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  • Paris

    Call for papers - Asia

    Histories of families, alliances, filiation and narratives of the self in South-East Asia

    The French Association into South-East Asia research (Afrase)

    Les rencontres de l'Association française pour la recherche sur l’Asie du Sud-Est (Afrase) 2020 proposent de partager des histoires de familles en Asie du Sud-Est et de s'interroger sur la relation entre récits de soi et récits de parenté, Quelle que soit la nature de la famille alors considérée, famille réelle, étendue, reconstruite ou imaginée. Cet appel concerne tous ceux qui voudraient partager une réflexion sur ces récits, particulièrement sur les formes de ces histoires, leur conservation et leur transmission. Tous les supports de ces récits de famille sont mis à l'honneur, qu'il s'agisse de récits oraux, de textes, de dessins, de photographies ou de films. La question du dialogue au sein des groupes de parenté en Asie du Sud-Est et entre l'Asie et le monde est mise à l'honneur à travers les thèmes de la communication, notamment dans le cadre des réseaux sociaux.

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  • Paris

    Conference, symposium - Ethnology, anthropology

    "Creative State-Making" & Some (Un)intended Consequences of Islamization

    Surprising Trajectories in Islam, Gender & Politics in Southeast Asia

    Islam in Southeast Asia has enjoyed a thriving trajectory in recent years. This is in large part attributable to various state-led Islamization movements that have succeeded in weaving the values and tenets of Islam into the very fabric of Muslims’ everyday life, thereby fortifying the power of the state that claims to embody the divine authority and immutability of Islam. But while the state imagines itself to be the legitimate (and only) “guardian” of Islam, its attempts to monopolize Islamic interpretations and institutions also – perhaps unintentionally – open up a more complex, discursive space that allows non-state actors to submit to, challenge, or appropriate and refashion various forms of symbolic state power, often in unpredictable ways.

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  • Brussels

    Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

    Public space in East Asia. Visuality, performativity and interactions in socialist contexts

    Journal Civilisations (vol.69)

    Les espaces publics des différents contextes socialistes d’Asie orientale (limitée ici à la Chine, au Vietnam, et au Laos) connaissent une série de mutations que les sciences sociales n’ont guère explorées dans leur complexité et leurs intrications. Ce dossier propose un regard transversal inédit sur des sociétés dont les convergences ont depuis longtemps été soulignées. Nous aborderons les transformations des espaces publics en restant constamment attentifs à leur qualité d’espace physique, visuel, interactionnel.  Nous définirons plutôt l’espace public par son accessibilité, théoriquement offerte à tous ; par la visibilité de ce qui s’y déroule; ainsi que par un certain type de sociabilité qui va au-delà des « interactions minimales » du trafic en milieu urbain décrites par Hannerz. Visualité, performativité, interactions sont ainsi au coeur des enjeux conceptuels que ce dossier entend mettre à l’honneur. Au départ de matériaux empiriques recontextualisés dans l’histoire, les auteurs sont invités à adopter une perspective réflexive sur leur approche méthodologique, conceptuelle, théorique et éthique, afin de favoriser les apports heuristiques mutuels. Le dossier entend mettre l’iconographie à l’honneur.

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  • Ixelles-Elsene

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

    PhD in Anthropology of youth and public space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam

    EASt, centre for East Asian Studies, invites applications for 1 PhD in Anthropology of Youth and Public Space in Laos, Thailand or Vietnam - deadline: 27 June 2019. EASt is a research unit within the Maison des sciences humaines of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium.

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  • Zurich

    Conference, symposium - Political studies

    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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  • Zurich

    Scholarship, prize and job offer - Ethnology, anthropology

    Vacancy Postdoc Position in Social Anthropology

    at the University of Zürich

    There is a vacancy for a postdoc-position in Social Anthropology at the Institut for Social Anthropology and Empirical Cultural Studies at the University of Zürich. A PhD in Social Anthropology or related disciplines, as well as experience in research and teaching. Desired, but not necessary are theoretical and empirical interests in the fields of the anthropology of religion and/or ethics and/or knowledge/science and/or medical anthropology, interest in South Asia as well as German language skills.

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