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Vortrag im Oberseminar

Am Montag, den 20. Juni 2016 hält Dr. Thomas Stodulka einen Vortrag über "Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography".

20.06.2016 um 18:00 Uhr

 

Dr. Thomas Stodulka (Institut für Sozial- und Kulturantropologie, Freie Universität Berlin)


Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography

Fieldwork is a theoretically informed practice that can comprise of a complex kaleidoscope of research methods. But even more so, fieldwork is the anthropologists’ constant negotiation and reflection of their positionalities and involvements in relation to the people, places and phenomena they intend to study. Whatever emotions are involved during this process, ethnography is first and foremost an empathic enterprise of trying to relate to and understand others. There is no need to feel apologetic about the ‘inter-affective’ momen-tum of ethnographic data, neither as a struggling PhD-student nor as a discipline as such. Quite the contrary, anthropology with its unique practice of fieldwork has proven yet and again as the driving force for critical epistemologies and the advancement of genuine research methodologies. Instead of silencing fieldworkers’ emotional involvements I argue for an empirically pragmatic epistemology that acknowledges researchers’ affects as ethnographic data to the same extent as their more detached data sets. If done cautiously, researchers’ affects and emotions can unfold a robust episte-mological quality.

 

Wann?     Montag, 20. Juni 2016 , 18 Uhr
Wo?         Institut für Ethnologie, Oettingenstraße 67, 80538 München
                Raum L155 (Obergeschoss) Lageplan

 

Für die Veranstaltungsreihe hat Herr Prof. Dr. Martin Sökefeld in diesem Semester ein vielseitiges Programm mit interessanten Themen und ReferentInnen zusammengestellt.

Mehr Informationen über Vorträge Institut für Ethnologie für das Sommersemester 2016 finden Sie unter  „Veranstaltungen".


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