This session aims to explore various feelings and embodiments of moral
subjectivities and ethical engagements. 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 performance of piety
through religious tourism; the production of national identities based on
definitions of goodness; or ethical spaces of capitalist economies.
We invite papers with ethnographic accounts of morality that look at these
linkages and connections between morality and power, identity and the body.
We are using affects of "morality" in the broadest sense and include papers
that contemplate questions such as: What constitutes ethical practice? Who
gets to be virtuous? What kinds of feelings or sentiments does goodness
evoke? What is at stake, culturally speaking, in these characterizations or
embodiments of morality?
Please contact Maggie Cummings (mcummings@utsc.utoronto.ca) or Mary-Lee
Mulholland (mlmulholland@gmail.com) no later then March 27th. The AAA
deadline is April 1st.
