[ecrea] International conference "Bodily Resistance. Towards an Ethnography of Infamy" - Call for propositions

Best wishes for 2015. We would like to invite submissions for the international conference “Bodily Resistance. Towards an Ethnography of Infamy”, to be held at the Cité du Design, Saint-Etienne, France, 3-6 November, 2015.

This conference aims to document the inextricably social and private experience of infamous accusations, which condense the effects of degrading labels. Various ways of discrediting people – such as racism, sexual discrimination, performative constructions of “abnormality”, and contempt for caste or class – often focus on the body and its constitution, its appearance, and its uses. Where the most discredited subjects are concerned, a large part of their day-to-day lives remains unknown once it is hidden behind a veil of stereotypes and prejudice. Ethnography can lift the edge of this veil by rendering accessible the lives of those who seem, at first sight, to be dominated. It is a question of describing the corridors of power that lie beneath the level of social movements and mobilizations, where those who have the least possibility for action nonetheless struggle to exist, to maintain their dignity, and sometimes even to resist, through their bodies.

The conference discussions will be organised around five lines of research focusing on the following themes:

1. Dangerous castes or classes: stigmatised bodies and dealing with sullied identities
2. The dividing line of colour: facing infamous constructions of “race”
3. The dividing line of difference in the body: resisting gender assignations?
4. Ab-normal, in body and soul: pathologising, “total experience”, and emancipation
5. Representations of infamy: resisting through body, image, and text.

The first page of proposals should provide the authors’ full details: status, university and/or research laboratory, postal address, email address, and telephone number (preferably mobile).
The second page should be anonymous and no longer than 300 words max. It should:
- provide a specific title;
- briefly describe the study on which the paper is based (priority will be given to ethnographic work);
- identify a problem that relates directly to the conference topic;
- outline a few results from the perspective of at least one of the five themes around which the conference debates will be organised.

The deadline for submissions is 6/02/2015 (February 6, 2015).
Proposals should be submitted online at the following address:
http://resistcorps2015.sciencesconf.org/
Notification of the scientific committee’s decision will be given after 15/03/2015.
The full conference paper should be sent to the organisers no later than 15/07/2015.

Presentations should last 20 minutes.
The working languages of the conference are French and English (translations will be provided).
Please find attached the full call for proposals (French and English).

Contact:(resistcorps2015 /at/ sciencesconf.org)


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Jérôme Beauchez

Maître de conférences/Associate Professor
Centre Max Weber
www.centre-max-weber.fr
Intelligences des Mondes Urbains
www.imu.universite-lyon.fr

(jerome.beauchez /at/ univ-st-etienne.fr)
+33607211126




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