<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-858645aa-7fff-bb62-4378-503e65855dad"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear all,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please find below our CFP that invites papers on the gendered politics of social transitions in rural spaces.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you are interested, please send your abstract (250 words) to Britta Ingebretson (</span><a href="mailto:bingebretson@fordham.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">bingebretson@fordham.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) and Yeon-ju Bae (</span><a href="mailto:yjubae@umich.edu" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">yjubae@umich.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">) by March 1, 2023.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best wishes,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Yeon-ju</span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rural Modernities, Rural Moralities: The Gendered Politics of Social Transitions</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The rural has often been framed as the traditional foil to urban modernity, often in morally charged gendered ways (Lai 2016; Jacka 2006). For instance, the rural has been imagined as a site of traditional gender norms (Murphy 2010) or itself gendered as a feminine or masculine space. Likewise, across different societies the rural may be held up as a paragon of traditional moral values (Hill 1998) or as a site of immoral backwardness. In attending to gendered differentiation across time and space, as in the cases of rural women migrants’ struggles and changes in cities (Gaetano 2009; Zhang 2014), many studies have emphasized the rupture between the urban/rural dyad along these gendered moral lines. However, such emphasis on rupture in scholarship may preclude close examination of social transitions in rural spaces (cf. Robbins 2001) and implicitly reinforce the idea that the rural must be defined in opposition to the urban. In a sense, the rural has been treated as a static anchor that gives rise to ever-changing fluctuating urbanity. Yet, as scholars of the rural have increasingly shown, rurality in both imagination and reality is itself a constitutive site of the modern and a productive arena of its own gender politics and moral negotiations (Bluemel & McCluskey 2020; Casey 2009; Chio 2017; Choi 2020). This panel invites papers that investigate the intersection of modernity, morality, and gender in rural spaces, particularly those that explore the gendered politics of rural modernity in its own terms.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><div dir="ltr"><font size="2" color="#999999"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline">Yeon-ju Bae [</font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">jən-dʒu b̥ɛ</font><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">]</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">(she/her/hers)</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">Doctoral Candidate</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">Linguistic Anthropology</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" color="#999999" size="2">University of Michigan</font></div></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="2" color="#999999"><a href="mailto:yjubae@umich.edu" target="_blank">yjubae@umich.edu</a></font></div></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div>