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P09b


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Landing places: locating oppression, exclusion, and the grounds of overcoming an accelerating global world order 
Convenors:
Annika Lems (Australian National University)
Melinda Hinkson (Institute of Postcolonial Studies)
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Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Wednesday 1 December, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

The panel explores the placemaking practices that are pursued in the face of intensifying processes of displacement, financialization and surveillance. It sheds light on the strategies and resources people deploy as they attempt to make sense of, endure, and overcome the challenges of the present.

Long Abstract:

This panel explores place-making practices in a world marked by acceleration and disruption. The dynamics of the present can press down upon people in ways that feel overwhelming, as if there is no escape. Climate change and the pandemic intensify awareness of the destructive dimensions of global interconnectedness and relatedly, a sense of powerlessness to effect change. Yet in the face of such pressures people do find simple and ingenious ways to secure spaces of respite, create meaningful dis-junctures, as well as coalitions, and in other ways assert some semblance of control over their everyday lives.

We welcome papers that explore the responses, strategies, techniques and resources people deploy as they attempt to make sense of, endure, and overcome the challenges of the present. In particular we ask, what kinds of place-making practices are pursued in the face of intensifying processes of displacement, financialization, and/or surveillance? What are the fine-grained ways in which exclusion and oppression are practiced and experienced? What ethnographic and analytic light can anthropologists shed on the landing places people attempt to carve out for themselves amidst experiences of uncertainty, containment, stress? We are interested in case studies that take up transforming people-place relationships and engage histories of dislocation and human and environmental damage. Holding in view interrelationships across intimate and planetary scales, our aim is to explore the range of place-making practices that emerge from contemporary struggles as well as the conditions of creative destruction in which they are called out and reproduced.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 30 November, 2021, -
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