Dear colleagues,
The Union of Precarious Anthropologists (Precanthro) is organizing its
second EASA event at this year's conference in Stockholm. We warmly invite
both precarious and more established anthropologists to partake into the
discussion, with the idea to put together different points of view and a
set of propositions on how to make big collaborative projects more
functional and sustainable.
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*PrecAnthro Event, II: The return of armchair anthropology? Debating the
ethics and politics of big projects*
Thurs, Aug, the 16th, 1PM-2.30PM
Organizers:
Alice Tilche [log in to unmask]
Giacomo Loperfido: [log in to unmask] / [log in to unmask]
PrecAthro Union
Anthropology is increasingly embracing the model of large collaborative
projects following emerging paradigms of European and national agencies.
This shift is bringing about a new division of labour between tenured
academics who work as Principal Investigators, and a pool of lower-tier
researchers expected to work on fixed-term contracts, to be mobile and to
accept precarious living situations. This shift is also having profound
impacts on the production of anthropological knowledge, in terms of aims,
methods and contents.
Recent interventions have argued that ethnography is not simply a method of
gathering data: doing participant observation means learning a skill, it is
a human and personal education (Ingold 2014) and a potentially
revolutionary practice (Shah 2017). However, the shift towards large
projects is arguably bringing back the 19th century division between
ethnography (as a practice of gathering 'data') and anthropology (as a
generalising science). Whilst the first has largely become outsourced to
postdoctoral researchers, the second has become the purview of principal
investigators.
In this meeting we bring together junior and senior, precarious and
established scholars in order to reflect on these developments and discuss
new organizational principles, legal frames, and ethical guidelines for the
production of anthropological knowledge. Ethical guidelines for the
discipline have been so far framed assuming a division between professional
anthropologists (imagined as an homogenous group), their informants and
local research assistants. How can these be reframed to accommodate greater
differentiation within the category of the ‘professional anthropologist’?
What should we consider data in anthropology? Who owns it? How can such
‘data’ be transferred from the relations that produce it? Who can claim
authorship?
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