ASA2023: An unwell world? Anthropology in a speculative mode
ASA2023
Conference
ASA2023
London, UK
11 – 14 Apr 2023
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Lab01
Imagining wellbeing from the feet up
Lab02
Afterlives: an invitation to speculative ethnography
Lab03
Representing the future with multisensory data
Lab04
What we leave behind: in search of a transformative ethnography for an un(well) world
Lab05
Future-making: sensorial notes through time
Lab06
Can living as an anthropologist help bring joy — and perhaps harmony — to the world?
Lab07
Speculating with Physarum polycephalum. An exercise in material thinking
Lab08
Outside archives? Experimental methods between anthropology and art practice
P01
Dearly departed: photography of the dead human body
P03
Bordering healthcare: alternative therapeutic spaces and lay action against uncertainty
P04
Embodied inequalities of the Anthropocene
P05
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Encounters with alterity: anthropological 'fieldwork' reconsidered
P06
Ecological futures revisited: land, time, and the future
P07
How are children conceived and raised in un/well worlds? Traversing Dickensian dystopias, utopian futures, and anticipative states of action
P08
Romantic convictions: the moral force of excess in an unwell world
P09
Unbuilding the future: the legacies and afterlives of designed environments
P10
Bridging knowledges: responding to a trouble planet
P11
Sport and play in an unwell world
P12
Interspecies homescapes: reimagining domestic spaces through human-animal relations
P13
Compounding crises: confronting the complexity of disaster through anthropological inquiry
P14
The good city: social infrastructure and governance from below
P16
Children, violence and political ethnography: moving beyond systemic critique
P17
Anthropology and the dynamics of play: creativity, paradoxes, and hopes in an uncertain world
P18
Creating well-being: biosocial approaches to practices of making well
P19
Towards new political imaginations in Europe?
P20
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"Attract good fortune? I am counting on that": divination as energizing practices in uncertain and changing times
P21
Woodland health: threats, solutions, and communities
P22
Possibilities and imaginaries of/at work and the workplace
P23
Capitalism, labour and being 'unwell': workers in and beyond toxic embodiments
P24
Art and ethnography
P25
Preparing for future epidemics: speculations on 'the next'
P26
Navigating urban mobility - arrival cities, volatility, and infrastructures of belonging
P27
The human social in psychiatric practice
P28
On speculation as praxis: caste, race and interhuman relationalities
P30
Encoding wellness: digital solutionism and the politics of care in post-pandemic mental health
P31
Anthropology and the ongoing struggles for reproductive justice
P33
Embodied practices and political actions of migrants and LGBTQIA+ people: dealing with social relations and anthropological challenges
P34
Can objects die? Speculative and ethnographic approaches to the life and death of objects
P35
Unwell university, another university now: an alternative to neoliberal modes of knowledge production
P36
Beyond critique and deconstruction: anthropological engagement of climate crises, development inequalities, and emancipatory politics of degrowth and wellbeing alternatives
P37
An anthropology of frequencies
P38
Digital technologies and human welfare – ethnographic assessments
P40
Financializing social protection in the Global South
P41
The future is now: temporalities of climate change
P42
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Pandemics and state response in an unwell world: an anthropological analysis from South Asian societies
P44
Toxic environments: containing microbial resistance and controlling infections in an unwell world
P45
Hedging bets in more-than-human worlds: joint futures of veterinary and conservation interventions
P46
Does the Mediterranean need healing? Exploring death, sickness and revival in (and of) the Mediterranean
P48
Tradition is the new normal: food and farming revivalism as response to crises
P49
Ethnographic Approaches to Crisis, TikTok and Social Media
P50
Is all well with birth? Anthropological contributions to reproductive and maternal health systems
P51
Solidarities (un)settled: unpacking the affective dimensions of solidary relations and practices
P52
The substances that feed us. The materiality of food, ecology, and spirituality in a changing world
P53
Towards an anthropology of joy in a post-pandemic world
P54
Global echoes of war
P55
Back to the present: urgency, immediacy, and the debris of abstraction
P56
The politics of climate knowledge
P57
The Romantic malaise: a debate for anthropological history
P58
Nations, bodies, ecosystems: structure and function in contemporary society
P60
Translating power: language colonialism and anthropological knowledge production and practice
P61
Above and beyond idealism: deepening our understanding of unwellness in political institutions
P63
Planning for cataclysms: anticipating disaster and absorbing the aftermaths
P64
Towards an anthropology of attention
P65
'The part that has no part' - exploring the otherwise of community mental health care
P66
Storytelling in an unwell world – memory practices in post-conflict context of migration, diaspora
P67
Water, wellbeing, and what anthropological knowledge can contribute to equitable essential services
P68
Being 'moved' and moving with 'others': landscapes and ecologies of conflict and transformation
P69
Towards an anthropology of techno-diversity
R01
Anthropology outside itself
R02
Re-thinking biosocial anthropology: challenges, opportunities and new directions
R03
Participatory ethnography and/or participation in ethnography?
R06
Policy, practice, (dis)connect
R07
New anthropological critiques of risk
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