The Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) and the
American Ethnological Society (AES) announce a joint meeting for 2008:
SANA/AES Spring 2008 Meeting
Democracy, Disorder, and Discontent
April 3-5, 2008
Wrightsville Beach, NC
Holiday Inn Sun Spree Resort Hotel
Submission deadline for panel and paper proposals: January 15, 2008
(Instructions for submitting paper and session proposals are below the
description)
The 2008 SANA/AES conference seeks panels and papers that creatively
engage the discrepancies between the idea and the practice of
democracy and that explore the forms of disorder and discontent
engendered by these contradictions. What is democracy? Democracy is
often understood as an expansion of individual freedoms, the spreading
out of economic equality through participation in the market, and an
alternative to excessive government regulation. Yet despite these
optimistic claims, there remains an inherent tension between economic
inequality and democratic politics. Emergent social and political
orders in many parts of the world are characterized by growing
inequality, and they are neither democratic nor secure. Furthermore,
established rights, entitlements, and democratic principles in the
United States itself have eroded, and wealth is increasingly
redistributed upwards.
We seek participants who address the tensions inherent in democratic
processes and the disorder and discontent that arise from these
disjunctures. Key questions include, but are not limited to, the
following: How do race, gender, class, citizenship, and sexual
orientation shape the ways that different kinds of people understand
democracy and democratic participation in the age of neoliberalism?
Within emergent and long-standing democracies, how is citizenship
linked to new forms of inclusion and exclusion? How and to what extent
do democracies justify incarceration, police brutality, military and
paramilitary activities and other forms of violence, even as they
create political opportunities to critique them? What are the
possibilities and pitfalls of new oppositional discourses that focus
on individual, social, and human rights? What sorts of alternative
political projects are currently imaginable and unimaginable?
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Keynote Speakers
* AES Keynote: Ida Susser, AES President (2005-2007)
* SANA Keynote: Hilary Cunningham (University of Toronto)
Plenary Panel Sessions
* "War, Impunity, and Accountability"
* "Race and Justice"
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Instructions for Paper and Panel Submissions
Deadline for abstract and proposal submission: January 15, 2008
-- Panel and paper submissions should be sent to aes.sana08@gmail.com
-- Please contact Lesley Gill with any questions, Lgill@american.edu
-- Please visit: http://aesonline.org/AES_SANA08_Call_for_Papers
to download the appropriate form to include with your paper or session
proposal:
We encourage you to think about creative as well as traditional
formats for presenting your work. Guidelines are below.
1. Sessions will generally be scheduled for 1.5 hours (1 hour
and 30 minutes), which allows time for 5 fifteen minute paper
presentations and a discussant or discussion.
2. Paper presentations should be prepared with a fifteen minute
time limit in mind.
3. Organized session submissions are encouraged, but individual
papers are also welcome. Individually volunteered papers will be
organized into sessions by the program committee according to theme.
All paper proposals, whether submitted individually or as part of an
organized session, will be evaluated individually.
4. Roundtable discussions can be a useful alternative to
traditional sessions. Instead of formal paper presentations, these
involve informal discussion of a theme. Participants would be
encouraged to circulate papers prior to the conference and to make
copies available either at the meetings or on-line for others to read.
Roundtable discussions have the potential to include more participants
than traditional sessions, although they would be limited to the same
1.5 hours.
5. Other types of sessions are also possible, including poster
sessions and workshops. Contact conference organizers if you wish to
submit proposals for these or other types of sessions.
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THE MOST RECENTLY UPDATED INFORMATION ABOUT THE AES/SANA 2008
CONFERENCE WILL BE POSTED AT:
http://aesonline.org/AESSANA2008
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