3-1030 POLITICS OF THE GOOD: ON ETHICS AND COMMUNITY

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 16:00-17:45

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Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Katherine J Miller (University of California, San Diego) and Jeffrey Wescott (UCSD Anthropology)

Chairs: Katherine J Miller (University of California, San Diego)

Discussants: Karen M Sykes (University of Manchester)

16:00

Shared Intentionality Versus the Ethics of the Community: a Romanian NGO

Monica Heintz (University of Paris Ouest Nanterre)

16:15

‘Development Is Our Jihad:’ Collective Action and the Ethical Community In Hunza, Northern Pakistan

Katherine J Miller (University of California, San Diego)

16:30

The Uncommon of the Commons: Vulnerability and Resource Politics In Vanuatu

Jeffrey Wescott (UCSD Anthropology)

16:45

Locating Goodness In Transmission: Local Plurality and Moral Struggles In HIV/AIDS Awareness Efforts

Mary K Good (University of Arizona)

17:00

The Ethics of Self In Society: Self-Reflection and Social Revitalization In Contemporary Japan

Isaac T Gagne (Yale University )

17:15

‘I Am Not a Gambler…We Are All Gamblers here’: Competing for Moral Equality While (Not) Gambling In Goroka, Highland Papua New Guinea

Anthony John Pickles (St. Andrews University )

17:30

Discussant

Karen M Sykes (University of Manchester)

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