Dear all,
We hope you may find of interest this call for contributions for xcol, an
ethnographic inventory (http://www.xcol.org): a curated open-source digital
archive seeking to document and display the endless invention integral to
any ethnographic inquiry.
The inventiveness that permeates the modes of anthropological inquiry takes
expression in very different socio-material techniques: ranging from
digital infrastructures used in fieldwork to novel modes of documenting
through drawing or very diverse forms of relationality. We call these field
devices, for they devise the socio-spatial and material conditions of
fieldwork.
In our first Call for Inventions (CfI) we are particularly aiming to
inventory accounts of =E2=80=98field devices=E2=80=99: the inventive social=
and material
arrangements undertaken, created, made or repurposed in the course of doing
fieldwork with others.
We are enclosing the longer text of the call as a PDF, including more
information on the platform as well as an example. But you could also check
it online here:
https://xcol.org/xposition/call-for-inventions-1-0-field-devices/
What we have in mind are texts of at least 2000 words accounting for these
field devices in at least two senses: (1) fleshing out the context as well
as the social and material arrangements of particular =E2=80=98field device=
s=E2=80=99 as
they are put into practice in empirical situations; and (2) hinting at the
particular modes of ethnographic inquiry they enable or make emerge.
For this first call we would like to receive fully-fledged proposals for
these pieces by February 18, 2022.
If you wanted to submit or discuss an individual contribution, please do
not hesitate to contact us here: inventory@xcol.org
Kind regards,
Adolfo Estalella & Tom=C3=A1s Criado
Curators of xcol, an ethnographic inventory
www.xcol.org
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Adolfo Estalella
Anthropology / Cities / Experimentation / Digital Cultures [
http://estalella.eu]
xcol. An Ethnographic Inventory [http://www.xcol.org ]
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