NETWORK FOR THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE
Birgit Müller, network coordinator, bmuller(at)msh-paris.fr
The Network for the Anthropology of International Governance met officially for the first time in Paris in July 2013. The members identified six subject areas where they wanted to pursue the exchange of experiences and ideas.
- Plural legal or normative regimes: the tension in the ethical and practical motivations of global, national and local actors.
- Brokers: institutional mechanisms of brokerage, mediation, actors that move across different organisations. – Regulation: international regulatory instruments affecting concrete daily practice, private and public regulation, self-regulation, the moral values conflicts
- Language: language of international governance, the language of neutrality, the new value laden concepts – Method: how to move between scales of international governance, new sources of information and tools of communication, for example consultative websites, blogs etc.
- Participation: as a global norm, instrument of control and self-control
The volume based on the papers from the Paris workshops in 2008 and 2010 will come out as a paperback: The Gloss of Harmony. The Politics of Policy Making in Multilateral Organisations. London: Pluto Press, 2013
The network will meet at the AAA 2013 to link up with American colleagues interested in the subject. Birgit Müller and Janine Wedel have organized a panel at the conference.
MEDITERRANEANIST NETWORK NETWORK(MEDNET)
Jutta Lauth Bacas and William Kavanagh, network coordinators, bacas(at)Academyofathens.gr, williamkavanagh(at)hotmail.com
The EASA Mediterraneanist Network (MedNet) is able to continue its cooperation with Mediterranean universities and research institutes and will hold its 6th scientific workshop in cooperation with the Mediterranean Institute at the University of Malta. The theme of the forthcoming 6th MEDNET WORKSHOP (from 31 Oct. – 3 Nov. 2013, University of Malta) is: “Connecting spaces, constructing places, constituting memories: Comparative approaches in the anthropology of the Mediterranean”
The workshop sessions will focus on the following aspects:
A. Connecting spaces: Connectivity has been seen as one of the main features of Mediterranean societies and cultures since the work of Braudel and Horden/Purcell. Evaluations may critically reflect on these contributions or focus on recent phenomena of connectivity, such as migration, networks or border encounters.
B. Constructing places: Another focus of comparative analysis will be the multiple ways of constructing and perceiving places in the Mediterranean and giving meaning to them through changing social and cultural practices, such as the ‘sharing’ of shrines in the Mediterranean by different religions.
C. Constituting memories: Also welcomed will be studies of perceived continuity and tradition and the analysis of processes of constituting memories of shared experiences and conflicts in the Mediterranean as a region of comparison.
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY NETWORK (VANEASA)
Dr. Beate Engelbrecht, network coordinator, beate.engelbrecht(at)sowi.uni-goettingen.de
VANEASA members met at the EASA conference 2012 in Nanterre discussing future activities. An interest group on the Anthropology of Art (co-ordinator is Roger Sani ans01rsr(at)gold.ac.uk) was installed then. The main activity of various VANEASA members consisted in the creation of an EASA online journal called Anthrovision. The application with revues.org was accepted and the first steps of installing the journals are done. www.openedition.org/10936.
The first issues are now ready for publication, but some copyright issues have to be clarified yet. The advantage of being an open access online journal also asks for serious examination of legal aspects. The editorial board will meet again in Manchester, August 2013. We would be happy to receive suggestions of any kind (contact(at)anthrovision.eu). The publication will be announced through the VANEASA-mailing list.
Some VANEASA members are involved in the realisation of ethnographic film festivals in Europe (www.anthropological-filmfestivals.eu/), most of them have some sort of conference and/or workshop attached, which gives many occasions of meeting at various places.
NETWORK OF THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE CONTEMPORARY MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL EURASIA (ACME)
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad, network coordinator, pk18(at)St-andrews.ac.uk
The network of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and CentralEurasia (ACME) is happy to announce the launch of its new anthropologicaljournal. The first issue will be available during the 17th World Congress ofthe International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences which will be held during 5-10 August 2013 in University of Manchester in U.K.
The Journal of the Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and CentralEurasia (ACME) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the anthropologicalstudies of all societies and cultures in the Middle East and Central Eurasia. All submissions for articles are peer-reviewed.Its scope is to publish original research by social scientists not only inthe area of anthropology but also in sociology, folklore, religion, material culture and related social sciences. It includes all areas of modern andcontemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia (Russia, the Caucasus, CentralAsia, China) including topics on minority groups and religious themes.
