[Linganth] [CFP for AAA 2023] Rural Modernities, Rural Moralities: The Gendered Politics of Social Transitions

[Yeon-ju Bae]

Dear all,

Please find below our CFP that invites papers on the gendered politics of
social transitions in rural spaces.

If you are interested, please send your abstract (250 words) to Britta
Ingebretson (bingebretson at fordham.edu) and Yeon-ju Bae (yjubae at umich.edu)
by March 1, 2023.


Best wishes,

Yeon-ju



Rural Modernities, Rural Moralities: The Gendered Politics of Social
Transitions

The rural has often been framed as the traditional foil to urban modernity,
often in morally charged gendered ways (Lai 2016; Jacka 2006). For
instance, the rural has been imagined as a site of traditional gender norms
(Murphy 2010) or itself gendered as a feminine or masculine space.
Likewise, across different societies the rural may be held up as a paragon
of traditional moral values (Hill 1998) or as a site of immoral
backwardness. In attending to gendered differentiation across time and
space, as in the cases of rural women migrants’ struggles and changes in
cities (Gaetano 2009; Zhang 2014), many studies have emphasized the rupture
between the urban/rural dyad along these gendered moral lines. However,
such emphasis on rupture in scholarship may preclude close examination of
social transitions in rural spaces (cf. Robbins 2001) and implicitly
reinforce the idea that the rural must be defined in opposition to the
urban. In a sense, the rural has been treated as a static anchor that gives
rise to ever-changing fluctuating urbanity. Yet, as scholars of the rural
have increasingly shown, rurality in both imagination and reality is itself
a constitutive site of the modern and a productive arena of its own gender
politics and moral negotiations (Bluemel & McCluskey 2020; Casey 2009; Chio
2017; Choi 2020). This panel invites papers that investigate the
intersection of modernity, morality, and gender in rural spaces,
particularly those that explore the gendered politics of rural modernity in
its own terms.





Yeon-ju Bae [jən-dʒu b̥ɛ]
(she/her/hers)
Doctoral Candidate
Linguistic Anthropology
University of Michigan
yjubae at umich.edu
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