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Living with Diversity in a More-than-Human World

Conveners: Muhammad Kavesh (University of Toronto)
Natasha Fijn (Australian National University)

Discussant: Eben Kirksey (Deakin University)

CFP deadline: 2 July 2021

Please propose your paper via this link: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/rai2021/p/10229

Short Abstract:

This panel connects critical debates on the transformation of human interactions with more-than-human selves and living beings through the forces of capitalism and neoliberalism, and considers how this jeopardizes both biological and socio-cultural diversity in a globalized world.

Long Abstract

In this panel, we explore how the transformation of human interactions with living beings through the forces of capitalism and neoliberalism leads us into a precarious existence, jeopardizing both biological and socio-cultural diversity. Drawing from the works of Haraway (2016), Tsing (2015), and Kohn (2007, 2013), contributors to this panel are asked to re-think our connections with more-than-humans by taking guidance from local communities and Indigenous ways of co-existing with other beings. Many hybrid communities, both human and nonhuman, have developed ways for living alongside one another, including multiple species of mammal, biodiverse forms within forests, communities of fungi or plankton, or even humans existing with zoonotic diseases. We intend to critically evaluate the role of 'modern' forms of production, distribution and consumption in a globalized world. Through a multispecies anthropological approach, panellists have the opportunity to explore how materialistic, profit and market-oriented forms of engagement with more-than-humans may be in stark contrast to other kinds of co-existence with life on earth, such as mobile forms of pastoralism, or the sustenance of a community by the hunting and gathering of local species. This panel will explore how a post-industrial approach, perhaps including habitat destruction for commercial gain, Western-centric forms of conservation, intensive agriculture, or industrial-scale wet markets, can be detrimental to local socio-cultural communities while impacting species diversity. Instead of a destructive way of engaging with other beings, we could turn to different kinds of co-existence that more readily encompasses more-than-human worlds. ... See MoreSee Less

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CFP for Southern Cultures issue: Sanctuaries
by Katharine Henry

Call for Papers
Southern Cultures: Sanctuaries
Guest Editor: Annette M. Rodríguez (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill)

Southern Cultures, the award-winning, peer-reviewed quarterly from UNC’s Center for the Study of the American South, encourages submissions from scholars, writers, and artists for a special issue, Sanctuaries, to be published in Summer 2022. We will accept submissions for this issue through July 26, 2021, at https://southerncultures.submittable.com/Submit .

For this issue, we seek submissions that reveal practices and places of sanctuary. We understand sanctuary in its broadest form—as sanctified, sacred, and holy, and also as safety, refuge, haven, and relief. Sanctuary is, in the words of poet and professor Nikky Finney, the “informal sacred.” We look to the long history and future of southern peoples, and people who traverse southern US geographies, who continue to envision and construct sanctuary in both permanence and impermanence.

We recognize sanctuary not only as a space but as a practice. We conceive this issue as honoring and enabling survival and joy, as imagining horizons toward which to reach, and as acknowledging where sanctuary may fail—where, as Finney has said, “God was all around but not everywhere.”

We hope to learn about the designs and the improvisations that provide relief and awe, from ephemeral moments of the everyday sacred to enduring structures of safety. We ask how sanctuary is related to belonging and to unbelonging, and how each are constructed. How have we nurtured sanctuaries—religious, secular, and those that exceed that binary? How have aural, visual, and textual sanctuaries been lovingly nurtured in the South in music, storytelling, and visual grammars? How might we seek sanctuary in a narrative of bird watching, in a historical work on the Fugitive Slave Act, in poetry and new-style liturgy, or in the myriad forms of sanctuary southerners continue to devise for themselves?

Submissions can explore any topic or theme, and we welcome explorations of the region in the forms Southern Cultures publishes: scholarly articles, memoir, interviews, surveys, photo essays, and shorter feature essays.

Possible topics and questions to explore might include (but are not limited to):

Altar-making practices
Animal and plant sanctuaries
Artistic practices
Asylum-seeking via the US immigration system
Disaster relief
Embodied relief/refuge
Faith communities
Farming and agricultural projects
Foodways
Fugitivity
Indigenous practices of refuge against settler colonialism
Legal sanctuary for those fleeing enslavement
Memorial-making
Non-human worlds
Political sanctuary
Religious sanctuaries
Sanctuary cities and sanctuary bills
Shelters of aid and relief
Shrines—formal and informal
Undocumented self-narrative
US citizenship (as personhood and rights-granting)

As we also publish a digital edition, we are able to supplement print materials with video, audio, and interactive visual content. We encourage creativity in coordinating print and digital materials in submissions and ask that authors submit any potential digital materials with their essay or introduction/artist’s statement.

We encourage authors to gain familiarity with the tone, scope, and style of our journal before submitting. Those whose institutions subscribe to Project Muse can read past issues for free via http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/southern_cultures/ . To read our current issue, access our submission guidelines, or browse our content, please visit us online at SouthernCultures.org. ... See MoreSee Less

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Southern Cultures Southern Cultures welcomes submissions from scholars and other thoughtful writers about all aspects of the history and cultures of the U.S. South. We publish essays, articles, interv...

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