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- Convenors:
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Barbara Gerke
(University of Vienna)
Sienna R. Craig (Dartmouth College)
Patricia Mundelius (University of Edinburgh)
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- Chair:
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Patricia Mundelius
(University of Edinburgh)
- Discussants:
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Theresia Hofer
(University of Bristol)
Geoff Childs (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
This panel invites interdisciplinary presentations on unwriting the Himalayas. We explore collaborative writing with local colleagues, challenges in co-authorship, and diverse backgrounds. Presenters discuss creative writing methods and ways to transcend conventional anthropological representations.
Long Abstract:
This panel invites interdisciplinary presentations to explore how we write about the Himalayas and how we can unwrite them. We seek to go beyond our individual research topics to reflect on the writing process itself. How do we narrate these topics, and what are the implications of the ways we write?
As our discipline and who constitutes it continues to transform through important efforts at decolonization, the terrain of scholarship and collaboration has necessarily shifted, including in the constitution of research partnerships that stretch from project design and fieldwork to generating publications. What are the challenges and opportunities in integrating Himalayan colleagues into writing projects, joining theirs, or reimagining novel pathways to co-production of knowledge? How does writing collaboration unfold when we come from different institutional backgrounds and intellectual traditions, as well as from distinct life paths, as we search for ways to co-create? Where do we find common ground? What is expressed and what remains unsaid in our texts? How do the politics of knowledge, academic constraints, and institutional barriers shape, limit, or stretch our writing across borders? Where might writing fail? What other forms of multimodal expression are beginning to flourish?
Furthermore, what kinds of knowledge emerges from our collaborative and individual processes of (un)writing and (co)producing? We encourage presenters to share innovative methods of creative ethnographic writing and new approaches to collaboration with Himalayan colleagues. Together, we aim to explore how we can find words to transcend conventional representations in Himalayan anthropology.