CASCAIUAES2017 panel CFPs

1. Anthropological fieldworks: moving from the centre to the periphery
[IUAES Commission on Marginalization and Global Apartheid in
collaboration with WCAA]

2. What Do Indigenous Artefacts Want?

3. Minimize the Movement: Producing and Consuming Local Food

4. Bridewealth revisited: the workings of identity


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1.
Anthropological fieldworks: moving from the centre to the periphery
[IUAES Commission on Marginalization and Global Apartheid in
collaboration with WCAA]

Convenors

Subhadra Channa (Delhi University)
Lorne Holyoak (INAC)

Short Abstract

The anthropological fieldwork experience is largely based on a
movement from the centre to the periphery. This panel invites papers
interrogating the validity of the ethnographic project as a whole from
the indigenous/marginal perspective, from those who have been objects
of study.

http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5233


2.
What Do Indigenous Artefacts Want?

Co-Convenors: Maureen Mathews and Joshua Smith

Abstract:

This panel speaks, in particular, to the movement of Indigenous
artefacts. Archives and museums collect, store and display all
varieties of such entities. Each one whether a letter, a map, a drum,
a pot, or perhaps entire Regalia, moves in a myriad of ways. They are
animate even in containment, if not in spite of it, and their agency
relentlessly demands constant movement between persons, peoples and
ways of knowing. Each kind of artefact moves through storied practice,
often connecting teachings or laws while illuminating layers of
relations. Artefacts, it could be said, careen into the colonial
encounter by their very existence, placing and public service. Yet,
through their same performance each holds the immense power of
decolonization and resistance. The seemingly stillness of artefacts
is an illusion masking their constant state of flux. That is they
fundamentally move in five distinct, but overlapping ways. They quite
literally change physical locations. They simultaneously act as
mechanisms of cultural persistence and revitalization. They profoundly
change our understanding of relations. They bring groups of people
together, working to advance their shared political, social, or
artistic ideas. Presentations in this panel speak to these forms of
movement vis-à-vis Indigenous artefacts whether they are forms of
material culture or archival materials with an added emphasis on
decolonization, repatriation and/or cultural revitalization.

http://www.nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5296


3.
Minimize the Movement: Producing and Consuming Local Food

Session proposed by Rachel Begg and Christine Jourdan
Concordia University

As the world continues its shift to a more urban population,
challenges concerning food scarcity and depletion of stocks, climate
change, and population growth become more apparent and concentrated.
While the global food model often sees food traveling great distances
before it reaches the consumer, the local food movement ("Locavores")
represents an alternative model that aims to connect food producers
and food consumers in the same geographic region. The resulting food
networks are said to be more self-reliant and resilient, and to foster
a stronger relationship between producers, distributers, retailers,
and consumers. This panel seeks to explore examples of food models
impacting local communities and economies. Possible topics include:
local foods, food security and social justice; local foods and
ecological footprints; 'food miles and 'locavorism' as tropes of
ethical living; local food production and models for urban
livelihoods; etc. Colleagues interested by these themes are welcome
to contact us.

Rachel Begg: rachel.begg88@gmail.com
Christine Jourdan: Christine.jourdan@concordia.ca

http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5333


4.
Bridewealth revisited: the workings of identity

Panel proposed by Kathleen Rice (University of Toronto) and Christine
Jourdan (Concordia University)

Short 300 character abstract

The panel examines current bridewealth practices from the perspective
of identity. Across a wide range of societies, we focus on bridewealth
in relations to socio-economic, and political transformations. It
emphasizes the meaning of bridewealth for people involved in
bridewealth transactions.

http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5421