Genehmigung des DFG Netzwerk-Antrags “Anthropology and China(s): Co-constructions of Ethnographic and Academic Regions” (2021-2024)
Das eklatante Ungleichgewicht zwischen Prophezeiungen über den bevorstehenden Aufstieg der Anthropologie Chinas einerseits und ihrer marginalen Rolle in den dominanten Debatten der Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie andererseits bedarf der Überprüfung. Im deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsraum ist „China“ als ethnographischer Raum noch nicht etabliert. Das wissenschaftliche Netzwerk „Anthropologie und China(s)“ hat zum Ziel, die Anthropologie Chinas im deutschsprachigen Wissenschaftsraum als reflexives, pluralistisches und relationales Projekt zu etablieren. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, werden wir sechs Konferenzen organisieren, die sich mit drei Themen beschäftigen: den Beziehungen zwischen Anthropologie und Sinologie, zwischen Politik und anthropologischer Feldforschung, zwischen Anthropologie und Anthropologien Chinas. Mit dem Blick auf China eröffnen wir Fragen über die Wechselbeziehung zwischen akademischen und ethnographischen Regionen, die für die Anthropologie insgesamt von Bedeutung sind. Die Ergebnisse werden in einem Sammelband veröffentlicht.
GAA Conference 2021, Workshop „Seismic China“ (CfP deadline 15 Feb.)
Dear all,
We are pleased to announce our CfP for the upcoming DGSKA/GAA conference in Bremen (27-30/09/2021):
Workshop 26. „Seismic China – Environmental Shifts and Radical Reorientations in China-World Relationships“
Charlotte Bruckermann and Lena Kaufmann
Chair: Jean-Baptiste Pettier
RG China
„Let China sleep, as when she wakes, she will shake the whole world.“ Napoleon’s 1816 prediction has come to pass. This shaking left neither China itself, nor the diversity of Chinese encounters with the world, very quiet. In this panel, we question how Global China faces the systemic environmental changes its own development is provoking, as well as how these transformations reverberate through and with other societies, shifting relationships and the very “grounds” on which they rely. Building on the idea of a seismography of ontological and epistemological transformations, we explore what happens when understandings of the world that are taken for granted fall short or start rupturing, as happens with China’s development.
In novel events, past patterns no longer hold, prediction becomes shaky, and the voice of prophecy prevails (Ardener 1989). Moments of crisis and rupture breach intelligibility. However, experiences of “others” located “elsewhere” or in “another time” may provide, if not fully formed patterns, at least traceable paths and potential trajectories of how these world-shaking events and paradigmatic ruptures could unfold. Chinese understandings of the environment have always emerged in exchange with other visions of the world, in the past and today, inside and outside of fringes and borders. From disinterest to appropriation and denial to reinvention, environmental relationships are being transformed through cultural, political and economic engagements as China goes global. New ruptures and assemblages provoke questioning of the inequalities involved in the interactive processes between human as well as nonhuman actors. Interrogating moments and experiences of rupture, spatial and social mobility, encounters and conflict, this panel will explore the dynamic interplay between China and the world shaking the Anthropocene.
Please circulate!
Send your submissions to charlotte.bruckermann@uib.no , jb.pettier@gmail.com and lena.kaufmann@uzh.ch until 15 February 2021.
For the full conference call and submission details see:
https://www.dgska.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/CfP_Tagung-2021-1.pdf
On behalf of the workshop organising team:
Charlotte Bruckermann, Jean-Baptiste Pettier, Lena Kaufmann
Ethnologie Chinas 