A Collection of Creative Anthropologies

Drowning in Blue Light and Other Stories
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-55104-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 323 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 561 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

 brings together a series of creative work of anthropologists who share the art of writing that arises from ‘ordinary’ engagement and reveals its potential for the reimagining of anthropological futures and alternative worlds. This is a collection of creative anthropology anchored in experimentality and encouragement. A book that defies imaginaries of academic convention through the cultivation of a mundus imaginalis requiring moments of pause, of introspection, and of discomfort. This centring of creativity at the heart of anthropology subtly conveys how the complex ethical and moral issues around fieldwork and anthropological theorising can be reflected on through writing otherwise, in creative spaces such as this book. fits the current call for radical revisions of the academic canon in anthropology, and the social sciences and humanities more broadly.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Roekel, Eva van

Murphy, Fiona

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben

Inhaltsverzeichnis

 The Wilderness of Creation(preface) Fiona Murphy and Eva van Roekel 

Drowning in Blue Light (flash fiction) Susan Wardell 

Waves (poetry) Maruška Svašek 

A Family Annihilation Tour (essay) Susanna M. Hoffman 

Early Grey (short story) Fiona Murphy 

Etranger. Est le nom d’une frontière(poetry) Ana Ivasiuc 

The Story of the Man with Three Braids (short story) Michael Jackson 

Observations (short story) Alisse Waterston 

Roots (short story) Miriam Adelina Ocadiz Ariaga 

Rivers of (Im)possibility (graphic novel) Charlie Rumsbyand Ben Thomas 

Ordinary Art (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola and Fiona Murphy 

Worlds Apart? (poetry) Amisah Zenabu Bakuri 

Insurrection Day (flash ethnography) Carole McGranahan 

Some Divine Phenomena (poetry) Hilary Morgan V. Leathem 

what remains (short story) Thiago Pinto Barbosa and Urmilla Deshpande 4 

Hey! Give Me Back My Saviour Complex (theatre) Richard Thornton 

Love in Ghana (poetry) Dilys Asamoah Amoabeng 

Where Wild Strawberries Grow (short story) Helena Wulff 

‘Get Me Oot this Pleiter!’ (poetry) Irena Leisbet Ceridwen Connon 

Water/Sail-e-aab (essay) Aleeha Ali 

A writer and artist; an ethnographer and research participant; a mother and daughter (watercolor painting) Priyanka Borpujari 

Jabès amongst Songhay Sorcerers (essay) Paul Stoller 

A Stranger to the Weave (short story) Anand Pandian 

Game Over (short story) Nikki Mulder 

Never Buried, That War- (poetry) Darcy Alexandra 

Lucinda (song) Kristina Jacobsen 

Threshold (short story) Eva van Roekel Cordiviola 

Four Musicians and the Fates (short story) Kayla Rush 

Hubris (song) Ioannis Tsioulakis with Pro/Schema Ensemble 

Pigs (short story) Horacio Esber 

The Púca(short story) James Cuffe 

My Visit to the University of Negative Capability (short story) Derek Moss 5 

War Game and Other Poems (poetry) Nomi Stone 

The Debt (short story) Veronika Groke 

Afterword. Reading and Writing in the Company of Anthropologists (short story) Alisse Waterston

Über Autor(innen)

Eva van Roekel is an anthropologist working at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her work focuses on ethics and violence in Latin America, particularly Argentina and Venezuela. Her scholarly work appeared in various anthropological and regional journals and her monograph Phenomenal Justice (RUP) engages with retributive justice through an affective lens. Feeling unfulfilled with academic genres, she started experimenting with creative writing and filmmaking, which resulted in various short story publications and documentaries screened at international film festivals. Together with Alisse Waterston and Fiona Murphy they launched the Ethnographic Salon in 2022, a novel space to perform creative anthropologies. She is also one of the co-founders of the EASA Creative Anthropologies Network (CAN).

Fiona Murphy is an anthropologist based in SALIS in Dublin City University. As an anthropologist of displacement, she works with Stolen Generations in Australia and people seeking asylum and refuge in Ireland, the United Kingdom and Turkey. She has a particular passion for creative and public anthropologies and is always interested in experimenting with new forms and genres. Alongside of her scholarly work, she has published shorts stories, poetry, and creative non-fiction across a number of different forums. She co-organised the successful Ethnographic Salon with Alisse Waterston and Eva van Roekel at EASA2022 in Belfast, which showcased creative work by anthropologists. She is one of the co-founders of the EASA Creative Anthropologies Network (CAN).