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Anthropology, Design & Technology in Ireland
Call for Papers
Guest Eds: Adam Drazin & Pauline Garvey


We would like to announce the joint publication of a
journal special edition on Anthropology, Design &
Technology in the Republic of Ireland, by Anthropology
in Action and the Irish Journal of Anthropology.  It
is hoped to get an edition together for early next
year.  

Ireland is a county with particularly high hopes for
the high-tech design and software sectors, a field in
which anthropology has in the past had a particular
role to play.  Many companies which employ
anthropologists and ethnographers in design-related
roles have major administrative and manufacturing
bases in Ireland (such as Intel, Microsoft and HP
Labs), and may in future develop their design and
research capacities.  At the same time, the Irish
Government has devoted major funding to design
initiatives which often draw on ethnographic methods,
with mixed success, such as the National Digital
Research Centre and the late Media Lab Europe.  These
recent developments add to a longer-standing body of
work in social science which reflect on technology and
design from a historical and socnsumption perspective.
 The contemporary spectrum of experience thus runs
from the anthropology Of design to design
anthropology, and bridges many different work
environments.  

This journal edition is intended to explore this
nascent field from multiple perspectives, by bringing
together people living or working in the Republic of
Ireland whose work spans in different ways the
interdisciplinary spaces between anthropology and
design, and public and private sectors.  

The journal covers applications of anthropology
conducted in the Republic of Ireland, or by people
based in the country.  The definition of technology
and design is quite broad, and could involve such
themes as: 
•	design ethnography
•	the study of design processes and work practices
•	the appropriation of technology
•	consumption of designed objects
•	critiques of technological appropriation
•	communities of practice
•	identity and design
•	anthropologists’ interactions with design &
technology professionals
•	anthropological methodology related to technology
and design
•	new media and NCTs

Anthropology in Action is a peer-reviewed journal in
the Berghahn stable which concentrates on applications
of anthropology.  The managing editor, Jonathan
Skinner, is based at Queens, and the journal has in
the past done a themed edition on applications of
anthropology in Northern Ireland, for which the
current edition will provide a complement.  The Irish
Journal of Anthropology is the journal of the
Anthropological Association of Ireland.  It is not
peer-reviewed, but is read by practitioners across
Ireland.  Together, the applied focus of AinA and
geographical focus of the IJA give a good basis for
the theme in hand.  


Proposed word Limit:  		5-8,000 words
Abstracts requested by:		Friday 31 August 2007
Deadline for submissions:  	Friday 30 November 2007

Inquiries to:  
Adam Drazin ([log in to unmask])
Pauline Garvey ([log in to unmask])

Adam Drazin lectures on cultures of consumption and
ethnographic methods at Trinity, and works as an
anthropological consultant on hi-tech design.  He has
worked with Intel’s Digital Health Group and HP Labs’
Digital Media Group among others.  Pauline Garvey
lectures on design and material culture in the
anthropology department at Maynooth, and has taught
ethnographic methods for designers.  




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