[MGSA-L] AAA Call for papers: Kinship in Crisis

Dimitris Antoniou dmtrsntn19 at gmail.com
Sun Apr 8 03:06:17 PDT 2012


Dear list members,

I would like to bring to your attention the following call for papers on
“Kinship in Crisis” for the annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association, which will take place in San Francisco on November 14-18,
2012.  The deadline for the submission of abstracts is April 12.

Dimitris Antoniou

Kinship in Crisis

The status of crisis in anthropology has undergone a marked shift in recent
years—as anthropologists have inquired increasingly into the stakes of
framing something as crisis—from an analytic category (describing a state
of affairs) into an object of analysis (itself demanding description). The
most recent stages of this shift have coincided with the unfolding of a
situation of political, economic, and social turmoil in Greece popularly
referred to as the crisis. How does the problematization of crisis as an
analytic play out in anthropological approaches to crisis as lived
experience? Taking as its entry point the Greek family and its recent
filmic depictions (especially the staging of radically unorthodox forms of
familial relations in Koutras’s Strella, Lanthimos’s Dogtooth and Alps, and
Tsangaris’s Attenberg), this panel seeks to address this question through a
broad consideration of kinship as a modality of crisis. It asks: What kind
of critique of dominant conceptions of kinship do these films suggest, and
what kind of perspective into crisis do they offer? In what ways does
crisis reframe relationships between kinship and society, and how does it
enable/disable processes of scaling between the two? How does kinship
become a site in which temporal reckoning under crisis and about crisis is
articulated? How are dispositions towards the past and the future
materialized through relations with kin? How does the formation of
alternative kinship relations become a strategy for living in crisis? How
can a focus on kinship as a specific modality of crisis enable us to
continue the work of retheorizing crisis as an anthropological concept?

We welcome papers that propose to address these or related concerns through
a focus on kinship and crisis in any site. The panel description may be
revised before submission to reflect the interests of the participants.
Please send your name, affiliation, and a 250-word abstract to Dimitris
Antoniou (dimitris.antoniou at mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) and Soo-Young Kim (
csk2140 at columbia.edu) by April 12.

Dr. Dimitris Antoniou
Faculty Research Fellow
Sub-Faculty of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies
University of Oxford
47 Wellington Square
Oxford, OX1 2JF
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