Session Title: For Goodness Sake: Performances, Embodiments and
Subjectivities of Virtue
This session aims to explore various performances, embodiments and
subjectivities of "virtue". Specifically, we are interested in the
linkages and connections between virtue and tourism, national
identity, gender and sexuality, bodies and health. Possible lines of
inquiry include the promotion of the athletic body as a virtuous body
and its connections with definitions of health and responsibility; the
commodification of religion and piety through religious tourism; or
the production of national identities based on definitions of goodness
or righteousness.
In this call for papers, we invite papers with ethnographic accounts
of virtuousness that look at these linkages and connections between
virtue and power, identity and the body. We are using "virtue" in the
broadest sense and we invite submissions from others who have
contemplated questions such as: What is virtue? Who gets to be
virtuous? Who defines virtue? What is at stake, culturally speaking,
in these characterizations of virtuousness?
Please send 100 word abstracts to either Maggie Cummings
(mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) or Mary-Lee Mulholland
(mlmulhol@ucalgary.ca) by February 8th. Do not hesitate to contact us
earlier with any questions. The deadline for registration is February
15th.
