Call for papers: World Anthropological Union, 11-15 November 2024, University of Johannesburg, South Africa (in person). Deadline: 31 January 2024.
Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Join others in Johannesburg, South Africa, from November 11th to 15th, 2024, for a transformative exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme: “Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power.” Organizers invite you to contribute your insights to this groundbreaking event organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg.
Key Themes for Panel Proposals:
– Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines
– Politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological, and paleo-anthropological knowledge
– Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge-making
– Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork
– Legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories
– Truth and/or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation
– Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning
– Tensions between local and academic knowledge production
– Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives
– Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative
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