CfP EASA 2012 "Caribbean Anxieties"

12th EASA Biennial Conference
Call for Papers

Caribbean Anxieties
Religion, Sexuality, Nationalism
 

Workshop Convenors
Dr. Eric Anton Heuser (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Professor Roberto Strongman, PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)
 
Workshop Abstract
Religion and sexuality are often discussed as separate and diametrically opposed poles disciplining the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’ citizen in national discourses.  Popular and postcolonial religious and sexual categories of being and modes of social practices challenge the anxieties produced by the imposition and enforcement of these national narratives. What is the location of anxiety in the continuum of the appropriate and the dissident Caribbean subject? How do the various state apparatuses seek to resolve and even prolong these anxious states? Do Caribbean people respond and possibly subvert those structures to become active agents in the processes of their own subjectification? What are the implications of representing the Caribbean as world asylum and ‘carnival of emotions’ in relation to the ‘rationality’ of the nation?
Possible topics could include:
 

• Non-heteronormative sexualities

• Creole religions of the Caribbean

• The un/making of subjectivities

• Madness, anxiety, disquieted emotions

 
The workshop invites presentations covering religion and sexuality in the context of the Caribbean societies. We envision a panel made up of scholars from a variety of disciplines working on Caribbean societies employing distinct ethnographic approaches.
 
Proposing a paper
To read the abstract online and/or to propose a paper, please go to www.nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2012/
Proposals must be submitted online via the EASA link as shown. Scroll down to the end of the page and click on “Propose a paper” to contact the convenors.