BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4676@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20250820T163512 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20251126T161500 SUMMARY:George Paul Meiu: "The Fetish of Order: Anthropology\, Colonialism\ , Mess" DESCRIPTION:Desiring to identify what is colonial about anthropology and in deed about the world at large\, scholars\, activists\, and artists\, among others\, have insistently invoked the idea of order. Order may refer to various social\, political\, and economic entities and their conditions of cohesion. To confront inequality and domination\, we often distinguish or der as indigenous\, colonial\, anti-colonial\, capitalist\, socialist\, or ultra-nationalist\, to name only a few examples. But order is not a given . It is rather entailed in concrete efforts to know\, represent\, and orga nize people\, objects\, and ideas so that\, from particular vantage points \, their conjoining may appear to constitute an orderly totality.\\r\\nBec ause anthropologists have played a central role in articulating and circul ating ideas and imaginaries of indigenous order in settings of colonial mo dernity\, scholars now ask: Are these anthropological depictions of order expressions of colonial frameworks of rule? Or are they liberal critiques of such frameworks\, informed by indigenous worldviews? This paper explore s a few moments in which\, in northern Kenya\, past and present\, indigeno us people\, anthropologists\, colonial administrators\, post-independence elites\, and development workers\, among others\, have sought to pin down indigenous order\, whether as customary integrative mechanism\, a domain o f biopolitics\, a locus of cultural alterity\, or a commodity brand. New q uestions thus need to be addressed: What happens when different pursuits o f order intersect in particular (post)colonial contexts? When and why is order a necessary condition for imagining different individual and collect ive futures? And where could\, in this case\, social and political critiqu e begin? X-ALT-DESC:

Desiring to identify what is colonial about anthropology and indeed about the world at large\, scholars\, activists\, and artists\, amo ng others\, have insistently invoked the idea of \;order. Ord er may refer to various social\, political\, and economic entities and the ir conditions of cohesion. To confront inequality and domination\, we ofte n distinguish order as indigenous\, colonial\, anti-colonial\, capitalist\ , socialist\, or ultra-nationalist\, to name only a few examples. But orde r is not a given. It is rather entailed in concrete efforts to know\, repr esent\, and organize people\, objects\, and ideas so that\, from particula r vantage points\, their conjoining may appear to constitute an orderly to tality.

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Because anthropologists have played a central rol e in articulating and circulating ideas and imaginaries of indigenous orde r in settings of colonial modernity\, scholars now ask: Are these anthropo logical depictions of order expressions of colonial frameworks of rule? Or are they liberal critiques of such frameworks\, informed by indigenous wo rldviews? This paper explores a few moments in which\, in northern Kenya\, past and present\, indigenous people\, anthropologists\, colonial adminis trators\, post-independence elites\, and development workers\, among other s\, have sought to pin down indigenous order\, whether as customary integr ative mechanism\, a domain of biopolitics\, a locus of cultural alterity\, or a commodity brand. New questions thus need to be addressed: What happe ns when different pursuits of order \;intersect in particular (post)co lonial contexts? When and why is order a necessary condition for imagining different individual and collective futures? And where could\, in this ca se\, social and political critique begin?

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