2-0215 CUNNING TOOLS FOR CRAFTING FUTURES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 14:00-15:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Rima Praspaliauskiene (UC Davis) and Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga (Anthropology Department, University of California, Davis)

Chairs: Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga (Anthropology Department, University of California, Davis)

Discussants: Kregg Hetherington (Dalhousie University)

14:00

Algiers, Capital of Modernity: Notes Toward a Pirate Ethnography

Jonathan H Shannon (Hunter College CUNY)

14:15

Traveling Nation:Diasporic Politics, Transnational News Media, and the Multifocality of Côte D'ivoire

Karen A Morris (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)

14:30

Moving While Being Stuck: Creating Gates, Routes and Elsewheres Among African Foreigners Stranded In Dakar

Jonathan Echeverri Zuluaga (Anthropology Department, University of California, Davis)

14:45

Navigational Tools for Central African Roadblocks

Louisa Nicolaysen Lombard (Duke University)

15:00

(Il)Legal Navigations: Child Welfare At the San Diego/Tijuana Border

Naomi Glenn-Levin (University of California, Santa Cruz)

15:15

Everything Is Game: Informality, Corruption and Politics Among Motorcycle Taxi Drivers In Bangkok

Claudio Sopranzetti (Harvard University)

15:30

Mobile Bodies:Cell Phone Performances, Intersubjectivity, and Re-Networking Citizenship In Transactional Sex

Mitali Thakor (MIT)

15:45

Discussant

Kregg Hetherington (Dalhousie University)

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