[Linganth] Second call for papers: AAA panel on constrained agency

[Chris VanderStouwe]

Hello everyone!

We are doing a second call for (at least) one more paper for our double 
panel on constrained agency. If anyone is still looking for a panel to 
join and has any interest in the panel as we outline below, please reply 
to me at (cvanderstouwe at umail.ucsb.edu) with an abstract no later than 
April 8, 2015. Thank you again for your time!


Research abounds on the concept of agency in linguistic anthropology 
(cf. Ahearn 1999, 2001; Duranti 2004), with particularly fruitful veins 
of scholarship on language and gender (e.g. Bergvall et al 1996; Hall 
and Bucholtz 2012), language socialization (e.g. Ochs 1988; Schieffelin 
1990), and dialogicality (e.g. Hill and Irvine 1993; Tedlock and 
Mannheim 1995). Embedded in many of these works are questions and 
discussions about the location and limitations of agency. However, while 
the topic of constrained agency has been featured in works on social 
geography (e.g. Coe and Jordhus-Lier 2010), health care (e.g.Rodney and 
Varcoe 2011),feminist theory (e.g. Beste 2007), and applied linguistics 
(e.g. Lamb 2013), an extensive consideration of sociocultural 
constraints on agency has not been produced within linguistic 
anthropology. Building on Ahearn’s (2001) definition of agency, we 
invite panel submissions that linguistically explore the socioculturally 
mediating forces that constrain the capacity to act. With an 
intentionally broad scope, we aim to provide a wide array of 
presentations to discuss this topic and welcome any relevant research 
topic grounded primarily in language.

-- 
Chris VanderStouwe, C.Phil
Doctoral Candidate, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara

Teaching Assistant, Department of Linguistics
University of California, Los Angeles

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