---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: [BAN] CfP: Post-Socialist Solidarities, Panel for the EASA 2012, Paris, 10-12 July 2012 From: "Archer, Rory ([email protected])" <[email protected]> Date: Mon, October 24, 2011 2:33 pm To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Von: Fabio Mattioli [mailto:[email protected]] EASA conference 2012 "Uncertainty and Disquiet", Paris - Université de Nanterre, JULY 10-12 2012 Call for PAPERS: Workshop: How to survive transitional chaos: new post-socialist solidarities Short Abstract: The panel focuses on post-socialist societies, exploring not only the violence of transition but also the productive moments whereby new solidarities are elaborated. By not focusing on a specific region, the panel aims at discussing the future(s) of the concept of post-socialism. Convenors: Caterina Borelli (Universitat de Barcelona), Fabio Mattioli (CUNY Graduate Center) Chair: Katherine Verdery (CUNY Graduate Center) if you're interested in submitting a paper, please follow the link at http://www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/panels.php5?PanelID=1052 Deadline: NOVEMBER 28 2011 Long Abstract This panel focuses on so-called post-socialist societies. In the last two decades, anthropologists have underlined the problems posed by transitions from socialism. Far from being an untroubled one-way process, transition has often carried with it profound instability, if not chaos. Many authors have stressed how the vagaries of the new market economy have had a disruptive effect on previous social relations, institutions and networks. Seeing the uncertainty and unpredictability of everyday life in post-socialist societies, anthropologists have described transition as a violent process of restructuring socialist society - a theme easily forgotten by western "transitology". This panel sets out to expand such contributions, exploring transitions as productive moments. While recognizing the common experience of harsh transformation, we focus rather on the creative ways people inhabit their new situation. We examine the multiple paths through which people reconfigure the socialist past in alternative strategies for the present. We look at the new forms of solidarity that have been patched together during the transition, i.e. political actions, networks of informal economy, collective expressions of many-sided sensibilities. Because "postsocialism" is no longer a region-specific condition, we aim at generating a wider debate about its own "post" - under the rubric of the new: new forms of social cohesion, contestation and organization of civil society; alternative visions and practices of politics; emergent meanings of sociality, authority, and leadership. Looking at transitional chaos in its creative aspects, the panel explores the way the "first post-socialist generations" reshape the prior order in pathways towards the future. _______________________________________________ Balkans mailing list [email protected] http://list.uni-graz.at/mailman/listinfo/balkans -- Moldova Young Artists Association "Oberliht" http://oberliht.com . . . . . . . . . . . https://lists.idash.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/oberlist portal informational pentru arta si cultura din Moldova information gateway for arts and culture from Moldova
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Von: Fabio Mattioli [mailto:[email protected]] EASA conference 2012 "Uncertainty and Disquiet", Paris - Université de Nanterre, JULY 10-12 2012 Workshop: How to survive transitional chaos: new post-socialist solidarities Short Abstract: The panel focuses on post-socialist societies, exploring not only the violence of transition but also the productive moments whereby new solidarities are elaborated. By not focusing on a specific region, the panel aims at discussing the future(s) of the concept of post-socialism.Convenors: Caterina Borelli (Universitat de Barcelona), Fabio Mattioli (CUNY Graduate Center) Chair: Katherine Verdery (CUNY Graduate Center) Deadline: NOVEMBER 28 2011Long AbstractThis panel focuses on so-called post-socialist societies. In the last two decades, anthropologists have underlined the problems posed by transitions from socialism. Far from being an untroubled one-way process, transition has often carried with it profound instability, if not chaos. Many authors have stressed how the vagaries of the new market economy have had a disruptive effect on previous social relations, institutions and networks. Seeing the uncertainty and unpredictability of everyday life in post-socialist societies, anthropologists have described transition as a violent process of restructuring socialist society - a theme easily forgotten by western "transitology". This panel sets out to expand such contributions, exploring transitions as productive moments. While recognizing the common experience of harsh transformation, we focus rather on the creative ways people inhabit their new situation. We examine the multiple paths through which people reconfigure the socialist past in alternative strategies for the present. We look at the new forms of solidarity that have been patched together during the transition, i.e. political actions, networks of informal economy, collective expressions of many-sided sensibilities. Because "postsocialism" is no longer a region-specific condition, we aim at generating a wider debate about its own "post" - under the rubric of the new: new forms of social cohesion, contestation and organization of civil society; alternative visions and practices of politics; emergent meanings of sociality, authority, and leadership. Looking at transitional chaos in its creative aspects, the panel explores the way the "first post-socialist generations" reshape the prior order in pathways towards the future. |
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