The Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup invites you to:
Global Ethnographies:
A Workshop on Methodology
With
James Ferguson (Stanford, Anthropology)
Ananya Roy (UC Berkeley, City and Regional Planning)
Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz, Anthropology)
Stanford University. May 10, 2012. 12-2pm. Cubberley E207. Lunch provided.
This workshop seeks to foster a discussion of global ethnography as a
methodology. It seeks to address the following questions: what does it
mean to do an ethnography of the global? And what do we mean by “the
global”? Is it a scale of analysis, an epoch, an economic-cultural
process of integration, an ongoing set of social projects or something
else entirely? What are the different spatialities of the global and how
are these enlisted in global ethnographies? What are the particular
ethical practices and dilemmas that attend global ethnographies?
Rather than approach such questions in the abstract, this workshop will
tackle them as methodological problems in the formation of dissertation
projects. We invite doctoral students from any department at UC Berkeley
and Stanford to submit a one page abstract of their dissertation
research projects (max. 300 words) and to share 2-3 methodological
questions, challenges, or provocations that they face in their research.
These 1-page documents (abstract+questions) will be circulated to all
workshop participants one week in advance and will form the basis for
our 2-hour conversation. In light of the workshop themes, questions
should highlight the ways in which research projects engage with “the
global,” “the urban” and/or ethnography. Applicants to the workshop
should include departmental affiliation, year in program, your
pre/during/post ‘field’ status, and email address.
The workshop is open to 8-10 graduate students from UC Berkeley and
Stanford University. Priority will be given to students about to leave
for the ‘field’ or in the initial stages of writing a dissertation.
Deadline to send the 1-page documents (abstract+ 2/3 questions): April 23, 2012.
Please send it to:
berkeleystan...@gmail.comSelected students will be notified on May 4, 2012.
Organized by the Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup, with funds from UC
Berkeley’s Global Metropolitan Studies, Stanford’s Anthropology
Department and Townsend Center for the Humanities.
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The Organizers
Berkeley-Stanford CityGroup