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Dear Colleagues,

Apologies for cross-posting.=20

CALL FOR PAPERS=20

Encounters Across Difference: Moving Beyond Dark Anthropology [1]
(IUAES-Tourism)=20

IUAES2020 [2] - Coming of Age on Earth: Legacies and Next Generation
Anthropology=20

Sibenik, Croatia, 7-11 October 2020=20

CONVENORS=20

Natalia Bloch (Adam Mickiewicz University)=20

Noel B. Salazar (KU Leuven)=20

ABSTRACT=20

A. M. Nogu=C3=A9s Pedregal noticed that the scholarly focus on dialectics
rather than on dialogics has limited our anthropological understanding
of sociocultural processes and the production of knowledge (2008: 148).
While he referred to tourism contexts, the same can be said about
encounters that are the outcome of other forms of mobility (e.g.
economic migration, forced migration, etc.). The long-standing tradition
of interpreting both tourism and migration by employing a
center/periphery binary and focusing on "difference" has resulted in
narratives of conflict, subordination or resistance. Sherry B. Ortner
(2016) identified this tendency - present in our discipline since the
1980s - as "dark anthropology". We have tended to perceive the world
through the lens of ubiquitous "power, exploitation, and chronic
pervasive inequality" (2016: 50). Such approach makes our field of
theorization close-ended. Ortner thus calls us for overcoming these dark
tendencies, while not ignoring the wider contexts of power and
inequalities. Arjun Appadurai's anthropology of aspiration and
possibilities is one of these approaches. The aim of this panel, then,
is to explore spaces of dialogue, cooperation, reciprocity, closeness,
care, friendship and intimacy in encounters that are the outcome of
mobilities, along with the possibilities they bear. We seek
ethnographically grounded studies of informal, interpersonal encounters
"across difference" (Tsing 2005) in order to pose the critical question
whether they have the potential to create meaningful relationships that
would broaden horizons of hope and shape a better future.=20

KEYWORDS=20

Encounter, anthropology, mobility, tourism, migration=20

PAPER SUBMISSION=20

General information: https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/=20

Submission form:
https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/abstract-submission/=20

Deadline: 23 MARCH 2020=20

Please do not hesitate to contact us with any question you may have.=20

Natalia Bloch=20

Department of Anthropology and Ethnology=20

Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland=20

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Links:
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[1] https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/panel/panel-no-71/
[2] https://iuaes2020.conventuscredo.hr/