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- Convenors:
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Stavroula Pipyrou
(University of St Andrews)
Stefania Pontrandolfo (Università degli Studi di Verona)
Ana Maria Gomes (UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais))
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- Stream:
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- Sessions:
- Monday 29 March, -
Time zone: Europe/London
Short Abstract:
The panel will interrogate the key intentions of public education vis-à-vis indigenous/minority education strategies and explore the epistemological, practical, ethical and political limits of co-producing knowledge.
Long Abstract:
Over the last twenty years indigenous and minority students, holders of expert knowledge, and political activists have engaged with education institutions and agencies to co-author training programmes that aim to collaboratively develop knowledge practices. Such engagement led to exemplary ethnographic scenes which returned political, cosmopolitical and epistemological reports that involved different stakeholders and knowledge traditions. This panel focuses on collaborative knowledge practices located in universities, in other institutional educational agencies, in NGOs and in indigenous or minority settings. We explore the intricate arrangements, adjustments and relationships between indigenous/minority people, anthropologists, other academics, and stakeholders in the co-production of knowledge practices and education/training programmes. The aim is to interrogate the key intentions of public education vis-à-vis indigenous/minority education strategies and to explore the epistemological, practical, ethical and political limits of co-producing knowledge.
Accepted papers:
Session 1 Monday 29 March, 2021, -Paper short abstract:
This work is about a teacher training directed to Xakriabá ethnicity in Brazil. The workshop involved a practical of making films together. The purpose is to establish approximations between this experience and the reflections of two young Xakriaba intellectuals: Célia Xakriabá and Edgar Kanaikõ.
Paper long abstract:
The objective of this work is to reflect on a practical experience of audiovisual teacher training directed to indigenous teachers of the Xakriabá ethnicity within the scope of the Audiovisual Practices Laboratory of the Faculty of Education at UFMG, which I coordinate.The workshop involved the teaching of audiovisual language, practical proposals for recording and editing and projection of films in the villages involved. Six teachers were trained, five of them women. This training process was conducted with the participation of the non-indigenous researcher Alexia Costa Melo (UFMG) and the indigenous researcher Xakriabá Edgard Kanaikõ.The purpose of this work is to establish approximations between the experience lived in the territory during the formative process in 2019 and 2020, the theory of cinema and the theoretical reflections of two young Xakriaba intellectuals and political activists: Célia Xakriabá and Edgar Kanaikõ. The gesture of approximation between Xakriabá thought and the lived experience will be guided by the interventions made by Edgar during the workshop. I intend to show how the cinema theory, its practice and teach, can be modified when approach to different culture, as Xakriabá. In the other hand, I will show how the relation of the group of these indigenous teacher with their own culture can be change by cinema. For that, I will use images collected during the workshop process.
Paper short abstract:
The paper presents a particularly effective cooperation of anthropologists with Roma and Sinti. The paper is based on experiences in research, public engagement and dissemination activities conducted at the Verona University since 2013.
Paper long abstract:
The paper focus on a case of successful collaborative work conducted by some members, Roma and non-Roma researchers, of the "Centre for Ethnographic Research and Applied Anthropology (CREAa)" at the Verona University (Italy) since 2013.
Understanding why some collaborations are more positive and productive (even within certain limits), than others is important because it allows us to see characteristics of an effective collaborative work more clearly. The paper explores the collaboration practices adopted, how trusting relations were built, what the collaboration limitations were and which convergences were gradually acquired over time, to conclude that what made this collaboration not only possible but also effective was the fundamental convergence and alignment of political positions and research objectives among the members of the research group.
Paper short abstract:
This paper deals with the fraught relation between an adoptee looking for their roots, their family of origin, predatory TV programme producers, and the anthropologist.
Paper long abstract:
This paper examines a case of a difficult interaction between a transnational adoptee looking for their roots in their native country, the producers of a TV programme who sponsored a return trip to the adoptee's motherland in order to film them throughout the trip, and the anthropologist, who was - unwillingly - involved in the events.
What motivates vulnerable minorities to get involved in pursuits that should facilitate self advancement, but end up producing undesirable circumstances that seriously endanger their dear ones? Is co-production of knowledge truly possible without one of the parties involved being abused? This paper will try to consider and analyse these controversial issues.