CFP: Ethnographies of the Middle East: spatio-temporal perspectives within and across Lusophone contexts
Call for papers
"Ethnographies of the Middle East: spatio-temporal perspectives within and across Lusophone contexts" to be held at the 7th APA Congress, in Lisbon (Portugal), from 4th-7th June 2019.
We welcome submissions in both Portuguese and English.
For more information on this panel, please follow the link below and/or contact panel coordinators.
http://apa2019.apantropologia.org/p099/
Submissions open until January 21th, 2019.
Patricia Scalco (University of Helsinki)
Liza Dumovich ( Universidade Federal Fluminense)
Short abstract
This panel aims at reflecting on methodological and epistemological specificities of the Lusophone ethnographic production in and about the "Middle East" by asking what are specific and general strands in the production of knowledge about the"Middle East" within and across the borders of Lusitan contexts broadly defined.
Long abstract
As current anthropology challenges paradigms and reaches beyond conceptual, thematic and epistemological frontiers, the area culturally designated as "the Middle East" has become increasingly defined by notions of borders and their power to, symbolically or empirically, separate, isolate or annihilate populations at different scales. Grounded in different anthropological traditions, in academic institutions in Portugal and across the world, Lusophone anthropologists strive to contribute to the understanding of the "Middle East" through their ethnographic work.
Engaging with the notion that the researcher's positionality play a significant role in the (re)production of knowledge, this panel aims at reflecting on methodological and epistemological specificities of the Lusophone ethnographic production in and about the Middle East. We seek to gain perspectives on spatio-temporal general and specific strands of the production of knowledge about the "Middle East" within Lusitan borders and across Lusophone contexts. Contributions reflecting on the development of the Middle East as an ethnographic category among Portuguese speakers from different contexts and across time, particularly within the last 30 years, are particularly- though not exclusively - encouraged.
Liza Dumovich
Coeditora
E-mail: lizadumovich@gmail.com
Tel: (21) 98872-9602
Dr. Pedram Khosronejad Farzaneh Family Scholar Associate Director for Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies School of Global Studies & Partnerships/School of Media & Strategic Communications Oklahoma State University 201 Wes Watkins Center Stillwater, Oklahoma 74078 Phone: 405-744-2507 E-mail: Pedram.khosronejad@okstate.edu
| Chief Editor, Anthropology of the Contemporary Middle East and Central Eurasia SeanKingston | Series Editor, The Anthropology of Persianate Societies, SeanKingston | Series Editor, Iranian and Persian Gulf Studies, LIT Verlag
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