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From: "Karen Faulk" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Liana Chua" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 4:12 PM
Subject: for circulation - CFP Collaborative Fieldwork
> Could you please circulate this CFP on the Anthropology Matters list?
> Thank
> you very much.
>
> Karen Ann Faulk
> Carnegie Mellon University
> Pittsburgh, PA
>
>
>
> Call for Papers -- American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting,
> December 2-6, 2009
>
>
>
> Collaborative Fieldwork: Exploring Collaboration among Scholars in
> Anthropological Research and Knowledge Production
>
>
>
> Michelle Cohen (UNC-Chapel Hill)
>
> Karen Faulk (Carnegie Mellon University)
>
>
>
> From the classic image of the lone ethnographer, to
> contemporary
> funding and job promotion structures, the production of knowledge within
> the
> discipline of anthropology has been and remains highly individualized.
> Given its basis in ethnography, and thus as a practice inherently grounded
> in interpersonal interaction, this notion of individual production within
> anthropology is in a sense fundamentally paradoxical. In recent years
> some
> anthropologists have usefully moved towards a model of co-production of
> knowledge between the “observer” and the “observed.” However,
> collaborative
> efforts among anthropologists themselves in and outside of the field have
> been given less attention. While edited volumes, conferences, special
> issues of journals, etc, go far to place similar or related works in
> productive dialogue with one another, in this panel we are interested in
> exploring collaborative practices at the level of conducting research and
> ways in which these can be reflected —and given more legitimacy—in
> scholarship.
>
> In keeping with this year’s themes on the nature and future of
> anthropological practice in today’s changing world, we are interested in
> rethinking the individualization of anthropological knowledge production,
> and the authority of the single author. We are especially interested in
> papers that explore the less-recognized influences that contact between
> researchers has or can have on the direction and nature of ethnographic
> research and the production (textual or otherwise) that results from it.
> Collaborative research, in this sense, can involve actually working
> together
> co-temporaneously in the field, and/or working with the same
> groups/places/themes over time. It can also include the products of these
> collaborations in the form of articles, books, conference panels, etc. We
> are also particularly interested in reflections on the epistemological
> implications of the collaborative aspects of anthropological research.
>
> We invite papers that consider these themes, in relation to
> questions including but not limited to the following:
>
>
>
> · How might we better work together, with other scholar/observers and
> with the groups/people/organizations we write about, in expanding the
> depth
> and breadth of the knowledge produced?
>
> · What is at stake in maintaining the prevalence of the current
> “lone-anthropologist” research model, and in what ways can/should we
> recognize the inherently collective nature of the work we do?
>
> · What are the benefits or risks of performing joint research with
> others?
>
> · What methodological implications does collaborative fieldwork hold?
>
> · Given the proliferation of forums on the internet (e.g., the “wiki”
> phenomenon) for the shared making of knowledge, how can we rethink issues
> of
> collaboration within anthropological research?
>
> · How does collaborative research impact ethnographic authority, and/or
> the construction of an ethnographic narrative?
>
>
>
> Please email proposed abstracts, along with a brief bio or cv, to
> [log in to unmask] by March 15, 2009.
>
>
>
>
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