CALL FOR PAPERS - CASCA Session

CALL FOR PAPERS!

Pamela Downe (University of Saskatchewan) and Tamil Kendall (Harvard
School of Public Health) are proposing a session entitled "Policies and
People: Anthropological Contributions, Critiques, and Contestations" for
the annual meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) being
held in Victoria, B.C., May 8-11, 2013. The description of this session
appears below. If you are interested in participating in this panel,
please submit a title and an abstract of no more than 150 words to Pamela
Downe (pamela.downe@usask.ca<mailto:pamela.downe@usask.ca>) by Thursday
February 21, 2013.

PANEL PROPOSAL FOR CASCA MEETINGS

Policies and People: Anthropological Contributions, Critiques, and
Contestations

Organizers:
Pamela Downe (Department of Archaeology & Anthropology, University of
Saskatchewan)
Tamil Kendall (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Women and Health Initiative,
Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public
Health)

In this session, we explore the ways in which anthropological research
contributes to the analysis, critique, and shaping of public and health
policy in a variety of cultural contexts. Although anthropology has a
long-history of policy relevance, it is only fairly recently that
anthropology has gained recognition as a policy-oriented discipline. As
Cris Shore and Susan Wright state in their book Anthropology of Policy
(1997:4), a careful analysis of policy "leads straight into issues at the
heart of anthropology: norms and institutions; ideology and consciousness;
knowledge and power; rhetoric and discourse; meaning and interpretations;
the global and the local." This session brings together scholars who
explicitly engage social and health policies to contribute to policy
development and to examine the discursive casting of culture in the policy
record. Our aim is to advance the field as one both relevant and oriented
to influential policy analysis.

Thanks so much!

Information about the upcoming CASCA conference is available here:
http://www.cas-sca.ca/conference/upcoming-conference/2013-call-for-papers


- Pam