[Bilimsel Haber] ?let: CFP: Brokering Images, Casting Differences (3/15/07; AAA, 11/28/07-12/2/07)

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Call for Papers
Proposed Session
American Anthropological Association (AAA), Nov. 28-Dec. 2, 2007
Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Washington DC

BROKERING IMAGES, CASTING DIFFERENCES:
Practices of Anticipating the Imagination of Others
Zeynep Devrim Gürsel, University of California, Berkeley & Stephanie
Sadre-Orafai, New York University

We live in times of constant production and consumption of images,
incessantly being represented, interpellated by images, and engaging in
acts of representing others. Yet in whose image(s) are we being cast and
who is doing the casting? What constitutes knowledge production in the
visual realm and on what terms do the stakes of visual production get
negotiated?

This panel broadly examines the production and circulation of "images"
both as visual representations of peoples and things as well as the
public perceptions sparked by them. Paying specific attention to the
practices of various kinds of image brokers whose job it is to select,
edit, and arrange for the circulation of images they themselves have not
produced, the panel will address the kinds of work enacted upon visual
representations that shape how they are framed and intended to be taken
up by a broader public. Arguing that the temporal management of past
categories and future uses is a central feature of image brokering, the
panel will attend to the specific practices of anticipation and
imagination used by image brokers in various ethnographic locations.
Focusing on the moments of selection as critical sites to investigate
the decision-makers' imagination and the brokering of images as an
everyday practice of imagination, the panel will explore the political
potential of these practices, including the role of stereotype and
innovation, or how particular images get repeated and transformed.

We invite paper submissions to address these issues through any of the
following sets of questions:

- How do expectations of what something should look like inform the
selection of images?
- What are the linguistic dimensions of these visual practices?
- How are categories of peoples and things produced in institutional
settings through everyday discursive interactions and visual practices
of image brokers?
- How do image brokers put images to work? To what types of work are
they put?
- What kind of labor is image brokering?
- What are the broader structural constraints of image brokers' work
and how does attention to their everyday practices reveal something
more about these constraints?
- How do we think about imagination in a context where cultural
producers anticipate the impact of a particular image on a viewer's
imagination?
- How does the image broker's imagination and his/her anticipation of
the imagination of others shape the ways in which both the past and
future get imaged?

Please send abstracts (250 words) for 15-minute papers and a brief bio
or cv to Stephanie Sadre-Orafai, sso212 at nyu.edu, or Zeynep Devrim
Gürsel, zgursel at berkeley.edu by Friday, March 16, 2007.

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