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Subject: [SUNTA] Exile and Enclosure: International conference, Cornell
University, May 13-15 2016
HI all,
Attached you will find the call for papers for the Exile and
Enclosure conference to be held in May. Please circulated widely.
Call for papers
Exile and Enclosure
International conference
Cornell University, May 13-15 2016
Organizing committee: Raymond Craib (History, Cornell University),
Andrej Grubačić (Anthropology, California Institute for Integral
Studies), Geoffroy de Laforcade (History, Norfolk State University)
Keynote speakers: Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, Andrej Grubačić and Denis O’Hearn
What, if any, is the relationship between enclosure and exile? This
conference addresses this broad
question. By enclosure we refer to two reinforcing processes
associated with passages to modernity: the rise of the
territorially-bounded nation-state and the development of global
capitalism. The process of enclosure has been
historically more closely linked to the latter of these two passages.
Captured with poetic force in Marx’s
examination of the “blood and fire” of primitive accumulation,
enclosure referred to the long, relentless process by
which commoners lost rights to the lands they worked through bloody
expropriations later legitimated on paper by
ruling governments. The development of agrarian—and, later,
industrial—capitalism was dependent on such
expropriations, the brutality of which were subsequently expunged from
the dominant historical record through the
sanitized language and ideology of improvement. Less common has been
the linkage of enclosure to the
simultaneous rise of the nation-state. Yet nation-state formation
itself was an act of material, political, and symbolic
enclosure. The assertion of rule over dispersed territories,
regardless of contiguities, meant the physical enclosure of
lifeways, forms of identification, modalities of political practice, and pasts.
The enclosure of nation-states and their capacity to physically
control borders has historically been
challenged by archetypes of physical and symbolic itinerancy. To the
legal and conceptual incarceration of citizens
(and nomads, slaves, etc.) into bounded territorialities and
objectified identities, a suggestive response is that “spaces
in-between” are not just the itinerant transgressions of migrant
peoples in a globalized world, as post-colonial and
post-national critics would have it; they also hark back to the
multiplicity of forms of social action, political praxis
and representations of freedom that accompanied pressures on communal
societies and fragmentations of empire,
preceding and accompanying the rise of modern states, eluding and
undermining bonds of terror, servitude and
colonialism. Fugitive and subterranean forms of historical agency are
often uncategorized in academic and
intellectual discourse because they defy preconceived notions of
power, modernity, liberation and agency. One
might argue in fact that the nation-state itself is an imperial
formation, and that resistance to it was historically a
response to manifestations of exile that its emergence provoked. A
fundamental aspect of this conference will be to
address these two aspects of enclosure – expropriation and the rise
nation-states - and to weigh such narratives
And what of exile? A range of terms have been deployed to address what
happened to peoples who
experienced varying forms political, economic and material
expropriation: among others, displacement,
colonization, proletarianization, alienation and expulsion. Each has
its particular historical and sociological
meanings. We use ‘exile’ as a means to draw such terms (and the
experiences they seek to describe) together under a
unifying premise: that displacement, colonization,
proletarianization, expulsion, alienation, imprisonment and
placelessness all bear perhaps more than a passing family resemblance
to each other. They are, collectively,
enclosure’s underbelly. The second fundamental aspect of this
conference is to interrogate that assertion, again
pulling from the historical and contemporary record.
The conference will take place at Cornell University, in Ithaca, New
York, May 13-15, 2016. The
conference will not follow a paper presentation format but rather
discussion of pre-circulated papers. Full papers (of
no more than approx. 9,000 words) for pre-circulation will need to be
submitted by March 30 in order to give
participants, discussants and others attending the conference time to
read. Interested participants should submit an
abstract of than 300 words and a c.v. by midnight January 15 (EST) to
Raymond Craib (rbc23@xxxxxxxxxxx).
Selected papers/participants will be notified by early February.
Housing and dinners will be covered by the
conference. We do not have funds to cover travel expenses. The
organizers expect an edited volume to result from
the gathering. Questions can be directed to Raymond Craib.
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Andrej Grubacic
Chair
Anthropology and Social Change Department
California Institute of Integral Studies
1453 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: 415 575 6275
Email: agrubacic@xxxxxxxx
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