciaioli and Sabharwal (2017).
However, all frontiers have a processual dimension. Frontiers are
opened up and frontiers are closed. Acciaioli and Sabharwal (2017),
for instance, who highlight the rise and demise of the relevance of
particular frontiers at different times, speak in this respect of
“trajectories of frontierization and defrontierization” (2017).
Several studies have analyzed processes of negotiations along
frontiers. In this workshop we want to explore how negotiations along
frontiers become restricted or – temporarily – come to an end. This
might be the case e.g. when a particular frontier is closed down, land
distribution has been concluded, new legislation is introduced or
major power shifts occur. We thus invite contributions that address
the following questions: How do social and economic practices,
incidents or institutional changes limit (or even end) processes of
negotiations along various kinds of frontiers? When can one speak of
“the closure” of a frontier? And does the closure of a frontier imply
an end of negotiations?
https://www.dgska.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/CfP.pdf
Many thanks and season’s greetings,
Michaela Haug, Timo Duile and Kristina Großmann
Dr. Michaela Haug
Institut für Ethnologie
Universität zu Köln
Albertus-Magnus-Platz
50923 Köln (Germany)
Tel:+49 (0)221 470 2706
Fax:+49 (0)221 470 5117
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