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Political anthropology of citizenship and the urge for alternatives

European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2024 ​Biennial Conference

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Published on Thursday, January 04, 2024

Abstract

This panel, proposed by the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) network “Anthropology and Social Movements”, is part of an ongoing discussion about how a political anthropology perspective on citizenship can provide new ways of practicing anthropology without losing the politic(s) of the fieldwork when looking for “alternatives”.

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Argument

From an anthropological perspective, the use of ‘‘citizenship’’ as an analytical tool serves a critical purpose: looking for alternative practices of citizenship in order to notice and better understand ongoing global ‘‘crisis’’ from a local and political perspective and unravel the normative knots of our own way of understanding citizenship processes. Such a task is often put to work to address the ‘‘politics of future(s)’’ through the account of the ‘‘political possibilities’’ woven into alternative practices of citizenship. Yet, what looking for such ‘‘alternatives’’ does to anthropology as a craft?

Lately, many anthropologists of social movements have been using Engin Isin’s notion of “acts of citizenship” in order to grasp such alternatives. Those uses rest on varying implicit set of normative rules – mainly conflicting with Isin’s theory (Roy and Neveu 2023) – deriving from normative shifts rarely discussed by anthropologists. Only by addressing these shifts can we critically engage with the politic(s) of anthropology, understood as a craft in the making.

A political anthropology perspective would suggest these shifts should be justified by the politic(s) of the fieldwork. Not doing so, we risk reducing our field to our own desire of extracting ‘‘alternative(s)’’ and losing the very meanings in which the ‘‘crisis’’ is being dealt with in a ''citizenshiply'' manner on the field. We would suggest that the category of ‘‘ordinariness’’ (Neveu 2015) might play as a significative analytical tool to prevent such a reduction.

We expect proposals to question the normativities anthropologists have about citizenship when looking for ''alternatives''.

Submission guidelines

The call for papers for the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2024 ​Biennial Conference​,​ which will be held in Barcelona​ from the​ 23​rd to the 26​th of July, is now open.

If you are interested in presenting your paper ​a​t the Anthropology and Social Movements Network panel (P048), ​entitled "Political anthropology of citizenship and the urge for alternatives’’, please submit your abstract to co-convenors through ​t​he following link : https://nomadit.co.uk/account/contact/login

before January 22, 2024​.

Convenors

  • Martin Roy (Laboratoire d'anthropologie politique (LAP-EHESS-CNRS), Joint PhD EHESS (Paris) - University of Ottawa)
  • Elena Apostoli Cappello (La Sapienza University of Rome)
  • Piotr Goldstein (Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS))

Chair

    Catherine Neveu (IIAC (CNRS-EHESS))

Places

  • University of Barcelona - Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585, L'Eixample
    Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain (08007)

Event attendance modalities

Full on-site event


Date(s)

  • Monday, January 22, 2024

Keywords

  • political anthropology, citizenship, alternative, ordinary

Contact(s)

  • Elena Apostoli Cappello
    courriel : elena [dot] apostolicappello [at] uniroma1 [dot] it
  • Martin ROY
    courriel : Mroy [dot] uottawa [at] gmail [dot] com
  • Piotr Goldstein
    courriel : piotrgoldstein [at] gmail [dot] com

Reference Urls

Information source

  • Martin ROY
    courriel : Mroy [dot] uottawa [at] gmail [dot] com

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

To cite this announcement

« Political anthropology of citizenship and the urge for alternatives », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Thursday, January 04, 2024, https://doi.org/10.58079/ve7n

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