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Dear all,
here is a CfP regarding identity- and the rarely elaborated
counterconcept of alterity-politics.
The panel, in which the paper is to be presented, will be part of the
interdisciplinary conference: B/ORDERING
CULTURES: Everyday
Life, Politics, Aesthetics at the European University Viadrina
/Frankfurt Oder/Germany.
Deadline: 01.12.2019
Conference-Schedule: 08.-10.10.2020 Please feel free to share.
All the best,
Felix

CfP: B/ORDERING CULTURES: Everyday Life, Politics, Aesthetics
https://www.borders-in-motion.de/kwg-jahrestagung-2020
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Panel: Alterity-Politics Between and Beyond Identity-Political B/Orders
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Political orders in the nexus of neoliberal capitalism and
nation-state-governmentality are first of all defined by various forms
of identity-politics in the widest sense of the concept. Identity
politics has an epistemic character in the=C2=A0 foucauldian sense: Betwe=
en
and beyond the logics of identification and respectively bordering and
boundary-drawing, the political as a distinct sphere of human agency
seems almost unconceivable, today.=C2=A0
Aggressive Identitarianism can always be practiced one-sidedly, by more
or less privileged boundary-drawing and depoliticised fighting against
difference and diversity. Defensively emancipative identity-politics=C2=A0=

can=C2=A0 always=C2=A0 be=C2=A0 practiced=C2=A0 one-sidedly=C2=A0 as=C2=A0=
well,=C2=A0 by=C2=A0 necessary=C2=A0
boundary-drawing=C2=A0 and=C2=A0 political fighting =E2=80=93 but then in=
evitably
competing with other deprivileged identities for socio-cultural
recognition and public visibility.
More or less clearly defined identifications follow a practical logic of
ordering the social and cultural along horizontal segregations as well
as vertical stratifications. Normative aims of equality are constantly
effaced by one-sided practices of structural competition and political
combat.
Alterity-politics by contrast is practically based in mutual
responsibility, ethical commitment and dialogue with conflicting
identifications, where solidarity beyond identity-related loyalty
arises. It requires a voluntary and mutual questioning of socio-cultural
identifications, privileges and power-relations. It is a process of
political, practical, affective as well as aesthetic and cognitive
debordering, creating new common ground, creating new, open and hybrid
alterities beyond the conventional logics of identity-related
boundary-maintenance.=C2=A0
Alterity-politics is a mode of the political in diametric opposition to
the practically one-sided logics of identitarian politics, with the
fundamental weakness in practice, that it cannot be practiced least
enforced one-sidedly, but only accomplished in mutual agreement.
The panel features contributions circling around the political, social,
cultural, affective, aesthetic and cognitive practices and practical
logics of b/ordering identities in view of de- and reordering the
political by means of practices, that can be associated with
alterity-politics in a wider sense. Regarding all-pervasive combat and
competition, it is necessary to acknowledge that identity-politics
cannot be over-come by peaceful debordering practices alone, due to its
one-sided character, and thus remains often inevitable, especially in
defensively emancipative struggles. Thus, the panel focuses on the
practical limitations of both =E2=80=93 identity- and alterity-politics: =
Where
do alterity-politics become possible? Where do identity-politics become
necessary? How to overcome the pitfalls of identity-politics =E2=80=93 wh=
en
identity-politics becomes identitarian?
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Nealon, Jeffrey T. (1998): Alterity politics. Ethics and performative
subjectivity. Durham, NC: Duke Univ. Press.
Yuval-Davis, Nira (2010): Theorizing identity: Beyond the 'us' and
'them' dichotomy. In: Patterns of Prejudice 44
(3), S. 261=E2=80=93280.
Hoffmann, Felix (2019): Anti-Rassismus zwischen Identit=C3=A4ts- und
Alterit=C3=A4tspolitik. Ein praxislogischer Ann=C3=A4he-
rungsversuch. In: Heidrun Friese, Marcus Nolden und Miriam Schreiter
(Hg.): Alltagsrassismus. Theoretische
und empirische Perspektiven nach Chemnitz. Bielefeld: Transcript.
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=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 The CfP addresses researchers as well as master and PhD-s=
tudents from
all disciplines, who
see themselves as part of cultural studies in a wider sense.=C2=A0
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 Please hand in an abstract of 300-500 words plus a short =
literature
list=C2=A0
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 Abstracts as well as presentations should focus on a cohe=
rent and
consistent line of argumen-
tation regarding contents, getting down to the point(s) you want to
make. Please evade lengthy
introductions of the state of the art or project-histories
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 Deadline: 1 st=C2=A0 of December 2019=C2=A0
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 to f.hoffmann@fu-berlin.de.
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 The panel language will be English
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 Presentation-time will be 15 min. max. and 15 min. for di=
scussion
=E2=80=A2=C2=A0 For contributors from abroad, we will=C2=A0 make every ef=
fort to provide
(partial) travel cost support
for foreign participants.

Dr. Felix Hoffmann
Cultural- and Social Anthropologist
Technische Universit=C3=A4t Chemnitz