[Linganth] Seeking panel participants for SLA2020: Responsibility and Evidence in Late Capitalist Discourse

Sat Nov 16 00:16:39 UTC 2019

And I just got my Anthropology News. The next year's meetings theme: Truth
and Responsibility!!!

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 4:27 PM Woolard, Kathryn <kwoolard at ucsd.edu> wrote:

> I just want to echo Janina in saying this looks like a terrific panel
> proposal to me. I don’t have a paper to contribute, but I sure hope
> somebody will do one on “receipts or it didn’t happen.”
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> Cheers,
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> Kit Woolard
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> *From: *Linganth <linganth-bounces at listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf
> of Janina Fenigsen <jfenigsen at gmail.com>
> *Date: *Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 10:23 AM
> *To: *Aurora Donzelli <adonzelli at sarahlawrence.edu>
> *Cc: *"LINGANTH at LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG" <
> linganth at listserv.linguistlist.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Linganth] Seeking panel participants for SLA2020:
> Responsibility and Evidence in Late Capitalist Discourse
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> Hi Aurora, thank you for circulating this wonderful panel. I may be
> submitting to you a paper proposal dealing with responsibility and evidence
> involved in imagistic multimodal discourses in the media, including the
> very recent state-level controversy surrounding the use of map
> representations in the Netflix documentary, The Devil Next Door, that
> occasioned a formal protest from Morawiecki, the prime minister of Poland.
> Among other ways for triangulating the problem of responsibility,
> authenticity, evidence and performativity in imagistic discourses, I would
> be drawing on the work of Christopher Ball (2017). Working title, "A
> picture is worth a thousand words. Or is it? Responsibility, evidence and
> performativity in the mapping of evil."
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> This is just to give you heads up. I will be able to develop the abstract
> this weekend. Still working on my Vancouver paper. Are you coming to the
> AAAs this year?
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> Warm greetings,
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> janina
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> On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 8:25 AM Aurora Donzelli <
> adonzelli at sarahlawrence.edu> wrote:
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> Dear All,
>
> Joseph Sung-Yul Park and I are organizing a panel for the next SLA2020
> meeting in Boulder, Colorado. Please email us a 250-word abstract no
> later than 11/25.
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>
>  best,
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> Aurora and Joseph
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> *Responsibility and Evidence in Late Capitalist Discourse *
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> Organizers:
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> Aurora Donzelli, Sarah Lawrence College, NY adonzelli at slc.edu
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> Joseph Sung-Yul Park, National University of Singapore, Singapore
> ellpjs at nus.edu.sg
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>
> Our contemporary moment is often represented as marked by the progressive
> extension of market logics to every domain of human existence and
> interaction (Brown 2003, 2006; Cruikshank 1993; Martin 2000; Rose 1990;
> etc.). Key to this process has been the institution of novel paradigms for
> determining moral and epistemic standards of conduct. The ideal neoliberal
> subject is imagined to be engaged in the moral project of maximizing the
> value of one’s human capital, as well as a constant evidencing of one’s
> engagement with such responsibility of self-development. Institutional,
> technological, and political economic configurations constantly monitor and
> assess individuals in these terms, guiding them towards internalization of
> such discourse through self-modulation. A growing ethnographic literature
> has thus shown how the contemporary world is characterized by the
> proliferation of evidentiary regimes based on ideals of transparency and
> moral standards pivoting on notions of accountability and individual
> entrepreneurialism (see for, example, Cavanaugh 2016; Gershon 2011, Matza
> 2009; Shore and Wright 2003; Strathern 2000; Urciuoli 2008; West and
> Sanders 2003). But we still lack a fuller account of how these larger
> discursive formations impact the grain of everyday life, structuring our
> daily encounters and interactions. Drawing on the seminal volume edited by
> Hill and Irvine (1993) and extending its insights into contemporary
> political economic context, this panel explores of how situated language
> use participates in producing the specific notions of knowledge and agency
> that characterize the late capitalist present. Our goal is to “turn the
> tools of linguistic anthropology” to further our understanding of how
> neoliberal notions of responsibility and evidence are both produced and
> challenged through actual instances of discursive activity (Hill and Irvine
> 1993: 3). Specific questions addressed by contributions may include:
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> -       What kinds of discursive practices and styles come to be valued as
> transparent, moral, and responsible under neoliberalism, and by what
> semiotic processes?
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> -       How do neoliberal models of responsibility and evidence affect
> contemporary linguistic and semiotic styles of political self-presentation
> and participation?
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> -       What do debates on fake news and (un-)accountable political
> practices reveal about the new moral and epistemic standards of our times?
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> -       How do the moral and epistemic paradigms of our present shape
> linguistic practices in the workplace? How do they affect contemporary
> forms of material production and semiotic circulation of commodities,
> though certification protocols, (re-)branding strategies, and new
> technologies of the working self? How are they resisted and subverted
> through specific patterns of communicative behavior?
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> -        How do shifting ideologies about ideal displays and enactments of
> responsibility, agency, and desire lead to new models of ideal personhood?
>
> -       What new evidentiary regimes do conditions of late capitalism,
> including those of precarity, surveillance, and inequality, represent?
>
> -       How do neoliberal modes of governance construct different
> populations as (ir)responsible, (im)moral, (un)truthful, or (un)trustworthy?
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> *References cited*
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> Brown, Wendy
>
> 2003 Neo-liberalism and the end of liberal democracy. *Theory & Event*,
> *7*(1).
>
> ---              2006 American Nightmare Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism,
> and De-Democratization. *Political theory*, *34*(6), 690-714.
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> Cavanaugh, Jillian R
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> 2016 "Documenting subjects: Performativity and audit culture in food
> production in northern Italy." *American Ethnologist* 43.4 (2016):
> 691-703.
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> Cruikshank, Barbara
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> 1993 Revolutions within: self-government and self-esteem. *Economy and
> Society*, *22*(3), 327-344.
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> Gershon, Ilana.
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> 2011 Neoliberal agency. *Current Anthropology* 52(4):537-555.
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> Hill, Jane H., and Judith T. Irvine
>
>                   1993 Responsibility and evidence in oral discourse.
> Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press.
>
> Martin, Emily.
>
> 2000 Mind‐Body Problems. * American Ethnologist*, *27*(3), 569-590.
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> Matza, Tomas
>
> 2009 Moscow's Echo: Technologies of the Self, Publics, and Politics on the
> Russian Talk Show. Cultural Anthropology 24(3):489-522.
>
> Rose, Nikolas
>
> 1990 *Governing the soul: the shaping of the private self*. Taylor &
> Frances/Routledge.
>
> Shore, Cris, and S. Wright, (eds.)
>
> 2003 *Anthropology of policy: Perspectives on governance and power*.
> Routledge.
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> Strathern, Marilyn, (ed.)
>
> 2000 *Audit cultures: anthropological studies in accountability, ethics,
> and the academy*. Psychology Press.
>
> Urciuoli, Bonnie
>
> 2008 Skills and selves in the new workplace. American Ethnologist
> 35(2):211-228.
>
> West, Harry G., and Todd Sanders, (eds.)
>
> 2003 *Transparency and conspiracy: ethnographies of suspicion in the new
> world order*. Duke University Press.
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> Aurora Donzelli
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> Associate Professor of Anthropology
> Sarah Lawrence College
> 1 Mead Way
> Bronxville, NY 10708 USA
> E-mail: adonzelli at sarahlawrence.edu
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