144 research outputs found
WebDocumentary - cityanimals.dk
No full textAn interactive WebDocumentary in 27 vignettes, about humans and other animals in Copenhagen (interspecies anthropology), created by Perle Møhl and her students on the 2013 courses in Visual Anthropology in Practice, with contributions from Sandra Lori Petersen's students in radio/sound.An interactive WebDocumentary in 27 vignettes, about humans and other animals in Copenhagen (interspecies anthropology), created by Perle Møhl and her students on the 2013 courses in Visual Anthropology in Practice, with contributions from Sandra Lori Petersen's students in radio/sound
On the border:Introducing the site
Get PDFThe chapter focuses on the use of facial recognition in automated border control, a technology that verifies ID through visual analysis of facial traits, as well as procedures for identifying threatening objects in luggage - in both cases, by adding up multiple minute details to construct a ‘plausible story’ about the traveller. The chapter compares algorithmic and human sensory work and procedures of recognition through examples, and discusses how border guards and automated systems and interact and how they mutually format each other’s vision, as well as processes of visual enskillment and deskillment. It discusses the premises for recognition and identification and the authority vested in ID-photos, concluding that all it takes to pass the border is to sufficiently resemble a small ID-photo
Teknosocial sammenfiltringer
No full textBarbara Ann Barrett, Birgitte Bruun, Dorthe Brogård Kristensen, My Madsen, Perle Møhl og Bo Wagner Sørense
"Ritual Rhythms" - a collaborative WebDocumentary
No full textA collaborative web-based filmproject in 11 vignettes about the rituals and rhythms of daily life in various locations & settings in the city of Copenhagen. Created by Perle Møhl and the students on the 2014 courses in Visual Anthropology in Practice. We use the concepts of Ritual and Rhythm to investigate how various forms of daily life may be analysed as ritual events, how they order, unite or transform people, places & objects, installing particular social aesthetics that make them familiar to those who know and obscure to those who don't. We perform our analysis with a camera and a microphone, tuning in with all our senses to the details of daily life that often elude the attention of a wordy anthropology
Medicinsk Antropologi:Fra kanon til blæksprutte
No full textHøyer, Klaus, Kristensen, Dorthe B., List, Henriette, Møhl, Perle & Nordahl Svendsen, Mette (2023) ”Medicinsk Antropologi: Fra kanon til blæksprutte (Interviewsamtale)” Tidsskriftet Antropologi 87: 31-42. DOI:10.7146/ta.vi87.14135
ETNOGRAFIEN I KAMERAET
Get PDFPerle Møhi: Ethnography in the Camera
Taking the point of departure in filmed
ethnography, the author discusses the rela-
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tions between the ethnographer and the
people who are studied seen in relation to
the production of knowledge. Through a description
of how the camera can be used in
the field both clearly to mark which part of
the field is under investigation - the one
pointed out by the lense - and when it is under
investigation - when the camera is on
and off - it is argued that the use of the camera
in the field, ideally, works to make the
ethnographic investigation both more visible
and in a sense more democratic. This,
however, also bears some potential for written
ethnography, which is another consideration
in the article
Border control and blurred responsibilities at the airport
Get PDFBorder Security at Copenhagen Airport is maintained on a daily basis through the activities, intents and perspectives of a multiple and unstable assemblage of public and private actors and technologies. Two opposed types of motivations play the leading roles in this work: on the one hand, securing the national borders against what are defined as intruders and threats and, on the other, a general pursuit of economic advantage and profit. Security plays a part in both, in itself becoming a negotiable commodity.Based on fieldwork among border police in Copenhagen Airport, the chapter examines two instances of control where the actual processes of decision-making and allocation of responsibilities and authority are blurred. The examples concern, for one, the negotiations for setting an acceptable threshold for facial recognition in an automated border control technology, and, secondly, the discretionary work of individual border guards in the profiling of passengers and the detection of potential threats.As the chapter shows, the airport is a privileged site for analysing the blurring of security responsibilities, decision-making and ongoing negotiations between different parties, because border security is produced by both public and private actors, and because the economic and the security stakes in this place are so obviously entwined and guide most interactions
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