Karel Šima
Address: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
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Deadline for proposals: 15 Oct 2019
The panel seeks empirical studies and theoretical contributions tracking changes to do-it-yourself (DIY) and exploring the ways in which wider societal transformations reflect and are reflected in the transformations of DIY in terms of practices, produced materialities and their effects on meanings.
Material culture of (post)socialist and capitalist presumption
panel P085
The panel focuses on the material culture of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) and what it can tell us about the changes societies in Europe have been undergoing since the 1980s characterised by the beginning of profound changes to both state socialism and capitalism the outcomes of which reverberate until present. Although DIY has been studied from various viewpoints, anthropological concern with material culture as a prism to understand both everyday experience and societal transformation represents an approach not fully exploited with respect to DIY.
The panel seeks contributions that concentrate on the materiality of DIY and follow the things created, altered and used in DIY activities, explore practices and emotions in which they are immersed, and use these in order to generate novel understandings of the profound changes and transformations of contemporary societies.
We understand DIY as encompassing complex self-led manual projects as well as minor work and repairs which are carried out in one´s free time, but which comprise also extended networks of people, e. g. families, groups of neighbours, hobbyists and activists. We want to ask how these relations enter material ecologies of things and how they shape politics of private, semi-public and public space. On this ground, we want to explore and compare the divides between the East and the West shaped by the legacies of the Iron Curtain as well as the divides between the North and the South informed by the last economic crisis and ensuing austerity policies.
The Call for Papers is now open and closes at 23:59 GMT/WEST on 20 January 2020.
Submit your papers to the panel via the online submitting system available at:
https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/easa2020/p/8730
In case of any queries and questions, do not hesitate to contact panel convenors
Petr Gibas ([email protected]) and Karel Šima ([email protected])