Forthcoming events in our school
American Ethnological Society Spring Conference
April 19 -21, 2012, New York
ROUNDTABLE:
Anthropology, Translation and processual knowledge
Organiser: Narmala Halstead, University of East London.
Participants:
Ronald Jennings, LSE, Neni Panourgia, Columbia University, Judith Okely, University of Oxford, Louise de la Gorgendiere, Carleton University, Canada
Abstract:
This roundtable will explicitly consider the processual forms of anthropological knowledge construction to illustrate, variously, that the idea of practice which is embedded in fieldwork and ethnography also allows for wider engagement. In highlighting this space as processual, the roundtable will discuss research examples to consider the significance of conducting fieldwork through anthropological conventions and the contributions of ethnographic encounters. The roundtable reflects on the ways this embedded form of practice which allows for a rigorous anthropological approach also facilitates wide-ranging connections to the contemporary and, thus, lends itself to wider engagement.
Round-table members will draw on their research, wider engagement, and ‘involved anthropologist’ status to examine the notion of practice as both knowledge construction and translation.
These accounts will, for instance, reflect on the following:
· The notion of practice as an anthropological knowledge category.
· The processual spaces which extend practice to wider application of anthropological knowledge and anthropology as part of public spheres.
· Practice anthropology as an extended field through anthropological theory, research and applied work.
Simultaneously, the roundtable will discuss ‘knowledge translation’ as part of wider contributions of anthropological knowledge
