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While the date for conference proposals was many months ago, we thought it might be important to post a reminder of the upcoming annual meeting of the ASA in Atlanta. While the online program is not yet available, this is the original call for papers. For more information, visit the ASA website at:\u00a0https:\/\/www.theasa.net\/annual-meeting\/years-meeting<\/a><\/p>\n

States of Emergence<\/strong><\/p>\n

From drone strikes in Yemen to white nationalist violence in Charlottesville, emergency and crisis are constant facts of life in the United States and in the world. The theme for the 2018 annual meeting of the American Studies Association, \u201cStates of Emergence,\u201d emphasizes that our sense of crisis must be thought alongside our constant commitment to challenging the calamities that beset us and to producing alternative\u2014indeed better\u2014worlds. The theme is partly taken from Homi Bhabha\u2019s 1986 foreward to Frantz Fanon\u2019s Black Skin, White Masks. In a reading of Walter Benjamin\u2019s famous theorization that the tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the \u2018state of emergency\u2019 in which we live is not the exception but the rule,\u201d Bhabha added, \u201cAnd the state of emergency is also always a state of emergence.\u201d In our extension of Bhabha\u2019s suggestion, we seek to underline the plural nature of those emergences and to question what emergence means in the contemporary context.<\/p>\n

In doing so, we invoke the various inspirations from the global north and the global south that have occasioned American Studies scholarship and its critical interventions for the last twenty years. Colleagues within the association have turned their attention as teachers and as scholars to the workings of settler and franchise colonialism, neocolonialism, militarization, heteropatriarchy, ableism, and labor exploitation to practically every region on the globe, from the early American and colonial periods to the present day. Part of this effort has meant that our members have also tried to detail the ways in which everyday people\u2014in the words of Cedric Robinson\u2014engaged in the \u201crecovery of human life from the spoilage of degradation.\u201d<\/p>\n

That degradation is one of the devastating characteristics of modern life. In 1958, the sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote, \u201cthe history of modern society may readily be understood as the story of the enlargement and the centralization of the means of power\u2014in economic, in political, and in military institutions.\u201d Perhaps more today than ever, we are witnessing that enlargement and centralization not only in the U.S. but in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. At the same time, that enlargement and centralization have been met with political, intellectual, and cultural productions that are brilliantly revising and overturning received paradigms. As the world has become a battlefield, so too has it become a site of protest, critique, and dissent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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