[Linganth] AAA 2021 CFP: Ethics at the Borders of Linguistic Anthropology

[Steve Black]

Dear all,
Robin Conley Riner and I are writing with a CFP for a panel for the 2021 AAA meeting to be held in Baltimore, MD. This CFP is for an in-person session. Interested persons should send a 250 word abstract to conleyr at marshall.edu<mailto:conleyr at marshall.edu> and sblack at gsu.edu<mailto:sblack at gsu.edu> by May 10th.

ABSTRACT: ETHICS AT THE BORDERS OF LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY
Session organized by Steven P. Black and Robin Conley Riner

This panel examines the relationship between language and ethics in theory and practice. Our examination is rooted in a rejection of the distinction between ethics as an object of anthropological inquiry and ethics as an orientation for anthropological methods, alongside a recognition that attention to anthropological ethics often means engaging with scholarly approaches and working with communities in ways that are outside of traditional approaches to linguistic anthropology. While addressing the unique ethical issues that arise in the study of language and culture, this panel takes an interdisciplinary approach, exploring the ethical concerns and practices that arise when linguistic anthropologists engage with adjacent disciplines.

Most previous literature on ethics in anthropology takes one of two approaches. In one approach, a robust body of scholarship discusses anthropological ethics as a concern for research planning and methodology, focusing on topics such as the IRB, encounters with research participants, and questions about collaboration and engagement (e.g., Fluehr-Lobban 2013). In a second distinct approach, anthropologists discuss ethics as cultural practice, theorizing the sociocultural and psychological processes by which particular traditions of ethics/morality are constituted and transformed (e.g., Lambek 2010, Zigon and Throop 2014). Linguistic anthropologists have contributed to both approaches (Black & Riner, forthcoming; Dobrin and Schwartz 2016, Sidnell 2010). In this panel, we bring the two perspectives together, arguing that theorization of ethics cannot be meaningfully separated from the ways that anthropologists engage in interpersonal encounters with individuals and communities throughout the research process. Among other shifts in perspective, such an approach broadens the scope of what counts as ethics-oriented research and argues for the incorporation of previous work on race, gender, sexuality, and social justice into anthropological theorization of ethics.

Take care,

Steve

Steven P. Black
Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies/ Department of Anthropology / Georgia State University
National Geographic Explorer (2021-2022)
Co-Editor / Society for Linguistic Anthropology Column / Anthropology News
Senior Editor / Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology
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