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Extended Practice — Dealing with challenging research situations
No full textIn this Exploration you engage with challenging research situations and how to incorporate them fruitfully in your ethnography and analysis. You will be given space to attend to potential irritations, reluctances or fears when encountering people, opinions or ways of life that you might not (necessarily) like, or might even detest. You will be guided through a number of questions that relate to difficult research situations. We will ask you to relate to your bodily and affective responses to particular challenging persons or events in difficult research situations. Finally, we will focus on how these situations can be fruitfully engaged with during the writing process as a part of the data analysis
Moral Challenges in Anthropological Research among Italian Neo-Fascists: The Significance of the Body
No full textThis paper examines moral challenges that arise when conducting anthropological research
with Italian neo-fascists, and more particularly when observing a neo-fascist commemoration ceremony.
Drawing on the ongoing debates about the importance of dealing with affect and emotions within anthropology, it emphasises the importance of considering moral and emotional challenges as an important
source of data within research in such politically highly contested fields. A particular focus lies on related
moral implications and unique insights through (bodily) co-presence for the production of anthropological knowledge. Against this background, the paper discusses the ‘double’ meaning of corporeality: on
the one hand, the crucial role of corporeality within the neo-fascist subculture, especially with regard to
neo-fascist rituals; on the other, the bodily dimension as an epistemological tool not only with regard to
the experience of this corporeality, but also to emotions in the context of a (morally) challenging research
situation. The paper makes a case against limiting the methodological repertoire of anthropological fieldwork in highly contested research fields
Dark Ethnography? Encountering the ‘Uncomfortable’ Other in Anthropological Research: Introduction to this Special Section
No full textOur aim with this issue is to provide a starting point for an intensive conversation about the
flexibility and systematization of the methodology of research and its specific challenges in highly contested fields like far-right and militant Islamist movements. The contributions to this special section
discuss issues related to the moral, emotional and ethical challenges, that anthropologists have faced
in conducting research in such highly contested fields. They offer more textured views of dilemmas
and challenges in highly contested fields through careful reflection on their ethnographic encounters.
They all deem it necessary to position their work within recent debates, in webs of the production of
knowledge, embedded in the power relations and complexities in their respective fields and within the
discipline, albeit in very different ways
Im Namen der Toten. Neofaschismus in Italien: Krieg, Täterschaft und Trauma in transgenerationaler Perspektive
No full textThis article focuses on post-war fascism in Italy from a transgenerational perspective. It raises the question of the long-term effects of ‘historical’ scars and distortions caused by war, the perpetration of violence and trauma in family and society. The lack of reflection on the perpetuation of such scars, I argue, can contribute to subcultures establishing and developing social and political niches from which they interact with the majority society. A look at the consequences of experiences of war and the perpetration, repression and transmission of trauma and war experiences from a transgenerational perspective shows that analysing the anchoring of political culture in family spaces can provide painful insights into the ‘scarred’ culture of memory and different strategies of the political instrumentalisation of the past. Such a perspective on post-war fascism uncovers how deeply fractures or scars can be anchored in a society, how they are passed down generations and how they become permanent as a result. The transgenerational perspective is key to understanding the culture of remembrance and the neo-fascist scene in contemporary Italy, which has been consistently strong since 1945 as a consequence of the structural scarring of society over generations
Neofaschismus in Italien. Politik, Familie und Religion in Rom. Eine Ethnographie.
No full textWie lässt sich der italienische Neofaschismus heute über seine politischen Inhalte hinaus verstehen?
Lene Fausts sozialanthropologische Studie berücksichtigt besonders mehrgenerationale Bezüge. Dieser innovative Ansatz erlaubt eine mehrdimensionale Interpretation des Neofaschismus als Zusammenspiel gesellschaftlicher Marginalisierungsprozesse, familiärer Dynamiken, religiöser Elemente und politischer Wirksamkeit. Indem Mechanismen der Verdrängung und der Weitergabe von Tradition und Trauma in römischen Familien systematisch aufgearbeitet werden, kann konzise die zentrale Bedeutung des vorpolitischen Raums für die Existenzsicherung der Subkultur in einer auf kollektivem Antifaschismus basierenden Nachkriegsrepublik erklärt werden
Negotiating social conflicts within a religious cult: The role of history for the ‘ntuppatedde in the cult of Agatha in Catania/Sicily
No full textLAB: Utopian and Dystopian Futures of Water Worlds – Mediterranean Crises and the Making of Liminal Infrastructures
No full textThe Lab proposed by the Mediterranean DGSKA regional research group addresses the multitude of contemporary and historical crises across the Mediterranean and asks to what extent they are resources to envision utopian and dystopian futures. For generations of scholars, the Mediterranean has been a contested and productive anthropological laboratory and the subject of recurring attempts of remapping and rethinking.
In accordance with these recent attempts and in line with the conference’s main theme, the proposed Lab focuses on the chronic instability and volatility of the Mediterranean as a water world that connects and disconnects, inspires and frightens its human and non-human dwellers alike. Our main topic, therefore, are so-called ‘liminal infrastructures’ in the making. On the one hand, we conceptualize them as material and ecological realities, on the other hand, as artistic, scientific and political imaginaries that possess bridging and disjoining as well as stabilizing and undermining potentialities. Adopting a world ecological perspective and drawing on a hydrosocial methodology, the LAB explores haunted land- and waterscapes to account for the imbrication of natural and social crises and human responsibilities.
Etymologically, a laboratory is a workplace, and it is associated with experimenting, searching, and being responsive to unexpected phenomena. These processual qualities correspond with the fluidity of the Mediterranean Water Worlds. In addition, the open format of the LAB lends itself exceptionally well to address utopian and dystopian futures of the Mediterranean from multiple perspectives.
We invite anthropologists and academics, artists and activists, who engage in provocative ways with the outlined issues. Besides ‘conventional’ paper presentations we welcome experimental modes of audio-visual presentations (screenings, photographic narrations, sounds), creative writing, interventions, and other forms of engaged explorations
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