Asia and the South Asian Diaspora
Focusing on ethnographic research and praxis in South Asia and its
diaspora, the panel invites papers that broadly engage with, but are not
limited to, questions of the cultural politics of gender, labour,
relationships, place, media, performance, nationhood, migration,
citizenship, and multiculturalism. We are interested in initiating a
dialogue that explores the overlapping matrices of power and knowledge
that are currently reconfiguring the landscape of social relationships
and socio-political identities, as well as in considering the
connections between gender, knowledge, place, culture, and ethnographic
research. This is particularly important given ongoing shifts in
ethnographic practice, globalization, and the politicization of culture,
issues which are complicated by this session's attention to different
south Asian contexts which draw upon different vocabularies and address
multiple publics.
Please contact us if you have any questions and send your abstracts of
100 words by Feb 9, to Glynis George (ggeorge@uwindsor.ca) or Nicola
Mooney ( Nicola.Mooney@ucfv.ca).
