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Author Archives: Madisun
Governing Islam Abroad: Turkish and Moroccan Muslims in Western Europe”
New publication: Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry
Dear Colleagues,
*apologies for cross-posting*
I am happy to announce the publication of my book, Tibetan Medicine, Buddhism and Psychiatry: Mental health and healing in a Tibetan exile community, published by Carolina Academic Press as part of their Ethnographic Studies in Medical Anthropology Series.
For more information, please visit: https://cap-press.com/books/isbn/9781531001407/Tibetan-Medicine-Buddhism-and-Psychiatry
The publisher is currently kindly offering a 10% discount on the purchase price when ordered directly from their website.
Brief description:
This book presents research based on two six-month periods of ethnographic fieldwork conducted within a Tibetan exile community in Darjeeling, northeast India. It utilises four case studies to illustrate lay perceptions of different mental health conditions and their causes and treatments in a culturally- and medically-pluralistic area, juxtaposed with Tibetan textual and biomedical explanations. These explanations combine with background interviews of lay Tibetans, as well as monastic practitioners, Tibetan amchi, and biomedical doctors, to help draw out the complexities of the situation for individuals affected by different experiences of mental illness.
Best wishes,
Susannah
Dr Susannah Deane
Body, Health and Religion Research Group (BAHAR)
https://www.bodyhealthreligion.org.uk/BAHAR/
Thinking about Governance Through Diasporas
Call for chapters: Religious urbanization and Development in Africa
Religious urbanization and
moral economies of development in Africa
Call for Chapter Submissions
Abstracts are invited for an interdisciplinary volume on Religion urbanization and moral economies of development in Africa,edited by David Garbin (University of Kent), Simon Coleman (University of Toronto) and Gareth Millington (University of York). The volume will critically explore how processes related to religious urbanization intersect with different notions of development in African contexts. Cities are taken to be powerful venues for the creation and implementation of models of development whose moral, temporal, and political assumptions need to be examined, not least as they intersect with religious templates for the planning and reform of urban space.
The themes and problematics to be discussed in this volume reflect the broader focus of the Religious Urbanization in Africa project (see https://rua-project.ac.uk/). These include (but are not limited to):
- The ways urban faith-based practices of ‘development’ - through for example the provision of basic infrastructure, utilities, housing, health and educational facilities - link moral subjectivities with individual and wider narratives/aspirations of modernization, change, deliverance or prosperity
- The ideals of belonging and citizenship promoted by religious visions of the ‘ideal city’ and how these are materially articulated in concrete urban developments
- How models of infrastructural development mobilized by religious actors may conflict or cohere with existing regimes of planning in specific urban contexts as well as with international development discourses
- The ways in which religious actors and groups may provide resources to negotiate unpredictability and socio-economic uncertainties through production of urban/infrastructural space
We welcome empirically-grounded qualitative case studies or comparative approaches (including but not limited to Islam or Christianity), in particular chapters linking urban change in African context(s), religious place-making, and ‘development’ discourses and practices at various scales.
The proposal for this volume has been invited for the Bloomsbury book series, ‘Studies in Religion, Space and Place’.
Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words no later than 20 November 2018 to ruaproject@kent.ac.uk
Accepted chapters in full (6000-7000 words) will be due by 1 June 2019.
Your are invited to a Panel Discussion on Wael Hallaq’s new book ‘Restating Orientalism
What: A Panel Discussion with Wael Hallaq on his new book ‘Restating Orientalism - A Critique of Modern Knowledge’
When: Friday, 5 October, 2018 from 5:00pm to 7:00pm (Time zone: London)
Where: Room 8&9, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Cambridge
Convenor: Dr. Humeira Iqtidar, Kings College London
Discussants:
· Professor Wael Hallaq (Columbia University)
· Professor Sarah Radcliffe (Geography)
· Professor Khalid Fahmy (FAMES)
The panel will discuss with Wael Hallaq, the import of his latest book ‘Restating Orientalism - A Critique of Modern Knowledge’
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Since Edward Said’s foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals’ collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting the complicity of the rest of the academic disciplines?
In this landmark theoretical investigation, Wael B. Hallaq reevaluates and deepens the critique of Orientalism in order to deploy it for rethinking the foundations of the modern project. Refusing to isolate or scapegoat Orientalism, Restating Orientalism extends the critique to other fields, from law, philosophy, and scientific inquiry to core ideas in modern thought such as sovereignty and the self. Hallaq traces their involvement in colonialism, mass annihilation, and systematic destruction of the natural world, interrogating and historicizing the set of causes that permitted modernity to wed knowledge to power. Restating Orientalism offers a bold rethinking of the theory of the author, the concept of sovereignty, and the place of the secular Western self in the modern project, reopening the problem of power and knowledge to an ethical critique and ultimately theorizing an exit from modernity’s predicaments.
Entry is free and this event is open to members of the public
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Book Launch
Dear All,
Regards,
Assistant Professor
Centre for Studies in Social Management,
CFP
Christian Congregational Music: Local and Global Perspectives Conference
Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, United Kingdom
30 July-2 August 2019
New Online Seminar Series on Diasporas / Presentation Katrina Burgess
Dear all,
CFP:International Conference on Honour Related Conflicts in Copenhagen
Extended call for paper
International Conference on Honour Related Conflicts on the 22nd and 23rd of November 2018 in Copenhagen
Notice: Due to many requests, we are delighted to announce that the abstract submission deadline for the conference has been extended to the 17th of September!
The conference aims to bring together leading researchers and research scholars from all of Northern Europe to exchange and share experiences and research on different aspects of so called honour related conflicts.
Our hope is that the conference will help sharpening access to and understanding of what we define as honour related conflicts. In order to strengthen the overall research field the conference deliberately strives to open the door for reflections and different perspectives from adjacent research areas. In doing so, we hope to gain insights into research that can help nuance the understanding of the field and contribute with new angles and interpretations of the subject and its context in a northern european country.
Therefore, we call for everyone across disciplines to join us with your aspects. Submit your paper to akhj@siri.dk no later than the 17th of October.
Register, and view the programme as well as the call for paper here!
NB: It is not required to contribute with a paper to attend either of the two conference days. Deadline for registering is the 22nd of October.
Best regards
Katrine Juul Dyrlund
Fuldmægtig
Division for Prevention and Civic Citizenship
Phone: +45 72 14 28 39
E-mail: kjd@siri.dk
Ministry for Immigration and Integration
Danish Agency for International Recruitment and Integration
Philip de Langes Palæ
Strandgade 25 C
1401 København K
DENMARK