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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">**Whose rules? Conflicting regimes of authority and shared social space.
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size:11pt">**Organized by Karl Swinehart and Elina I. Hartikainen.<br>
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<font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> This panel examines social practices that transgress</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> competing regimes of authority within shared social spaces. Laws are often</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> associated with states, yet communities of practice operating at scales</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> both larger and smaller than state formations operate with their own rules</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> which bring them into varying degrees of evasion, friction, or open</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> conflict with states' legal frameworks. This panel illuminates the</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> processes involved in the contested typifications of social practices as</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> alternately legal / illegal, obligatory / forbidden, sacred / profane</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> across social boundaries. For practices that have been stigmatized by the</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> mark of illegality, how has stigma been contested, embraced, or transformed</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> by practitioners? How have acts of contestation reconfigured transgressive</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> practices themselves? What actors - whether human or non-human - come to</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> mediate across these social boundaries? We are particularly interested in</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> dynamics of religious practice, public performance, and the state, but</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> welcome all papers that examine social practices which bring conflicting</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: calibri, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);"> regimes of authority into degrees of dialogue and/or conflict across social</span><span style="font-size:11pt"><br>
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<div class="PlainText">Karl Swinehart (he/him/his)<br>
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