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400019 SE SE Methods for Doctoral Candidates (2020W)
Continuous assessment of course work
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Registration/Deregistration
Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).
- Registration is open from Tu 01.09.2020 09:00 to Tu 13.10.2020 17:00
- Deregistration possible until Sa 31.10.2020 17:00
Details
max. 15 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Thursday 15.10. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
- Thursday 29.10. 15:00 - 18:00 Seminarraum A, NIG 4. Stock
- Thursday 12.11. 15:00 - 18:00 Digital
- Thursday 19.11. 15:00 - 18:00 Digital
- Thursday 26.11. 16:45 - 20:00 Digital
- Thursday 10.12. 15:00 - 18:00 Digital
- Thursday 14.01. 15:00 - 18:00 Digital
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course focuses on ethnographic methods and is aimed though not exclusively - to doctoral students who have not carried out their fieldwork research yet. The seminar delves into long-standing issues around ethnographic methods largely from a conceptual perspective. What is more, it will also help students identifying alternative avenues of investigation for research projects that have been or will be disrupted by the ongoing pandemic. At the beginning of the seminar, students will have the possibility to suggest specific areas or contexts of research that are most helpful to their projects so that additional readings may be added to the existing ones. The seminar will begin with an analysis of the interventions in the Forum on the COVID-19 Pandemic published on Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale earlier this year to chart a landscape of the novel situations which anthropologists are facing regarding their research or field. These interventions feature both continuities and new problematics, modalities and questions that the pandemic has generated across countless areas of research: these will help re-think and re-situate ‘classic’ approaches to ethnography and vice versa.
Assessment and permitted materials
1) Regular attendance (up to 1 session may be missed)
2) Active and critical engagement with the assigned readings and participation in the seminar discussions;
3) Presentation of a reading (the presentation will last for 10 minutes during which the student will introduce the selected reading’s author as well as her methods, theories and arguments), and preparation of a set of questions emerging from the presentation and chairing of the discussion;
4) Presentation of individual doctoral research projects;
5) Submission of a term exam paper (8-10 pages)
2) Active and critical engagement with the assigned readings and participation in the seminar discussions;
3) Presentation of a reading (the presentation will last for 10 minutes during which the student will introduce the selected reading’s author as well as her methods, theories and arguments), and preparation of a set of questions emerging from the presentation and chairing of the discussion;
4) Presentation of individual doctoral research projects;
5) Submission of a term exam paper (8-10 pages)
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
For a positive grade, 51 % is required90-100 %= 1
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5Written exams will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
-language and style (spelling and grammar)
-thorough understanding of the readings discussed in class
-use of the literature (choice of relevant readings, accuracy of the citations and arguments)
-clarity of arguments
-reflexivity
-critical thinking and originalityActive participation in the course discussions will be assessed both in terms of the quantity and the quality of the students’ contributions.
77-89 %= 2
64-76 %= 3
51-63 %= 4
0-50 % = 5Written exams will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
-language and style (spelling and grammar)
-thorough understanding of the readings discussed in class
-use of the literature (choice of relevant readings, accuracy of the citations and arguments)
-clarity of arguments
-reflexivity
-critical thinking and originalityActive participation in the course discussions will be assessed both in terms of the quantity and the quality of the students’ contributions.
Examination topics
Presentations, written papers, and active participation in discussions
Reading list
15/10 15:00 - 18:00Introduction: The challenges ahead2020. Forum on COVID-19 Pandemic. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 28 (2)
Available from:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698676/2020/28/2Nelson, A., 2020 Society after pandemic
Available from:
https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/society-after-pandemic/29/10 15:00 - 18:00Long-standing concernsNader, L., 2011. Ethnography as theory. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1 (1), 211219Biehl, J., 2013. Ethnography in the way of theory. Cultural Anthropology, 28 (4), 573597Fassin, D., 2013. Why ethnography matters: On anthropology and its publics. Cultural Anthropology, 28 (4), 62164612/11 15:00 - 18:00Self, other, and becomingMarcus, G., 2012. The viral intimacies of ethnographic encounters: Prolegomenon to a thought experiment in the play of metaphors. Cultural Anthropology, 27 (1), 168174Napier, D.A., 2012. NONSELF HELP: How immunology might reframe the Enlightenment. Cultural Anthropology, 27 (1), 122-137Lowe, C., 2010. Viral clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia. Cultural Anthropology, 25 (4), 625649Singer, M., 2014. Zoonotic ecosyndemics and multispecies ethnography. Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (4), 1279-130919/11 15:00 - 18:00Multi-sited and global fieldworkColeman, S., and, P., 2011. Introduction: Queries, collaborations, calibrations. In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 1-15Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J., 2003. Ethnography on an awkward scale: Postcolonial anthropology and the violence of abstraction. Ethnography, 4 (2), 147179Marcus, G., 2011. Multi-sited ethnography: Five or six things I know about it now. In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 16-32Ferguson, J., 2011. Novelty and method: Reflections on global fieldwork.In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 194-20726/11 16:45 - 20:00Digital ethnographyBoellstorff, T., Nardi, B., Pearce, C., and Taylor, T.L., 2013. Ethnography and virtual worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1-12Bonilla, Y. and Rosa, J., 2015. Ferguson. Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist, 42 (1), 4-17Hjorth, L., Horst, H., Galloway, A.andBell, L., 2017. Introduction. In: L. Hjorth,H.Horst, A.Galloway, andL. Bell, eds. The Routledge companion to digital ethnography.Abingdon: Routledge, 1-7.Kraemer, J., 2016. Doing fieldwork, BRB: Locating the field on and with emerging media. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 113-131
10/12 15:00 - 18:00In-person ethnography and its predicamentsHewlett, B.L., ed., 2019. The secret lives of anthropologists: Lessons from the field. Routledge: London and New York14/01 15:00 - 18:00CollaborationsLassiter, L.E., 2005. The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography. Chicago: Chicago University PressHorst H., 2016. Being in fieldwork: Collaboration, digital media, and ethnographic practice. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 153-168Burrell, J., 2016. ‘‘Through a screen darkly’’: On remote, collaborative fieldwork in the digital age. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 132-152
Available from:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/14698676/2020/28/2Nelson, A., 2020 Society after pandemic
Available from:
https://items.ssrc.org/covid-19-and-the-social-sciences/society-after-pandemic/29/10 15:00 - 18:00Long-standing concernsNader, L., 2011. Ethnography as theory. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1 (1), 211219Biehl, J., 2013. Ethnography in the way of theory. Cultural Anthropology, 28 (4), 573597Fassin, D., 2013. Why ethnography matters: On anthropology and its publics. Cultural Anthropology, 28 (4), 62164612/11 15:00 - 18:00Self, other, and becomingMarcus, G., 2012. The viral intimacies of ethnographic encounters: Prolegomenon to a thought experiment in the play of metaphors. Cultural Anthropology, 27 (1), 168174Napier, D.A., 2012. NONSELF HELP: How immunology might reframe the Enlightenment. Cultural Anthropology, 27 (1), 122-137Lowe, C., 2010. Viral clouds: Becoming H5N1 in Indonesia. Cultural Anthropology, 25 (4), 625649Singer, M., 2014. Zoonotic ecosyndemics and multispecies ethnography. Anthropological Quarterly, 87 (4), 1279-130919/11 15:00 - 18:00Multi-sited and global fieldworkColeman, S., and, P., 2011. Introduction: Queries, collaborations, calibrations. In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 1-15Comaroff, J. and Comaroff, J., 2003. Ethnography on an awkward scale: Postcolonial anthropology and the violence of abstraction. Ethnography, 4 (2), 147179Marcus, G., 2011. Multi-sited ethnography: Five or six things I know about it now. In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 16-32Ferguson, J., 2011. Novelty and method: Reflections on global fieldwork.In: S. Coleman and P. von Hellermann, eds. Multi-sited ethnography: Problems and possibilities in the translocation of research methods. New York, London: Routledge, 194-20726/11 16:45 - 20:00Digital ethnographyBoellstorff, T., Nardi, B., Pearce, C., and Taylor, T.L., 2013. Ethnography and virtual worlds: A handbook of method. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1-12Bonilla, Y. and Rosa, J., 2015. Ferguson. Digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States. American Ethnologist, 42 (1), 4-17Hjorth, L., Horst, H., Galloway, A.andBell, L., 2017. Introduction. In: L. Hjorth,H.Horst, A.Galloway, andL. Bell, eds. The Routledge companion to digital ethnography.Abingdon: Routledge, 1-7.Kraemer, J., 2016. Doing fieldwork, BRB: Locating the field on and with emerging media. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 113-131
10/12 15:00 - 18:00In-person ethnography and its predicamentsHewlett, B.L., ed., 2019. The secret lives of anthropologists: Lessons from the field. Routledge: London and New York14/01 15:00 - 18:00CollaborationsLassiter, L.E., 2005. The Chicago guide to collaborative ethnography. Chicago: Chicago University PressHorst H., 2016. Being in fieldwork: Collaboration, digital media, and ethnographic practice. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 153-168Burrell, J., 2016. ‘‘Through a screen darkly’’: On remote, collaborative fieldwork in the digital age. In: R. Sanjek and S.W. Tratner, eds. eFieldnotes: The makings of anthropology in the digital world. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 132-152
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