3-0800 BETWEEN THRILL AND DISILLUSION: ETHNOGRAPHY AND THE AFFECTIVE LIFE OF THE STATE

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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Students

Organizers: Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester) and Mateusz Laszczkowski (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

Chairs: Cynthia A Werner (Texas A&M University)

Discussants: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge) and Alaina M Lemon (University of Michigan)

13:45

Mobilizing Affect In South African Land Restitution

Chris M Beyers (Trent University)

14:00

Squatting the State: Affective Campaigning and Effective Reform In the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

Mariya P Ivancheva (Central European University)

14:15

Material Affects and the Power of the State In the Peruvian Amazon

Hannah C Knox (University of Manchester)

14:30

Father Mao and the Country-Family: Affection for the Chinese State

Hans Steinmuller (London School of Economics and Political Science)

14:45

Imperfect Magnificence: Matter, Irony, and the State In Astana

Mateusz Laszczkowski (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

15:00

The Accidental Dissidents: Cynicism and the Politics of the Uzbek Opposition

Sarah Kendzior (Washington University St. Louis)

15:15

Discussant

Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (University of Cambridge)

15:30

Break

15:45

The Letter of the State: An Ethnography of An Affective Bureaucratic Practice In Himalayan India

Nayanika Mathur (University of Cambridge)

16:00

'Welcome to British Bureaucracy': Dislocation, the State and Affect among Palestinan Refugees In London

Michelle Obeid (University of Manchester)

16:15

In a State of Abandon: Deportability, Fear and Thrill In Migrant Moscow

Madeleine Reeves (University of Manchester)

16:30

The Reach of the Eritrean State: Surveillance and Transnational Governance of Eritrean Migrants In Europe

David M. Bozzini PhD (University of Neuchatel)

16:45

Crafting Citizenship Amidst Fear and Distrust In Post-War El Salvador

Ainhoa Montoya (University of Manchester)

17:00

Discussant

Alaina M Lemon (University of Michigan)

17:15

Discussion

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