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State-making, identity-making, war-making, policy-making, and meaning-making have all become common theoretical concepts in recent years; sometimes the hyphen is dropped to create new words, e.g., placemaking. “Making” signifies the actor-oriented, dynamic, and historical nature of socio-cultural and political activities under study, making it a popular concept useful to various disciplines.
This workshop aims at examining where the diverse subjects of “making” may lead us in analyzing socio-cultural processes.
It will especially explore culture-related activities that form programs (ideals) and practices (praxis) of nurturing, internalizing, or enabling that contribute to societies in both positive and negative ways. These may include making as self-improvement, performing (sense-making), devotions (religion-making), social relations (e.g., kinship and gender), skill, technology, politics (e.g., new populism), or AI-scape production (the cultural world AI provides). We will pay special attention to how these “makings” relate to the society under study, and to the world as a whole.

Organization :
♦ Pr.Dr. Salomé Deboos, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Des Enjeux Contemporains, UFR Anthropologie Sociologie Sciences Politiques, Université Lumière Lyon2.
♦ Pr.Dr. Mei-Ling Chen, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, College of Hakka Studies, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
♦ Pr.Dr. Shuenn-der Yu, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei.