In many ways, refugees are subject to different kinds of interference in their lives and bodies than are citizens. In the course of the migration and border regime, they are categorized, questioned, x-rayed, doubted, restricted in their mobility, deprived of their privacy, rejected and often …
Weiterlesen "No-One Can Be Born Twice: A Collaborative Research Project"
How do anthropologists position themselves in relation to current social problems and debates? This reader provides the first overview of the diverse practices, formats and approaches with which the project of “public anthropology” is being implemented at anthropological institutes in Germany today. Edited by Hansjörg Dilger, Gisela Welz, Beate Binder and Thomas G. Kirsch.
Weiterlesen "Network reader “Public Anthropology: Knowledge practices and social interventions of the anthropological disciplines”"
In this workshop at the Institute for Cultural Anthropology/European Ethnology in Göttingen, we discussed the question of the constitution of the public sphere against the background of the perception and media-analytical description of a “double transformation”: With this term, we referred, …
Weiterlesen "OUT IN PUBLIC. Knowledge transfers in fragmenting public spheres"
Based on the inaugural workshop “Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologies”, a special issue of the journal Public Anthropologist was published in November 2023 under the same title. In addition to an introductory article by co-editors Olaf Zenker and Asta Vonderau, …
Weiterlesen "Special Issue on „Collaborations and Contestations“ in Public Anthropologist 5(2)"
During the writing retreat at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, network members and contributors to the planned network reader came together to discuss the content and format of the publication planned for 2025. In the form of plenary sessions and section discussions, they …
Weiterlesen "Writing Retreat for the Network Reader"
In recent years, numerous public anthropology projects have been developed and implemented at anthropological institutes in German-speaking countries. Here we present selected projects that combine anthropological work and public engagement – often in cooperation with civil society initiatives …
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The second workshop of the Public Anthropology network is an invitation to discuss ideas and concepts, as well as the politics and the relationships of the public or 'making public'. What do we as social and cultural anthropologists refer to when we speak of public anthropology? ....
Weiterlesen "Re/Making and Navigating Publics"
The opening workshop of the network, titled "Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologies", took place as an online event in January 2022. Thematically, it focused on collaborative approaches of anthropological research and practice in exchange with social actors. It …
Weiterlesen "Collaborations and Contestations in Publicly Engaged Anthropologies"