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• 02 mar 2021

  Paris

  Call for papers - Sociology

  The world of personal services, care work, in the age of a health crisis

  Focus on the forgotten actors and victims of the crisis

  L’importance déterminante des métiers de services est apparue de manière criante au cours de la dernière année face à la crise sanitaire mondiale de la Covid 19. Ces emplois précaires et peu qualifiés se sont retrouvés en « premières lignes » pour certains (caissières) et on était rendu inutiles pour d’autres (serveuses) du fait des fermetures. Cette journée d’étude se penchera en priorité sur les métiers où l’on trouve une majorité de femmes souvent étant les plus précaires.

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• 07 jan 2021

  Brussels

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  House/Keeping

  Domestic accumulation, decluttering, and the stuff of kinship in anthropological perspective

  We invite submissions of abstracts considering the following sorts of questions: What is the relationship between storage and the labor of kinship? What kinds of possessions are sources of obligation? Which are experienced as social or animate beings? What social practices and spatial processes surround waste, excess, and the riddance of objects from the home? How might local ethnographic concepts like hau orbrol inform the anthropological understanding of attachment to possessions, recycling, or the circulation of second-hand objects? When is accumulation a valued social practice, and when is it morally suspect? How is the space of storage constructed in relationship to the social space of the home, and how might this reflect on the local category of stored things? We invite authors to consider how practices such as storage, stockpiling, and purging of belongings can be approached anthropologically in order to provide both nuanced ethnographic depth and broader cross-cultural and historical perspective. Interdisciplinary perspectives are also welcome.

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