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- Convenors:
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Oriane Girard
(Institut d'ethnologie et d'anthropologie sociale (IDEAS, CNRS, AMU))
Turri Hoelken Amandine (Laboratoire LinCS, Université de Strasbourg)
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- Format:
- Panel+Workshop
Short Abstract:
This panel/workshop invites reflections on alternative forms of knowledge making and transmission in ethnology, focusing on visual anthropology. Emphasising dialogue, polyphony, and situated knowledge, contributions will explore experimental visual collaborations that rethink scientific narratives.
Long Abstract:
The concept of “unwriting” invites a reflection on the transmission of knowledge in ethnology outside the traditional framework of scientific writing. In this panel+workshop, we invite contributions that explore the potential of visual anthropology, and particularly photographic documentary, as offering alternative ways of telling stories. Our reflections are shaped by those working with the dialogical approach (Bakhtin, 1970; Turri Hoelken, 2024). Unlike conventional ‘scientific’ writing, the photographic documentary tends more towards description than theory, allowing nuances to be captured, diverse points of view to be shown, and a thick understanding (Geertz, 1998) of reality. This process is directly linked to the notion of situated knowledge (Haraway, 1988), as it takes into account the positionality and perspective of the actors involved, as well as their relationship to context and environment. From this perspective, visual anthropology is not limited to participant observation, but becomes a dialogical method, blending ethics, aesthetics and heuristics. By integrating polyphony and leaving room for what cannot be captured by words, it is a form of narration that allows creative freedom and encourages the partage du sensible (Rancière, 2000). The researcher becomes a “linker” (Von Stebut, 2014), who enables the voices of those often silenced to be heard, while depicting non-linear, unfinished views of reality.
We are interested in contributions that present experimental visual collaborations allowing for the creation of unconventional narratives; reflecting upon collaborative processes that engage with interlocutors throughout the research process; combining contents and forms; and seeking to rethink modes of scientific restitution.
This Panel+Workshop has so far received 2 contribution proposal(s).
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