RHN 106/2022 | Call
Organisers: Kieran O’Mahony (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences), Paul Keil (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences), Virginie Vate-Klein (National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
21–23 March 2023, Anthropology Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland
Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2022
Call for Papers for a Panel at the Anthropology Conference 2023
Pig Worlds and Porcine Multiplicity in the Anthropocene
Panel description:
Living as co-symbionts with humans for millennia, pigs are highly adaptable beings. Enacted in multiple ways, they are a 'diaspora' constituted through diverse social, ecological, and historical relations. There is no single Sus Scrofa kind, rather, pigs are a kaleidoscope of bodies, capacities, identities, and subjectivities, engaged with by humans as meat, game, pests, ecological engineers, homely companions, medical surrogates, and spiritual relatives. They are great disruptors, challenging the moral, ethical, and spatial (b)orders humans devise to differentiate the im/pure, un/desirable, or domestic/wild.
Porcine subjects offer a multifaceted set of human-nonhuman interactions and perspectives that benefit anthropological comparison. Their multiplicity also enables us to articulate the precarity, contradictions, and patchiness of the Anthropocene. Porcine ways of being are dramatically afforded and constrained during this era. While some have proliferated through colonial expansion, climatic transformation, industrial capitalism, and plantation ecologies, others are threatened by these shifting conditions. Pigs are embroiled in contemporary anthropological concerns, such as emergent pathogenic ecologies, destructive global infrastructures, and other-than-human necropolitics.
This session explores the multiplicity of pig worlds, storying their lives and relations, and their limits. Following the generalist tendencies of pigs, we welcome submissions from all disciplines. Contributions might unfold in or between forests, farms, cities, abattoirs, laboratories or homes, and reside in the material and spiritual. We invite empirical narratives, and ontological, epistemological, and ethical provocations. Thinking through difference, querying hegemonic discourse, reconceptualising their presences in the Anthropocene, the session seeks to probe ways we can understand and reconceptualise such beings, their relations and beyond.
Call for papers
We invite paper abstract submissions to the conference of the Finnish Anthropological Society. The general topic of the conference is “Relations and beyond”. You should send your abstract directly to the organisers of the panel and cc’d to finnanthro(at)ulapland.fi. We have tentatively indicated in bold to whom to send abstracts in each panel, among the co-conveners, to avoid potential overlaps for those who are co-convening in more than one panel. This does not indicate any hierarchy among the co-conveners, nor how they organise themselves, we’ve only bolded the first name in the list.
The abstracts should contain the following information:
- name of the panel to which submitted
- title of the paper
- name(s) and contact address(es) of the author(s)
- paper abstract (max. 250 words)
Paper abstract submission deadline: 30 November 2022
Organisers
Kieran O’Mahony (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, omahony@eu.cas.cz)
Paul Keil (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, keil@eu.cas.cz)
Virginie Vate-Klein (National Centre for Scientific Research, France, virginie.vate-klein@cnrs.fr)
Source: https://www.arcticcentre.org/EN/events/anthro2023