Zusammenfassung
- Was Veranstaltung — ASA2021: Responsibility
- Wann to (Europe/Berlin / UTC200)
- Wo online (University of St Andrews)
- URL https://theasa.org/conferences/asa2021/
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Beschreibung
Who is responsible? Where does responsibility lie? Between whom? Towards what? Who shares responsibility and upon whose authority is responsibility named? These are questions that anthropologists regularly encounter both in the field and in the archive, in their relations with bureaucracy, and with regard to anthropology’s multiple and diverse audiences. These are also questions, we are told, that are pressingly contemporary in nature. Talk about an era of ‘post-truth’ or about the predicament of expert knowledge, alongside talk about the challenges of the Anthropocene and a crisis of austerity, all fold into particular discussions of responsibility. Continue reading.
Theme
Panels are invited under the following sub-themes:
Extinction
Who speaks, and for whom?
Evidence
Health, disease and wellbeing
Morality and legality
Irresponsibility and failure
Key datesCall for Papers: 4 Dec to 28 Dec
Papers selected by convenors: 11 Jan
Early Bird registration: 1 Feb-1 March