Panel

There and back again: When local(ized) knowledges go abroad, and when they return
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Conveners:
Eren Zink and Jan Ovesen
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology
Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden

This panel consists of papers addressing the topic of when local knowledge and/or local science moves from a particular Southeast Asian social, cultural or economic context, and enters the realm of foreign/international institutions and actors. The panel will explore how these knowledges are changed, consumed or contested in the international context, and what this implies for the political and material effects of that knowledge when it reenters the local situation?

Papers presented at this panel might address a wide range of situations, including 1) local medical knowledges that are consumed by international organizations and redeployed in Southeast Asian medical treatment contexts; 2) environmental knowledges that are produced by Southeast Asian scientists (and others) and enter international debates around climate change, biodiversity conservation, or pandemic disease; and/or 3) the interface between the local production of political and economic knowledges and the work of international business and financial institutions.

For more information or questions, please contact Eren Zink at eren.zink@antro.uu.se