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EASA Conference 2008 Experiencing diversity and mutuality

Workshops

This page lists all the accepted workshops. Click on the arrows to expand to view details of the workshop, or click on the workshop titles to see the individual workshop pages.

Each workshop page has a link allowing you to submit a paper proposal for that workshop.

 IW01 Mobility: frictions and flows

 London: nowhere, in particular

 "Where did my island go?" Floating islands, mobile space and volatile territoriality among the Uros of Lake Titicaca (Peru)

 The politics of mobility: ideology and instrumentality

 Mobile culture and immobile anthropology: towards an anthropology of the roads and flows

 Towards a phenomenology of flying

 Travelling through mobilities

 'Co-opportunistic' mobility: experiencing social housing in London

 The tensions between mobility and stasis in two contexts of super-diversity

 Living on constantly transfer

 Rethinking panopticism: biometric security, surveillance and the state

 'Morocco is a prison!' Culture of migration and imaginary mobility among young Moroccans

 Mobile perspectives/perspectives on mobility: anthropological entanglements with competing contexts

 IW02 Rethinking the body: biotechnology and sociality

 "Checking the askaries (guards) of my body": testing for HIV and living with CD4 counts and viral loads in Uganda

 'My baby is killed when I breastfeed': challenges of selves and sociality in a context of mother to child transmission of HIV in East Africa

 Embodied biographies of heritable breast cancer risk: (re)making the female body amidst medical, religious and social discourses

 Living and working in spite of antiretroviral therapies: HIV between control and resistance

 Sonographic images of anomalous fetal bodies: tracing cultural mediations

 The 'bio-social' dynamics of breast cancer genetics: comparisons between the UK and Cuba

 The patrimonialization of DNA: becoming a imagined genetic community in southern Italy

 Transplant anxieties: discourses about bone marrow/haematopoietic stem cell transplantation

 IW03 Liminal Europe

 Neglected interdisciplinarities: the Balkans, gender, and historical anthropology

 Writing Europe: the dialogue of 'liminal Europeans'

 A man can die but thrice: anthropology of death through Lacan

 Remembering socialism and "post-socializing" the West

 Dis-closing encounters: European public space, cultural diversity, and the Slovenian EU presidency

 South by southeast: inquiries into identity shift in relation to Europe

 Local community on the 'peripheries of Europe': between sociology and anthropology

 Heroic past versus un-heroic present: the politics of memory and its discontent

 Diversity and language liminality

 "Europeanization" in Istria: differences between official and private discourse

 "In Spain I am like every one else - simply a Bulgarian immigrant": the flexibilization of identification and the double-naming strategy of Bulgarian Muslims in Spain

 IW04 Ethically sensitive researches in anthropology

 Face to face behind bars: ethical fragilities in the researcher - prisoner relationship in a Greek prison for women

 Ethical dilemmas in ethnographying medical visit

 Some ethical considerations regarding recruting subjects through media solicitation

 "You're the only one I will tell it to …" - researcher in a difficult situation: questions about fieldwork methodology

 Life stories as reserach and didactic activity

 Friendship as the relationship between researcher and researchee: ethical doubts

 Being sensitive and discreet when dealing with honour and good name

 Problem of data privacy protection of research subjects

 Ethics and the inevitability of bias in research on nuclear issues in India

 IW05 Local encounters with the global: diversity of anthropological fieldwork approaches in globalization studies

 A 'nested' and 'perspectivistic' way of understanding the global - local nexus

 «Liquid truth»: How the story of a demolished Bedouin village in Israel travels around the world

 Bioethics or local ethics: can anthropology help answer which is more important in the conduct of medical research in developing countries?

 Crossing boundaries: conversion to and within Islam in a local Belgian and globalizing context

 Ethnography as method and methodology: reference to village studies in India

 Ethnography matters: multisited research, cultural hierarchies and their ethnographic methods

 Following the diaspora: documenting the 'here' and 'there' for refugees

 From "flows" back to actors: why "the local" is no longer a place for anthropology

 Mediatized local: media reshaping the local and the local response to media impact

 Researching fakes, practicing anthropology out of the corner of the eye

 IW06 Connecting peace and violence: zones, transgressions and causes

 (Un)settling the 'West Bank' of Israel/Palestine: researching citizenship in a (political) 'no man's land'

 Developing Africa and Europe: the Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda and the war/peace business in the global shadows

 Governing social relations internationally: the legal management of conflict

 Interactions and ambiguity of notions of war and peace in a colonial context

 Peace and violence in Afghanistan

 Potentia and presentia: on the dynamics of peace and conflict in Bissau

 Zones of peace and violence or a general state of exception?

 IW07 Empires and differences

 "This is not the end of history": re-negotiating civil society and anti-capitalist activism in postsocialist Serbia

 17th century ethnography: Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor

 Actors and agency in the situation of rebellion

 Cyber as space, cyber as conversation: setting up virtual empires

 Nigerian video film cultures

 Rethinking the unthinkable: dignity and solidarity in the time of neoliberalism

 The Georgian-Abkhazian ceasefire line: an edge of the Russian "empire"?

 IW08 World in Europe

 Urban symbolism in Colombo, Sri Lanka

 The intangible cultural heritage in France: towards the recognition of cultural diversity?

 A lost Roma tale: ethnocentric versus xenocentric attitudes in the Gârcini Roma community

 Sustainability and folk culture: some features in contemporary life

 Rituality: a form of hidden ritual

 Migrants and their traditions in Moscow megacity

 Aligning indigenous leadership and development in an African context

 Storytelling for peace-building and sustainable cultural diversity

 Slovenian family mode of life at the beginning of the 20th century according with investigation by Russian ethnologists (A.N. Haruzin and V.N.Haruzina)

 The archetypal ‘language of light’ from ethnical tradition to modern technology

 Asian life style programme in Hungary (the impact of Yoga on everyday life)

 Integrating traditional and modern knowledge of malaria among the Sabaot of Mount Elgon in Kenya

 Healing femininity - balancing energies

 Negating local knowledge's and subordinating cultures: examples from Croatia's medical system changes

 IW09 Changing global flows of anthropological knowledge - a WCAA-EASA workshop

 Fluent perceptions: beyond centres and peripheries in the global production of anthropological knowledge

 Anthropologies of engagement

 Rethinking the centre: thoughts about insiders and outsiders from a peripheral university in a 'central' location

 Now that we are Europeans are we better off?

 Social anthropology: smuggling biased knowledge around the world?

 No local debate, no global impact: German anthropology since the 1980s (and a bit before)

 Mutuality and reciprocity in situations of marked inequality: dilemmas of and concerning US anthropology in the world

 Towards a doubly rooted cosmopolitan anthropology

 Ships passing in the night? Interdisciplinarity, East-West relations and commoditization of knowledge in anthropology of post-socialism

 Intricate relations between Western anthropologists and postsocialist ethnologists

 W001 Ethical consumption: consumers and producers, markets and ethics

 Introduction

 Consuming producers, producing consumers: Costa Rican households and the ethic of self-provisioning

 Re-inventing food: ethics and politics of tradition

 "Trade not aid": cleansing relationships

 One supersize does not fit all: flap versus Mac in the ethics of personal consumption

 Narratives of concern: beyond the 'official' discourse of ethical consumption

 How can one eat or farm organic without "living organic"? Ethnography of values and practices of Belgian organic producers and consumers

 On the challenges of signaling ethics without stuff: stories of sustainable and conspicuous non-consumption

 The challenges of chocolate: an examination of the ethics of consuming and producing chocolate

 W002 Markets, kinship and morality

 'Great transformation' of agrarian tolerance in post-peasant Eastern Europe

 'We, the Congolese, we cannot trust each other': trust, norms and relations among traders in Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo

 Asymmetric flows of support among siblings and its limits: some evidence from current rural China

 Entre le marché, le politique et la tradition : construction des vies privées et intimes chez les jeunes en Chine contemporaine.

 European kinship and the emotional economy

 Hunting in the Alentejo (southern Portugal): the social and spatial outcomes of 'care' and 'selfishness'

 Kin-group characterisation and competition for local resources in rural Yakutia

 Lace or string: the moral conundrums of entrepreneurship

 Markets and moralities in Danish housing cooperatives

 Moral economies in a modern world: kinship, morality and power among the Boatmen of Varanasi (Banaras), India

 Paying for parenthood: money and kinship in assisted reproduction

 Private enterprise and the ethos of the collective era in China: the case of a Chinese craft industry

 Stressed responsible subjects: market, state and moral obligation and the paradoxes of the economy

 The market logic of illegality in southern Italy

 The moralities of markets: petty trade and merchant associations in the margins of the formal economy in Peru

 The notion of embeddedness and its relevance in modern market economies

 Traders' Dilemmas among northern Kirghiz

 The dialectics of economy

 W003 Towards an anthropology of decision making

 Decision making in context: a case of Swedish rail planning in practice

 Decision-making and constraints of small peasants in the Amazon

 Heating Swedish houses: a discussion about the nature of change, household decision-making, and the prospect of reaching a national target

 Hidden power: who makes farm decisions?

 Matera's Sassi: from "Italy's disgrace" to UNESCO World Heritage - an ethnography of space-to-place transformation

 Participatory democracy as a 'social drama': deconstructing public involvement procedures in Swedish city renewal

 Re-localization and the process of decision making in a Sugpiaq community

 The significance of role, status, and authority in decision making processes among social workers

 Vision meets muddle: : an investigation of how vision statements affect decision making in a Swedish municipality

 W004 Mobility, transnational connections and sociocultural change in contemporary Africa

 Miners and taxi drivers in Benin: the emergence of new moral field in informal settings

 Slavery and emancipation in the haalpulaar society (Mauritania): the influence of migrants of servile origin on social renogotiation

 Frontières de la mobilité, limites de la citoyennté: la signification politique de la mobilité pour les Peuls mauritaniens

 Saharian "borderline"-strategies: transnational mobility of Tuareg (Ishumar) between Niger, Algeria and Libya

 Socio-cultural and political change in a transnational group: the Konkombas (Ghana/Togo)

 Transnationalism and social mobility through the performing arts in Senegal

 "Nerves!": struggling with immobility in The Gambia

 Local perspectives on transnational relations of Cameroonian migrants

 The 'CUDA' associations in West Cameroon : between autochtony and transnational virtual communities

 Africans in Moscow: foreign churches as a factor of socio-cultural adaptation or non-ddaptation

 Dynamics of migration and development cooperation between Sub-Sahara-Africa and Germany

 Here and there: presence and absence among Hausa migrants in Belgium and urban Niger

 W005 Reflecting on reflexivity in anthropology and social science

 Cosmopolitan reflexivity: towards a transmodal analysis of rituals

 Intercultural borderlinking, intersubjectivity and self-knowing

 Perfect praxis in Aikidō - take II: a reflexive body

 Reflections on teaching ethnography

 Reflexive anthropology and social activism

 Reflexivity in politics

 Ritualization and the reflexive critique of scientism

 The ethic of being wrong: Levinas in the field

 Where is anthropology when you need it?

 Wittgenstein and the ethical reflexivity of anthropological discourse

 W006 Sustainable cultural diversities in Europe

 Comparison of open/heterogeneous - closed/homogeneous local systems in dealing with diversity: London

 Differences among European students in motivation to learn: a cross-cultural study

 Politics of identity: Saxon-ness without Saxons in a Transylvanian town

 Sustainable cultural diversity and mutuality: the case of Slovenia

 Towards sustainable diversity in the city of Bratislava

 We and others in process of migration

 W007 Staging sport and celebration: the power of play

 Articulating the "powers of sport": Canadians and the discursive construction of American athletic scholarships

 The aesthetics of skiing in the birth of a nation: the case of Slovenia

 Revolutionary blasts: the politics of passion within the celebration of home runs in Cuban baseball

 Celebrating charity through sport

 Scenery in motion: the event of Laugavegur ultra marathon, Iceland

 From Dionysus to the Olympics: sport and ritual between the local, national and transnational

 Sport: in the search for immortality

 National identity and global awareness in two major football tournaments

 Globalization and the contestation of identities in football

  Football and the domestication of money: mimetic strategies of Maskoy people in the Paraguayan Chaco

 Le phénomène sportif en Afrique soudanienne: the sports phenomenon in western Africa

 Celebrating femininity? Women's professional football in Romania at the interstices of market marginality and compulsory heterosexuality

 Football fandom as a factor behind cultural differentiation: a case study on Sarajevo and Zeljeznicar fans in Bosnia and Herzegovina

 W008 What makes popular piety popular?

 Divination and Islam: existential perspectives in the study of ritual and religious praxis in Senegal and Gambia

 Postponing piety in urban Burkina Faso: discussing ideas on when to start acting as a pious Muslim

 No other God? thinking and doing religion in Ghana

 Great tradition, little tradition, lost tradition: the ambiguous place of relics in contemporary Roman-Catholic practice

 What makes Polish Catholicism 'popular'?

 Quand des femmes et des réfugié-e-s fabriquent des saints: genre, religion et mémoire à Lesvos (Grèce)

 Between the notions of popular and scholarly Islam: Abd al-Halim Mahmud's endeavours to market Sufism for the educated public in contemporary Egypt

 Authority matters. Islamic revival and female authority in urban Mali

 Consumption and the Islamic revival in Egypt

 Offerings to sacred fish: a popular sacrificial site in Burkina Faso

 Expressions of popular piety at the shrine of Santa Maria delle Grazie: the construction of Padre Pio's sanctity

 Going to the mulid: street-smart spirituality in Egypt

 W009 Marginality, nationalism and citizenship

 Balkan Romani music festivals: negotiating nationalism and marginalization

 The cultural politics of shopping and the fashioning of "modern" Albanian subjectivities in the Republic of Macedonia

 Crafting cosmopolitanism: the production of postmodern trends in the global regionalist culture of the Italian Nordest

 A nostalgic expression of Kurdishness in humorous popular culture

 Cultivating sensibilities from 'above': on the visibility of Jewish identity in the Greek public sphere

 EU policies and the institutional construction of marginality

 "Loud and clear": The G2 second generations network in Italy

 W010 Looking, seeing and being seen: connecting and controlling through visual representation

 Black, white and red all over? An anthropology of book fairs

 Can the visitor do the art work?

 Challenging the gaze: art biennales as global places

 Displaced on the display: screen image-event in net-theatre

 Exposed to (in)visibility: the strategies of production of parallel knowledge in the work of Tadej Pogačar

 Happy interactivity or hidden distinction: contact zones in the field of contemporary art

 Image & text: (in)visible connections in visual representation of Irish travel advertisement

 Indigenous self-representation: Native American contemporary art and native curating

 Magical island: tourism and the dialectics of self-imaging in La Reunion

 Reflective gaze - effective image: the case of Muslim women's headcovering in Vienna

 Teens cultures and their representations

 The warrior-shepherd signifier: locations and meanings of highland Cretan photographic subjects

 W011 Body and soul: on corporeality in contemporary religiosity

 Transforming the Soul of Music into Bodily Practice: Tone Eurythmy's artistic principles and their relation to underlying structure

 Re-enchanted bodies: the significance of the spiritual dimension in Danish healing rituals.

 Between the Self and the Other: the interpretation of bodily experiences

 Body and soul in the occult imaginary in the contemporary Central African Republic