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Re-reading "politics" in the disciplinary history of ethnology and folklore studies I 
Convenors:
Konrad Kuhn (University of Innsbruck)
Eija Stark (Finnish Literature Society)
Indrek Jääts (Estonian National Museum)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTIONS
:
Room H-208
Sessions:
Tuesday 14 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

This panel aims at re-reading the history of the field of ethnology/folklore studies: Whose knowledge and deployment of folk construct was considered valid? In what way was this linked to the interpretation of the "political"? A special focus lies on intertwinements with totalitarian regimes.

Long Abstract:

In ethnology and folklore studies, research aims and paradigms have been developing in close interconnection with the formation and changes in ideologies of modernity, such as nationalism, democracy, as well as totalitarian regimes like fascism, socialism and communism. Building on the history of knowledge making, this panel seeks to re-examine our discipline practices in the 20th century context of social and political conditions in Europe and the US.

We do this by asking exactly how and in what way "politics" played a multifaceted role in the history of our discipline. In doing so, we assume that we are questioning "a blind spot" in ethnological knowledge production that has always been (and still is) often implicit, sometimes explicit.

On the one hand, we are interested in papers dealing with individual scholars and their relations with different political authorities or (domestic and foreign) regimes. What (often creative) forms did their resistance and/or collaboration take? On the other hand, we focus on the different ways "politics" has been thought about as a topic, explanatory value, interpretation or concept in the analysis of empirical material from the field. We do not have temporal or geographical limitations, but we do ask about the professional development since the epistemologization of folklore studies and ethnology, putting a focus on the 20th century.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 14 June, 2022, -
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