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From: merle patchett <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Subject: Fwd: CFP - Geographies of Skilled Practice
Date: 3 February 2014 15:48:40 GMT
To: "[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
Dear Anthropology Matters,
please could you distribute this CFP to the list. Although the session is being held at a geography conference we would particularly welcome papers from Anthropologists.
Apologies for cross posting
Call for Papers: 2014 RGS Annual Conference, London 26-29 August 2014
Geographies of skilled practice and co-production
Session Organisers: Joanna Mann (University of Bristol) and Merle Patchett
(University of Bristol)
Session abstract:
What is the place of skilled practice in the 21st century? Does the
frenetic pace of life and availability of new technologies augur the death
of skill or are we simply becoming skilful in different ways, in different
settings and through different means? Where past conceptions of skilled
practice have focussed on notions of the solitary artisan refining
techniques alone or under a master in the workshop, geographers are
increasingly paying attention to the ways in which skill is co-produced
between different actors (both human and non-human), technologies and
materials in and across a variety of temporal and spatial scales, contexts
and settings. In this session we thus want to make space (and time) for
papers that offer theoretical reflections on skilled practice and processes
of becoming-skilful, as well as papers that showcase committed empirical
engagements with skilled practice and its geographies of co-production.
As such we invite papers exploring, but by no means limited to:
* The place(s) and relevance of skill in contemporary life
* Theoretical reflections on skill and becoming-skilful
* The learning and refining of skills – i.e. how is skill co-produced?
* The ethics and/or politics of skilled-practice as a form of co-production
* Ethnographies of skilled practice
* The influence of technology and the non-human within skilled practice
* The use of ‘skill’ as a geographical research tool
* Challenges of witnessing and articulating skilled practice
* What counts as ‘skilled’ practice?
If you are interested in participating, please submit an abstract of no
more than 250 words to Joanna Mann ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Merle
Patchett ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday 10th February 2014.
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Longer version:
Geographers have long worked with skilled practitioners to co-produce
research in a whole variety of contexts. Recent examples include DeSilvey
et al’s (2013) stories of menders in Southwest England, Richard Ocejo’s
(2012) examination of cocktail bartenders, and Patchett et al’s (2011,
2012) collaborative re-workings of taxidermy specimens. In all of these
instances, the work carried out is trying to access knowledge which is
rooted in deep practice and elucidate it for means of preservation,
theoretical exemplification, or the passing on of techniques.
Meanwhile, theoretical insights from outside of geography are changing
understandings of what it means to co-produce skill itself. Anthropology,
for instance has shown how skills are generated in fields of force and
through circulations of materials that cut across boundaries (Ingold, 2013;
2000). Sociology has highlighted how skills develop within processes, and
become highly attuned to problems the more it is honed (Sennett, 2009).
Meanwhile academics working within the theoretical realms of new
materialisms have emphasised a move away from these romantic inflections to
look at the capricious and unruly matter of matter, further enabling
geographers to look at the materials of co-production without negating new
technologies as forms of skilled practice in themselves (Bennett, 2010;
Connolly, 2013).
Furthermore, the recent turn towards practice-based inquiry has witnessed
academics using their own skills, both new and existing, as part of their
research. For instance, James Ash (2012; 2013) uses his existing skills of
video gaming to theorise affect, temporality and technicity; David Paton
(2013) applies his skills in stonemasonry and sculpture to addresses materiality; and
Tim Ingold (2000; 2013) often draws on his experience of cello-playing to
illustrate arguments. The task of becoming proficient in such skills has
also proven to be strong academic fodder whilst interrogating topics as
varied as glass blowing (O’Connor, 2007) and corncrake counting (Lorimer,
2008). Yet, the skilled practices involved in academic work itself – both
of writing and research methodologies – can also provide a fertile ground
for thought, as evidenced by recent insights on archival methods (Lorimer,
2010), innovative phonographic work (Gallagher and Prior, 2013), and
performative writing practices (Dewsbury, 2014), amongst others.
In this session we want to move beyond the plethora of methods advocating
‘make-do’ techniques and DIY cultures and make space (and time) for papers
that offer theoretical reflections on skilled practice and processes of
becoming-skilful, as well as papers that showcase committed empirical
engagements with skilled practice and geographies of co-production.
If you are interested in participating, please submit an abstract of no
more than 250 words to Joanna Mann ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) and Merle
Patchett ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Monday 10th February 2014.
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Merle Patchett, PhD
Lecturer in Human Geography
Rm. 2.6n
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
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Projects:
www.blueantelope.info<http://www.blueantelope.info/> - web-archive about an extinct animal
www.fashioningfeathers.com<http://www.fashioningfeathers.com/> - museum exhibition exploring the plumage trade
www.strip-appeal.com<http://www.strip-appeal.com/> - architecture and design competition
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Merle Patchett, PhD
Lecturer in Human Geography
Rm. 2.6n
School of Geographical Sciences
University of Bristol
[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
+44 (0)117 928 8478
Projects:
www.blueantelope.info<http://www.blueantelope.info/> - web-archive about an extinct animal
www.fashioningfeathers.com<http://www.fashioningfeathers.com/> - museum exhibition exploring the plumage trade
www.strip-appeal.com<http://www.strip-appeal.com/> - architecture and design competition
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Dr Rebecca Marsland
Social Anthropology
School of Social and Political Sciences
University of Edinburgh
Chrystal Macmillan Building
15a George Square
Edinburgh
EH8 9LT
0131 651 3864
email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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