Dear colleagues,
We would like to to alert you to a panel that we will be organising for the forthcoming EASA conference in Lisbon in July 2020.
You can find the link to our panel description here https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/panels#8413
We would be delighted if you would consider offering a paper as part of this panel.
The deadline for papers is 20th January and the process is described at https://easaonline.org/conferences/easa2020/cfp
best,
Daniel Miller and Katrien Pype
GLOBAL ANTHROPOLOGY IN A DIGITAL AGE
Conveners; Daniel Miller (UCL) and Katrien Pype (KU Leuven)
Discussant: Sahana Udupa (LMU, München)
Thinking in terms of the global has always been a challenge to anthropology given our primary method of ethnography is resolute in its parochialism. The issue become even clearer and more immediate in a digital age, when new developments become ubiquitous and raise immediate questions as to whether they act to homogenise the world or provide new platforms for heterogeneity. At the same time, calls to decolonize our discipline are sounding louder and louder. Both trends (digitalization of society globally; and critiquing the colonial/colonialist underpinnings of our discipline) invite us to reconsider the whole endeavour of “global anthropology”. Yet, instead of discarding the project, we aim to rethink what the possibilities are of a Global anthropology in the contemporary Digital Age.
Questions to be addressed are: So how do we create a global digital anthropology that is sensitive to ethnography? Should this be at the level of theory or does that betray specificity? Could it be through allusion to global forces such as political economy or global regulatory authorities. Alternatively, we could argue for a method that reconciles cultural relativism with global local perspectives through comparative anthropology. In this case, the question is how can that be resurrected and foregrounded in contemporary anthropology? We will cite examples from Congo to Ireland, from Japan to Chile and welcome further contributions.