FW: H-SAE: CFP: SIEF 2011 (Lisbon) -- Home bodies: phenomenological investigations of 'being at home'

[Kathryn Woolard]

Potentially interesting panel for some in ling anthro. Deadline for
abstracts Oct. 15.

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> Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 10:32:39 -0400
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> Subject: H-SAE: CFP: SIEF 2011 (Lisbon) -- Home bodies: phenomenological
> investigations of 'being at home'
> 
> From: Nell Quest <nellbf at gmail.com>
> 
> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> Apologies for re-posting. This is a last call for the panel Fran Mascia-Lees
> and I are organizing at the upcoming SIEF Conference in Lisbon this
> April, Home
> bodies: phenomenological investigations of 'being at home.'  Deadline to
> propose a paper is October 15. The abstract is below, and more information
> on the conference, and the electronic submission procedures can all be found
> here: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/sief/sief2011/panels.php5?PanelID=735
> 
> Abstract
> ŒHome¹ is a central conceptualization within the organization of most
> people's everyday social and material worlds, often understood as a specific
> intimate place, a sanctuary from the tumultuous public sphere. The idea of
> Œfeeling at home¹‹a sentiment embedded in complex emotional attachments‹is
> commonly invoked to describe people's comfort within the space of the home
> as well as within their broader social realms, from neighborhoods to
> nations. But what of one's Œsense of home¹ or the sensation of Œbeing at
> home¹? These conceptualizations focus attention acutely on how affect and
> sensory perception create experiences of home and on how these experiences
> create a way of Œbeing in the world¹. To explore people's processes of
> place-making, these papers draw on recent work in the anthropology of
> embodiment and the senses to consider the creation of home and belonging as
> a moment of embodied, sensory engagement with material objects and the
> social world. The session focuses on how people create a sense of home and
> being at home through their movements within and between sensuous material
> and social worlds and on how these sensory experiences take on meaning
> within larger cultural and political contexts. We welcome papers that
> interrogate the sensory construction and embodied experiences of home and
> belonging, whether in people's domestic lives or more broadly in their
> neighborhoods, communities, cities, or nations.
> 
> 
> If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at
> nellbf at gmail.com.  Apologies for cross-posting.
> 
> Best,
> 
> Nell Quest
> PhD Candidate, Cultural Anthropology
> Rutgers University
> nellbf at gmail.com

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