Dear list members,
I would like to invite anyone attending or thinking of attending the EASA 2018 conference in Stockholm to register for a lab I am co-organising with Harshadha Balasubramanian.
The lab emerged from our engagements with disability in our research practice and the generative discussions we have had. We would like to open up the floor to others who are similarly talking about and taking action within the anthropological research community on how to acknowledge and actively work on including disaibility and minority perspectives within the discipline. We welcome anyone interested in contributing through sharing their own experiences and coming up with ways of addressing the issues minority and disabled scholars encounter in the field and in academia in general. Please see the details below.
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Mobilising Anthropology: making space for multiple forms of engagement with the discipline.
Anthropologists have different ways of moving in, and negotiating, academic landscapes, fieldwork, conferences, professional networks, but access is always key. In this workshop we explore the paths of scholars as they are shaped by experiences of gender, disabilities, and ethnicity.
Since the reflexive turn in Anthropology, ethnographers have become increasingly sensitive to their own practice and lived experience of research, consciously attuning their bodies and minds to fieldwork. However, awareness of the material and bodily concerns that influence research practice has not entirely transferred into our engagements with academic institutions and their practices. Researchers with disabilities are sometimes unable to access necessary support networks 'in the field', at conferences, and in their professional spheres. For early career disabled scholars with no funding, this exclusion is especially damaging. Similarly, the use of English as a lingua franca potentially excludes non-English speaking anthropologists from general academic discourse. While queer and feminist anthropology have a place within the discipline, these scholars are often active in the margins alone.
In this workshop, we invite participants to consider in what ways the presumed mobility of scholars stems from privileged, gender-biased, and ableist assumptions. We suggest three modules addressing topics relevant for anthropologists who's lived experiences of gender, disabilities, and ethnicity creatively inform their practice in: fieldwork; the production and sharing of anthropological knowledge; and careers as academics. We will discuss these topics in smaller groups using several techniques to engage participants with the varying bodily realities of becoming anthropologists.
The workshop is a move towards building a network of anthropologists engaging with these issues in and through their research. All scholars are welcome, especially those who experience and/or are concerned about restricted access and discrimination in academia.
If you would like to register, please contact Harshadha and me. We will then send you the programme in advance.
Rebekah Cupitt [log in to unmask]
Harshadha Balasubramanian [log in to unmask]
More information can be found here:
https://nomadit.co.uk/easa/easa2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7035
Best regards,
Rebekah Cupitt
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Visiting Fellow
UCL Anthropology
University College London
14 Taviton St,
London WC1H 0BW,
UK
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