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Sui01b


Sui Generis - Violence and Vulnerability 
Convenor:
Tanya King (Deakin University)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
Sui Generis
Location:
NIKERI KC2.214
Sessions:
Wednesday 23 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Melbourne

Short Abstract:

The Sui Generis panel brings together papers that respond to the notion of 'Life Support' from varied points of view and environments.

Long Abstract:

The Australian Anthropology Society's 2022 conference invites contributions that respond to the notion of 'Life Support'. This theme draws our attention to the principles, processes, activities, and ideologies of humans and non-humans who variously foster, care for, legitimise, frustrate, and explicitly reject particular forms of life. 'Life support' is ambivalent. It evokes the discipline's focus on mutually-constituted lived experience, and the ethical drive of many disciplinary practitioners to work in support, advocacy, and activism, as well as the status of the discipline as one in search of a thriving future. Through this theme we invite panels, papers, events, provocations and performances that explore the strengths, gaps and frailties of anthropology as a practice, a discipline, a legacy, a strategy, a tool, a trope, and as a life.

'Life Support' evokes the institutions and technical apparatus that are increasingly necessary for survival at a range of scales, from the microscopic to the global. It suggests processes and situations at their beginnings and ends, the etiology of triage, entropy and palliative care, of birth, (re)creation and transubstantiation.

The theme is intentionally provocative and the conference organisers therefore also welcome contributions that critique ideas of 'life support,' including in relation to their associations with colonial histories of exploitation and pastoral care. We also welcome papers that do not explicitly speak to the theme but reflect research in the field.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Wednesday 23 November, 2022, -