Dear all,
We are organising a panel at the next ASA conference, Critical Junctions:
Anthropology on the
Move, taking place at the University of
Birmingham between the 8 and 11 April 2025.
Please consider submitting an abstract to our panel or sharing the call among
others who might be interested in your networks.
The deadline for submissions is on the 18 Nov 2024, submissions via the
conference
website.
Panel 21 - Ethnographies on the move: exploring itinerant research practices
Short Abstract
This panel invites reflections on fieldwork practices that follow the
movements of its participants through space. How does mobility alongside
research participants shape ethnography? We call for papers examining
methodological, theoretical, and ethical aspects of an "anthropology in
motion".
Long Abstract
In an increasingly mobile world, anthropologists often find themselves
literally on the move, following research participants engaged in itinerant
practices. This panel proposes to explore the methodological, theoretical, and
ethical implications of mobile ethnographies-fieldwork that involves moving
alongside research participants and following people or more-than-humans on
their journeys across space. This might be in the form of mundane, everyday
travels, professional drivers on their commutes, joining expeditions,
accompanying tourists and pilgrims, and other mobile communities. As we
traverse physical and conceptual landscapes, how do our ethnographic practices
adapt? What new insights emerge when both the researcher and the field site
are in constant motion? What are the challenges and opportunities of doing
ethnography on the move?
We invite panelists to discuss how mobility shapes both the subject and
practice of ethnography. Considering how these dynamic research contexts
challenge traditional notions of "the field" and multi-sited ethnography,
requiring innovative approaches to participant observation, data collection,
and analysis. How does constant mobility affect the ethnographer's ability to
build rapport and conduct in-depth research? What innovative methods and
technologies can enhance ethnographic practices when researchers and
participants are in motion? Proposals may also address the ethical
considerations of mobile research, including questions of consent, privacy,
and the anthropologist's role in shaping mobile experiences, as well as
technologies that might support ethnography on the go.
Many thanks.
Regards,
Amira Karaoud
Lisa Grunt
Ramona Haegele
Victor Secco
Ramona Haegele
Researcher
Chair of European Ethnology and Cultural Analysis
Julius-Maximilians University Wuerzburg
PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Arts, University of Bonn
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