Experimental Collaborations

Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-853-3
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 34, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: EASA Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Criado, Tomás Sánchez

Estalella, Adolfo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Theorie und Methoden der Ethnologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

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

Über Autor(innen)

Estalella, Adolfo
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.

Criado, Tomás Sánchez
Tomás Sánchez Criado is Senior Researcher at the Chair of Urban Anthropology of the Department of European Ethnology, Humboldt-University of Berlin. In the last few years he has worked on urban accessibility activism, and its impact in city-making and ethnographic work.

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.