Dear colleagues,
With apologies for cross-posting, please see the following CFP for the
upcoming American Anthropological Association conference in Vancouver, BC
(Nov 20-24). The annual theme is “Changing Climates/Changer D’Air.”
AAA/CASCA CFP 2019
Settler worlds: affect, land and intimacies of nation making among settlers
Organizers: Piergiorgio di Giminiani (Pontificia Universidad Católica de
Chile) and Sophie Haines (University of Oxford)
Rather than an event, settler colonialism appears as a power formation
responsible for material processes of indigenous dispossession.
Ideologically, settler colonialism works to consolidate economic and
political inequalities between natives and settlers based on hierarchical
differences in native and settler claims to national belonging, development
and environmental entitlement. Environmental transformation and development
through settler expansion is the principle by which settlers can claim
native status towards the nation, a discursive process that curtails native
claims towards land. While settler biographies of engagement with the land
rotate around ideals such as emptiness, endless environmental
transformation and landed capital accumulation central to settler colonial
ideologies, they cannot be reduced to mere reflections of settler colonial
ideologies. A growing number of works (see Dominy 2011, Campbell 2015,
Blair 2017, McIntosh 2016, Suzuki 2017,) have ethnographically illustrated
the complexity of settler worlds by drawing attention to the unequal
articulation of claims towards property, nationhood and environmental
conservationism among settlers themselves. Especially at the margins of the
colonial project, settlers’ engagement with land reveals embodiments and
understandings of land as more than a neutral background for capital
accumulation. This panel aims to explore how embodied relations with the
land among settlers can elicit at once imaginaries of land as neutral
background for capital accumulation, but also affective relations through
which disputed senses of place and critical stances towards state and
market can emerge. We seek contributions that ethnographically engage with
disputed claims on justice, nationhood, gender and capitalism among
settlers through a focus on environmental affect and intimacy.
*References :*
Blair, J. 2017 Settler indigeneity & the eradication of the non‐native:
self‐determination & biosecurity in the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23:580-602.
Campbell, J. 2015 Conjuring property: speculation & environmental futures
in the Brazilian Amazon. University of Washington Press.
Dominy, M. 2001 Calling the station home: Place & identity in New Zealand's
high country. Rowman & Littlefield.
McIntosh, J. 2016 Unsettled: denial & belonging among white Kenyans.
University of California Press.
Suzuki, Y. 2017 The Nature of Whiteness: Race, Animals, & Nation in
Zimbabwe. University of Washington Press.
Abstracts should be sent to Piergiorgio di Giminiani ([log in to unmask]) and
Sophie Haines ([log in to unmask]), by March 28th.
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