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*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING**** Dear all, we are excited to share our call for papers for next year's Anthropology and Geography - Dialogues Past, Present, and Future conference on 4-7th June 2020 hosted by The Royal Anthropological Institute, jointly organized with The British Academy, British Museum, Royal Geographical Society, and SOAS University of London. Our panel, The Politics of Emotion across Anthropology and Geography, brings together Anthropologists and Geographers to discuss how each discipline can contribute towards the project of examining how emotion/affect feeds into the reproduction of contemporary modes of accumulation, exploitation, and inter-sectional inequality. We are delighted that Professor Eva Illouz, author of Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism<https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Cold+Intimacies%3A+The+Making+of+Emotional+Capitalism-p-9780745639055> and Why Love Hurts?<https://www.wiley.com/en-gb/Why+Love+Hurts:+A+Sociological+Explanation-p-9780745671079> will act as discussant. Please see the Abstract below, and submit a 250 word abstract proposal by 8th January 2020 via the online form, which can be found here<https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2020#8284>. Further information about the conference can be found here<https://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-geography>. If you have any questions for the convenors ahead of submitting, please email [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> and [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Abstract: This panel brings together Anthropologists and Geographers to discuss how they can contribute towards understanding the role of emotion/affect in reproducing contemporary modes of accumulation, exploitation and inequality. Each discipline has debunked the myth that capitalism is a-emotional, a set of relations dominated by bureaucratic and economic rationality and disruptive of intimate attachments. Yet their approach to emotional politics has faced significant critique. In Geography, non-representational modes of affect theory are accused of disassociating affect/emotion from the discursive, from spatial and social context whilst neglecting materialist agendas. Anthropological work has, in many cases, tended towards ethics rather than politics, highlighting how various cosmologies produce alternative emotional configurations amidst the rupturing of capitalist time. And yet in both disciplines, a new scholarship is emerging that seeks to trace the precise ways emotions emerge from and feed into systems of economic, political, social, and cultural power. This panel builds on these developments by facilitating a critical conversation between Geographers and Anthropologists where they can harness this existing work and take forward the project of explicating the politics of emotion for the contemporary moment. Key questions include: * What is the analytical purchase of distinguishing between affect and emotion? How can scholars combine attunement to the affective intensities of everyday life with discursive and material origins/consequences? * How can researchers combine a focus on the ethics of emotion with politics? What would a radically-engaged project on emotional politics look like in different contexts, does a decolonising impulse re-calibrate this project? * What methodologies are suited to the study of emotional politics? ************************************************************* * Anthropology-Matters Mailing List * http://www.anthropologymatters.com * * A postgraduate project comprising online journal, * * online discussions, teaching and research resources * * and international contacts directory. * * To join this list or to look at the archived previous * * messages visit: * * https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/Anthropology-Matters * * 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 * To unsubscribe please click here: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ANTHROPOLOGY-MATTERS&A=1 ***************************************************************