CFP: "Smallness" as an analytic category in medical anthropology
Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to submit a paper to our session
“‘SMALLNESS’ AS AN ANALYTIC CATEGORY IN MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY" (Session
3) at the VANDA (VIENNA ANTHROPOLOGY DAYS) 2020 (SEPTEMBER 28-OCTOBER 1,
2020).
VANDA_ _is an international ONLINE conference. It aims to bring together
scholars from various fields of anthropology, social sciences and
humanities.
ABSTRACT: A notion of "smallness" plays a crucial role in life with and
policies on many diseases, specifically rare disorders but also
epidemics or vaccination coverage. Drawing from conceptualizations of
smallness proposed as an anthropological stronghold by Hannerz &
Gingrich (eds. 2017), this session invites critical contributions that
attend to the issue of smallness, critical numbers, threshold values and
the likes in the medical field.
Small populations afflicted or small numbers of cases might require
special strategies and programs to be noticed. A 'too small' for
epidemiologists might still have a large impact on the everyday life of
local communities. Stigma might be related to smallness. Following
Hannerz & Gingrich (2017:6), we want to ask how smallness in reference
to health matters "affect(s) life and thought, sensibilities as well as
structures of social relationships, in everyday life as well as in the
context of critical events."
How do people, governmental, non-governmental, and transnational
organizations perceive smallness regarding afflicted bodies and diseases
in their contexts of time, space, environment, and socio-political
constellations? What anthropological, medical, and public health
strategies and policies are implemented to address research on and/or
treatment of (rare, chronic, communicable) diseases that affect a small
number of people? What is the role of biosocialities (Rabinow 1996,
Gibbon and Novas 2008) in facilitating intimacies, linkages, and
networks within these diseases fields? How is "branding" of small
populations and their unique diseases (Tupasela 2017) utilized in the
context of genetics and biobanking? What is the role of migration in
influencing and destabilizing common ideas about the low prevalence of
certain diseases in any given region or country?
Deadline for the CALL FOR PAPERS IS JULY 1ST, 2020. Please submit your
abstract (max. 350 words) at:
https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/ [1]
We look forward to hearing from you.
Best regards,
Malgorzata Rajtar (Polish Academy of Sciences) & Eva-Maria Knoll
(Austrian Academy of Sciences)
---
Dr hab. Małgorzata Rajtar
Prof. IFiS/ Associate Professor
Instytut Filozofii i Socjologii PAN/ Institute of Philosophy &
Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences
mrajtar@ifispan.waw.pl
Osrodek Badan Spolecznych nad Chorobami Rzadkimi/Rare Disease Social
Research Center
http://rdsrc.ifispan.pl/en/
Links:
------
[1] https://vanda.univie.ac.at/call-for-papers/
___
EASST's Eurograd mailing list
Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net
Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
EASST-Eurograd
30 recent messages
- 24/04/2024 PhD Position at STS Vienna
- 24/04/2024 CfA: International Conference "Popular Health and Social Media" (University of Siegen, 12-13 September 2024)
- 24/04/2024 [CfP] Digital Transformations and Climate Change
- 24/04/2024 Hau of Finance Online Seminar Series - 'Crisis, Speculation and the Making of a Climate Haven" - Sarah Besky, Cornell University - Tuesday April 30 @15h CEST
- 24/04/2024 Funded PhD in AI and libraries, University College Dublin
- 20/04/2024 CFP: Workshop on Generative AI as a method in social sciences
- 20/04/2024 Webinar Reminder: Alternative Pathways for Patient Access to Advanced Therapies
- 20/04/2024 CfP: 6th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2024)
- 20/04/2024 Participatory prototyping biomaterials: 2 year research position (post-doc level)
- 20/04/2024 Call for papers - Minerva Special Issue "Little Science, Big Science, Global Science: The Growth of Science and its Consequences"
- 20/04/2024 Call for Papers: TIME/LESS - Sensing, Planning, Designing in Complex Cities and Regions (AESOP TG Planning & Complexity)
- 20/04/2024 Call for Papers: TIME/LESS - Sensing, Planning, Designing in Complex Cities and Regions (AESOP TG Planning & Complexity)
- 17/04/2024 2nd CFP: 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024)
- 17/04/2024 April 26 - Seminar session with Niels Ten Oever - Sanctions, Standards, and Sovereignty
- 15/04/2024 PhD Studentship: Forming Futures
- 15/04/2024 PhD Studentship: Forming Futures
- 15/04/2024 Reminder: TATuP: CfA 34/1 (2025): "Practices and concepts of 'care' in sustainability transformations"
- 15/04/2024 Two PhD vacancies in Social Studies of Scholarly Communication and Peer Review
- 15/04/2024 3-year fully funded PhD position on digital infrastructure breakdown
- 15/04/2024 [Deadline: 23 Apr] International Summer Digital Workshop: Gender and Innovation in Post-Pandemic Ableism: Social, Environmental, and Digital Justice
- 13/04/2024 April 18, 13:15 - Webinar Anna Nikolaeva, "Politics of non-knowing"
- 13/04/2024 CfA: SI environ|mental urbanities
- 13/04/2024 Vernon Press - "Science, Technology and Society for a Post-Truth Age: Comparative Dialogues on Reflexivity"
- 13/04/2024 Conference "Imaginations of Autonomy" Registration Reminder
- 13/04/2024 Athena VU Amsterdam is hiring: Three career track (to tenured) assistant professorships | Transformative Learning | Management of Innovations | System transformation in health and well-being (last one in Dutch)
- 06/04/2024 AUP Liveable Futures Series: call for proposals
- 06/04/2024 Scientific Officer for Sustainable Food Systems and Risk Communication
- 06/04/2024 Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics research seminar in the summer term of 2024
- 06/04/2024 PhD Position - University of Amsterdam on "Contested Epistemologies of Sustainability"
- 06/04/2024 7th STS Italia Summer School | ArTS in Society - Application deadline April 28, 2024