[MGSA-L] ASA 2016:“The Enemy within”: states of exception and ethnographies of exclusion in contemporary Europe

elena elenamamoulaki at gmail.com
Sun Jan 24 00:00:23 PST 2016


Dear members of the list,

Papers are now invited for the following panel:

*“The Enemy within”: states of exception and ethnographies of exclusion in
contemporary Europe*

ASA2016: *Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology* (4-7 July 2016,
University of Durham)

Panel Convenors:
Katerina Stefatos (Lehman College, CUNY; Columbia University)
*ks3061 at columbia.edu
<ks3061 at columbia.edu>*

Elena Mamoulaki (University of Durham) eleni.mamoulaki at durham.ac.uk

Long abstract:

<ks3061 at columbia.edu>
In post-Cold War Europe, political, economic and media power has often
projected internal threats against democracy to reaffirm its legitimacy or
to impose exceptional measures mostly targeting vulnerable parts of the
population. Invoking Agamben's "States of Exception" and Panourgiá's
concept of "Dangerous Citizens" in this panel we seek to explore some of
the ways in which different groups of people have experienced the process
of the construction of internal enemies performed by different regimes and
forms of power in order to reclaim their sovereignty especially in times of
crisis or "states of emergency" in post-war Europe onwards.

Projects of inventing and constructing an "enemy within" have employed
multiple taxonomic, segregating and discriminatory strategies and
technologies based on different identity markers: class, race, religion,
gender, and sexuality. We invite contributions that examine such strategies
of "internal enemy" construction as well as ethnographic explorations of
the lived experiences of the people within past or current political
contexts. What are the specificities of constructing enemy identities and
enabling mechanisms of belonging and/or exclusion? How are such mechanisms
felt through lived experiences of the excluded subjects? How do certain
groups conform or resist to such strategies? From post-socialist regimes to
neoliberal "austerity" governments, this panel takes an anthropological
look at the ways in which different social groups are labeled and excluded
as "threatening" but also at how these groups cope or fight back against
such an exclusion projected as essential in the context of states of
exception or emergency.

*All paper proposals must be made via the online system by February 15,
2016: *
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4440

*Proposals must consist of:*
- a paper/contribution/poster title
- the name/s and email address/es of author/s
- a short abstract of fewer than 300 characters
- a long abstract of fewer than 250 words

All proposals must be made via the online form, not by email:
http://www.nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4440
There is a 'propose a paper' link beneath the long abstract of each panel
page. Go to the panel page *(Panel 38)* you are interested in and then
click on this proposal link to make your proposal direct to that panel.

*Panelists will be required to finance their own participation to the
conference.*
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