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- Convenors:
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Donatella Schmidt
(Università di Padova)
Paride Bollettin (Masaryk University)
Edmundo Peggion (Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP)
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- Discussants:
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Agata Bachórz
(University of Gdańsk)
Daniela Salvucci (Free University of Bolzano-Bozen)
- Format:
- Roundtable
- Stream:
- Knowledge Production
- Location:
- C11
- Sessions:
- Saturday 10 June, -
Time zone: Europe/Prague
Short Abstract:
The roundtable aims at fostering a debate on how students and researchers in social sciences are creatively dealing with fieldwork in the face of current multiple overturns derived by the Covid-pandemic, fear of war, extreme environmental events
Long Abstract:
In recent years a multiplicity of unexpected experiences - pandemics, fear of wars, extreme environmental events, digitalization of social life, etc. - affected the global panorama, and consequently the way in which we engage in dialogues in the field. In this panorama, social actors are experiencing uncertainty and indeterminacy but also creativity in how they experience the interactions at the core of social sciences. In our roundtable we wish to foster an open discussion on how the above mentioned experiences might affect the dialogical potentialities of social interactions. We like to focus on how difficulties and fears may generate innovative forms of relations and knowledge practices, producing opportunities of transforming reality, redefining reciprocal positioning and experiences in the field, and renegotiating the place of speech. We invite contributors to suggest and share how they have coped with times of uncertainty, and how they found opportunities of dialogue in the field.
Accepted contributions:
Session 1 Saturday 10 June, 2023, -Donatella Schmidt (Università di Padova)
Contribution short abstract:
Methodological challenges, creative responses and research readjustments in European projects focusing on forced migrants during the pandemic times.
Contribution long abstract:
Methodological challenges, in rephrasing empirical research are especially visible during the unexpected experiences that characterize our contemporary world. Questions and answers, which emerged from our empirical research with forced migrants in Italy during a three-year long period, aim to address the following themes: How were creative responses activated? How did we build trust with the subjects of our enquiry through digital means? How was our reciprocal positioning redefined? How were knowledge practices exchanged?
Helena Hornfeldt (Stockholm University) Markus Idvall (Stockholm University)
Contribution short abstract:
Building on young adult's experiences of crises and how they understand the concept of crisis, this contribution elaborates on methodological and epistemological issues. The innovative potential in the study lies in a combination of co-participatory and co-creative ethnography.
Contribution long abstract:
After the COVID-19 crisis, we are now living in a post pandemic time and for some people the social isolation and studying/working from home feels distant. Since few young people have become seriously ill from COVID-19, numerous scholars have reported that the pandemic have primarily affected the mental health of youth. Sarkadi et al. (2021) reported that Swedish adolescents' worries about the future included missing out on their youth and employment. They also worried about the future of democracy and the world economy. Thus, it is problematic to isolate understandings of the pandemic to a single crisis. Starting from a broad perspective on youth's experiences and how they understand the concept of crisis. In what sense has the pandemic and perhaps other ongoing societal crises, as the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine, had effects on young adult's confidence in the future and their imaginations of a predictable life? However, methodological choices and researchers approaches are not neutral processes. In general, researching young people's experiences needs to take into account and challenge the structures of power in research. The innovative potential in the study lies therefore in the combination of co-participatory/co-creative ethnography. In order to enhance participation and encourage dialogue, the study will begin with establishing a co-working group of youth in order to develop an iterative methodology. This methodology includes: Workshops with key participants to ensure that topics and themes will be grounded in their lived experiences and collaboration with youth in the methodological and pedagogical process.
Paride Bollettin (Masaryk University)
Contribution short abstract:
Facing uncertainty, in multiple dimensions, stimulates creativity as a response to unexpected experiences. In this presentation, creativity is discussed as a tool for stimulating the emergence of original forms of creating and sharing ethnographic knowledge-practices.
Contribution long abstract:
In times of uncertainty, the ethnographic efforts are forced to redefine their aims, strategies, and methods. The contemporary overlaps of multiple crises, being these, social, environmental, military, economic, and so on, are producing a concomitant epistemological indeterminacy. The proliferation of multiple voices, also via the dissemination of digital tools, on the counterpart, is challenging the idea of academic paradigms with the inclusion of previously silenced actors. In the meanwhile, such epistemic uncertainty enables to alternative and original strategies in the ethnographic effort to emerge. This presentation will concentrate on the indeterminacy of the definition of "ecosystem" generated by a dialogue between academic scholars and the Mebengokré people in the Amazon. The ecological crises affecting their Indigenous Land, caused by development projects as well as by illegal invasions of the land, stimulated the Mebengokré to engage in a dialogue with academic scholars for trying to create innovative bridges between the two knowledge-practices. On the counterpart, the emergence of the digital tools enabled the dialogue between the parts to assume the dimension of a continuative and diary exchange. The idea of the presentation is that the ecological uncertainty can be faced not only in its environmental dimension, but it can produce a epistemological uncertainty which lets the emergence of original ecological understandings.
Vito Antonio Aresta (LASEV Laboratorio di Antropologia Sociale e Visuale)
Contribution short abstract:
This contribution reports the many questions and reflections that emerged during the lockdown of 2020, from a group of secondary school and university students who participated in the VIII Laboratory of Social and Visual Anthropology.
Contribution long abstract:
The theme chosen for the VIII Laboratory of Social and Visual Anthropology was "playing", one of the social practices par excellence, and already in September 2019 we had started a phase of study and discussion with some friends who are over sixty who would help us to rebuild our collective memory of games. In March 2020, however, we came up against the pandemic and the necessary social distancing!
We tried to navigate without instruments during a "storm" that caught us completely unprepared and that upset our routines as teachers, researchers and learners; And yet, we have tried, in our own small way, to orient ourselves in the mare magnum of information, hypotheses and analysis in which we have been immersed despite ourselves and to have laid the foundations for further reflections and insights.