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Responsibility: Early Career Scholars Forum 
Convenors:
Chrysi Kyratsou (Queen's University Belfast)
Raluca Bianca Roman (Queen's University Belfast)
Cris Shore (Goldsmiths)
Niamh Small (Queens University Belfast)
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Format:
Plenary
Location:
Whitla Hall
Start time:
28 July, 2022 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

This plenary explores the multi-faceted notion of ‘responsibility’ as traced within the small scale of the discipline and as unfolded across the complexities pertaining to the global order of things.

Long Abstract:

Responsibility is recognized by many as central to ethical encounters, and consequently is increasingly discussed as a prerequisite for mutually respectful coexistence. Given that ‘encountering’ and ‘relating’ lie at the heart of anthropology, responsibility forms part of the backbone of the discipline. More specifically, responsibility underpins anthropologists’ relations with their interlocutors, their discipline, their students and the academy (as their working place). Responsibility is expressed in our duty of care to ourselves and ensuring our safety in the field. It emerges in the relationships we build with our interlocutors and the world, the knowledge we acquire, and our commitments to the environment, class, human rights, and advocacy.

Despite its importance, ‘responsibility’ is asymmetrically discussed as such. This plenary explores the multi-faceted notion of ‘responsibility’ as traced within the small scale of the discipline and as unfolded across the complexities pertaining to the global order of things. Possible questions the plenary will raise include: How can anthropologists explore, ethnographically and theoretically, the notion of ‘responsibility’? What can we learn about responsibility from our practices? Could responsibility to the University conflict with responsibility to the discipline and/or to our interlocutors? What sort of ‘responsibilities’ does anthropology have to its students, particularly in a context of increased and prevailing ‘precarity’ and uncertainty? How do global challenges (e.g. climate change) and histories of violence (e.g. colonialism, war, displacement) orientate our thinking around ‘responsibility’?

Accepted papers:

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