Mobilizing Contradiction: Methods as Tools. For Example: Ethnography/ Praxeography/ Walking

Michi Knecht (RTG Contradiction Studies) & Ingo H. Warnke (RTG Contradiction Studies)

07/07/2022 4:15 pm 5:30 pm

U Bremen GRA 2 0030

Readings:

Verran, Helen. 2021. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working towards Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Trouble. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik (eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion To Analysis, 235–245. Durkham: Duke University Press. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/110829/9781478091691_Ballestero_Experimenting_with_Ethnography.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (17.05.2022).

Vogel, Else. 2021. Juxtaposition. Differences that Matter. In Ballestro, Andrea & Brit Ross Wirthereik(eds.), Experimenting with Ethnography. A Companion To Analysis, 54–65. Durkham: Duke University Press. https://scholarship.rice.edu/bitstream/handle/1911/110829/9781478091691_Ballestero_Experimenting_with_Ethnography.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y (17.05.2022).

Supplementary Readings:

Knecht, Michi. 2013. Nach Writing-Culture, mit Actor-Network: Ethnografie und Praxeografie in der Wissenschafts-, Medizin-und Technikanthropologie. In Sabine Hess, Maria Schwertl&Johannes Moser (eds.). Europäisch-ethnologisches Forschen. Neue Methoden und Konzepte, 79–106. Berlin: Reimer.

Warnke, Ingo H. 2016. Tahrir is not a square. Wie meta- urbane Protestkommunikate städtische Territorien des Widerspruchs strukturieren. Zeitschrift für Semiotik 38(1–2), 65–86.

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“At first I thought contradiction was always a relational thing; but the more I ponder it, the more I think contradiction creates relation.”

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