[ecrea] CfP at ASA2018 Oxford Indigenous imaginations: creative bodies and embodied resistance

We invite paper proposals for the following panel. Kindly have a look 
and consider applying. We would like to put together a group of 
scholars, performers, filmmakers and researchers.


      Indigenous imaginations: creative bodies and embodied resistance

Location: Oxford (Deadline: 20th April 2018)

Convenors

  * Monica Mottin (Ruskin College, Oxford) email
  * Mara Matta (University of Rome 'La Sapienza') email
  * Markus Schleiter (University of Münster) email

PLEASE DO CHECK THE WEBSITE at the URL:

https://nomadit.co.uk/asa/asa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/6801

        Short abstract

This panel aims to explore the materiality of resistance, in particular 
how indigenous people challenge dominant paradigms by bringing imagined 
worlds into existence through their bodies.


        Long abstract

Indigeneity and ideas of indigenous belonging are increasingly finding a 
global resonance. Recrafted as ethno-chic by mainstream media and 
hegemonic discourses, this neo-Orientalist trend has been challenged by 
aboriginal people and first nations, who see the recasting of 
indigeneity and the reframing of indigenous bodies as ways to oppose 
global capitalism, resist cultural imperialism and fight dangerous 
apologies of colonialism.

Baaz, Lilja and Vinthagen (2018, p.26) describe resistance as 'a 
subaltern practice that might challenge, negotiate or undermine power'. 
But resistance can transcend power altogether: embodying aspired visions 
and values plays a central role in creating alternative social 
relations, nurturing counter-hegemonic politics of emotions and mapping 
new trajectories of desire. Working along the assumptions that 
imagination is essentially spatial and embodied (Merleau-Ponty 2005), 
and that it is central to the development of creative bodies, this panel 
looks at the practice and praxis of indigenous imaginations in relation 
to the semiotic ideologies, performative bodies, embodied emotions, 
visual aesthetics and mediated imaginations of indigenous populations 
across the world. In particular, we wish to investigate how the 
indigenous body reverses marginality and materially produces imagined 
alterities through social media, art, music, theatre, ritualized 
expression and how such creations establish and sustain imagined 
communities of affect that support social change.


      Papers

The panel has no papers to display. Only accepted papers will be shown here.

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