Fwd: Call For Papers - ICA 2018 Symposium 1/21
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Call for Papers
The 56th International Congress of Americanists – ICA 2018
July 15-20, 2018
The University of Salamanca, Spain
Symposium 1/21 - Identitarian Particularisms and Class Universality in the Reproduction of Privilege and Inequality in the Americas
The symposium seeks to investigate the different vectors of collective identity (race, gender, sexuality, and class) in the reproduction of socio-political economic privilege in various American societies.
Empirically grounded or theoretically focused, in anthropology and disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, papers in this symposium will investigate how practices and discourses of identity articulate with belonging in socio-politically dominant elites and middle classes in societies of the Americas. They may also interrogate representations of this articulation in narratives of regional or national identity. How do privileged formations “of color” manage their identity together with an effective presence alongside dominant white formations in political economic elites of the Americas? If, as anthropologist Donald Robotham (2000) persuasively argues, a hierarchy of European cultural prestige (with the African at the bottom) articulates with the hierarchy of global political economic power, what are the local politics of acquisition and competence in cultures originating in Europe and its diaspora? Does such competence operate in class differentiation within legacy formations of European colonial elites, and within indigenous or black/brown formations? How indeed are boundaries of class constructed within subject formations? Do elites fragmented in race/color in societies of the Americas remain united in political economic praxis? What are the vectors of unity across boundaries of identity in the realization of elite privilege? What global and local practices and ideologies give phenomenological significance to lightness of complexion as currency of social economy in populations of the Americas? How do elite subjects of color contest this currency? Far from an exhaustive list, these are but some examples of questions that authors participating in this symposium might address.
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For information about the ICA 2018, please visit http://www.ica2018.es.
To propose a paper, please go to https://www.conftool.pro/ica2018/index.php?page=login to create an account and submit the paper abstract. Note: upon logging in the first thematic area is Anthropology; scroll down to Symposium 1/21 to submit the abstract.
The deadline for abstract submission is October 20, 2017.
Philippe-Richard Marius, PhD
College of Staten Island/The City University of New York
Ismael Garcia Colon, PhD
College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center/The City University of New York