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18 Jan 2013

TA45 – GDAT#1 neoliberalism

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This episode is another non regular one and comes from the University of Manchester Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT). The motion to be debated is: The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century.

The motion will be proposed by James Laidlaw (Cambridge) and Jonathan Mair (Cambridge and Manchester). It will be opposed by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) and Keir Martin (Manchester).

Podcast Chapters
PlayTitleDuration
»Intro 00:17 #
»Discussion 1:06:38 #
»Questions & Answers #

THE IDEA
The Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT) aims to generate stimulating discussions on anthropological theory through a debate format. The first debate was held in 1988 in Manchester, and the debates became an annual fixture after that. Following a break of 8 years between 1999 and 2007, the annual debate was revived in 2008 with financial support from Critique of Anthropology.
For those of you who have not attended previous debates, the format is as follows. A motion is proposed for debate. Two speakers argue for the motion and two against the motion. Each speaker is given 20 minutes. After a short break, everyone reassembles for questions and general discussion. Finally the motion is put to vote by a show of hands.

7 Dec 2012

TA44 – EASA Paris #1 Henrietta L. Moore

Posted by Norma Deseke. 1 Comment

This interview with Professor Henrietta L. Moore from the University of Cambridge is the first of three episodes that were produced by Norma Deseke at the 12th conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists in Nanterre, Paris in July 2012. Further talks recorded at EASA provide interviews with Helena Wulff, Professor at the University of Stockholm and Dan Rabinowitz from Tel Aviv University. For more information about EASA please see the official website on http://www.easaonline.org/.

Professor Henrietta L. Moore talks about the meaning of the EASA conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the discipline in the UK and anthropology´s contemporary challenges. We touch on issues concerning the decline of funding, increasing protests and pressures of mobility as well as open access approaches, such as the HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory (http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau). Professor Moore gives us her perspective on theoretical avenues pivotal to the discipline and her criteria for good anthropology and well-written ethnographies. She will also talk about the reasons for her long-term fascination for anthropology and give young anthropologists some advice for their academic career.

Henrietta L. Moore FBA is the William Wyse Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is one of the leading theorists of gender in the social sciences and her work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and performance, and identity and sexuality. She has worked extensively in Africa, particularly on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems. Recent research has focused on virtual worlds, new technologies and the relationship between self-imagining and globalisation. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academician of the Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. Her most recent book, Still Life: Hopes, Desires and Satisfactions (2011), argues for a reconsideration of globalisation based on ordinary people’s capacities for self–making and social transformation.

Please see Professor Moore´s website on http://www.henriettalmoore.com.

 

31 Jul 2012

TA43 – Wissenschaftsforschung

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In dieser Sendung spreche ich mit Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt über die spannende Disziplin der Wissenschaftsforschung. Die Sendung gibt einen sehr guten Einblick in das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik. Ich wünsche lehrreiche Unterhaltung und freue mich über Kommentare, E-Mails und Flattr-Klicks!  

Podcast Chapters
PlayTitleDuration
»Einleitung 04:52 #
»Ausrichtung der Wissenschaftsforschung 05:39 #
»Zusammenspiel von Gesellschaft, Wissenschaft und Politik 15:42 #
»Gesellschaftliche Vorstellungen von Wissenschaft 11:29 #
»Methoden und Zugänge 08:10 #
»Rolle im politischen und wissenschaftlichen Diskurs 06:03 #
»Theoretische Basis 07:23 #
»Wissenschaftskritik 06:30 #
»Klimawandel und "intelligent design" 19:05 #
»Was macht gute Wissenschaftsforscher_innen aus? 03:32 #
»Bsp. Forschungsprojekt 20:30 #
»Wiener Institut 04:52 #
»Ausblick & Epilog #
Referenzen:

  • Felt, Ulrike; Nowotny, Helga and Taschwer, Klaus (1995) ‘Wissenschaftsforschung. Eine Einführung’ (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus).
  • Felt, Ulrike; Nowotny, Helga (Hrsg) (1995) ‘Social Studies of Science in an International Perspective / Wissenschaftsforschung: Themen und Fragestellungen einer in Österreich neuen Disziplin, Proceedings of a Workshop (University of Vienna, 13-14 January 1994)’ (Wien: Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität Wien).
  • Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Stève (1979) ‘Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts’ (Princeton University Press).
  • Knorr Cetina, Karin (1981) ‘The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of         Science’ (Oxford: Pergamon Press).
  • Nowotny, Helga; Scott, Peter; Gibbons, Michael (2001) ‘Rethinking science: knowledge in an age of uncertainty’ (Cambridge: Polity).
  • Fleck, Ludwik; Schäfer, Lothar; Schnelle, Thomas (Hrsg.) (1980) ‘Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache: Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv’ (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp).
  • Wiener Institut für Wissenschaftsforschung 
  • WP: Wissenschaftsforschung
  • WP: Mode 2
  • Weltgesundheitsorganisation
  • Project OPUS
  • besprochenes Projekt zur Nano-Wissenschaft und österreichischer Gesellschaft
  • Institutsseite Ulrike Felt
  • Homepage von Helga Nowotny
  • WP: Adipositas
  • WP: Cern
  • WP: Grüne Gentechnik
  • WP: Ludwik Fleck
  • WP: Karin Knorr-Cetina
  • WP: Helga Nowotny

13 Jun 2012

TA42 – Internet Cafes in Ghana

Posted by Thomas Lohninger. 2 Comments

Internet Café in Ghana

Internet Café in Ghana

Jenna Burrell is Assistant Profesor at the School of Information in Berkley and recently wrote a book about Internet Cafes in Ghana. During her seven year on-and-off fieldwork, she focused on the interesting topic of spamming and internet scams from youth groups in these african internet cafesy.

In this interview we take a look at the klischees against african internet users and how they acted as a self full filling prophecies that lead to the widespread of internet scams in Ghana. The internet is not so global and egalitarian after all, if live in the wrong place.

 

 

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UPDATE: a good explanation of the global distribution of internet access can one find in this comprehensive ARTE Video (german):

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