Experimental Collaborations -

Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
Buch | Hardcover
236 Seiten
2018
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-853-3 (ISBN)
123,45 inkl. MwSt
Grounded in a series of diverse ethnographic projects in Africa, America and Europe, Experimental Collaborations attempts to expand our ethnographic repertoire of fieldwork devices.
In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation of repurposed data, co-organized events, authorization protocols, relational frictions, and social rhythms—anthropologists engage with their counterparts in the field in the construction of joint anthropological problematizations. In these situations, the traditional tropes of the fieldwork encounter (i.e. immersion and distance) give way to a narrative of intervention, where the aesthetics of collaboration in the production of knowledge substitutes or intermingles with participant observation. Building on this, the book proposes the concept of “experimental collaborations” to describe and conceptualize this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Adolfo Estalella is Assistant Professor in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and Social Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid. His research focuses on the investigation of grassroots urbanism and digital cultures.

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Acknowledgements



Foreword: Collaboration Mode 3: A Found Condition of Anthropological Field Research Today… and What Might Be Made of It

George E. Marcus



Introduction: Experimental Collaborations

Tomás Sánchez Criado and Adolfo Estalella



Chapter 1. Experimenting with Data: ‘Collaboration’ as Method and Practice in an Interdisciplinary Public Health Project

Emma Garnett



Chapter 2. The ‘Research Traineeship’: The Ups and Downs of Para-siting Ethnography

Maria Schiller



Chapter 3. Finding One’s Rhythm: A ‘Tour de Force’ of Fieldwork on the Road with a Band

Anna Lisa Ramella



Chapter 4. Idiotic Encounters: Experimenting with Collaborations Between Ethnography and Design

Andrea Gaspar



Chapter 5. Fieldwork as Interface: Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter

Karen Waltorp



Chapter 6. Thrown into Collaboration: An Ethnography of Transcript Authorization

Alexandra Kasatkina, Zinaida Vasilyeva, and Roman Khandozhko



Chapter 7. A Cultural Cyclotron: Ethnography, Art Experiments, and a Challenge of Moving Towards the Collaborative in Rural Poland

Tomasz Rakowski



Chapter 8. Making Fieldwork Public: Repurposing Ethnography as a Hosting Platform in Hackney Wick, London

Isaac Marrero-Guillamón



Afterword: Refiguring Collaboration and Experimentation

Sarah Pink



Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie EASA Series
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-853-6 / 1785338536
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-853-3 / 9781785338533
Zustand Neuware
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