[Linganth] AAA 2017 CFP: Behind the Scenes: Embodied Knowledge and Invisible Labor in Cultural Production

[Hallie Wells]

Dear colleagues,

We would like to invite you to submit an abstract for our AAA panel, and to
share this CFP widely with your networks and colleagues.

Many thanks,

Marlaina Martin and Hallie Wells


Call for papers: AAA meetings in Washington, D.C., Nov. 29 - Dec. 3, 2017

Co-organizers: Marlaina Martin (Rutgers University) and Hallie Wells (UC
Berkeley)

Discussant: Dr. Aimee Meredith Cox (Fordham University)

Behind the Scenes: Embodied Knowledge and Invisible Labor in Cultural
Production

Cultural production is not only about creating an object for later
consumption. Anthropology has long been engaged in examining not only
objects but processes of production, which can be quite intricate and
fragile in their layered negotiation of a diversity of subjectivities,
resources, and aims. Although many cultural producers do plan to exhibit
their work to members of a larger public at certain points during and/or
after production, the behind-the-scenes activities that enable and support
this more public exposition are extremely complex, and their completion is
not always guaranteed. This panel seeks to merge theories of process and
production with recognition of everyday politics in order to better
understand how embodied and politicized experiences and identities
(gendered, racialized, classed, etc.) inform processes of cultural
production. How does embodied knowledge operate as a critical, if not
central, part of cultural production? From rehearsal to editing, investor
relations to professional networking, what techniques, knowledge, and
practices do people draw from to navigate the not-quite-public,
not-always-visible labor of cultural production? We encourage proposals
from a wide range of regional foci and media, to examine in varied but
ultimately interrelated ways the notion of “production” as a technical
process as well as one of subject formation, performance, and the
constitution of embodied political realities.

Please send your title and abstract (250 words max.) to Marlaina Martin (
marlaina.martin at gmail.com) and Hallie Wells (halliewells at berkeley.edu)
by Monday,
April 3rd.
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