Workshop :: Activism, anthropologically speaking
Up to now, most anthropological studies of activism have used concepts and
categories originally developed by specialists of other disciplines, such
as the figures of ‘social movements’ or ‘non-governmental organization’.
With this workshop, we seek to discuss the potential conceptual
contributions of anthropology to the study of activism to highlight our
discipline’s particular focus. We therefore aim to develop an
anthropological framework to better understand emerging efforts to actively
re-shape the world. In order to do so, the workshop looks at activist
discourses and practices in the 'centres of calculation' of activism as
well as with a view to the differences and intersections between this
notion and a variety of others such as 'volunteering', 'humanitarianism'
and 'social movements'. We understand 'activism' as being culturally
informed, therefore requiring attention to contextuality, situatedness and
(g)local sense-making for an anthropological analysis. As we perceive of
‘activism’ in terms of cultural praxis, we aim to guide our discussions,
although not limit them, by the following questions:
· To what extent are current forms of activism
modeled/shaped/fashioned by globally circulating notions? How are these
notions translated into local contexts?
· What role do long-lasting social-scientific dichotomies (e.g.
individual-collective, agency-structure) pervade our thinking about what
activism is?
· How does 'activism' relate to, intersect with and/or differ from
other registers of discourse, such as 'voluntarism' and 'humanitarianism',
which are often found in the same field of practice.
· How do we understand (local) modalities of persuasion, inspiration,
revelation and creativity that may inform and produce a diversity of forms
of activism in people’s own terms?
Keynote:
"Visions of modernity: how activists restructured Nepali society"
Prof. David Gellner (Oxford)
Feb 16, 17:30h, Bischofsvilla
<https://www.exzellenzcluster.uni-konstanz.de/kolleg-kontakt.html>
Speakers include:
Prof. Marie Nathalie Leblanc (Montreal)
Prof. Martijn Koster (Radboud)
Dr. Anna Lora-Wainwright (Oxford)
Conveners:
Prof. Dr. Thomas G. Kirsch (Konstanz)
Prof. Dr. Rijk van Dijk (Leiden/Amsterdam)
Dr. Raúl Acosta-García (Konstanz)
All welcome. Registration required. Please write to:
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More information:
https://www.uni-konstanz.de/workshop/
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