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fieldwork" panel at RAI Anthropology and Photography conference CFP: "Relational resolutions: The role of digital images in ethnographic fieldwork" http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/panels.php5?PanelID=2557 For participation in the upcoming RAI conference: "Anthropology and Photography", British Museum, Clore Centre, 29-31 May 2014 http://www.therai.org.uk/conferences/anthropology-and-photography/ Short Abstract This panel seeks to explore digital imaging methods as immediate and dialogical processes in data generation in a fieldwork context, and how digital image-making technologies impact on photographic theory in anthropology. Long Abstract Photography has long been used in anthropology as a form of supplementary documentation, an object to enhance other data as a tool for reconnection to pasts or recovery of lost processes and practices. The focal point here, however, is not on the photograph as object or tool, but on the processes involved in generating images in contemporary fieldwork contexts. The anthropological tenet of participation and observation can often be at odds with photographic methods, as cameras and recording equipment create detachment and distance between the observer and those observed. In the digital realm, however, the immediacy of image creation can supersede and transform these barriers, bridging the subject : object dichotomy. We wish to explore how digital photography can transcend infrastructural difficulties to become methods of involvement, aides to dialogue, and vehicles for deepening participation at the point of image creation. Contributions for this panel may include: * How do photographs and films enable a closer engagement with participants and their methods, particularly when attempting to grasp complex sequences of events? * How does the creation of digital images build bridges for, rather than construct barriers to, mutual engagement, through the creation of immediate, visible and discussable data? * How is informant's perception of the research/er transformed through the latter's own acts of technological virtuosity, evidenced through the images made with the camera? The aim is to show that the generation of digital images can create new forms of mutual engagement in ethnographic contexts. To propose a paper: http://www.nomadit.co.uk/rai/events/rai2014/paperproposal.php5?PanelID=2557 Panel Convenors: Julie Botticello (Birkbeck) and Tom Fisher (Nottingham Trent University) Discussant: Sophie Woodward (University of Manchester) We are looking forward to receiving your proposals. Best wishes Julie and Tom [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] DISCLAIMER: This email is intended solely for the addressee. It may contain private and confidential information. If you are not the intended addressee, please take no action based on it nor show a copy to anyone. In this case, please reply to this email to highlight the error. Opinions and information in this email that do not relate to the official business of Nottingham Trent University shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by the University. Nottingham Trent University has taken steps to ensure that this email and any attachments are virus-free, but we do advise that the recipient should check that the email and its attachments are actually virus free. This is in keeping with good computing practice. -------------------------- contemp-hist-arch is a list for news and events in contemporary and historical archaeology, and for announcements relating to the CHAT conference group. ------- For email subscription options see: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/archives/contemp-hist-arch.html ------- Visit the CHAT website for more information and for future meeting dates: http://www.contemp-hist-arch.ac.uk --------------------------