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 <br> <br>Hosted by the Centre for Invention & Social Process <br> <br>5.30-7:00pm, Thursday 14th March 2019 <br> <br>Ian Gulland Lecture Theatre, Whitehead Building, Goldsmiths, University <br>of London <br> <br>Title: The dangers of participation - speaking for the social in <br>large-scale engineering projects <br> <br> <br>Penny Harvey, University of Manchester <br> <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. <br> <br>[demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pdf which had a name of 2019 Penny Harvery AL.pdf] <br>_______________________________________________ <br>EASST's Eurograd mailing list <br>Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net <br>Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net <br> <br>Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst <br> <br>Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.netview formatted text
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