[Linganth] ELAN November 23 Meeting: Economic Moralities with Chelsie Yount-André

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Leigh Swigart
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International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life
Brandeis University
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On Tue, Oct 18, 2022 at 6:28 PM Barker, Meghanne <meghanne.barker at ucl.ac.uk>
wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> Please join the EASA Linguistic Anthropology Network (ELAN) for our
> November meeting! On *Wednesday*, *November 23, 14:00-15:30 GMT*, we will
> discuss Chelsie Yount-André's chapter, “Scales of Solidarity: Navigating
> Economic Moralities," from her manuscript-in-progress, *Selective
> Solidarity: Talk and the transmission of middle-class moralities in
> transnational Senegal*. We changed the day and time to make it both later
> in the day and earlier in the week (and not conflicting with Thanksgiving
> in the US), in hopes that this makes it more feasible for scholars based in
> North America to attend.
>
> The abstract is below. The discussant will be announced soon, and the text
> circulated two weeks before our meeting. We hope you can attend!
>
> Best,
>
> Meghanne and Janet
>
> Scales of Solidarity: Navigating Economic Moralities
>
> Chelsie Yount-André, PhD
> Postdoctoral Ethnographic Researcher, ERC project "JustRemit"
> Institute of Security and Global Affairs
> Leiden University
>
> This text, chapter two of my manuscript *Selective Solidarity: Talk and
> the transmission of middle-class moralities in transnational Senegal*,
> offers a semiotic approach to “economic moralities,” (normative
> expectations of material obligation and entitlement). It considers the
> material entailments of speakers’ shifts in moral stance and alignment,
> analyzing how family members alternate between scales of solidarity in
> unfolding interaction. I highlight two notions of “solidarity” central to
> the material lives of middle-class Senegalese in Paris: first, that of the
> French government, which posits aid offered by the welfare state as
> contingent on immigrant “integration” and second, expectations of
> “solidarity” among Senegalese transnational kin, which are rooted in
> asymmetric but complementary relations of rank-based redistribution. I then
> examine how economic moralities link forms of language materiality
> (Cavanaugh & Shankar 2017) across domains, analyzing how speakers draw acts
> of material circulation into analogous relation through explicit language
> (moral narratives that treat food sharing as indexical of economic
> solidarity) and more tacit, nonreferential means like verbal registers. I
> trace interdiscursive connections between language that mediates everyday
> acts of exchange, like food sharing, and moral discourses that shape
> resource redistribution beyond the household, to argue that the semiotic
> grounding for economic practice is woven in everyday interactions among
> children and caregivers.
>
> Meghanne Barker
> (she/her)
> Lecturer, Education, Practice and Society
> IOE, UCL's Faculty of Education and Society
> meghanne.barker at ucl.ac.uk
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