Experimentación etnográfica - workshop internacional - julio Lisboa

[Adolfo Estalella]

Saludos:

Para aquellos/as interesados/as en las etnografías de carácter experimental. 

Celebramos entre el 13-15 de julio en Lisboa un workshop dedicado al tema. Habrá espacio para papers convencionales e intervenciones con un formato más experimental/artístico. Todos los detalles de la convocatoria abajo.

El workshop es la primera actividad de la recientemente creada red oficial de la EASA dedicada a este tema: 'Colleex. Collaboratory for ethnographic experimentation'. Más información aquí: https://colleex.wordpress.com/

Si alguien está interesado en formar parte de la red o suscribirse a su grupo de correo, escribid un correo a: colleex...@gmail.com

Saludos

Adolfo

========= Ethnographic Experimentation. Fieldwork Devices and Companions =========

13th–15th July 2017, Jardim Botânico Tropical, Lisbon

First Workshop of the #Colleex. 

https://colleex.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/ethnographic-experimentation-first-colleex-workshop/

- Deadline for proposal submission: March 17th 2017 

- Deadline for the communication of results: Mid-April 2017

“Fieldwork is not what it used to be” (Faubion and Marcus, 2009). The investigation of previously ignored social domains and the incorporation of new sensibilities beyond its typically verbal or visual conventions, have expanded ethnography: Anthropologists now engage in novel forms of relationship and intervention, and enter into heterodox exchanges with other disciplines like arts and design. The invocation of experimentation in fieldwork is part of this widened exploration of ethnographic modalities that reshape the norm and form of fieldwork.

 

Recent invocations of experimentation in ethnographic projects are not merely a metaphorical gesture. Descriptive accounts of experimentation bring to life ethnographic imaginations that re-describe field informants into epistemic partners (Holmes and Marcus, 2005), remediate the form of ethnography in the company of others (Rabinow, 2011), or trade in the traditional comparative project of anthropology for a collaborative one (Riles, 2015). The experimental can thus be a distinctive articulation of the empirical work of anthropologists in the field. 

 

To invoke ethnographic experimentation does not necessarily signal a methodological rupture with conventional forms of ethnography. We see experimentation more as a mode of constructing anthropological problematizations (Rabinow, 2011) and a distinctive way to explore modes of engagement in the field.

 

We would like to learn about the network’s experiences of what, following John Law and Evelyn Ruppert (2013), we call “fieldwork devices”: arrangements that assemble the world in specific social and material patterns for the production of knowledge. We would like to focus on thoughtfully designed interventions through which particular relationships, material artefacts, digital (or other) infrastructures, fieldnotes, venues, meeting practices, etc. assemble the world and turn ethnography into a venue for experimentation.

 

In this workshop, we invite all scholars (anthropologists and others) who resort to the figure of experimentation in describing their own ethnographic fieldwork practice, to share their experiences. 

Submission guidelines

We welcome two different types of contributions, ‘open formats and interventions’ and ‘short papers’. Please send us a 250 words abstract using the provided forms:

------ 1. Open formats and interventions: Hands-on experiments to try out or develop for the purposes of discussion and provocation, which take place at the workshop venue. We welcome proposals from both individuals and groups. Please state your material needs and/or spatial requirements. More information about the venue here: https://goo.gl/IQBYKq

Open format submission form: https://goo.gl/kmIEzP

------ 2. Short papers: Reflections and nuanced meditations on the different ways and modalities of ethnographic experimentation. Participants should commit to send a short paper (3.000 – 4.000 words) by June 15th. 

Short paper submission form: https://goo.gl/LENWvZ

More information: https://goo.gl/YNgawH

If you have any questions, please contact us at colleex...@gmail.com

More information about the venue, Jardim Botânico Tropical, Lisbon https://goo.gl/IQBYKq

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Organized by #Colleex + EBANO collective + ICS (ULisboa) 

A workshop supported by European Association of Social Anthropologist (EASA).

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Adolfo Estalella

Prototyping.es, how social experimentation works [http://www.prototyping.es]

xcol. Experimental Collaborations [http://www.xcol.org]

Postdoc researcher - Spanish Research Council (CSIC) 

Juan de la Cierva Research Grant Program - Spanish Government