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SUMMARY:Humanitarianism from Below:‬ Alter-Politics and Struggles for the Universa‬‭l‬ ‭
DESCRIPTION:This workshop explores the ongoing emergence of humanitarianism from below as central to the transformation of humanitarian landscapes around the world. It aims to research the space between international Western-led humanitarianism and the diverse practices of welfare\, support and solidarity that make up humanitarianism from below. The workshop thereby analyses a politically salient and increasingly visible scale of humanitarianism that both mirrors and challenges the logics of international humanitarianism. Actors involved in such humanitarianism from below often reside in ambivalent settings that are subject to multiple constellations of power and they evade pre-defined containers such as “Western” and “Global South/North.” The workshop establishes an analytical optic onto such movements\, institutions and ad-hoc initiatives as part of comparable forms of “alter-politics” (Hage 2015) that are not simply defined by opposition against dominant forms (“anti”)\, but rather offer different notions and critiques of humanity (“alter”) in a time of global transformation. Critically interrogating the notion of humanitarianism as “an ethos\, a cluster of sentiments\, a set of laws\, a moral imperative to intervene\, and a form of government” (Ticktin 2014: 274) the workshop addresses the urgent need to better understand actors that are outside but not necessarily disconnected from the established spectrum of international humanitarianism. To this end\, this workshop brings into conversation anthropological approaches to humanitarianism with concepts from political anthropology exploring solidarity\, alter-politics and universalism. Download the workshop program here: Humanitarianism from Below \n 
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/humanitarianism-from-below-alter-politics-and-struggles-for-the-universal/
LOCATION:Austrian Academy of Sciences\, Vienna\, Austria
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SUMMARY:Service – Duty – Care
DESCRIPTION:Service – Duty – Care: \nTheorizing Civic Engagement from Asia to Europe and beyond\n  \nResearch on civic engagement – from humanitarianism to charity – points to the complex interplay of sentiments\, emotions and convictions that motivate people to act. These range from ethics rooted in religious frameworks\, to commitment to kin and surrounding social networks\, to NGO-driven humanitarian discourse\, to moments of national awakening\, as powerfully illustrated by the example of volunteering in the war in Ukraine. In this regard\, the concept of care has been extensively discussed in diverse bodies of literature across the humanities and social sciences. Meanwhile\, the concepts of service and duty have received little attention\, despite the prominent role that they play in articulating different forms of “doing good.” In this workshop\, participants will collaboratively theorize service and duty in relation to care. They will thereby investigate how a focus on service and duty might illuminate new aspects of care and how the rich literature on care can help to theorize service and duty from anthropological and historical perspectives. \nThe workshop is conceived as a collaboration between the Geneva Graduate Institute (Department of Anthropology and Sociology and the Albert Hirschman Centre on Democracy) and Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Department of Asian and North African Studies and the Marco Polo Centre for Global Europe-Asia Connections). It will thereby link two cities with prominent histories of civic engagement: Venice with its longstanding confraternities and circulations of wealth\, and Geneva as a global centre for international organizations and NGOs. To this end\, the workshop seeks to harness relevant expertise prevalent in Venice and Geneva whilst also providing the participating scholars with an environment conducive to collaborative work. \n\nConvenors\nTill Mostowlansky (research professor in anthropology and sociology\, Geneva Graduate Institute)\, Giuseppe Bolotta (assistant professor\, Southeast Asian studies\, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) \n\nDownload the program here \n  \n*The workshop is financed through the Swiss National Science Foundation funded Eccellenza project “Quiet Aid: Service and Salvation in the Balkans-to-Bengal-Complex” (grant number PCEFP1_203319)\, based at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/service-duty-care/
LOCATION:Ca’ Foscari University of Venice\, Venice\, Italy
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SUMMARY:Humanitarian Value Chains: Re-enactment of Service\, Kinship Care and Capital in Kazakhstan
DESCRIPTION:by Gulzhan Begeyeva \nPresentation delivered at the workshop “Imagining the Future: Aspirations for Change and the Ruins of Progress”\, Swiss Graduate Program in Anthropology (CUSO) \nThis CUSO workshop is an invitation to critically interrogate ideas\, aspirations and ruins of progress. The idea of progress\, and its associates modernization and development\, may seem hopelessly outdated. However\, assumptions and aspirations of improvement are with us everywhere (Tsing 2015: 20) – they are part of our daily life\, inscribed in technological fixes that seek to tackle various social and ecological issues\, and determine future imaginations. The ideology of progress also continues to prevail across economic\, political as well as scientific institutions (Brightman and Lewis 2017: 2). Innovation\, as a means to achieve progress\, has become the buzzword of our time and is often presented as a driver of change and panacea for a myriad of problems that we face in our current era. Anthropologists are well positioned to challenge these beliefs in progress and innovation by being able to trace empirically the multiple understandings and processes involved in the un/making of these ideologies ‘at work’. Anthropological studies have long pointed out the contradictions\, uses and abuses\, and afterlives of ideas of progress\, triggering processes of overheating (Eriksen 2017)\, environmental destruction and increasing inequalities as well as prompting imaginations of a better future and new forms of life. We invite PhD students from anthropology to reflect on how assumptions\, expectations\, enactments and afterlives of (technological) progress figure in their ethnographic research projects. The main focus of the workshop is to understand the processes that shape inequitable prevailing ideologies of progress at different research sites. By also focusing on power asymmetries\, postcolonial and heteronormatively constructed narratives and images about technology\, innovation and improvement\, the workshop aims to demystify (onto-)normative concepts of progress and unveil the multiplicity of perspectives and the sociocultural constructions of knowledge and technology (cf. Knox 2020). By establishing a comparative base\, doctoral students will be invited not only to share their initial findings\, but also to collaboratively elaborate and analyze the prevailing ideologies of progress that thwart their globally distributed research projects. Questions we might ask are: How is (the ideology of) progress made and unmade in our contemporary world? How can we understand this persistent ‘will to improve’ (Li 2007)? What kinds futures are imagined? How are innovation and technology presented\, promoted and implemented as solutions for problems as diverse as climate change\, infertility\, food security\, sustainable energy\, or poverty? What unforeseen outcomes and (dis)connections are created in the process? Who is benefitting? Who and what is overlooked? What sorts of new moral selves and economies are being put into practice? How do ideas\, practices and outcomes of progress shape global interconnections\, as well as the interconnections between humans and nonhumans? And what are the afterlives of progress? This workshop will be of interest for PhD students conducting research in a broad range of fields. This includes but is not limited to: technology and digitalization\, development and inequality\, climate change and political ecology\, labour arrangements and new forms of work\, medical and reproductive technologies\, infrastructure and human-nonhuman relations.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/humanitarian-value-chains-re-enactment-of-service-kinship-care-and-capital-in-kazakhstan/
LOCATION:Monte Verita\, Ascona\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:Seeking Well-Being by Being-With: Care\, Sociality\, and Divine Closeness among Sufis in the Serbian Sandžak
DESCRIPTION:by Pol Llopart i Olivella  \nThis paper investigates how Sufi disciples\, particularly in the Serbian Sandžak\, cultivate social relationships to mediate their proximity with God\, and in doing so pursue spiritual and physical healing. Recent studies on the revival of contemporary Sufism in the post-Yugoslav space (Henig 2014) and Albania (Bria 2018) have focused on the disciplinary and spiritual companionship between masters (šejhovi) and disciples (derviši) as ways of “shaping” lives (Aždajić 2020) and “caring for the self” (Kostadinova 2018). While much attention has been devoted to relationships of discipleship as forms to treat the self afflicted by the separation of humans and God. Here\, I propose to transcend the sociality of Sufi lodges (tekija)\, and in turn\, look into forms of caring and “ethics of being- with” (Al-Mohammad 2011). In particular\, I suggest looking at how Sufi disciples establish and maintain relationships with dead\, ill\, and poor people to mediate their closeness to God. These relationships entail visiting and supplicating at the graves of “good” dead individuals\, an exchange of supplications with ill people\, and serving and giving alms to the poor. Practices considered “good” and “doing good” if performed with a sensitive attitude and normative Islamic orientation. These practices and complex relations speak to repairing and harmonizing relationships between the self and others\, motivated by and invariably entrenched with divine economies of blessing and care.\nThe presentation aims to critically engage with conceptualizations of care and well-being intertwined with emergent forms of religious sociality by looking within and beyond its circles. Exploring the synergies and tensions that arise from such understandings and practices with wider societies which Sufi disciples inhabit.
URL:https://quietaid.info/event/seeking-well-being-by-being-with-care-sociality-and-divine-closeness-among-sufis-in-the-serbian-sandzak/
LOCATION:University of Zadar\, Zadar\, Croatia (Local Name: Hrvatska)
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