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> Dear Colleagues,
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> Would you be so kind as to forward the following information concerning the upcoming workshop on 'Researching Ghanaian Networks', hosted by the LSE Africa Seminar Series (Department of Anthropology), to all research students and departmental staff.
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> Thanks
> Girish Daswani
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> Call For Participants
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> Workshop on > '> Researching Ghanaian Networks> '>
> (Hosted by the LSE Anthropology Department, > '> Africa Seminar Series> '> )
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> This workshop aims to bring together academics and PhD students working on issues concerning Ghanaian transnational and local networks. Such formal and informal networks include political, economic, religious, and technological dimensions that help elaborate and give substance to the theories of modernity and globalization that social theorists are interested in. Are Ghanaians involved in a project of modernity in quite the same way? If not, how do we tackle more classical questions of kinship and migration in relationship to recent research on > '> networks> '> of social support, business and religion? Can we find social and cultural trends in the ways that Ghanaians use and have used personal relationships and social > '> networks> '> in elaborating upon ideas of an expanding social, economic, and political domain? This workshop hopes to discuss, expand on, and challenge social theories through field research conducted in Ghana and amongst Ghanaian overseas networks.
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> This inter-disciplinary workshop intends to bring together recent research on Ghana while focussing on methods linked with social anthropology and sociology i.e. extended fieldwork practices. This workshop gives participants a time for self reflexivity, sharing research methods, problems encountered during fieldwork, and recent research findings relating to a shared theoretical and regional interest. It also acknowledges and credits the work of academic predecessors who have emphasised the importance of understanding and further elaborating on taken-for-granted notions, ideologies and social structures through participant observation and commitments to long term fieldwork.
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> The workshop also invites researchers who have worked with other West African 'networks' within a transnational setting for a comparative dimension. More information on guest speakers and confirmed dates for the workshop will be given in due course.
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> For further information or to participate, please contact Girish Daswani ([log in to unmask])
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> Proposed Dates:
> February 4- 5, 2006
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> Organisers:
> Girish Daswani (LSE, Anthropology)
> Kristine Krause (Oxford, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, COMPAS)
> Matti Kohonen / Jenna Burrell (LSE, Sociology)
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> Venue:
> Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science,
> Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK
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