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• 01 nov 2019

  Lomé

  Beitragsaufruf - Ethnologie, Anthropologie

  Les circulations dans le Sud global : ethnographies des échanges mondialisés

  XVe colloque de l'Association pour l'anthropologie du changement social et du développement (APAD)

  L’édition 2020 du colloque international de l’Association pour l’anthropologie du changement social et du développement (APAD) portera sur les multiples formes de circulation à grande échelle de marchandises, idées, techniques, informations, modèles qui traversent de manière croissante les pays du Sud et les relient au reste du monde. Des panels ou des communications s’intéressant à des circulations à échelle plus limitée, régionale ou entre pays voisins, ou montrant des effets de changement d’échelle dans les circulations, sont aussi bienvenus. Nous invitons également les anthropologues visuels et les cinéastes à proposer des panels ou à soumettre des films pour des projections publiques.

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• 15 déc 2019

  Leipzig

  Beitragsaufruf - Asien

  Locating negative affects in post-reform China

  This panel takes the prevalence of positivity in post-reform China as an invitation to investigate its opposites: the variety of negative ordinary affects that can be viewed as ensuing from state-induced “situations of restricted agency”. What can we learn from the various forms of negativity that morph out of the socio-political circumstances of post-reform China, and how to tread a fine line between the risk of romanticization and analytical dismissal? Under what conditions do the expression and performance of negative affects constitute “a manifestation of autonomy from state directives” in the context of pervasive “happiness” campaigns? Or is their work ambivalent, if not problematic, especially when they come to be associated with specific marginalized groups?

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• 30 sep 2019

  Paris

  Beitragsaufruf - Politikwissenschaften

  Seeing Politics through Intermediation and Intermediaries

  This seminar proposes to look at politics through the lens of political intermediaries and what they do, i.e. intermediation. Intermediaries can be defined as an assorted group of actors (political brokers, political parties, interest groups, movements) who acts as a hinge between two or more levels, actors or social institutions; while intermediation , as a process, encompasses all the mediations that these actors perform in order to keep the political system intact (Zaremberg, Guarneros-Meza, and Lavalle 2017; Gunther, Puhle, and Montero 2007; Kitschelt 2004; Smith 2007). The question we are interested in relates to the transformations in the roles of these agents and processes of mediation since the neo-liberal transformation has engulfed the processes of public policy formulation, contestation and enactment.

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• 31 jan 2019

  01 fév 2019

  Zuerich

  Kolloquium - Politikwissenschaften

  The Pillars of Rule

  The Writ of Dynasties and Nation-States in the Middle East and South Asia

  Max Weber famously argued that states lay claim to the monopoly of the legitimate use of violence over certain circumscribed territories. However, historical and anthropological research has challenged his ideal-typical vision by showing how the idea of the unitary state is a fiction that can only be produced through the action of interrelated but partly autonomous agents. States, and the various institutions that constitute them, face the strategic task of identifying and domesticating the social networks that are necessary for them to secure control over particular territories and their populations. Local strongmen and notables can in turn use their own local influence in order to gain recognition from higher-level, more powerful, state institutions. In this international conference, scholars from a variety of disciplines will explore the ways in which dynastic power and/or the rule of the state is asserted, negotiated and contested across both the Middle East and South Asia.

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• 25 jan 2019

  Zuerich

  Stipendien, Preise und Stellenangebote - Ethnologie, Anthropologie

  Vacancy PhD position in Social Anthropology at the University of Zürich

  We are looking for a doctoral student to be part of the research project “Visions of the Social: The Transformation of State Planning in Postcolonial India” which is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation.  The PhD student will examine local implications of financialized forms of social service provision in North India.  We offer employment for four years with a competitive salary as well as a dynamic and innovative research setting in a lively department with a motivated faculty interested in collaboration and academic exchange.

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