CfP: Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison (DL 15th of January!)
Dear all,
the team of Rethinking co-existence from the Margins (Co-Imagine) research project of the University of Oulu warmly welcomes you to submit a max 250 word abstract to our panel Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison at the biennial conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society that will be held on Jun= e 16-18 2025 in beautiful Helsinki, Finland.
The overarching conference theme is comparisons and keynotes will be held by *Soumhya Venkatesan
- and Tom Boellstorff .
The deadline for abstracts is already in 2 days, January 15th, however, there is a chance that the call might get extended.
Notification of acceptance will be given by 18th of February.
You can submit your abstract via the conference website . Here is the direct link for submissions: E-Lomake - FAS25 Conference Call for Papers
Read our full call below:
Panel ID / Panel title: ID=3D16 / Coexistence as in-betweenness: everyday practices of comparison How do we live together? Between growing diversity and rising inequalities, this simple question has turned into a challenge for many European societies. Against the backdrop of contemporary debates proclaiming the destabilizing impact of migration on social cohesion, this panel proposes to rethink the nexus between coexistence, migration, and societal change from an alternative standpoint. To do so, it chooses to focus on what joins people together and separates them from one another in the course of the everyday. Giving prominence to what arises in8 between people, everyday coexistence shifts the attention away from categorical identity thinking towards the inherently open and ambivalent existential space between the self and others. Equally made of prejudices and solidarity, connections and separations, this existential space is navigated using interpretations that rely on intimate relational and comparative knowledge. These evenly bring about chauvinistic and xenophobic attitudes, and acts of solidarities cutting-across generations, places, and social groups. Foregrounding people=E2=80=99s everyday practices of comparison, this panel wishes to eng= age these multiple =E2=80=93 and uneven =E2=80=93 relationships and their concu= rrent, sometimes antagonistic interpretations of =E2=80=9Cwhat is between us=E2=80=9D. Accor= dingly, we invite presentations that ask, for instance: How do people use comparisons to negotiate their joint presence in places they inhabit together? How do they navigate shared, disputed, and negotiated interpretations of in-betweenness to compose different experiences of coexistence? We call for ethnographic, explorative, and experimental explorations that engage with these or related questions. Best, Saara Toukolehto saara.toukolehto@oulu.fi Postdoctoral researcher University of Oulu Cultural Anthropology
