Message posted on 07/03/2019

Goldsmiths annual sociology/CISP lecture, 14th March, 5.30: Penny Harvey: The Dangers of Participation

                The Annual Department of Sociology Lecture
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<br>Hosted by the Centre for Invention & Social Process
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<br>5.30-7:00pm, Thursday 14th March 2019
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<br>Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, University 
<br>of London
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<br>Title: The dangers of participation - speaking for the social in 
<br>large-scale engineering projects
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<br>Penny Harvey, University of Manchester
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<br>The lecture offers a critical analysis of the ways in which ‘the social’ 
<br>is elicited as an interlocutor in projects that seek to deploy technical 
<br>means to achieve social transformation. The discussion focuses on the 
<br>staging of an experimental ‘hybrid forum’ that was designed to 
<br>demonstrate a method to professionals engaged in the design and delivery 
<br>of large-scale engineering projects. The method cuts across established 
<br>ways in which such professionals would routinely look for support from 
<br>social sciences who might otherwise be expected to speak for the social 
<br>through the techniques of aggregation or abstraction that form the 
<br>bedrock of quantitative approaches. The hybrid forum by contrast seeks 
<br>to elicit a complex and dynamic social field, to identify controversies, 
<br>contradictions and ambiguities. The method is a collaborative process in 
<br>which the social gradually emerges as a potentially fragile entity 
<br>rather than a stable form that could be represented and/or spoken for. 
<br>Beyond the experiment the hybrid forum offers a possibility for 
<br>participants to reflect on how to configure ‘the social’ as an active 
<br>participant in projects for social transformation. The chapter will also 
<br>reflect on the relationship between the hybrid forum and more 
<br>conventional ethnographic methods where researchers do not attempt to 
<br>speak for the social but seek rather to extend their understanding of 
<br>human sociality as a dynamic and intrinsically relational process.
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<br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of 2019 Penny Harvery AL.pdf]
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