[Linganth] AAA panel on constrained agency – call for submissions

[Chris VanderStouwe]

Hello everyone!

Shawn Warner-Garcia and I are organizing a panel for the 2015 AAA 
Conference in Denver on constrained agency. Lal Zimman has agreed to be 
our discussant, and we are looking for additional participants. Please 
read on for more information about the panel:

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.

Interested panelists should send an off-list message to either Chris 
VanderStouwe (cvanderstouwe at umail.ucsb.edu 
<mailto:cvanderstouwe at umail.ucsb.edu>) or Shawn Warner-Garcia 
(warnergarcia at umail.ucsb.edu <mailto:warnergarcia at umail.ucsb.edu>) with 
name, affiliation, and planned topic as soon as possible. Once panelists 
are chosen, we request panel abstracts be submitted to the organizers no 
later than April 8, 2015, for review and to ensure timely submission to 
the Annual Meeting system by the April 15 deadline.

Thank you for your consideration. See you in Denver!

-- 
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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