Message posted on 24/06/2020
CFP: "Smallness" as an analytic category in medical anthropology
Dear Colleagues, <br> <br>We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our session <br>“‘SMALLNESS’ AS AN ANALYTIC CATEGORY IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY" (Session <br>3) at the VANDA (VIENNA ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS) 2020 (SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 1, <br>2020). <br> <br>VANDA_ _is an international ONLINE conference. It aims to bring together <br>scholars from various fields of anthropology, social sciences and <br>humanities. <br> <br>ABSTRACT: A notion of "smallness" plays a crucial role in life with and <br>policies on many diseases, specifically rare disorders but also <br>epidemics or vaccination coverage. Drawing from conceptualizations of <br>smallness proposed as an anthropological stronghold by Hannerz & <br>Gingrich (eds. 2017), this session invites critical contributions that <br>attend to the issue of smallness, critical numbers, threshold values and <br>the likes in the medical field. <br> <br>Small populations afflicted or small numbers of cases might require <br>special strategies and programs to be noticed. A 'too small' for <br>epidemiologists might still have a large impact on the everyday life of <br>local communities. Stigma might be related to smallness. Following <br>Hannerz & Gingrich (2017:6), we want to ask how smallness in reference <br>to health matters "affect(s) life and thought, sensibilities as well as <br>structures of social relationships, in everyday life as well as in the <br>context of critical events." <br> <br>How do people, governmental, non-governmental, and transnational <br>organizations perceive smallness regarding afflicted bodies and diseases <br>in their contexts of time, space, environment, and socio-political <br>constellations? What anthropological, medical, and public health <br>strategies and policies are implemented to address research on and/or <br>treatment of (rare, chronic, communicable) diseases that affect a small <br>number of people? What is the role of biosocialities (Rabinow 1996, <br>Gibbon and Novas 2008) in facilitating intimacies, linkages, and <br>networks within these diseases fields? How is "branding" of small <br>populations and their unique diseases (Tupasela 2017) utilized in the <br>context of genetics and biobanking? What is the role of migration in <br>influencing and destabilizing common ideas about the low prevalence of <br>certain diseases in any given region or country? <br> <br>Deadline for the CALL FOR PAPERS IS JULY 1ST, 2020. Please submit your <br>abstract (max. 350 words) at: <br>https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ [1] <br> <br>We look forward to hearing from you. <br> <br>Best regards, <br> <br>Malgorzata Rajtar (Polish Academy of Sciences) & Eva-Maria Knoll <br>(Austrian Academy of Sciences) <br> <br>--- <br>Dr hab. MaĆgorzata Rajtar <br>Prof. IFiS/ Associate Professor <br>Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN/ Institute of Philosophy & <br>Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences <br>mrajtar@ifispan.waw.pl <br>Osrodek Badan Spolecznych nad Chorobami Rzadkimi/Rare Disease Social <br>Research Center <br>http://rdsrc.ifispan.pl/en/ <br> <br> <br>Links: <br>------ <br>[1] https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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