Dear colleagues,
please consider contributing to our panel at the German Anthropological Conference in Konstanz 2019:
German Anthropological Conference 2019
++++Call For Papers++++
Feelings of in/security: Felt realities as the end of negotiating in open societies?
Panel Convenors: Eric Anton Heuser, University of Hamburg, Judith Albrecht, Free University Berlin
In a globalised world increasingly characterised by mobility, entanglements of “us“ versus the “others” have recently (re-)emerged as subjects of heated discussion. Feelings of insecurity and fear take a centre-stage in public debates, especially in relation to the politics of migration and integration.
What do different groups and actors identify as the fear - and insecurity - provoking “foreign”? What exactly is perceived as the so-called “own”? How do people construct and possibly re-negotiate boundaries between “own” and “foreign”?
Our workshop will target these issues by focusing on realities that are felt, on emotions and affect. In public debates on displacement and migration we can observe that felt realities exert tremendous influence on both, the possibility as well as the impossibility of openly (re-)negotiating the boundaries between “us” <> and “them”.
What does it mean for societies when emotions and feelings, rather than facts, shape experiences of in/security and possibly hinder open negotiations of these topics? Which strategies can anthropologists develop so that feelings of insecurity do not prematurely terminate open debates on migration and integration?
We would like to invite papers that link the subjects of migration and integration with approaches from the anthropology of emotions, feelings, and affect. We will discuss how feelings of in/security evolve and how they play out in private as well as in public. We are especially (but not exclusively) interested in papers addressing the following questions:
· What role do emotions and feelings play in the context of experienced in/security?
· What are the relations between subjective and collective feelings of in/security?
· Which experiences are shared and which narratives of in/security are constructed?
· Is there a tipping point or particular contexts in which questions of in/security become non-negotiable? What constitutes this tipping point and these contexts? How are ends of negotiation justified from an emic perspective?
· Which cultural, political, and religious perspectives on in/security co-exist?
· How do experiences of violence and injustice reflect back on discourses of in/security?
We invite you to contribute to our panel by sending an email to eric.anton.heuser[at]uni-hamburg.de and include an abstract of max. 1.200 characters (incl. spaces) and a short version of 300 characters (incl. spaces). Deadline is February 15, 2019. For the complete call for papers of the German Anthropological Conference 2019 in Konstanz as well as travel information, please visit https://www.dgska.de/.
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Dr. Eric Anton Heuser
Vertretungsprofessor
Universität Hamburg
Institut für Ethnologie
Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1
20146 Hamburg
https://www.ethnologie.uni-hamburg.de/personen/eric-heuser.html
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