{"id":226,"date":"2019-04-12T11:29:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=226"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:29:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:29:08","slug":"cfp-special-issue-of-the-journal-of-extreme-anthropology-on-security-and-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anthro-security.net\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology on \u2018Security and Morality\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Call for Papers on \u2018Security and Morality\u2019 for a special issue of the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Following the Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives <\/strong><\/em>conference organized by the EASA Anthropology of Security Network<\/em><\/a> at the University of Oslo in March 2019, the open-access peer-reviewed Journal of Extreme Anthropology <\/em>has decided to dedicate a special issue to the topic, with a planned publication date of April 2020.<\/strong> The special issue will be jointly edited by Tereza Kuldova & Jardar \u00d8stb\u00f8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While\n some of the conference participants have expressed their interest in \ncontributing already, the Journal of Extreme Anthropology invites \nadditional papers (please refer to the CFP below), and submissions in \ndifferent formats: articles, essays, book reviews, photo essays, and experimental submissions<\/strong>.\n Those who did not attend the conference and are interested in \nsubmitting a paper should send an abstract of 250 words to the \neditor-in-chief at: tereza.kuldova@iakh.uio.no<\/strong> by 15th of May 2019<\/strong>. Submission date for the issue and those whose abstracts have been accepted will be: 31st October 2019. <\/strong>Articles\n are published Online First, and may thus appear individually prior to \nthe full issue. For more, please refer to the journal website https:\/\/journals.uio.no\/index.php\/JEA<\/a> or get in touch with the editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Security and Morality: Critical Anthropological Perspectives<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Security\n is omnipresent in today\u2019s politics and media; we are bombarded with \nimages and narratives of proliferating internal and external security \nthreats, conflicts, destabilization of international relations, chaos, \nand disorder. Many of these striking cultural products of the current \npolitics of fear serve to legitimize new modes of surveillance, \nexpansions of military and other policies in the name of security. \n\u2018Anthropology\u2019s concern with global\/local articulations as well as its \ncase-study approach, cross-cultural comparative engagement, and emphasis\n on the intersections of discourse and practice in specific historicized\n contexts \u2026 uniquely position anthropology to contribute to a critical \nstudy of security\u2019 (Goldstein 2010: 489). But anthropology also has a \nsolid track record in dealing with issues of morality and ethics, \nespecially over the last decade and is thus well suited to critically \nengage with the intersections of morality and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moral\n discourses are often mobilized to justify new security measures or \nlegitimize increased spending on defense, while themselves predicated \nupon on implicit moral judgements. And yet, questions of morality have \nbeen conspicuously left out as a clear object of analysis in respect to \nthe study of security and securitization by anthropologists, despite the\n aforementioned strong tradition of \u2018anthropology of moralities\u2019 \n(Mattingly and Throop 2018). The language of morality, as much as real \nethical and moral dilemmas, influences and shape the realities on \nground, political rhetoric in respect to security, and international \nlegal thinking and relations; even if we may wonder about the degree to \nwhich \u2018politicians may hijack the language of morality, while ceding \nvery little, if anything, to its substance\u2019 (Fisher 2013). Therefore, it\n is necessary to think not only critically, but also more systematically\n about the relation between morality and security. No less so in our own\n discipline, some of which has been \u2018weaponized\u2019 by military and \nintelligence agencies and adapted to counterinsurgency and asymmetrical \nwarfare, thus raising questions about anthropology\u2019s very own code of \nethics (Price 2011). This special issue sets out to investigate (1) the \nsignificance of diverse moral legitimizations and constructions of moral\n authority in security discourses and practices, (2) the lived \nexperiences of morality and ethics related to security (Feldman 2016), \n(3) different forms of \u2018securitization of moral values\u2019 (\u00d8stb\u00f8 2017), \nand (4) the ethical problems related to anthropologists\u2019 own involvement\n in security institutions and to the larger structures of funding of \nanthropological research for security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submissions exploring the following topics are welcome:<\/p>\n\n\n\n