Call for papers
The organisers of the 2009 Annual Meeting of the Australian Anthropology Society would like to invite submissions of paper abstracts.
The theme for the 2009 AAS conference – “The Ethics and Politics of Engagement” – will be explored through a diverse offering of plenary and concurrent panels.
Abstract submissions are invited for papers addressing any of the panel themes listed below, or the conference theme more generally. Please click on the relevant link for panel abstracts and contact details for panel convenors, and to check that the panel remains open to abstract submissions.
Paper abstracts of 250 words or less should be submitted to panel convenors by no later than 26 June 2009.
Abstract submissions addressing topics outside of the listed panel themes will still be considered. These should be submitted to malcolm.haddon@scmp.mq.edu.au by the same date.
Abstract submissions should include the following:
- Title of panel to which the paper is being submitted
- Paper title
- Abstract (250 words or less)
- Name, title and position of presenter
- Institutional Affiliation
- Contact information (email, daytime phone)
2009 AAS Conference panels on “The Ethics and Politics of Engagement”:
The Crisis of Culture: Anthropology and the Politics of Engagement in Aboriginal Australia (plenary plus non-plenary)
Engaged Lives: Towards an Anthropology of Political Economy among Indigenous Australians
Engaging with Indigenous Identities in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Child Welfare: Indigenous and non-Indigenous experiences of ‘Child Protection’
Applied anthropology in native title in Australia: dilemmas in ‘proving’ connection and continuity in normative systems
Anthropology Under the ‘Act’: Engaging with Indigenous People under the Government Gaze
Constitutionalism in the Margins of Pacific States
Engaging the state: new practices and imaginaries
Migration, Resettlement and Diaspora: Borneo and Beyond
Southeast Asian Ethnographies of and for Transnational Migration
$exualities: Ethnographies of Sexual Commerce
Living with resources: the social consequences of extractive economies
Climate Change and Social Dis/ordering
Engaging ethically with animals
The Politics of Emergent Forms of Life: Bioethics, Power and Subjectivity in an era of Late Modernity
“No escape from reality”: S(t)imulating experiences in Web 2 social networking sites and three-dimensional virtual environments (3DVE)
Sleeping around the world: towards a comparative anthropology of sleep
Philosophical Anthropology and Ways of Knowing in Oceania
'An Anthropological Existence’: conversations with Michael Jackson (plenary plus non-plenary)
'Writing With' as Ethnographic Engagement
Having a Voice: Subaltern Politics and Academic Engagements
The Politics and Poetics of 'Voice'
Located aesthetics: experiments between art and anthropology (panel plus exhibition)
Revelatory Moments of Fieldwork Engagement
Beyond the Collector: social relations, politics and objects
The Cultural Life of Taste: Tourism, Consumption, and Identity in a Globalised World
Pilgrimage in the age of globalisation: constructions of the sacred and secular in late modernity
Islamic Piety and Gender Relationships among Contemporary Muslims
Radicalised alterity: anthropological positions on religious extremism and the counter-radicalisation agenda
Postgraduate Showcase