{"id":20466,"date":"2012-02-09T02:42:59","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T02:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20466"},"modified":"2012-03-13T16:20:44","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T16:20:44","slug":"call-for-papers-association-for-feminist-anthropology-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20466","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aaanet.org\/2012\/02\/07\/call-for-papers-association-for-feminist-anthropology-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\">Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaanet.org\" target=\"_blank\">American Anthropological Association<\/a><br \/>\n2012-02-07<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Josyln O.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>The <a title=\"AFA website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aaanet.org\/sections\/afa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Association for Feminist Anthropology<\/a> welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA\u2019s programming for the 111<sup>th<\/sup> AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is \u201cBorders,\u201d so AFA particularly welcomes panels that take up \u201cborders\u201d from a feminist anthropological perspective. Various approaches to the theme include papers and sessions that might explore:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Borders\/collaborations\/intersections between feminist anthropology and other scholarly spaces from within and beyond anthropology: critical race studies, queer studies, and\/or women\u2019s studies; linguistics and genetics; political science, geography, environmental, and\/or policy studies; migration and immigration studies and\/or economics and archaeology and\/or ethnography; biology\/history\/cultural studies; masculinity and\/or gender studies; educational psychologies and social work; etc., etc., etc.<\/li>\n<li>Existing or potential conversations\/alliances\/engagements between scholarly anthropology and everyday activism<\/li>\n<li>Geographical, political, and ecological borders and the people who move across and re-define them: histories\/archaeologies\/economies of trade, trafficking, and\/or transnationalism; refugees, resettlements, and asylum seekers; multiple and multiplying citizenships; migration, immigration, and diasporas; etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cBorders\u201d and \u201cborderlands\u201d in terms of identities: liminal; queer; mestizaje; mixed-race; transgender<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The \u201cin between\u201d scholar working across\/between\/among disciplines; conducting research and participating within communities; \u201cinsider anthropology\u201d; Lorde\u2019s concept and Harrison\u2019s theorizing of the \u201coutsider within\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are especially interested in sessions that take advantage of the meeting site of San Francisco by involving local activists, practitioners, and policy makers, whether they are anthropologists or not. If you have questions about the details of registration for non-anthropologists, please let us know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.aaanet.org\/2012\/02\/07\/call-for-papers-association-for-feminist-anthropology-sessions\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Call for Papers: Association for Feminist Anthropology Sessions American Anthropological Association 2012-02-07 Posted by Josyln O. The Association for Feminist Anthropology welcomes sessions to be considered for inclusion in AFA\u2019s programming for the 111th AAA Annual Meeting, to be held November 14-18, 2012 in San Francisco. The AAA meeting theme this year is \u201cBorders,\u201d so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,4,13,20,27,25],"tags":[991,9567,455,9568],"class_list":["post-20466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-upcoming-media","category-liveevents","category-usa","category-wanted","category-women","tag-american-anthropological-association","tag-association-for-feminist-anthropology","tag-california","tag-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}