The Human Sciences Encounters in Phnom Penh

Call for Papers for the 7th EuroSEAS Conference in to be held in Lisbon Portugal (2- 5 July 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal).
The deadline for sending us your abstracts is the 30th November 2012.

Panel listed in the 1st Group - Migration and Identities.

BIOMEDICALRESEARCH IN SOUTH EAST ASIA CHANGING IDENTITIES: BIOSOCIAL EMBODIEMENT OF TECHNOLOGIES

Coordination: Pascale Hancart Petitet & Léo Mariani

Investigating anthropology of medical research led various scholars to document how these processes are exemplars of biosocial differentiation. In southern countries,enrollment in clinical research ensures real or perceived access to healthcare, particularly in low resources settings. Those perceptions are valid forboth enrolled and non-enrolled patients as much as for relatives, colleagues orthe general population. Considering those issues, our objective is to examine how access to biomedical technologies also impacts patients’ identities. We wish to explore the latter as dynamic and reflexive processes. We wonder why,how and to which extent the various social forms of biomedical research affectand contribute to shape individuals’ self perception, biosocial differentiation and social status.

From an emicand/or diachronic perspective, the panel will discuss how biotechnologies(drugs, test, examination) frame intimate experiences in daily life of those affected. Through our proposed identities lens, we explore what it implies tobe and to act as a clinical research “beneficiary.” How do people receive andmanage the various clinical research phases, from the initial stage ofimplementation to its withdrawal

We expect papers that bring new ethnographical and/or theoreticalinsights relevant to address how subjective experiences are bounded to physicalchanges, social transformations and new symbolic (im)balances.

Guidelines for Abstracts
1. Abstracts should be send by the author(s) to Pascale Hancart Petitet pascale.hancart-petitet@ird.fr & Léo Mariani leolienne@hotmail.com
2. The deadline for sending abstracts is the 30thNovember 2012;
3. English is the official language of the Conference;
4. The text should not exceed 1.500 characters (including spaces). Title of
the paper, name of the author(s) and affiliation must be included.