CASCAIUAES2017 panel: Moving from marginalization to mutuality [Commission on Marginalization and Global Apartheid]

(WIM-WHF07)

Moving from marginalization to mutuality [Commission on
Marginalization and Global Apartheid]

Convenors
Ellen Judd (University of Manitoba)
Andrew 'Mugsy' Spiegel (University of Cape Town)


Short Abstract
This panel challenges global structures of inequality and exclusion by
exploring modes of movement from marginalization to mutuality. It
problematises practices of inequality and marginalization that shift
lines and veil barriers, and explores routes to mutuality.

Long Abstract
This panel challenges global structures and discourses of inequality
and exclusion by exploring emergent discourses and modes of movement
from marginalization to mutuality. We view this as critical to
furthering anthropological resources for the critique of contemporary
permutations in global inequality. The panel will depart from both the
resurgence and present danger of movements that literally,
figuratively, and violently exclude persons and collectivities, and
from the movement of people and peoples across boundaries of nations
and constructed social spaces as immigrants, indigenous persons and
peoples, persons of all genders, ethnicities and identities, and
persons and communities of diverse religions and commitments.

This panel will examine the reconfiguration of relations that are
necessarily contested and re-made through these movements of people
and ideas. The panel will problematise those pervasive, misleading and
subtle enactments of inequality that take the form of marginalization,
that is, those that appear to achieve or welcome moves toward
equality, while instead shifting lines and veiling barriers. The panel
will examine resources and practices that instead open routes toward
relations of mutuality, arguing that it is fundamentally through the
refiguring of social relations that inequality can be deprived of
ground to exist.

The panel will span three sessions. The first will critically engage
international work in anthropology on mutuality. The second will
ethnographically explore diverse social and discursive structures of
inequality and marginalization. The third will engage with practices
to move anthropology toward decentred, innovative and socially
grounded enactments of mutuality.

More information:

http://nomadit.co.uk/cascaiuaes2017/suite/panels.php5?PanelID=5441