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[Studierende Soziologie] [Decolonizing Anthropology] Lecture this Thursday by Anjum Alvi, Benjamin Baumann, Visisya Pinthongvijayakul and Philipp Zehmisch ( 12.06.24 )

Per E-Mail eingestellt von studiendekanat.soz@uni-bielefeld.de:

(English Version below)

Liebe Studierende und Kolleg:innen in der Vorlesungsreihe „Decolonizing
Anthropology“,
hiermit möchten wir Sie herzlich einladen zum kommenden Gespräch am
13.06.2024 zwischen *Anjum Alvi (Lahore University of Management
Sciences, Pakistan), **Benjamin Baumann (Universität Heidelberg),

**Visisya Pinthongvijayakul (Rajabhat-Universität Chandrakasem,

Thailand) und **Philipp Zehmisch (Universität Heidelberg) **zum Thema
/„Ethnography and Inequality: Reflections on the Decolonization of
Anthropology's Methodological Assemblage" /*

(auf Englisch, Abstract s.u.).*
Weitere Informationen sowie Literaturhinweise finden sich im

zugehörigen boasblog-Beitrag
<https://boasblogs.org/decolonizinganthropology/part-2-session-8-ethnography-and-inequality/>.
*

Seminarleiter:innen haben Zugang zu Begleittexten im geteilten Ordner

auf “Keeper”. *
Der Vortrag findet wie immer am Donnerstag um 18.15 auf Webex statt.
Alle, die sich noch nicht registriert haben, folgen bitte diesem Link
<https://mpi-eth.webex.com/weblink/register/raf47d79b861b8898fa4f0a176e6329e7>.
Wir freuen uns auf das Gespräch und eure/Ihre rege Teilnahme!
Herzliche Grüße,
das Koordinationsteam der Vorlesungsreihe
Ursula Rao (MPI Halle), Martin Zillinger (Köln), Michi Knecht (Bremen),
Anna Lisa Ramella (Lüneburg), Amelie Greefe (Bremen), Sarah Nawratil
(Halle), Benedict Flett (Halle) und Hannah M. Reupert (Bremen)

***

Dear students and colleagues of the lecture series “Deolonizing
Anthropology”,
with this email, we wish to invite you to the upcoming conversation on
June 13 2024 between*/**/**Anjum Alvi (Lahore University of Management
Sciences, Pakistan), **Benjamin Baumann (Heidelberg University),

**Visisya Pinthongvijayakul (**Chandrakasem **Rajabhat University,

Thailand) and **Philipp Zehmisch (Heidelberg **University**)****on the
topic **/„Ethnography and Inequality: Reflections on the Decolonization
of Anthropology's Methodological Assemblage" /**(in English, abstract
below).*
Please find information as well as suggested literature on the talk on
the accompanying boasblog post
<https://boasblogs.org/decolonizinganthropology/part-2-session-8-ethnography-and-inequality/>.

Lecturers have access to the texts in our shared folder on “Keeper”.
The lecture will take place as always on Thursday at 6.15pm on Webex. If
you have not registered yet, please use this link
<https://mpi-eth.webex.com/weblink/register/raf47d79b861b8898fa4f0a176e6329e7> to
do so.
We are looking forward to the conversation and your participation!
Kind regards,
the coordination team of the lecture series
Ursula Rao (MPI Halle), Martin Zillinger (Köln), Michi Knecht (Bremen),
Anna Lisa Ramella (Lüneburg), Amelie Greefe (Bremen), Sarah Nawratil
(Halle), Benedict Flett (Halle) & Hannah M. Reupert (Bremen)

***

Abstract:*

What does the decolonization turn imply for the discipline of
anthropology? In this lecture, we acknowledge that decolonization
contains promising potentials to address the inequalities that
characterize anthropology as an academic discipline, while we
simultaneously emphasize that these approaches ultimately fail to undo
the epistemic violence that is implied in any ethnographic endeavor. We
argue that ethnography, anthropology’s defining and almost canonic
methodological assemblage, builds on a heuristic that presupposes
different forms of inequality, which are ultimately rooted in
coloniality. Institutionalized science remains quintessentially colonial
as it centers on an accumulation of knowledge and hence power.

Can we destabilize the colonial legacies that form our contemporary
understandings of science without destabilizing anthropology as an
academic discipline and its institutionalization?

Our discussion is going to address this central question in three steps.
First, we will outline the epistemic problems encountered in the
decolonization turn as they unfold in anthropology. Second, we ask how
to decolonize power-knowledge relations within anthropology. Third, we
emphasize that a decentering or negation of the Self is not only a
prerequisite of doing ethnographic fieldwork, but also essential to
decolonize the disciplines. Finally, this encompasses our understanding
of what decoloniality actually means.

Our format is intentionally open for discussion, inviting the audience
to share their views on our framework, in order to expand our inquiry
into one of anthropology’s most pressing contemporary issues.