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- Convenor:
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Laura McLauchlan
(University of New South Wales)
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- Format:
- Lab
- Stream:
- Performing Anthropology Creatively
- Location:
- WPE Bellbrae
- Sessions:
- Friday 25 November, -, -
Time zone: Australia/Melbourne
Short Abstract:
This participatory lab encourages the sharing of and critical reflection on multispecies methods. In part 1, we'll get a taste for the aliveness of the field through demonstrating methods. In part 2, we'll critically consider the affordances, problematics and possibilities of multispecies practice.
Long Abstract:
As multispecies practices are becoming increasingly widespread in anthropology and cognate disciplines, this participatory laboratory encourages both the sharing of and critical reflection on contemporary methods.
Part 1 will be a collective multispecies methods skill share and show-and-tell. Participants are encouraged to demonstrate favourite methods and/or a method or approach they are curious about or even frustrated by. Rather than being a site for workshopping problems (something which may well happen over food and tea between and after sessions), part 1 of the multispecies methods lab will instead give us all a sense of what is methodologically alive (for good and ill) among anthropologists with multispecies interests.
In part 2, participants are encouraged to position themselves as critical friends and/or blaspheming (Haraway 2006) practitioners of multispecies methods: while multispecies approaches are increasingly wide-spread—and perhaps even necessary—in our current times, are there concerns that we hold about such practices? Its rigour? Are there anthropological tenets that do not translate easily, or which can be (problematically?) overlooked in multispecies practice? Participants are encouraged to come along with a short quote or paragraph expressing a core anthropological tenet to read out. These readings will form a touchstone for our discussion of concerns, affordances and possibilities of multispecies methods.
Practitioners of all levels of experience of multispecies methods are welcome to join. Participants are expected to bring something to share. Those planning to attend the lab are encouraged to join an accompanying Whatsapp group to share readings and ideas before the lab takes place.