Dear Colleagues
Apologies for cross-postings. We would like to invite you to participate in
our panel (see description below) at the IUAES in Dubrovnik in May 2016.
Please see link to submit abstract before January 31st 2016.
Thank you
Fiona Murphy
http://iuaes2016.com/congress-panel/panel-23-07-2015-114646-fiona-murphy/
Exploring new freedoms?: Moving anthropological writing into spaces of
public engagement
*Co-convenors-Fiona Murphy, Keith Egan and Jonathan Skinner *
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*Panel short abstract:*
How can contemporary anthropologists write across/beyond the
public/academic and disciplinary boundaries? We welcome papers dealing with
the practical, theoretical, methodological and ethical challenges of moving
anthropological writing from hibernation to a space of public engagement.
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*Panel keywords:*
Anthropological writing,creativity,digitial age,neoliberal
University,public engagement
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*Panel Text:*
Recalling Adorno’s characterisation of anthropology as a discipline
hibernating in a difficult language, this panel seeks to explore the ground
of this private language – the open secrets occluded in anthropological
writing and publishing strategies -in a discipline that urgently needs to
discover its public voice. Herein, we ask in what ways can we reposition
anthropological and ethnographic writing in the neoliberal University?
Equally, does anthropology collude with neoliberal sensibilities to
privatise public experience through its representation and writing, in
short does anthropological writing re-present, or absent experience? How
might anthropological writing strategies recover a participatory writing to
move beyond these boundaries?
Bateson, Levi-Strauss, Leach, Mead and others wrote as public intellectuals
appealing to other disciplines. Were they, perhaps, speaking from a
different era? How can contemporary anthropologists write beyond the
public/academic and disciplinary boundaries in an age of social media? How
can we more fully engage our research participants’ voices to explore new
freedoms for writing as academics and for our varying publics? We call for
examples showing how anthropologists are marrying their public writing
lives with the life of the public. What does it mean to have public
writing, public intellectuals, public citizens? To write to/for/on behalf
of/with the public? Is the world of open access publishing, the blogosphere
and social media enhancing this movement? We welcome papers from a range of
perspectives dealing with the practical, theoretical, methodological and
ethical challenges of moving anthropological writing from hibernation to a
space of public engagement.
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