CASCAIUAES2017 panel CFPs

1. Moving beyond the formal/informal dichotomy: Implications for governance

2. Shifting alterities? Summoning contemporary figures of difference

3. "Moveo ergo sum": towards an anthropology of embodied mobilities

4. Life in movement: becomings of the bodies

5. Moving beyond the home discipline: where is anthropology going in
multi-disciplinary research and community-based research?

6. Living together with the land: reaching and honouring treaties with
Indigenous Peoples

7. Making and remaking the city / Faire et refaire la ville



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1.
Moving beyond the formal/informal dichotomy: Implications for governance

Convenors

Alan Smart, University of Calgary, asmart@ucalgary.ca
Martijn Koster, Radboud University, Nijmegen M.Koster@maw.ru.nl

Short abstract

In the last decade, there has been a resurgence in studies of informality.
Moving beyond the commonly used formal/informal dichotomy, this panel aims
at developing a novel analytical framework for understanding the
intertwining of the formal and the informal in governance and politics.

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2.
Shifting alterities? Summoning contemporary figures of difference

Convenors

Marie-Claude Haince (University of Ottawa / Université de Montréal)
Phillip Rousseau (Université de Montréal)

Short Abstract

By juxtaposing heterogeneous contemporary human and nonhuman figures
of alterity, this panel proposes an exploration of the salient and
curious shifts in the manifold forms of its mediations. Our goal is to
engage with and problematize (re)emerging relations to and experiences
of difference.

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3.
"Moveo ergo sum": towards an anthropology of embodied mobilities

Convenors

Noel B. Salazar (University of Leuven)
Linda McNenly (Wilfrid Laurier)

Short Abstract

What does 'active' movement (in contrast to being moved) do to our
bodies and minds? What do active movers hope to achieve (apart from
the obvious health benefits)? Which transformations are desired and
which ones obtained? This panel will address these and related
questions.

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4.
Life in movement: becomings of the bodies

Convenors

Nima Jangouk (University of Ottawa )
Luciane Machado Freitas de Souza (University of Ottawa)

Short Abstract

This panel explores moving bodies as becoming beings that perceive worlds
through their lived experiences. Considering the body as an open-ended
field of sensory experience that comprises human/non-human entanglements
will be traceable in various health care practices and healing rituals.

More information:
http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5348


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5.
Moving beyond the home discipline: where is anthropology going in
multi-disciplinary research and community-based research?

Convenors

Megan Highet (University of Alberta)
Sally Carraher

Short Abstract

As anthropologists increasingly move beyond the boundaries of the
discipline in order to engage in interdisciplinary collaborations and to
enter into research partnerships with diverse publics, we ask what
challenges and benefits await anthropologists as they move betwixt and
between these spaces.

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6.
Living together with the land: reaching and honouring treaties with
Indigenous Peoples


Chair Clinton Westman
Discussant Sylvie Poirier

Short Abstract

We explore treaties and agreements with Indigenous Peoples from a
range of perspectives across regional/national contexts both in Canada
and beyond. We consider historical and modern treaties, as well as
communities in long-term negotiation or implementation, or who refuse
to enter such discussions.

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7.
Making and remaking the city / Faire et refaire la ville

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Nous serons ravies de recevoir des propositions en français. Nous
incluons la version française des résumés long et court en bas.
We would be delighted to receive papers in French. We include the
French versions of the long and short abstracts below.

Convenors
Martha Radice (Dalhousie University) martha.radice@dal.ca
Nathalie Boucher (Université de Montréal) info@organismerespire.com

Short Abstract

This panel deals with processes of urban transformation: material or
social, official or vernacular, novel or nostalgic, strategic or
tactical (as Michel de Certeau would say). All modes of manufacture
are welcomed: technologies, infrastructure, craft, representations, etc.

Ce panel traite des processus de transformation urbaine : matériels ou
sociaux, officiels ou vernaculaires, novateurs ou nostalgiques,
stratégiques ou tactiques (comme le dirait M. de Certeau). Tous les
modes de confection sont admis : technologies, infrastructure,
artisanat, représentations, etc.

Long Abstract

How is the city made and remade? We will gather reflections on
processes of urban transformation, whether they seek to make the city
anew or to reconstruct it as it used to be. We are interested in both
strategies and tactics of city-making, in de Certeau's terms -
calculated actions deployed from a position of power (strategies) or
more informal or even furtive 'poaching' actions made from the margins
(tactics). We are thinking of all kinds of modes of fabrication
(technologies, infrastructure, representations, craft, festivals,
do-it-yourself movements, etc.), of official discourses and vernacular
ones, of social and symbolic construction as much as material
production.

Questions we raise include, but are not limited to these: Emerging
models of urban planning based on a return to a city of proximity
emphasize densification and the reenchantment of urban space, but how
do these models bear up to reality when they are developed? When
municipal governments ask for public consultations or even citizen
interventions, do we end up with free, creative participation or does
it instead burden citizens with more responsibility, while absolving
political instances from it? What grassroots initiatives escape
regulation or surveillance by official codes of manufacture? What city
emerges from such actions and their interactions?

We seek to underline the movement between the individual and the
collective, between private and political interests, between
authenticity and the avant-garde. In these ways, our panel
investigates the making and the remaking of the city.

FRANÇAIS

Comment la ville se (re)fait-elle? Nous réunirons des réflexions sur
les processus de transformation urbaine, qu'ils visent à créer une
ville nouvelle ou à en reproduire une version plus ancienne.

Nous nous intéressons aux stratégies et aux tactiques de fabrication
de la ville, dans les termes de de Certeau, soit les actions calculées
déployées à partir d'une position de pouvoir (stratégies) et les
actions plutôt informelles ou furtives, quasi-braconnières, provenant
de la marge (tactiques). Nous pensons à toutes sortes de modes de
confection (technologies, infrastructure, représentations, artisanats,
festivals, mouvements "do-it-yourself", etc.), au discours officiel
comme au vernaculaire, à la construction sociale ou symbolique comme à
la production matérielle.

Nous lançons ces questions, sans nous y limiter: Les modèles
d'aménagement émergents basés sur le retour à un tissu urbain de
proximité insistent sur la densification et le réenchantement de
l'espace public. Comment se frottent ces modèles à la réalité ?
Lorsque les gouvernements municipaux privilégient la consultation,
voire l'intervention des citoyens, a-t-on affaire à une réelle
créativité-liberté participative, ou à une responsabilisation du
citoyen et une déresponsabilisation des instances politiques  ?
Quelles initiatives populaires échappent à la régulation et à la
surveillance des codes de fabrication officiels ? Quelle ville émerge
de ces actions, et de leurs rencontres ?

Nous espérons souligner le mouvement entre l'individu et le collectif,
entre le particulier et le politique, entre le local et le global,
entre l'authenticité et la tendance. Notre panel s'interroge ainsi sur
la fabrication et le renouvellement de la ville.


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