Valeria Siniscalchi (EASA President) and Marcus Banks (Networks liaison) invite the Networks convenors to a meeting on Wednesday 15th August (13:15-14:30). This will be the occasion for those who convene the different EASA networks to get together to discuss the future of networks and the possibilities related to the growing number of active networks.
NEW NETWORK FORMED
The Anthropology of Labour network.
NETWORK ACTIVITY DURING EASA2018
Networks are behind 58 of the 184 panels and labs. A few too many to list here in the newsletter, but search the conference panel list where the networks are listed in square brackets after the panel titles.
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE ARTS NETWORK (ANTART)
Upcoming events:
- Art and Nativism Panel (https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6521)
- Network meeting (16 August, 7pm)
- Drinks reception/party (16 August, place and exact time tbc)
AGENET
On behalf of the convenors of the Age and Generations Network (AGENET), I would like to thank everyone who has brought their interest and enthusiasm to our group and invite anyone who is interested in the anthropology of age, generations and the life course more broadly to join this new network.
AGENET is the first European network of anthropologists concerned with aging and its relationship to culture and society. While AGENET recognizes the substantial work of anthropologists focused specifically on later life, our vision for this network is to bring those researchers together with others who focus on other moments in the life course or on inter-generational relationships.
As lives become longer and fertility declines in most of the world, anthropologists ought to be poised to address questions about the impact of new mobilities, technologies, climate change, and political-economic conditions on the ways generations interact. We can shed light on how these very globally interconnected processes are felt and navigated in the everyday worlds of families and communities, be it grandparents caring for orphans in Uganda or Indian families caring for aging parents using ICTs.
This network gives us the opportunity to build collaborative links and to build a common base of knowledge, methods, and theories that strengthen age as a critical opening to central questions of anthropology.
At this year’s EASA Conference at the University of Stockholm, AGENET is proud to sponsor the session “Staying, moving, (re)settling: transitioning practices, actors and places of care in later life” organised by Matthew Lariviere and Denise de Waal. Other AGENET members Megha Amrith and Helena Patzer have organised a panel on “Ageing, care and transnational mobilities“.
At our inaugural Network meeting we’ll discuss organizing panels for the next EASA and for other conferences, as well as the possibility of organizing our own conference to keep our momentum going. Given the overlaps with MAN. Anthropology of Children and Youth Network, Applied Anthropology, and other networks, we also hope to discuss possibilities for joint activities.
Whether you can make it to Stockholm or not, we look forward to hearing about your research, publications and projects as AGENET grows.
Jason Danely, co-convenor, AGENET, jdanely(at)brookes.ac.uk
TAN
Conference on “Teaching and learning anthropology in Eastern and Southeastern Europe”
May 12-13, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece
The EASA Teaching Anthropology Network has been among the co-organizing institutions of a conference that was held in May 12-13, 2018, in Thessaloniki, Greece under the title “Teaching and learning anthropology and ethnography in eastern and southeastern Europe: making sense of cultural difference in familiar and unfamiliar contexts”.
The event was organized by the Culture, Borders, Gender LAB and the ΜΑ Program in “History, Anthropology and Culture in Eastern and South-Eastern Europe” of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece in collaboration with the EASA Teaching Anthropology Network, Teaching Anthropology (TA) – A Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, and the Border Crossings Network.
The conference hosted papers and other interactive and experimental multi-media presentations which reflected on various aspects of teaching and learning anthropology and/or ethnography in SE Europe and discussed key questions related to the production and dissemination of anthropological knowledge, in both discipline-related and interdisciplinary, academic and non-academic contexts.
Ioannis Manos, Co-convenor of the EASA Teaching Anthropology Network, imanos(at)uom.edu.gr
ANTHROMOB
Worlds in Motion Berghahn book series
We are proud to announce the latest titles in AnthroMob’s “Worlds in Motion” book series:
Vol. 3 – Intimate Mobilities: Sexual Economies, Marriage and Migration in a Disparate World (eds Christian Groes and Nadine T. Fernandez)
Vol. 4 – Momentous Mobilities: Anthropological Musings on the Meanings of Travel (Noel B. Salazar)
Vol. 5 – Healthcare in Motion: Immobilities in Health Service Delivery and Access (eds Cecilia Vindrola-Padros, Ginger A. Johnson, and Anne E. Pfister)
All titles will be on sale during EASA2018 in Stockholm. If you have ideas for a new volume, please get in touch with us!
EASA 2018
We would like to draw your attention to the 7 AnthroMob-endorsed panels and 1 lab at EASA2018 in Stockholm. Our network business meeting will take place on Wednesday 15 August, from 17.00-18.45. We are also planning a social event directly after the meeting, and will let you know the details in due course! Please keep this in mind when planning your trip.
Pacing Mobilities: a consideration of shifts in the timing, intensity, tempo and duration of mobility [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6321
Convenors: Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven), Vered Amit (Concordia University)
Discussant Karen Fog Olwig (University of Copenhagen), Karsten Paerregaard (University of Gothenburg)
In this panel, we want to extend the temporal interrogation of particular forms and experiences of mobility to consider more fully the dimensions involved in the ‘pacing’ of movement, including aspects such as timing, duration, frequency, intensity and scope.
Mobilising policies: indolence, zealousness, discretionality and beyond [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6438
Convenors: Jérémie Voirol (Graduate Institute ), Diego Valdivieso (The University of Manchester), Juan del Nido (University of Manchester)
Drawing on mobility beyond its spatial connotations and thinking broadly of policy, authority and governance, this panel studies how policies organising flows of people, information or resources are themselves mobilised, created, invoked or subverted by those responsible for their application.
Moving the goods: maritime mobility and logistics labour [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6467
Convenors: Hege Leivestad (Stockholm University), Johanna Markkula (Stanford University)
Chair Hege Leivestad
Discussant Gustav Peebles (The New School)
Through complex systems of logistics, commodities are moved overseas following a “just-in-time” logic. This panel extends the anthropological research on mobility by asking how a focus on maritime logistics, infrastructures and labour can contribute to our understandings of the global economy.
Creating locality in mobile times: intimacy, friendship and belonging between digital and physical co-presence [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6487
Convenors: Fabiola Mancinelli (Universitat de Barcelona), Chima Michael Anyadike-Danes (University of Warwick)
Building on the notion of locality as a socially produced, relational process, this panel explores how those leading mobile lives practice both place-making and community-making, examining the role played by digital technologies and social media.
Migration and the imaginaries of ‘good life’ [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6446
Convenors: Anna Horolets (University of Warsaw), Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir (University of Iceland)
Discussant Valerio Simoni (The Graduate Institute, Geneva)
We invite paper proposals that consider migration as a moral practice, focus on the relation between mobility and migrants’ imaginaries of ‘good life’ in any stage, context or type of migratory situation, and discuss how the ideas of what is ‘good’ are informed by mobility in contemporary societies.
Engineering Mobilities: Exploring the infrastructures mediating transnational highly-skilled migration [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6551
Convenors: Sazana Jayadeva (GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies), Yassmin Ahmed (The American University in Cairo)
This panel investigates the infrastructures which mediate the movement of highly-skilled migrants across international borders, and how they operate.
(Un)Moving, Becoming and ‘Kinning’: The Times of Migration and the Nexus with Family [ANTHROMOB]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6436
Convenors: Flavia Cangia (University of Neuchatel NCCR – on the move), Brigitte Suter (Malmö University)
This panel explores the nexus between time and family in the context of migration and mobility. In particular, it is interested in how the complex times and temporalities of migration interplay with kin practices, feelings and meanings of family and intimate relationships.
Bodies-in-motion: experiencing the role of ‘moving’ in anthropological praxis [AnthroMob]
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7044
Convenors: Patrick Laviolette (Tallinn Univ / UCL), Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven), Paolo S. H. Favero (University of Antwerp), Shireen Walton (University College London)
This laboratory allows participants to acknowledge and challenge issues of pace, rhythm, tempo, velocity and flow surrounding their own movements as well as the people, ‘things’ and contexts circulating around them, be it during fieldwork or while teaching. This laboratory will take place outside.
Anthropology of Confinement Network
Invitation to submit proposals to the new book series Berghahn Studies in Confinement
Confinement is today exercised in a diversity of contexts, spaces, and institutions. Penal institutions, immigration detention centres, retirement homes, psychiatric wards, house arrest, electronic monitoring, and curfews are but a few examples of the variety of shapes that confinement may take. The aim of this interdisciplinary series is twofold: it seeks to advance knowledge on confinement as category of practice and category of analysis, and to provide a space that fosters ethical and methodological discussion on the study of confinement.
We invite submissions featuring critical perspectives on contemporary practices and experiences of confinement. We encourage proposals that are written for wider audiences, including practitioners and policy makers, but also submissions from practitioners and policy makers. We also encourage submissions of auto-ethnographies from researchers who have been prisoners or detainees themselves (in particular from the field of ´convict criminology´).
For any queries regarding the series please feel free to contact the series editors:
Ines Hasselberg: ines.hasselberg(at)ics.uminho.pt
Carolina Sanchez Boe: carolina(at)sagajazz.com.
Formal submissions should be sent directly to Berghahn Books. For more information on Berghahn’s manuscript submission procedure, please look at the Info for Authors section at Berghahn Books web site. All submissions to this series, as well as any queries about the formal procedure, should be sent to Berghahn.
Mediterraneanist Network (MedNet)
Special Issue of the journal Ethnologia Europaea (Vol 48:1, 2018) with title: Practices of Resistance
Jutta Lauth Bacas (coordinator of the EASA MedNet network) and Marion Näser-Lather (University of Marburg) acted as guest editors of a Special Issue of the journal Ethnologia Europaea (Vol 48:1, 2018) with the title: Practices of Resistance. In this special issue fresh anthropological research is presented on localized practices of resistance by protest groups, solidarity initiatives and cultural projects arisen in Mediterranean countries in wake of the crisis after 2008. Based on ethnological and anthropological fieldwork in France, Slovenia, Italy and Greece, the volume (48:1, 2018) offers insight into the media-based protest against the commodification of the so-called Panier, a historic harbour-district of Marseille (Philip Cartelli), into urban gardening in Ljubljana as a practice opposing the growing neoliberal market economy (Saša Poljak Istenič), and the movement Genuino Clandestino, a solidarity network of small-scale farmers in Italy (Alexander Koensler). Three more case studies focus on social movements in Greece: a solidarity network in Volos, where citizens developed an alternative exchange and trading system (Andreas Streinzer); grassroots mobilizations as resistant practices in the inner urban neighbourhood of Exarchia/Athens (Monia Cappuccini); and finally rural solidarity networks on the Peloponnese peninsula (James Verinis). A comparative discussion on similarities and differences in Mediterranean protest movements (Jutta Lauth Bacas and Marion Näser-Lather) identifies underlying common features in these clearly different practices of protest: among others, the major role of face-to-face interaction and mutual trust.
APPLY
On 26th and 27th October 2018, EASA Applied Anthropology Network will organise in Lisbon, Portugal, the 6th edition of the Why the World Needs Anthropologists international symposium. This year’s edition, entitled Designing the Future, focuses on design anthropology, its methods, practical applications, and potentials for framing the future of humanity. The event brings together researchers, designers, and developers from various domains to ensure an enriched discussion, facilitate collaborations, create innovation momentum, and provide a networking platform for new job opportunities. Participants will enjoy an immersive experience at plenary sessions, meet people in the Design Hotspot area, improve their skills at thematic workshops and have an opportunity to share ideas with the audience at the Perspectives: Powered by PechaKucha. Plenary speeches will be given by Rosa Maria Perez and Miguel Vale de Almeida (both ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon), José Manuel dos Santos (Philips Lighting), Sarah Pink (RMIT University), Jamer Hunt (The New School), Anna Kirah (Design Without Borders), Alisse Waterston (CUNY), and Dan Podjed (ZRC SAZU / EASA Applied Anthropology Network). Website: www.applied-anthropology.com
Anthropology and Social Movements
The EASA-Network “Anthropology and Social Movements”, in cooperation with the “Peasant Activism Project” (www.peasantproject.org) organized from 8th to 10th December 2017 an international conference, the second edition of the “Political Imagination Laboratory”. The event brought together anthropologists, social scientists, film-makers and activists from around the world. Questions debated at the event included: Which visions animate contemporary activism? How to visualize or to contextualize the political imagination of contemporary social movements? How to uncover those utopian aspirations, strategic and/or ideological horizons that too often pass implicitly, silently, or invisibly? Inspired by both visual and ethnographic fieldwork, the Political Imagination Laboratory took up these questions in order to explore the shifting political imagination of contemporary social movements and forms of mobilization.
This second edition of the Political Imagination Laboratory took place at University of Perugia, Italy, as well as at local cinemas. The program alternated paper presentations with film screenings, roundtable discussions, and work-in-progress visual expositions. This format has been particularly appreciated by participants from all over Europe, the US and even South America.