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****************************************************** * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * ****************************************************** **** Apologies for cross-posting **** We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for our panel ‘Conflicts on the Move’ that will be held during the annual AAA meeting between November 17-21 2010 in New Orleans. We are organizing this panel as PACSA (Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology) a network of the EASA (European Association of Social Anthropology). **** Conflicts on the Move Erella Grassiani (VU University, Netherlands), Barbara Karatsioli (EHESS, Paris), Nerina Weiss (University of Oslo, Norway) Recent studies have focused on peace and conflict as particular sites of circulation. Thus Nordstrom (2009, 2010) has documented the linkage between political violence, global supply chains and the complex relationships of extra/legal and extra/state networks around the world. Along these ‘fracture lines’ economics, politics and identities are crafted, and power accumulated and abused. But also ideas are exchanged and appropriated. New war techniques, different ideologies, and legitimate forms of peace building and peace keeping are constantly on the move, and circulate across spatial and temporal boundaries. Knowledge on warfare for example has for years circulated around the globe, as the US intelligence in the Latin American dictatorships or Israel’s export of anti-terrorism war-craft indicate. Private security firms offer their services in different conflicts, as the mujahedin warriors have migrated from conflict to conflict. The circulation of people and ideas has influenced the ways wars are fought and violence is legitimated. The circulation and thus perhaps the standardization of certain values have also an impact on orders of justice and peace building, which again presupposes certain understandings of the political and the state. The session aims at further exploring this circulation of ideas, images and people. How are concepts of peace and conflict framed, how are they appropriated and used? Anthropology provides analytical tools and frames for examining the means by which violence is concealed, naturalized and blurred (Ben-Ari 2010), and has at its focus the complexity of social processes, at the heart of which is the construction of meaning of violence (Coulter 2006). Comparative anthropological perspectives might even contribute to analyse conflicts that are not directly accessible (Robben 2009). We encourage contributions to delineate, how anthropology, its analytical and methodological approaches may contribute to a better understanding of these circulations, and thus a better understanding of conflicts and peace building attempts in our ***** We invite you to submit an abstract of no more than 250 words to Erella Grassiani at [log in to unmask] before the 23rd of March 2010. For more information on the AAA meeting of 2010 see http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/index.cfm Sincerely, Nerina Weiss ([log in to unmask]) Barbara Karatsioli ([log in to unmask]) Erella Grassiani ([log in to unmask]) -- Nerina Weiss Research Fellow Department of Social Anthropology University of Oslo ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Anthropology-Matters.HTML * * If you have ALREADY subscribed: to send a message to all * * those currently subscribed to the list,just send mail to: * * [log in to unmask] * * * * Enjoyed the mailing list? Why not join the new * * CONTACTS SECTION @ www.anthropologymatters.com * * an international directory of anthropology researchers * ***************************************************************