Experimental Collaborations : : Ethnography through Fieldwork Devices / / ed. by Adolfo Estalella, Tomás Sánchez Criado.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• HerausgeberIn: Criado, Tomás Sánchez,; Estalella, Adolfo,
• MitwirkendeR: Estalella, Adolfo,; Garnett, Emma,; Gaspar, Andrea,; Kasatkina, Alexandra,; Khandozhko, Roman,; Marcus, George E.,; Marrero-Guillamón, Isaac,; Pink, Sarah,; Rakowski, Tomasz,; Ramella, Anna Lisa,; Schiller, Maria,; Sánchez Criado, Tomás,; Vasilyeva, Zinaida,; Waltorp, Karen,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 34
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (236 p.)

In the accounts compiled in this book, ethnography occurs through processes of material and social interventions that turn the field into a site for epistemic collaboration. Through creative interventions that unfold what we term as “fieldwork devices”—such as coproduced books, the circulation of repurposed data, co-organized events, authorization protocols, relational frictions, and social rhythms—anthropologists engage with their counterparts in the field in the construction of joint anthropological problematizations. In these situations, the traditional tropes of the fieldwork encounter (i.e. immersion and distance) give way to a narrative of intervention, where the aesthetics of collaboration in the production of knowledge substitutes or intermingles with participant observation. Building on this, the book proposes the concept of “experimental collaborations” to describe and conceptualize this distinctive ethnographic modality.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword Collaboration Mode 3 A Found Condition of Anthropological Field Research Today … and What Might Be Made of It -- Introduction Experimental Collaborations -- 1 Experimenting with Data ‘Collaboration’ as Method and Practice in an Interdisciplinary Public Health Project -- 2 The ‘Research Traineeship’ The Ups and Downs of Para-siting Ethnography -- 3 Finding One’s Rhythm A ‘Tour de Force’ of Fieldwork on the Road with a Band -- 4 Idiotic Encounters Experimenting with Collaborations between Ethnography and Design -- 5 Fieldwork as Interface Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter -- 6 Thrown into Collaboration An Ethnography of Transcript Authorization -- 7 A Cultural Cyclotron Ethnography, Art Experiments and a Challenge of Moving towards the Collaborative in Rural Poland -- 8 Making Fieldwork Public Repurposing Ethnography as a Hosting Platform in Hackney Wick, London -- Afterword Refiguring Collaboration and Experimentation -- Index