Bodily Practices Between Individual Well-being and Institutional Regulation

Datum
15. Jan­u­ar 2025 

CfP for a work­shop of the Ger­man Asso­ci­a­tion for Social and Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy (DGSKA)

CfP for a work­shop on „Bod­i­ly Prac­tices Between Indi­vid­ual Well-being and Insti­tu­tion­al Regulation“.
Orga­nized by the Ger­man Asso­ci­a­tion for Social and Cul­tur­al Anthro­pol­o­gy (DGSKA)
The dead­line for sub­mis­sion is 15th Jan­u­ary 2025.

Please send ques­tions and pro­pos­als via: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/16045

Short Abstract:
The work­shop explores bod­i­ly prac­tices at the inter­sec­tion of indi­vid­ual well-being and insti­tu­tion­al reg­u­la­tion. It focus­es on ques­tions of knowl­edge pro­duc­tion, embod­i­ment, pow­er struc­tures, and the role of reli­gious, pri­vate, or state actors in the con­struc­tion and com­mer­cial­iza­tion of com­mons. Using exam­ples such as yoga and oth­er heal­ing-ori­ent­ed prac­tices like med­i­ta­tion, Tai Chi, Sufi dance, or veg­an­ism, the work­shop high­lights the com­plex inter­con­nec­tions between indi­vid­ual bod­i­ly prac­tices, glob­al health dis­cours­es, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty claims, and iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics. Par­tic­i­pants are invit­ed to present ethno­graph­ic case stud­ies that exam­ine these dynam­ics and the per­for­ma­tive role of such prac­tices in both local and glob­al contexts.

The pan­el will be held in Ger­man, but Eng­lish con­tri­bu­tions are most welcome