Thanks, Tim, I just hadn't gotten 'round to posting it yet!
please reply off-list, folks!
carol
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From: "Timothy Scarlett" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 10:29 AM
Subject: Fwd: Call for Abstracts: Global Justice and SfAA
I thought this would interest several HISTARCH readers.
Cheers,
Tim
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> From: Carol McDavid <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: October 9, 2007 11:03:32 AM EDT
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Call for Abstracts: Global Justice and SfAA
> Reply-To: Carol McDavid <[log in to unmask]>
>
> MY apologies to the list...I hit "send" by mistake, before I finished the
> message. Here is what should have been in the last message
> Carol McDavid.
>
> ***************************
> Usual apologies for cross-posting….
> This is a Call for Papers for a proposed session at the 2007 meetings of
> the Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA). The conference will be in
> Memphis, Tennessee, March 25-29, 2008. The conference theme is:
>
> The Public Sphere and Engaged Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
> for Applied Anthropology
>
> And the session title (abstract below) is
>
> Pathways to Justice: Exploring the intersections between the Global
> Justice Movement and Anthropological Archaeology (A Continuing
> Conversation)
>
> Background: We know that it is quite late to begin planning this session
> (the deadline is October 15), and although we’ve been mulling the session
> idea over for a while, the deadline just crept up on us (whoops!).
> However, given recent newspaper articles about “embedded anthropologists”,
> as well as discussion on some listservs about the roles of
> anthropologists and archaeologists in wartime settings, we decided to go
> ahead and try to put it together. Fortunately, the SfAA allows online
> submissions, so it is possible to do this – just!
>
> We should point out that we are co-chairing a very similar session at the
> AAA meetings in November, but frequently the SfAA is a somewhat different
> audience, and the structure of sessions can be a bit more flexible. So,
> we hope that the SfAA session will have more time for open discussion,
> and we will plan those specifics once we have an idea of who might want
> to participate. Besides, we would hope to push whatever discussions we
> have at AAA farther at the SfAA (and for that matter at WAC, if we
> propose something for that). So if you participate in or attend the AAA
> session, please don’t feel that your time will be wasted by participating
> in another session – again, given the recent listserv activity (not to
> mention the ongoing war) we feel that the ideas to be discussed will
> remain current for some time. One paper in our AAA session, for example,
> has to do with the roles of forensics archaeologists in mass grave
> situations, and the ethical choices involved in this sort of applied
> work. Other papers have to do with activism with regard to racism, the
> “culture wars”, Chinese slavery in the USA, and other topics. Obviously
> we hope to get some additional participants for SfAA, but we hope that at
> least some of our AAA participants will join us in Memphis. The idea is
> for these conversations to build on each other.
>
> Another wrinkle in all this is that the SAA is unfortunately the same
> week, although it starts a day later. We need to attend SAA as well, so
> we will be making a request to the SfAA to schedule this session (if it
> is accepted) at the beginning of the conference, to allow time to get to
> SAA by the evening of Thursday the 26th. The only reason we are sharing
> this information is to suggest that others might also be able to squeeze
> in participation in both conferences. We have been given an indication by
> some of the SfAA folks that they may be able to accommodate our special
> scheduling request, although nothing is definite at this point.
>
> So, here is the abstract – we will be adjusting it for length as needed
> when we submit it, so this is the long version. If you are interested,
> please respond off-list as soon as possible. The deadline is – now!
>
>
> Pathways to Justice: Exploring the intersections between the Global
> Justice Movement and Anthropological Archaeology (A Continuing
> Conversation)
> Chairs: Carol McDavid and Patrice L. Jeppson
>
> Citizen archaeologists? Civically engaged archaeologists? Activist
> archaeologists? Archaeologists for social justice? All of these terms,
> and more, have been used to describe a growing movement in archaeology to
> link our scholarly work to the concerns of the world around us – and to
> do so in an explicit, critical fashion. Some of this work has focused on
> examining how archaeology can inform various forms of anti-racism (and
> anti-classism) activism. Some has dealt with issues of (in)equality, war,
> genocide, education, the “culture wars”, physical (dis)ability , and
> other social and cultural concerns. Occasionally the focus has been more
> on an “archaeology of activism”, rather than an “activist archaeology”
> (or anthropology).
>
> This session aims to push the latter understanding farther, and to
> examine both potential and actual intersections between social scholars
> and the growing “Global Justice Movement”. This movement, referred to by
> some as a “new paradigm”, or a “movement of movements”, reflects growing
> cooperation between activists of various stripes who share common
> concerns with social, economic, environmental, peace and monetary
> justice. The emphasis in this movement is not on finding solutions only
> through governments or non-governmental agencies, but, rather, on problem
> solving through individual human action.
>
> One characteristic of the movement is that its participants come from
> diverse and sometimes opposing viewpoints about specific issues, and its
> adherents tend to reject traditional left-wing/ right-wing designations.
> Some have framed their work in terms of five principles, as described in
> at one primary movement web site (http://www.globaljusticemovement.org/)
> as “Global Justice for All”, “Respect for the Earth”, “Abundance and
> Freedom are Possible”, “Creativity at Work”, and “Economic Democracy”.
> Others, however, are concerned about the tendency of some “movements” to
> forget individual people in a fight against oppressive institutions, and
> have instead attempted to forge task-based alliances driven by the
> conviction that all humans have an obligation to oppose those forces that
> are anti-humanitarian, unsustainable or destructive of human life and
> society. Still others do not consider their work in these terms at all,
> and instead are simply making individual choices to use their work for
> the larger good, defining what that “good” is by addressing specific
> situations and human needs.
>
> Therefore, this session (a similar version of which was held at AAA 2007)
> will not necessarily discuss work which is alreadyaffiliated with this
> movement, although some will be. Instead, all participants (some of whom
> have already identified themselves as “activist archaeologists”) will be
> asked to familiarize themselves with the Global Justice Movement, and to
> explore, critically and reflexively, how (or indeed whether) their work
> might intersect with its goals. Some participants may reject an alliance
> with this movement; others may embrace it. Several may prefer to pursue
> goals which are in sympathy withsome aspects of the movement, without
> allying themselves with it in specific terms. In this session, however,
> all will examine how their individual work can intersect with the ideas
> of human justice and responsibility, using the “Global Justice” movement
> as a framework for discussion.
>
Timothy Scarlett
Assistant Professor of Archaeology
Department of Social Sciences/AOB 209
Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Ave.
Houghton, MI 49931
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