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> April 4, 2012
>
> Call for papers: Panel proposal for AAA Conference, San Francisco, 14-18
> November 2012, "Cosmopolitan Crossings: Class Identities, Global
> Aspirations, and Moral Sensibilities in China and India",
> San Francisco, November 14=18, 2012
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> CFP, AAA: Cosmopolitan Crossings: Class Identities, Global Aspirations,
> and Moral Sensibilities in China and India
>
> Location: California, United States
> Call for Papers Date: 2012-04-06 (in 2 days)
> Date Submitted: 2012-03-31
> Announcement ID: 193649
>
> American Anthropological Association 2012 Panel Call for Papers
> 111th American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
> November 14-18, 2012
> San Francisco, CA
> Borders and Crossings
>
>
> Cosmopolitan Crossings: Class Identities, Global Aspirations, and Moral
> Sensibilities in China and India
>
> A dozen years into the new millennium, what does it mean to be a
> cosmopolitan? As noted by philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah, the term can
> be traced to the Cynics in fourth century BC who coined the term to simply
> mean "a citizen of the cosmos." In the eighteenth century, Western
> Enlightenment thinkers reimagined the ideal cosmopolitan to be a
> citizen-subject of the world with a shared moral responsibility to a
> greater humanity. In its latest economic iteration, a cosmopolitan
> suggests a savvy citizen-consumer with the social capital to traverse
> through different cultural terrains. And in the work of James Ferguson,
> cosmopolitanism is a "style" of cultural practices that distances the
> practitioner from the "local" and the attending claims and expectations in
> an attempt to seek "worldliness at home."
>
> Moreover, it is a "style" performed with intention and significantly
> shaped by the shifting context of micropolitical economic forces. In this
> panel, we are focusing on how cosmopolitanism as a "cultural style"
> becomes a touchstone for emerging class and cultural identities, as well
> as a register of social fragmentation in China and India. As capitalism in
> its heterogeneous forms enfolds more societies into worlds of consumption
> and market rationality, China and India are not only the most prominent
> sources of labor for the global economy; their emergent middle classes are
> viewed as the largest and most promising consumer markets in the new
> millennium. The affinities and divergences in the development trajectories
> of China and India offer a critical comparative opportunity for the study
> of urban-rural divisions, class formation, citizenship rights, and
> cultural production. We seek papers that examine the grounded, translocal
> practices of Chinese and Indians espousing cosmopolitan values,
> sensibilities, motives, and aspirations as acts of self-fashioning or
> collective identification, and belonging or refusal of belonging. Our
> inquiry approaches cosmopolitans and cosmopolitanisms not as fully
> determined identities or distinctive sets of practices traceable to a
> specific point of origin, but as open-ended identifications and a range of
> social action continually in flux in a complex social field of
> signification.
>
> Papers can address but need not be limited to the following topics:
>
> * Class relations, social responsibility, and philanthropy
> * Urban and rural spaces, politics of access or exclusion,
> revitalization campaigns
> * Labor practices, professionalization, "multicultural" work
> environments
> * "Global" education, cultivation of innovation and talent, and
> creative industries
> * Migration, leisure, and tourism
> * Consumerism, status goods, fashion and ornamentation
> * Everyday translocal practices
>
> Paper abstracts of 250 words should be submitted by April 6th (extended
> deadline from April 1st), 2012, to panel co-organizers:
>
> Trang Ta and
> Naheed Aaftaab .
>
> Thank you for your interest in the panel.
>
>
> Naheed Aaftaab
> University of Minnesota
> aafta001@umn.edu
>
> Trang Ta
> University of Washington
> tta@u.washington.edu
> Email: aafta001@umn.edu, tta@u.washington.edu
>
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