[Bilimsel Haber] H-Gender-MidEast: CFP/ CONF: Palestine: An anthropologically imagined site

[Nazan Haydari]

> H-Gender-MidEast
> **************
> 
> From: "Lisa Taraki" <ltaraki at birzeit.edu>
> 
> Esmail Nashif of Birzeit University is organizing a
> session on  
> Palestine and
> anthropology at the international Union for
> Anthropological and  
> Ethnological
> Sciences, 16th world congress, which will take place
> in Kunming, China
> between 15 and 23 July 2008.  He welcomes paper
> proposals.
> 
> Palestine: An anthropologically imagined site
> 
> 	The aim of the panel is to discuss the
> anthropological practices
> that focus on Palestine. By anthropological
> practices I mean the  
> textual and
> ethnographic patterns that dominate the construction
> of 'Palestine'  
> as an
> imagined generative anthropological site. While
> engaging critically  
> with the
> current problematics of writing 'Palestine'
> anthropologically, the
> discussion will also aim at exploring new directions
> in  
> anthropologically
> engaged research on the colonial condition in
> 'Palestine', and based on
> that, extended comparatively to other neocolonial
> sites.
> 	Since the Intifada of 1987, the volume and quality
> of the
> anthropological literature on Palestine has taken a
> new direction. In
> contrast to the classical pre- 1987 studies, when
> the major focus was on
> macro-politics and histories of Palestinian society
> (hence the scant  
> amount
> of anthropological monographs), in the new
> literature the voices and
> practices of ordinary Palestinians have become the
> major focus of the
> anthropological practices. As in similar cases, this
> turn in  
> anthropological
> research is hybrid, conflictive, multi-layered, and
> at times  
> overladen with
> politics at the expense of scientific critique.
> 	 The panel will be structured along three main
> axes: the historical,
> theoretical, and methodological aspects of the
> anthropological  
> literature on
> Palestine. Each proposed presentation has to address
> one or more of  
> these
> axes. The proposal should be limited to 250 word and
> submitted to  
> following
> email address by October 15, 2007: esmial at gmail.com
> 



       
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