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Ethnographic Imagination Basel
Приєднався 30 лис 2022
Ethnographic Imagination Basel (EIB) is produced by the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. It is a research, educational, and public engagement initiative exploring innovative forms of political imagination through ethnographic practice. The podcast promotes ethnography not only as a tool of scholarly research but also as a mode of imagination available to all, a means for pursuing deeper intercultural, contextual understanding and more ethical ways of being in the world. EIB explores the ways in which ethnographic imagination is used for grasping emerging trends in the global political economic order and the politics of culture and society.
Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Ethnographic Imagination Basel:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel)
in collaboration with the New Media Center
Host: George Paul Meiu is Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Ethnographic Imagination Basel:
Zainabu Jallo, Ann Karimi Kern (Ethnologisches Seminar Universität Basel)
in collaboration with the New Media Center
On Data - with Alec Bălăşescu
Our conversation on this episode, On Data, is with Alec Bălăşescu, associate faculty at the Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada. Bălăşescu is a social and cultural anthropologist whose research and teaching range from bodily aesthetics, fashion, and politics to human-technology interactions, climate change, and health, Primarily through the prism of machine learning, algorithms and their implications for an ethnographic imagination.
Bălăşescu is the author of Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills: Aesthetic Bodies, Political Subjects (2007), a book that traces the circulations of fashion between France and Iran to reflect on the intersections of consumption, modernity, and religion. His more recent work revolves around human-technology interactions:
“Machine Anthropology, Or, Will Robots Talk About Us Behind Our Backs (2020); and “Augmented Anthropology: Interstitial Anthropology in the Limits of Humanity.” (2024), co-authored with Cristina Luna and published in the Journal of Future Robot Life.
Host:
George Paul Meiu, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Zainabu Jallo (Institute of Social Anthropology) in collaboration with the New Media Center at the University of Basel.
Bălăşescu is the author of Paris Chic, Tehran Thrills: Aesthetic Bodies, Political Subjects (2007), a book that traces the circulations of fashion between France and Iran to reflect on the intersections of consumption, modernity, and religion. His more recent work revolves around human-technology interactions:
“Machine Anthropology, Or, Will Robots Talk About Us Behind Our Backs (2020); and “Augmented Anthropology: Interstitial Anthropology in the Limits of Humanity.” (2024), co-authored with Cristina Luna and published in the Journal of Future Robot Life.
Host:
George Paul Meiu, Professor of Anthropology and Chair of the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel.
Production:
Zainabu Jallo (Institute of Social Anthropology) in collaboration with the New Media Center at the University of Basel.
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On Surveillance - with Katherine Verdery
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In this episode, On Surveillance, our guest is Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology at the City University of New York. Her research has explored a vast set of topics, from property relations in agriculture and the political economy of social inequality and ethnic ties to the socialist and post-socialist polit...
On Materiality - with Carine Ayélé Durand
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What can be gained from discussing materiality, as opposed to simply talking about objects? This episode, On Materiality, examines what it means to engage with objects, substances, and textures. We contemplate the more profound implications of our relationship with things, how we can think through them, and how this connects to the work of political imagination. Our guest, Carine Ayélé Durand, ...
On Diaspora - with Ghassan Hage
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#diaspora #migration #ethnographicimaginationbasel #anthropology What does it mean to live in a world defined by mobility, a world where the here and now are also so centrally defined multiple elsewheres? In this episode, On Diaspora, our guest, Ghassan Hage, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, engages in a thought-provoking discu...
On Listening-with Mwenda Ntarangwi
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How do we approach listening, as a mode of perception? How can we be attentive to what others say? Not so much to respond, but in order to understand. In today's episode, On Listening, our guest is Mwenda Ntarangwi, a cultural anthropologist who has taught in the USA, in Kenya and is currently working with the National Defense University in Kenya. Ntarangwi has explored questions of listening, ...
On Dance-with Hélène Neveu Kringelbach and Lesley Nicole Braun
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This episode hosts two guests in a conversation about how dancing encompasses the elements of our changing worlds and allows us to act upon that world. Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Associate Professor of African Anthropology at University College London. Her research has focused on the lives and works of dancers and musicians on migration and effective relationships by national and transnatio...
On Birth/ing-with Stephen Okumu Ombere
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This episode "On Birthing" features Stephen Okumu Ombere, Professor of Anthropology at Maseno University in Kisumu, Kenya. Ombere has researched birth in relation to medicalization, social assistance programs, and various cultural practices related to giving birth and motherhood. He is author of two monographs: Socio-cultural Context of Circumcised Men's Sexual Behaviour in Kenya (2015) and Loc...
On Memory-with Jennifer Cole
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How and why are some things remembered and forgotten in different social and political contexts? Joining us on this episode, On Memory, is Jennifer Cole, Professor and Chair, Department of Comparative Human Development and Chair, Committee on African Studies, University of Chicago. Her work on Colonialism, rituals and ancestors in rural Madagascar has been centered on individual and collective ...
On Intimacy-with Peter Geschiere
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How does intimacy matter in imagining and understanding the world today? Peter Geschiere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, is our guest on this episode, “On Intimacy”. Geschiere is the author of seminal books, including Village Communities and the State: Changing Relations among the Maka of South-Eastern Cameroon (1982); The Modernity of Witchcraft (1997); The ...
On Death-with Larisa Jašarević
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Larisa Jašarević, anthropologist and author of Health and Wealth on the Bosnian Market: Intimate Debt (2017) and of the forthcoming book Beekeeping in the End Times, is our guest in this episode, “On Death”. Jašarević holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Chicago, where, until recently, she has also been a Senior Lecturer, before moving back to her family’s village in Bosnia, where...
On Normativity-with Vaibhav Saria
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This episode’s guest, Vaibhav Saria, is the author of Hijras, Lovers, Brother: Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India (published in 2021), an impressively rich and nuanced ethnographic account of the everyday lives of hijras- often translated as one of India’s “trans” populations, how they subvert, play with and preserve and care for normative arrangements. Vaibhav Saria is Assistant Professo...
On Possibility-with Anand Pandian
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In this episode, On Possibility, our guest Anand Pandian joins us virtually from Baltimore. Pandian’s book, A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (published in 2019) explores the possible in relation to knowledge, politics, and experience, but also-specifically-in relation to mundane acts of reading, writing, teaching, and researching. Guest: Anand Pandian is Professor and Chair in ...