Dear colleagues and friends,
greetings!
This email is to draw your attention to a panel I am co-organising with Jasmin Kashanipour (University of Vienna) for the upcoming EASA conference in Milan (20-23 July 2016).
Our panel for the EASA does not
address the question of 'media', 'technology', 'image', 'art', 'materiality' in the usual direct way but it does it
indirectly - asking to reflect on 'ways to slow down' while conducting fieldwork. Our aim is to
create more 'engagement' rather than 'representation' (à la Ingold) with
our subjects of study as well as with the 'broader' field of anthropology (vs. its sub-fields of media, art, film etc.). Hence, reflections on any form of 'mediated communication' which 'slows down' the process of conducting research are welcome. (Examples may include: the writing of a blog in the field; staging performances; making a film; drawing in the field; crafting in the field; being involved in local forms of 'mediated communication' and 'collaboration' in the field as well as choosing 'pen and paper' vs. computers to write fieldnotes). The emphasis of this panel is not on the 'methodology' used in the field but on the consequence of any possible 'mediated' fieldwork approach to think anthropology as a 'slow' discipline vis-à-vis the neoliberal politics of speed which is increasingly affecting the academic world.
(Details about the conference, our panel and papers submission below)
Best wishes for the 2016 to all of you,
Giulia
Call for papers
Panel P086: The
art of slowing downhttp://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4255 14th EASA Biennial
Conference: Anthropological legacies and human futures20-23 July 2016,
Milan, Italy Panel convenors: Giulia Battaglia <mailto: [log in to unmask]>
(Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3) Jasmin Kashanipour <mailto: [log in to unmask]>
(University of Vienna) Short abstract “Slowness needs
protection” (Eriksen 2001). Yet, does anthropology encourage ‘slowness’ in its
own practice? We encourage reflections around the neoliberal politics of speed
and the notion of ‘slowing down’ as a useful practice to re-vitalise
anthropological legacies towards a more engaging future. Long abstract “Slowness needs
protection”, says Thomas Eriksen (2001) implying that processes of slowing down emerge when being supported by the dynamics
of collective action on various scales. Yet, does the academic world,
and more specifically anthropology, encourage ‘slowness’ in its own practice?
In antithesis with the way in which the discipline has emerged and historically
constituted itself through its long-term engagement in the field, in the past
years ‘slowing down’ in academia has become synonymous with inefficiency,
augmenting precariousness. Thus, what does this mean for the contemporary
social role of anthropology? This panel encourages reflections around the
notion of ‘slowing down’ as a useful practice to re-vitalise anthropological
legacies towards a more engaging future. We invite participants to present
methodological, theoretical, and/or experimental papers addressing ways through
which this notion may challenge the neoliberal politics of speed increasingly
affecting the academic world. Building on our
respective yet complementary research centred on concepts such as ‘living
anthropology’ (Battaglia) and ‘gradual gaze’ (Kashanipour) vis-à-vis classic
methodological ways of doing anthropology through participant observation, “with
a whole library in [our] heads” (Augé and Colleyn 2006) which mirrors “the
discipline’s agenda of the moment” (Starn 2015), we seek to initiate
discussions that reconnect our discipline to its ‘essence’, which is, for us,
its art of slowing down. Accordingly, we call for papers that reflect on
alternative models of engagement in the field and beyond the field, aiming at
processes of ‘unlearning’ scientific automatisms while constantly ‘learning’ to
engage with local ontologies and (re)shape future anthropologies. To propose a paper
Follow this link http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4255
or click on "propose a paper" at the end of the page of our panel (http://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2016/panels.php5?PanelID=4255)
Please do not submit via email to us but through the online system on the
website.
For any inquiries, please do not hesitate to email the two panel convenors. Deadline: 15 February 2016 General instructions and rules:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/cfp.shtml
General information on the conference:
http://www.easaonline.org/conferences/easa2016/
Giulia
Battaglia (MA, PhD - SOAS, University of London)
Researcher in Anthropology of Visual/Art/Media Practices
Temporary Lecturer in Arts and Media
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Ph: +33 (0)6 0250 6466
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