- Convenors:
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Nicolas Petel-Rochette
(Université du Québec à Montréal)
Elena Miltiadis
Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (University of Turin)
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- Formats:
- Panel
- Network:
- Network Panel
Short Abstract
This panel invites contributions that focus on the intertwinement of ethnography and fascism. On the grounds of research undertaken all over the world, we want to mobilize anthropological insights to offer a space of discussion on the multiple complexities of contemporary political scenarios.
Long Abstract
This panel's aim is to focus on the intertwinement of ethnography and fascism as a theoretical category. In a time of growing militarisation and of emerging forms of violence and deshumanization, this panel offers a space to discuss the intertwinement between theory, fieldwork, and the empirical acknowledgement and reckoning of fascist practices as anthropological conundrum. Across the world, we are witnessing the live-streamed genocidal violence in Palestine, political re-elaborations of history and of memory politics, criminalisation of migrations, backlash against feminists and gender struggles, ecological crisis and exploitation of resources on an unprecedented scale, as well as the instrumentalization, and simultaneous growth, of multiple expressions of antisemitism. Moving from contributors’ experiences in the field, we propose to use fascism as a category that can function as a heuristic device for the analysis of these and other themes. We invite researchers to share about their ethnographic engagements experiences and how these have shaped and informed their field of inquiry. On the grounds of recent events and state-of-the-art research on fascism undertaken all over the world, we want to mobilize anthropological insights in order to open a space of discussion to inquire into the multiple complexities of contemporary political scenarios. This will be at the same time an opportunity to continue and expand the research and reflection currently underway within the network. To do so, we encourage generative exchanges, providing a platform for collective dialogue and reflection. To foster this objective, we invite interested authors to send abstracts for short presentations of no more than 15 minutes. While we privilege talks, we are open to more creative or exploratory proposals.