[Linganth] AAA CFP

[Hannah Carlan]

Dear all,

Please find below a call for abstracts for this year's AAA in San Jose on
the role of language ideologies and communicative practice in NGO spaces.
Submission information is below.

Best,
Hannah Carlan





*Session Title: Politics of Language in NGOs: Communicative and ideological
practicesPanel Organizers:Hannah Carlan and Rosalie EdmondsUCLA Department
of Anthropologyhannahcarlan at g.ucla.edu
<hannahcarlan at g.ucla.edu>redmonds at g.ucla.edu
<redmonds at g.ucla.edu>Discussant: TBDAbstract:The anthropological study of
NGOs has emphasized the great deal of ideological work involved in
sustaining the state/civil society binary (Grewal and Bernal 2014; Sharma
2008; Bornstein and Sharma 2016; Ferguson and Gupta 2002). While much work
has shown how NGOs’ broader discursive projects of “development,”
“conservation,” or “empowerment” often result in various forms of political
economic dispossession (Elyachar 2005; Radcliffe 2015; Tsing 2005), many
questions remain concerning how such ideological projects are maintained
through the complex communicative work that takes place in the everyday
interactions between NGO workers and their “target” populations (Pigg 2001;
Lewis and Mosse 2006). In the Global South, such “technologies of talk”
(Gal, Kowalski, and Moore 2015) often must be cultivated within spaces of
dense multilingualism and linguistic diversity. This panel seeks to examine
the communicative processes through which actors in NGOs generate, adapt,
or resist forms of ideology, authority, and personhood. We invite authors
from a variety of subfields to submit abstracts which explore forms of
discourse and communicative practice within NGO institutional formations,
broadly conceived. Papers may address such questions as:-How might NGO
practices be shaped by the language ideologies and linguistic repertoires
of their staff and/or the people they aim to serve?-In what ways might the
language ideologies present in an NGO reinforce or conflict with local or
national language ideologies? -What can close attention to the linguistic
dynamics present within NGOs teach us about how both NGO workers and their
“beneficiaries” reconstitute the practice of development, conservation,
etc.?If you are interested in presenting a paper on this panel, please send
an abstract to Hannah Carlan (hannahcarlan at g.ucla.edu
<hannahcarlan at g.ucla.edu>) and Rosalie Edmonds (redmonds at g.ucla.edu
<redmonds at g.ucla.edu>) by March 25th 2018. *



-- 
Hannah Carlan
PhD Candidate
UCLA Department of Anthropology
hannahcarlan at ucla.edu
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