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- Convenors:
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Laura Bäumel
(University of Zurich)
Olga Reznikova (University of Innsbruck)
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- Chairs:
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Laura Bäumel
(University of Zurich)
Olga Reznikova (University of Innsbruck)
- Format:
- Panel
Short Abstract:
Our panel critically examines the call to challenge the boundaries between science and activism and the relationship between researchers and the researched. We want to discuss the potential limitations for knowledge production that may accompany unconditional solidarity with the research field.
Long Abstract:
Ethnographic research is well-known for often carrying the risk of distorted and paternalistic portrayals of the field. For decades, discussions around ethnographic writing have addressed the relationship between researchers and their field – from the "writing culture" debate to poststructuralist, postcolonial, and feminist critiques of knowledge production. Increasingly, the question of the relationship between science and activism plays a significant role, especially in research on subaltern groups. There is often advocacy for researchers to take on the role of a voice for those they study and to dissolve the asymmetries between researchers and the researched.
With our panel, we aim to examine the call to challenge the boundaries between science and activism, as well as the relationship between researchers and the researched. In the panel, we seek to rethink collaboration and military action in ethnographic research. Our starting point is twofold: On the one hand, in the tradition of public and political ethnography, we want to advance the critique of the division of labor between science and society and ask again about the social meaning of ethnographic research and cultural analysis. On the other hand, we want to discuss the epistemological limits of solidary and collaborative research in thinking about the political aspect of ethnography which separates the findings from the direct concerns explicitly formulated by the actors So let's take another look at the relationship between science and activism with concepts such as Engaged Science or a Dialectical Perspective on Solidarity on the basis of examples or theoretical considerations.
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