[Linganth] AAA 2017 Call for Papers: Access and Exposure: Manipulating the perceptible in and through the material environment

[Charles Zuckerman]

*CFP: *

*Access and exposure: manipulating the perceptible in and through the
material environment*

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).

To submit a paper, please send paper abstracts (or drafts of paper
abstracts) to Terra Edwards (terraedwards at gmail.com
<terra.edwards at gallaudet.edu>) and Charles Zuckerman (zuckermc at umich.edu)
by April 10th.  We will begin reviewing abstracts upon receipt.




*References*:



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Charles H. P. Zuckerman

Linguistic Anthropology PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Michigan
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