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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><b>CFP: </b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><b>Access and exposure: manipulating the
perceptible in and through the material environment</b> </p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">This panel investigates the role of the material
environment in modulating semiotic access and exposure. How do people and
institutions build, manipulate, and interact with their surroundings in ways
that make activities more or less visible, audible, touchable, or broadly,
perceptible? We are particularly interested in moments where people worry about
or attempt to thwart perceptibility: architects and designers selecting tinted
glass, criminals whispering conspiratorially, politicians speaking in
auditorily impenetrable skiffs. We build both from cultural anthropologists who
have shown that urban environments and the technologies that saturate them
shape political rationalities and cultural subjectivities (Abu-Lughod 1993,
Anand 2011, Benjamin 1968, De Certeau 1984, Dourish and Bell 2007, Lefebvre
2005, Seremetakis 1994, Bennett 2010, Larkin 2004, Latour 2007, Star 1999, Von
Schnitzler 2008, Herzfeld 2009), and from linguistic anthropologists who have
highlighted how the material environment affects and is affected by embodied
interaction (e.g. Duranti 1994, C. Goodwin 2006, 2007, Green 2014, Hanks 1990,
Keating and Mirus 2012, Levinson 1996, Streeck et al. 2011, Tulburt and M.
Goodwin 2011). Bringing these approaches together, we aim to generate new
perspectives on how buildings, technologies, sidewalks, lighting patterns,
furniture, and other aspects of the environment shape and are shaped by
channels connecting “signers” to “interpreters” (Kockelman 2010:407).<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">To submit a paper, please send paper abstracts (or
drafts of paper abstracts) to Terra Edwards (<a href="mailto:terra.edwards@gallaudet.edu">terraedwards@gmail.com</a>) and
Charles Zuckerman (<a href="mailto:zuckermc@umich.edu">zuckermc@umich.edu</a>)
by April 10<sup>th</sup>. We will begin reviewing abstracts upon receipt.</p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b><br></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b><br></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b><br></b></p><p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><b>References</b>:<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Abu-Lughod, Lila (1993). Finding a Place for
Islam: Egyptian Television Serials and the National Interest. <i>Public
Culture </i>5.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Anand, Nikhil (2011). PRESSURE: The PoliTechnics
of water supply in Mumbai. <i>Cultural Anthropology </i>26(4):542-64.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Benjamin, Walter (1968). <i>Illuminations</i>.
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Bennett, Jane (2010). Vibrant Matter: <i>A
Political Ecology of Things</i>. Durham, NC: Duke<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">University Press.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">DeCerteau, Michel (1984). <i>The Practices of
Everyday Life</i>. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">of California Press.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Dourish, Paul and Genevieve Bell (2007). The
infrastructure of experience and the experience of infrastructure: meaning and
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B: Planning and Design</i>, 2007, 34, 414-430.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Duranti, Alensandro (1994). <i>>From Grammar
to Politics: Linguistic Anthropology in a Western Samoan Village. </i>Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Charles Goodwin (2006). Human Sociality as Mutual
Orientation in a Rich Interactive Environment: Multimodal Utterances and
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Nick Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson. London: Berg Press. pp. 96-125.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Charles Goodwin (2007). Environmentally Coupled
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Benjamins. pp. 195-212.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Green, Elizabeth Mara (2014). <i>The Nature
of Signs: Nepal’s Deaf Society, Local Sign, and the Production of Communicative
Sociality</i>. PhD Dissertation. The University of California, Berkeley.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Hanks, William F. (1990). <i>Referential
Practice: Language and Lived Space among the</i><span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Herzfeld, Michael. 2009 “The Performance of
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Keating, Elizabeth and Gene Mirus (2012). Road
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Latour, Bruno (2007). <i>Reassembling the
Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-</i><span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Larkin, Brian (2004). Degraded Images, Distorted
Sounds: Nigerian Video and the<span></span></p>
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Lefebvre, Henri (2004). <i>Rhythmanalysis:
Space Time and Everyday Life</i>. London:<span></span></p>
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Infrastructure. <i>American Behavioral Scientist </i>43(3):377-391.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Streeck, Jurgen, Charles Goodwin, Curtis LeBaron
(Eds.) (2011). <i>Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material
World</i>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Tulburt, Eve and Marjorie Goodwin (2011).
Choreographies of Attention: multimodality in a routine family activity. In: <i>Embodied
Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World</i>. New York: Cambridge
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Von Schnitzler, Antina (2008). Citizenship
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<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span> </span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">-- <span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Charles H. P. Zuckerman<span></span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoNormalCxSpMiddle">Linguistic Anthropology PhD Candidate<br>
Department of Anthropology<br>
University of Michigan<span></span></p>
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