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SUMMARY:The Moral Affordances and Social Changes of Mobility
DESCRIPTION:Presentation abstracts\nFrank Ngo\nPilgrims of the peripheral – Centers and peripheries between Japan and Christendom \nPilgrimage shares many traits with tourism\, and much of the anthropologies of the two realize both forms of mobility draw from one another to fulfill religious\, economic\, or leisurely ends. In this paper I inquire what social changes come about when Japanese Catholic students partake in movement between Japan and the rest of the Catholic world. They may move as pilgrims\, tourists\, sometimes both\, but are animated by their consciousness of an institution-wide Catholic identity. \nI contextualize the movement of Japanese Catholic students in historic attempts of the Catholic Church to evangelize Japan as well as contemporary attempts in the New Evangelization project. Mobility to and from the center of Catholicism – Europe – is intended to open or deepen religious possibilities for the students. I look at how pilgrimage and the touristic element of authenticity are key to making claims to the Christendom the New Evangelization seeks to revive. \nKeywords: Catholicism\, center-peripheral\, pilgrimage\, Christendom\, New Evangelization \n  \nAlice Yeh\nThe migratory vocation: risk and divine authentication at the airport border    \nThis paper explores the themes of risk\, rationality\, and religious calling as they emerge in the moral and migratory trajectories of Chinese Catholics. I focus in particular on the narrative of a Chinese priest passing through a Canadian airport en route to the United States. How has the confessional politics of Catholic identitarianism been mobilized into religious callings\, first from the village to the city and later from China to overseas Chinese communities? As parishioners and priests alike are “at risk” waiting – whether for the reunion of underground and government-affiliated churches\, for greater religious freedom\, or for divine agency to move toward its end – they increasingly entangle moral and economic forms of capital\, framing upward or international mobility as the solution to spiritual and ecclesial risk. Building on fieldwork conducted in Hangzhou and New York in 2018\, I show how risk as conceived by Chinese Catholic immigrants (and would-be immigrants) functions as an ironically state-centric indicator of moral mobility. \nKeywords: risk\, migration\, transnational China\, Catholicism \n  \nIris Pakulla\nMobility in mining landscapes: the case study of Khanbogd   \nIn the Southern Gobi mining belt ​of Mongolia\, the presence of one of the world’s biggest copper and gold mine\, the Oyu Tolgoi (turquoise hill)​\, has triggered a process of resourcification (High\, 2010) and land dispossession resulting in the unfolding of sedentarisation. Paying attention to the material and immaterial ways in which mobile pastoralists’ trajectories are being altered\, regulated\, and obstructed\, this paper elaborates on “constellations of mobility”. These refer to entanglements of historical patterns of movement\, narratives about mobility\, and mobile practices (Cresswell\, 2010) that emerge\, change and coexist in Khanbogd. While elaborating on discontinuities and new spatial boundaries\, the discussion opens up to herders’ experiences of displacement. \nKeywords: Gobi Desert\, mobile pastoralism\, mining\, constellations of mobility\, discontinuities\, frictions \n  \nJoy Xin Yuan Wang\nSilence and care: Taiwanese immigrants in Singapore \nEveryday life is the space of all forms of concealments- little lies that keep life going\, erasures that allow us to start again\, feints that trick us into thinking that life is bearable. In this paper I aim to discuss one of these forms of concealment.  Through drawing on Clara Han’s (2012) reading of Veena Das (2007) notion of the ‘moral energy of silence’ I explore how it is through the silencing of the self  that another – a child\, a parent\, a friend – might move through life encumbered; and how silence as a space of half truths and partial knowledge is generative of imaginative possibilities that turn troubling memories into material for ethical affordances. I do so by exploring the constellations of speech and silence of a group of Taiwanese migrants in Singapore whose lives dovetailed both fleetingly with the exodus of 1949; and more substantially and concretely with the 28 years of Martial law that lasted from May 1949 to July 1987. \nKeywords: silence\, care\, migrants\, memory \n  \nPhilippe Thalmann\nPious subjectivities\, entertainment and mobility in Saudi Arabia\nTBC \nKeywords: Arabian Peninsula\, youth\, piety\, entertainment\, aspirations \n  \nAude Franklin \nConstructing family and kinship ties – The case study of refugees from Democratic Republic of Congo in Kampala (Uganda).  \nThis paper explores the making of family and kinship ties in mobility context\, building on a six-month fieldwork conducted in the domestic spaces of Congolese refugees in Kampala (Uganda). Rather than considering the family as a core of solidarity\, I will question it as an actualization\, a group that depends on the adherence and investment of its members to make it last\, despite the strong external and internal constraints that pressure families. I will do so by focusing on Milka\, Esther and their children household and describing the specific responses they mobilize to ensure their economic stability\, physical security and existential balance. \nKeywords: family\, kinship\, situation(s) of mobility\, Uganda\, Democratic Republic of Congo
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/the-moral-affordances-and-social-changes-of-mobility/
LOCATION:Zoom
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SUMMARY:Daromir Rudnyckyj – The Protestantism of Neoliberalism
DESCRIPTION:A Max-Cam public and virtual lecture\nIn an interview with the Sunday Times two years after her stunning electoral triumph\, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher proclaimed “Economics are the method; the object is to change the heart and soul.” This lecture contends that the deployment of religious notion of the soul and Thatcher’s well-documented commitment to neoliberal economic principles are no simple coincidence. Rather\, the lecture demonstrates how Protestantism is a critical condition of possibility for the emergence of neoliberalism. Drawing on the insights of Max Weber and Michel Foucault\, the lecture demonstrates how both Protestantism and neoliberalism are premised on a common set of formal dispositions and ethical practices. The elective affinity between Protestantism and neoliberalism is evident insofar as both entail the rationalization of a totalizing system\, reflexive responsibilization\, the rejection of the pastoral function\, the assimilation of labor\, the compulsion for action in conditions of unknowability\, and the economization of power. In so doing the lecture provides greater analytical purchase on and empirical understanding of some of the foundational economic rationalities that have shaped recent world events. \nThe public lecture is also available virtually via Zoom.  For those who want to join the virtual lecture\, please send an e-mail before 12 noon on 11th November to Connie Tang (pyt20@cam.ac.uk) for registration.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/daromir-rudnyckyj-the-protestantism-of-neoliberalism/
LOCATION:Corpus Christi College\, Cambridge\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Book Forum: Taxis vs. Uber
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to host the (un)official launch party for our Philomathia/Max Cam scholar Juan del Nido on March 3rd. We will have a fantastic line up of speakers present to discuss Juan’s book and will be able to spend two hours together to think through his work and broader questions on taxis\, Uber\, technology\, platforms\, and politics\, in Buenos Aires and beyond. All are welcome and please use the zoom link:\n\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/89653751264?pwd=T3pyTWdEZXFJWGloVWlMczcxdHNBUT09
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/book-forum-taxis-vs-uber/
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SUMMARY:Re-searching Purpose and Vocation
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SUMMARY:Invocations of freedom and the creation of publics – Soumhya Venkatesan
DESCRIPTION:Isaiah Berlin remarks that  ‘almost every moralist in history has praised freedom. Like happiness and goodness\, like nature and reality\, the meaning of this term is so porous that there is little interpretation that it seems to be able to resist.’ (1971: 121). In this paper\, I draw on fieldwork among self-identified economically right-wing libertarians in England to explore the diverse ways in which they invoke freedom and\, more specifically\, particular freedoms that they identify as under threat. How do these invocation of freedom create publics who actively advocate for lower taxes\, a smaller state and the preservation and enhancement of individual liberties\, and seek to shape the state accordingly? What does ‘freedom’ look like when yoked to a particular economic\, social and political vision\, and render it powerfully persuasive in contemporary England?
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/invocations-of-freedom-and-the-creation-of-publics-soumhya-venkatesan/
LOCATION:Audit Room\, King’s College\, Cambridge
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220608T170000
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SUMMARY:Book Forum – Making Better Lives
DESCRIPTION:To celebrate the publication of the Centre Coordinator Johannes Lenhard’s book\, Making Better Lives: Hope\, Freedom and Home-Making among people sleeping rough in Paris\, we will host an online book forum on Wednesday June 8th. The discussion will be kicked off by short contributions from Michele Lancione (Torino)\, Luisa Schneider (Amsterdam)\, Chris Herring (Harvard/UCAL) and Lindsey McCarthy (Sheffield Hallam). \nJune 8th\, 5-6pm UK time\nZoom: https://tinyurl.com/zj8jvw97 \nAll are welcome!
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/book-forum-making-better-lives/
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SUMMARY:Malinowski and the Argonauts:  a hundred years of economic anthropology and the ethnographic method
DESCRIPTION:Centenary workshop – call for papers\nThe publication in 1922 of Bronislaw Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific inaugurated a golden age in social anthropology. Recent revisionist views notwithstanding\, it is widely regarded as inaugurating modern ethnographic methods\, as well as being a landmark for the sub-field later known as economic anthropology. Malinowski’s analysis of kula and gimwali has been appropriated by authors from Firth\, Herskovits\, Mauss and Polanyi down to the very latest journal articles and textbooks in the twenty-first century. \nCloser inspection reveals significant disagreements and uncertainty as to what the author really meant. Is he a proto-substantivist who would endorse the metaphor of the “embedded economy” popularized later by Thurnwald and Polanyi? Or is he\, despite polemics against homo economicus\, in reality a proto-formalist\, whose individual Trobrianders are motivated by a universal rationality of utility maximization? Does his concept of “tribal economy” betray a latent evolutionism? What exactly does “economy” mean for Malinowski? Can production\, exchange and consumption be investigated in the terms applied in modern economies\, or should they be approached everywhere through relationships grounded in kinship and politics\, and practices of magic and ritual? \nPapers are invited that consider these and other implications of Malinowski’s work from the perspective of the sub-field as it flourishes a century later. The opening session will focus on the history of the sub-field\, while others will present fresh ethnographic materials and insights into anthropology of economy. For those focusing on the former\, participants are encouraged also to engage with earlier and later publications (such as the article on “primitive economics” published in the Economic Journal in 1921\, the monograph Coral Gardens and their Magic\, with its rich materials on garden work and property\, and the posthumous study of a Mexican market system\, co-authored with Julio de la Fuente). Attention will also be paid to Malinowski’s early formation in Cracow (notably his doctoral dissertation on the “economy of thought”) and to his time in Leipzig (notably his exposure to the evolutionism of economic historian Karl Bücher). \nSend paper proposals/abstracts by 31st January 2022 to the organisers: Deborah James d.a.james@lse.ac.uk and Chris Hann hann@eth.mpg.de
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/malinowski-and-the-argonauts-a-hundred-years-of-economic-anthropology-and-the-ethnographic-method/
LOCATION:LSE\, Houghton Street\, London\, WC2A 2AE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Ethics & Social Change:  Economy\, Religion\, and Moral Transformation
DESCRIPTION:While scholars might once have been inclined to think of the economy\nas a driver of ethical transformation and religion as a force for the\npreservation of traditional moral ideas and practices\, it has become\nclear that the relation between religious and economic dimensions\nof moral change is much more complex and multi-dimensional. This\ninterdisciplinary conference aims to explore the part played by religious\nand economic factors in how moral change comes about\, and what this\ncan tell us about the fundamental character of ethical life. Both religion\nand ‘the economy’ are sometimes imagined as being exceptional in\nrelation to ‘everyday life’\, and sometimes as the fundamental grounding\nof social life. What role do specifically religious and economic ideas\,\nvalues\, and judgements play in people’s ethical imagination\, reflection\,\nand conduct? Do what we call religious and economic values motivate\nconduct in similar or divergent ways\, and how do they motivate change?\nDo they possess different kinds of authority\, or do they draw from the\nsame sources of legitimacy? Where do they support each other and\nwhere are they in conflict? Does ritual belong to both domains\, or is it\nat bottom religious? What role does ritual play in shaping ethical life\nand motivating ethical change? We invite many different approaches\nto these and a wide range of related questions\, including those from\nanthropology\, sociology\, theology\, philosophy\, and history. Our goal is\nto deepen interdisciplinary discussion of the ethical dimension of human\nsocial life.
URL:https://maxcam.socanth.cam.ac.uk/index.php/event/ethics-social-change-economy-religion-and-moral-transformation/
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