[Linganth] 2025 SLA CFP: anarchism and language

[Edwin Everhart]

Dear colleagues,

I invite participants for a panel on anarchism and language at the Society
for Linguistic Anthropology meeting in Chicago, May 2025. Please write me
by Tuesday or Wednesday (Nov 26/27) if you are interested, and we can work
on abstracts in advance of the December 6 deadline.

Recently James Slotta ("Anarchy and the Art of Listening," 2023) and others
have begun to apply a notion of anarchism in linguistic anthropology.
Anarchism may offer a promising new area, e.g. in connection with themes of
listening and intelligibility. In my recent work I have found that
anarchism leads toward a novel critique of language standardization.

Anarchism has multiple meanings, including horizontal, non-hierarchical
social organization; diverse political practices of stateless societies;
and, a specific modern libertarian socialist tradition. Presentations for
this panel are welcome to approach anarchism as an object of study, a
method of research practice, and/or as a theoretical framework. This panel
is intended to help the field of linguistic anthropology make greater use
of anarchism as method and theory. Exploratory and experimental
presentations are welcome.

Edwin Everhart (he/him)
edwineverhar at umass.edu
edwin.everhart at gmail.com
Lecturer, 2024-25, University of Massachusetts Amherst Department of
Anthropology
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