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• 23 déc 2019

  Paris

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Desired Identities

  New technology-based metamorphosis in Japan

  In Japan, the kyara-ka phenomenon, ‘transforming into a character’ (Aihara Hiroyuki, 2007) is now giving birth to what Nozawa Shunsuke (2013) calls ‘an emerging art of self–fashioning.’ Based on elaborate disguise techniques, the kyara-ka phenomenon covers a variety of communication strategies and practices: cosplay, kigurumi, Vtubing, utaloid voice banks, use of voice-image filters to upload videos where humans look like characters… Exploring all the aspects of this ‘thingification of humans’, the conference will reflect on how and why a growing number of people market themselves as characters. The conference goal is to address the complexity of issues raised by these voluntary and, perhaps, ironical acts of obliteration. What is the profile of men and women who transform themselves into computer-graphic creatures? How do they deal with being loved only through their digital alter-ego? What little or grand narratives are being produced alongside? Can we still deal with the phenomenon in terms of authenticity (original) versus artificiality (copy)? What negotiations or refusals underly the use of characters as social masks?

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• 20 déc 2019

  Call for papers - Geography

  Landscapes, inhabitant autonomy and local action in contemporary Japan, 1990s to the present day: comparative French-Japanese perspectives

  Projets de paysage journal no.23

  Ce numéro de la revue Projets de paysage a pour double objectif de faciliter l’accès à la pensée contemporaine des chercheurs japonais à la fois sur la notion de paysage et sur l’action en ce domaine, et de présenter des textes récents de chercheurs français sur le paysage ayant pour terrain le Japon. La question de l’autonomie habitante est ici considérée comme un angle d’attaque pertinent pour répondre à ce double objectif. À quel point la pensée du paysage au Japon est-elle aujourd’hui impliquée dans les évolutions socio-environnementales du pays ? Comment participe-t-elle à la mise en place d’actions adaptées à l’échelle de la vie quotidienne des habitants ? De quelles façons l’idée de paysage est-elle mise au service des citoyens et/ou des collectivités locales ? À quelles conditions permet-elle de mettre en place des pratiques innovantes pour les habitants en matière de gestion des espaces et d’aménagement des territoires ?

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• 15 déc 2019

  Leipzig

  Call for papers - Asia

  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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