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  • 1
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  49,2, Seiten 238-262
    ISSN: 0162-2439 , 0162-2439
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (25 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London : Sage Publications
    Angaben zur Quelle: 49,2, Seiten 238-262
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: acoustics ; ethnography ; knowledge practices ; architecture ; science and technology studies ; listening practices ; Sozialwissenschaften
    Abstract: What sounds and noises does a future building make? How do architectural acousticians listen to a building in the making? How do you measure something that is not yet there? What is the epistemological status of approximations? Following the listening practices of acousticians as they measure a future experience of sound through a mock-up and of noise through an incomplete simulation, this article explores the challenge of fixing sound and noise as elusive objects of knowledge. Based on an ethnography of a building project, we see how architectural acousticians rely on what they call “approximations,” both the inscriptions and inscriptive work used to give traces of reality to future lived experiences of sound and noise that they hope “would be” there. Bringing together sound studies, ethnographies of architectural practice and science and technology studies accounts of inscription practices, the article argues for attention to be placed on the ephemera of knowledge and design practices, which allows analytic focus to remain upstream between the possible and the actual. Situated within the practices of the acousticians, we can witness some of the ways that sound and noise take shape within a building project, grosso modo.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  ,83, Seiten 65-85
    ISSN: 2702-2536 , 2702-2536
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,83, Seiten 65-85
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: anthropology ; art ; curating ; collaboration ; colonial heritage ; ethnography ; Berlin ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Anthropological fieldwork is a collaborative practice, based and reliant on interactions and relations of trust and exchange. Yet, it is limited and enabled by the openings and closings, the stability and instability of relations between interlocutors, fieldworkers, and the many things that matter in between and around these relations. This article reflects on a series of public conversations called gallery reflections, which were instigated as a collaborative ethnographic practice with and within the gallery of the institute of foreign cultural relations (ifa) in Berlin-Mitte. The series addressed the legacies of German colonial heritage and the public role of anthropology against the backdrop of the construction of the Humboldt Forum and museum transformations. Investigating the notion of the anthropologist as sparring partner, this article probes into possible ways of conceiving curatorial-ethnographic collaborations as ‘instigative public fieldwork’.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 2702-2536 , 2702-2536
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,83, Seiten 87-105
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Ko-laboration ; Reflexivität ; Intervention ; Ethnografie ; Wissensproduktion ; verteilte Handlungsträgerschaft ; co-laboration ; reflexivity ; intervention ; ethnography ; knowledge production ; distributed agency ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Die Zusammenarbeit mit Akteur*innen im Feld ist spätestens seit den 1980er Jahren ein zentrales Thema ethnografischer Wissensproduktion. Allerdings ist in der Umsetzung von Kollaborationen meist folgender Zwiespalt zu beobachten: Varianten der Dekonstruktion und „Kritik von außen“ stehen Formen der engagierten oder aktivistischen Forschung gegenüber, die „von innen“ an vorab definierten Problemlösungen arbeiten oder epistemische Positionen des Forschungsfeldes übernehmen. Beide Pole können aus unserer Sicht die Frage nach gesellschaftlich wirkmächtiger Kritik aus den Sozialwissenschaften heute nicht ausreichend beantworten. Basierend auf zehn Jahren Zusammenarbeit mit Partner*innen im Feld der psychiatrischen Versorgung und Forschung, stellen wir in diesem Artikel drei unterschiedliche Formate des ko-laborativen – temporären und nicht an einem gemeinsamem, normativem Ziel orientierten – Zusammenarbeitens vor dem Hintergrund ihrer praktischen Durchführung detailliert vor. Wir diskutieren, wie praktische Formen des Zusammenarbeitens mit dem Forschungsfeld die Forschungssubjekte im Prozess der Wissensgenerierung als epistemische Partner*innen konzeptualisieren und damit auf eine Veränderung der ethnografischen Wissensproduktion im Forschungsprozess an sich abzielen. Wir argumentieren, dass durch situierte Konzeptarbeit gemeinsam mit anderen Akteur*innen die eigene Disziplin zentral weiter entwickelt und sozio-materielle Verhältnisse jenseits von distanzierter Kritik oder Perspektivübernahme mitgestaltet werden können.
    Abstract: Collaboration with actors in the research field has been a central theme of ethnographic knowledge production since at least the 1980s. However, the implementation of collaboration can frequently be characterized by a dichotomy: Variants of deconstruction and "critique from the outside" contrast with engaged or activist research that operates "from the inside" and is occupied with solving predefined problems in accordance with the epistemic positions of the research field. In our view, both positions do not adequately offer an impactful social scientific critique. Based on ten years of collaboration with partners in the field of psychiatric care and research, we present in detail the implementation of three different formats of co-laborative - temporary and non-teleological - work. We discuss how practical forms of co-laborating with the research field position research subjects as epistemic partners during the process of knowledge production with the aim of impacting ethnographic knowledge making. We argue that situated concept work together with other actors establishes the possibility to feed back into the own discipline beyond distanced critique or adoption of perspective while simultaneously allowing for productive intervention into and with the field.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  ,83, Seiten 107-116
    ISSN: 2702-2536 , 2702-2536
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (10 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,83, Seiten 107-116
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Kritik ; Ethnografie ; studying up ; materiell-semiotische Praxis ; critique ; ethnography ; studying up ; material-semiotic practice ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Ethnografische Forschung ist reflexiv, sowohl mit Blick auf die eigene Forschungspraxis als auch auf die eigene Person in einem gesellschaftlichen Kontext. Wie genau sie dies ist, wird selten diskutiert. Implizit wird diese Reflexivität häufig als eine individuelle geistige Haltung und Fähigkeit zur Kritik verstanden. Spätestens seit das ebenfalls umfänglich reflexive Forschungssubjekt in der Europäischen Ethnologie zum Regelfall geworden ist, bedarf es einer Überprüfung dieses Reflexivitätsverständnisses. Ich schlage hier vor, Reflexivität als gefügte Praxis zu verstehen und sie damit für empirische Forschung verfügbar zu machen. Reflexivität als gefügte Praxis dezentriert, erstens, Reflexivität als geistigen Prozess und etabliert stattdessen Reflektieren als konkrete materiell-semiotische Praktik. Zweitens dezentriert diese Perspektive das individuelle epistemische Subjekt zugunsten von Reflektieren als einer ko-laborativen Praxis. Drittens plädiert dieser Ansatz für ergebnisoffenes Reflektieren als Selbstzweck statt es gleichsam in den Dienst einer spezifischen Form der Kritik zu stellen.
    Abstract: Ethnographic research is reflexive, both with regard to one's own research practice and to one's own person in a societal context. How exactly this is the case is rarely discussed. Implicitly, this reflexivity is often understood as an individual's mental attitude and critical capacity. Ever since the fully reflexive research subject has become the norm in European Ethnology, this understanding of reflexivity needs updating. I propose here to understand reflexivity as a assembled practice and thus make it available for empirical research. Reflexivity as a assembled practice decentres, firstly, reflexivity as a mental process and instead establishes reflection as a concrete material-semiotic practice. Secondly, this perspective decentres the individual epistemic subject in favour of reflection as a co-laborative practice. Third, this approach advocates open-ended reflection as an end in itself rather than placing it at the service of a specific form of critique.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 2702-2536 , 2702-2536
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (15 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021
    Angaben zur Quelle: ,83, Seiten 3-18
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Kooperation ; Kollaboration ; Kuratieren ; Ethnografie ; Reflexivität ; engagierte Forschung ; epistemische Partnerschaft ; cooperation ; collaboration ; curating ; ethnography ; reflexivity ; engaged anthropology ; epistemic partnership ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Mit den Begriffen „Kooperieren“, „Kollaborieren“ und „Kuratieren“ nähern wir uns den verschiedenen Modi der Zusammenarbeit in der ethnografischen Forschung, wie sie in diversen Feldern, in der Interaktion zwischen verschiedenen Akteur*innen und mit unterschiedlichen Zielsetzungen praktiziert werden. In der Einleitung zu dem Themenheft verfolgen wir weniger den Anspruch einer klaren Definition und Konturierung dieser Begriffe. Vielmehr bündeln wir fortlaufende methodologische, ethische und epistemologische Diskussionen überblicksartig, um die unterschiedlichen Möglichkeiten aufzufächern, mit denen ethnografische Forschung in gegenwärtige gesellschaftliche Debatten und Prozesse hineinwirken kann. Die Diskussion der unterschiedlichen Formen des ethnografischen Zusammenarbeitens steht sechs Aufsätzen voran, die ausschnitthaft Einblicke in Formen der Zusammenarbeit gewähren, wie sie am Institut für Europäische Ethnologie der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin durchgeführt werden. Der einleitende Überbick sowie der gesamte Band sind als Einladung zu verstehen, die Möglichkeiten und Grenzen produktiver Formen der Zusammenarbeit zu diskutieren und dabei die gegenwärtigen Herausforderungen ethnografischer Arbeit und gesellschaftlichen Zusammenlebens anzunehmen und zur eigenen Aufgabe zu machen.
    Abstract: With notions such as “cooperating“, “collaborating“ and “curating“ we address modes of working together in ethnographic-anthropological research, as are realised across diverse fields, in interaction with different actors and with multiple goals. We do not claim to present clear definitions or sharp distinctions between different notions. Rather we briefly bring together ongoing discussions in order to unfold the controversially discussed roles of ethnographic research in contemporary societal debates. This overview is followed by six research papers that provide insights into the range of forms of working together as it was and is practiced at the Institute for European Ethnology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This collection addresses, on the one hand, researchers, students, teachers and colleagues at the Institute who wish to know more about how their colleagues work and with whom and, on the other hand, to the outside and all readers with an interest in the range of formats of ethnographic research and knowledge production.
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    ISSN: 2702-2536
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (118 Seiten)
    Additional Information: Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2021 ,83, Seiten 1-118 2702-2536
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: Zeitschrift ; Kritik ; Zusammenarbeit ; Ethnografie ; Reflexivität ; critique ; collaboration ; ethnography ; reflexivity ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Mit wem und wann, wie und wozu arbeiten Wissenschaftler*innen ethnografisch zusammen? Dieser Band schlägt vor, diese Fragen nach forschender Zusammenarbeit anhand des Spektrums "Kooperieren – Kollaborieren – Kuratieren" forschungspraktisch auszuloten. Die Autor*innen geben Einblicke in unterschiedliche Forschungsfelder und -erfordernisse der kulturanthropologischen Geschlechterforschung, Medizinanthropologie, Museums- und Wirtschaftsethnologie sowie der Anthropologie des Politischen und diskutieren, welche Formen von Intervention und Kritik sie ermöglichen.
    Abstract: With whom, when, how and what for do researchers work together ethnographically? This issue proposes to follow these questions along the spectrum "cooperating - collaborating - curating" through concrete research projects. The authors provide insights in different fields and their specific requirements in cultural-anthropological gender studies, medical anthropology, museum and economic anthropology and an anthropology of the political and discuss, which modes of intervention and critique they enable.
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  • 7
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    ISBN: 9781108873079
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (76 Seiten)
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: violence ; games ; emotions ; digital media ; ethnography ; Soziologie, Anthropologie
    Abstract: Violence in video games has been a controversial object of public discourse for several decades. The question of what kind of emotional experiences players enact when playing with representations of physical violence in games has been largely ignored however. Building upon an extensive ethnographic study of players' emotional practices in video games, including participant observation in online games, qualitative interviews, an analysis of YouTube videos and gaming magazines since the 1980s, this Element provides new insights into the complexity and diversity of player experiences and the pleasures of playful virtual violence. Instead of either defending or condemning the players, it contributes foundational, unprejudiced knowledge for a societal and academic debate on a critical aspect of video gaming.
    Note: The publication of this work was supported by the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
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    ISBN: 9789461663177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (434 Seiten)
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: anthropology ; ethnography ; museums ; collections ; difficult heritage ; colonialism ; postcolonial theory ; curatorial practices ; contemporary art ; Europe ; Soziologie, Anthropologie ; Museumswissenschaft ; Kultur und Institutionen
    Abstract: How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.
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  • 9
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Zeitschrift für Ethnologie 145,2020,2, Seiten 343-370
    ISSN: 0044-2666 , 0044-2666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Reimer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 145,2020,2, Seiten 343-370
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: modernity ; ethnography ; photography ; tourism ; material culture ; landscape ; Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
    Abstract: As Therasiotes – residents of Therasia, a sparsely populated island sitting to the west of the globally iconic tourist destination of Santorini – engage with their landscape, they are haunted by a sense of stillness, which contrasts with Santorini’s reverberating modernity. By combining text with photographic imagery, this essay explores how Therasiotes experience quietness and its perceived antithesis, modernity, as well as the ways in which both are entangled in conflicting dynamics of pleasure and aversion, a condition invoking Derrida’s discussion of Plato’s pharmakon, with its inherent vacillation between the categories of cure and poison. The article examines peoples’ material practices and modes of looking in order to understand how they experience time and place and how they rework the island’s position in national and global hierarchies of value. It also proposes a peripatetic narrative structure that mirrors my own physical movements on the island in pursuit of photos and thus explores the ethnographic role of photography as a narrative strategy, an object of study and a research method.
    Note: published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Konstantinos Kalantzis: “Modernity as Cure and Poison: Photo-Ethnography and Ambiguous Stillness in Therasia, Greece”. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 145.2 (2020), Special Issue “Rethinking the Mediterranean”, pages 343–370. Die Zweitveröffentlichung dieses Artikels unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) erfolgte mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Reimer Verlags.
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    In:  145,2, Seiten 317-342
    ISSN: 0044-2666 , 0044-2666
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (26 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Berlin : Reimer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 145,2, Seiten 317-342
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: Egypt ; Arab Bedouin ; strategic tribalism ; maḍyafa ecology ; parliamentary elections ; rural-urban nexus ; connectivity ; ethnography ; Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
    Abstract: In order to examine the entangled notions of rural hinterlands and practices of future- and place-making, this article focuses on an episode from my fieldwork in Egypt’s Eastern Nile Delta in 2015/16, when I accompanied Tahawi Bedouins on their successful campaign during Egypt’s parliamentary elections in 2015. The aim is to shed light on the strategic use of tribal solidarity and patronage networks to mobilize supporters and voters. However, the same tribal networks and resources were also used to invoke and perform the necessary tribal unity when faced with a rural non-Tahawi population. The article develops two ideas, strategic tribalism and maḍyafa (guest house) ecology, to show the election campaign as an example of future- and place-making in a rural setting, whereas the specific constraints, possibilities and meanings embedded in the rural as a resource and a reserve unfold very differently, always reaching beyond romantic notions of the rural as remote.
    Note: published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Christoph Lange: “How to Win Elections in the Eastern Delta of Egypt: Towards the Idea of a Strategic Tribalism”. In: Zeitschrift für Ethnologie / Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology 145.2 (2020), Special Issue “Rethinking the Mediterranean”, pages 317–342. Die Zweitveröffentlichung dieses Artikels unter der Lizenz Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) erfolgte mit freundlicher Genehmigung des Reimer Verlags.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  50,1, Seiten 11-32
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (22 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: London [u.a.] : : Sage Publ.
    Angaben zur Quelle: 50,1, Seiten 11-32
    DDC: 390
    Keywords: epistemological practices ; ethnography ; methodology ; practice theory ; STS ; Bräuche, Etikette, Folklore
    Abstract: Although the practice of writing is key to the production of ethnographic knowledge, the topic remains understudied. Using material from our own ethnographic research in the fields of air travel and cultural heritage as data, we develop a reflexive account of ethnographic writing. We examine in detail the practices of jotting down observations, writing field notes, analytic annotating, ordering and rearranging, and drafting and revising papers. The article takes a praxeological stance, conceptualizing writing as a practice that is simultaneously cognitive, embodied, and material. Our analysis finds that writing influences and shapes all stages of ethnographic work, from orienting perception by setting an appropriate mode of attention to organizing the work itself, e.g., by keeping to-do lists. Writing does not simply communicate ethnographic insights, but—as a result of the activity of texts—it also generates them.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  Geoforum 101,2019, Seiten 202-211
    ISSN: 0016-7185 , 0016-7185
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (38 Seiten)
    Titel der Quelle: Geoforum
    Publ. der Quelle: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 101,2019, Seiten 202-211
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: mental health care ; precarity ; housing market ; urban assemblages ; ethnography ; niching ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Community psychiatry services in Berlin are currently facing serious challenges providing care to their clients due to a strained housing market and a lack of housing for people with low income or on welfare. Rather than using the word precarity to describe the effect of cuts in welfare state benefits and investments, we grasp precarity ethnographically as a situated, processual condition that emerges in urban assemblages. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in community psychiatry and with people with a psychiatric diagnosis in Berlin, we elaborate on the entanglement of housing market development, gentrification processes and mental health care provision. Community psychiatry professionals especially face challenges securing decent housing for their clients in the inner-city; as a result they pressure them to keep disturbances to a minimum and keep inconspicuous clients in the mental health care system. We argue that precarity is contingently produced by the coming-together of urban developments and community psychiatry principles. As such, precarity itself is generative of shifts in mental health care practices, produces visible tensions within community psychiatry and unfolds in the everyday struggles of mental health care clients, resulting in ambiguous outcomes. To provide a relational analysis of precarity as lived experience and a condition of urban life, we introduce the notion of niching as a middle-range concept connecting conditions of precarity with what people make of it. This is complemented by an analysis of the socio-material practices that produce urbanism.
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    Note: Final version published as: Patrick Bieler, Martina Klausner: “Niching in cities under pressure. Tracing the reconfiguration of community psychiatric care and the housing market in Berlin”. In: Geoforum 101 (2019), pages 202–211. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.01.018
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  16,2, Seiten 138-156
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (19 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Leicester : University of Leicester
    Angaben zur Quelle: 16,2, Seiten 138-156
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: ethnography ; museum ; methodology ; organization ; organigram ; Berlin ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Museumswissenschaft (Museologie)
    Abstract: This article addresses the question of how to go beyond the conceptualisation of museums as islands in museum ethnography without losing the ethnographic depth and insights that such research can provide. Discussing existing ethnographic research in museums, the ethnographic turn in organization studies, and methodological innovation that seeks to go beyond bounded locations in anthropology, we offer a new museum methodology that retains ethnography’s capacity to grasp the often overlooked workings of organizational life – such as the informal relations, uncodified activities, chance events and feelings – while also avoiding ‘methodological containerism’, that is, the taking of the museum as an organization for granted. We then present a project design for a multi-sited, multi-linked, multi-researcher ethnography to respond to this; together with its specific realisation as the Making Differences project currently underway on Berlin’s Museum Island. Drawing on three sub-projects of this large ethnography – concerned with exhibition-making in the Museum of Islamic Art, in the Ethnological Museum in preparation for the Humboldt Forum (a high profile and contested cultural development due to open in 2019) and a new exhibition about Berlin, also for the Humboldt Forum – we highlight the importance of what happens beyond the ‘container,’ the discretion of what we even take to be the ‘container’, and how ‘organization-ness’ of various kinds is ‘done’ or ‘achieved’. We do this in part through an analysis of organigrams at play in our research fields, showing what these variously reveal, hide and suggest. Understanding museums, and organizations more generally, in this way, we argue, brings insight both to some of the specific developments that we are analysing as well as to museum and organization studies more widely.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  18,1, Seiten 59-80
    ISSN: 1463-4996 , 1463-4996
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (28 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Sage
    Angaben zur Quelle: 18,1, Seiten 59-80
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: hope as practice ; hoping ; material-semiotics ; peri-urban Ouagadougou ; Burkina Faso ; ethnography ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Soziale Prozesse ; Geografie Afrikas und Reisen in Afrika
    Abstract: Hope is much discussed as a future-oriented affect emerging from uncertain living conditions. While this conceptualisation illuminates the role that hope plays in shaping life trajectories, hope itself remains largely unaddressed. In this paper, we approach hope ethnographically as practice through the lens of material-semiotics. We draw on fieldwork in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where hoping turns out to be co-constitutive of peri-urban life and landscape. We challenge person-centred understandings of hope in order to bring materiality back in two ways: first, hoping in its various modes and forms is always situated in particular settings, thus, its enactment has to be reflected; and second, hoping “takes place”, co-constitutive of the transformation of urban life. Additionally, we consider the temporality of hoping and highlight how hoping persists through urban space. We conclude that a more profound and thoroughly materialised understanding of hoping’s generative and stabilising potential may strengthen the role of anthropology in current research on socio-ecological transformations.
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    Note: published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Janine Hauer, Jonas Østergaard Nielsen and Jörg Niewöhner: “Landscapes of Hoping. Urban Expansion and Emerging Futures in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso”. In: Anthropological Theory 18.1 (2018), pages 59–80. DOI: 10.1177/1463499617747176.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  , Seiten 187-206
    ISBN: 978-1138813410 , 978-1138813410
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (21 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Abingdon : Routledge
    Angaben zur Quelle: , Seiten 187-206
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: cosmopolitics ; niching ; city ; infrastructures ; mental health ; psychiatry ; ethnography ; assemblages ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Medizin und Gesundheit
    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Milena D. Bister, Martina Klausner and Jörg Niewöhner: “The cosmopolitics of ‘niching’. Rendering the city habitable along infrastructures of mental health care”. In: Urban Cosmopolitics. Agencements, Assemblies, Atmospheres. Edited by Anders Blok and Ignacio Farías. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2016. Chapter 10, pages 187–206.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  12, Seiten 119-125
    ISBN: 978-0-08-097087-5 , 978-0-08-097087-5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (14 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Oxford : Elsevier
    Angaben zur Quelle: 12, Seiten 119-125
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: computer-supported cooperative work ; dys-appearing ; ecology ; embeddedness ; energopolitics ; ethnography ; infrastructuring ; interpellation ; inversion ; ordering ; relational ; urban anthropology ; utilities ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: The concept of infrastructure refers to the embedded, often invisible technical support structures that help to deliver services to a population or organization, most commonly water, energy, and information. Infrastructures mediate human interaction and shape social organization. Anthropology has developed a relational perspective on infrastructures analyzing them as the ongoing interweaving of embodied social and political choices, moral orders, and technical networks. This approach has much to offer for anthropologists, because it is largely based on ethnographic research, shows a deep commitment to materiality as practice and provides a productive way of thinking through the changing relations of center and periphery. It is an area of research with important intersections into the information sciences and urban studies.
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    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner: “Infrastructures of Society, Anthropology of”. In: International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. 2nd edition. Edited by James D. Wright. Oxford: Elsevier, 2015. Volume 12, pages 119–125. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-08-097086-8.12201-9.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  110,2, Seiten 185-214
    ISSN: 0044-3700 , 0044-3700
    Language: German
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (31 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: Münster : Waxmann
    Angaben zur Quelle: 110,2, Seiten 185-214
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: urban anthropology ; ecology ; ethnography ; infrastructure ; biopolitics ; geopolitics ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Ökologie ; Soziale Prozesse
    Abstract: In this essay, I describe life- and climate-scientifically informed Bio- and Geo-Politics as important drivers of incremental change in urban everyday life. In three steps, I develop a social anthropological research programmatic that allows analysis of such change. Firstly, I identify a new role for knowledge practices in the enactment of techniques of government in times of real experiments. Secondly, I demonstrate that German European Ethnology as well as anthropology internationally harbors a neglected tradition of systematic long-term, methodologically broad research that is worth re-considering. It is really the only way to analytically capture incremental socio-ecological change. In a third and last step, I sketch a research programmatic rooted within a relational understanding of urban everyday life that pleads for an ethnography of infrastructure and of administrative practice. I emphasize the necessary role of epistemic partnerships with other actors in science as well as in urban development. This form of co-laborative anthropology furthers a new understanding of reflexivity and critique as mobility.
    Note: erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen (published first as): Jörg Niewöhner: „Ökologien der Stadt. Zur Ethnografie bio- und geopolitischer Praxis“. In: Zeitschrift für Volkskunde 110.2 (2014), Seiten 185–214. Das hier mit Genehmigung des Waxmann Verlags zur Verfügung gestellte Dokument ist urheberrechtlich geschützt. Es darf nur zu privaten, nicht-kommerziellen Zwecken genutzt werden; eine Bearbeitung oder Weiterverbreitung ist nicht gestattet.
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  6,3, Seiten 279-298
    ISSN: 1745-8560 , 1745-8560
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (23 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Palgrave Macmillan/Springer
    Angaben zur Quelle: 6,3, Seiten 279-298
    DDC: 300
    Keywords: epigenetics ; molecularisation ; ethnography ; embedded body ; biosociality ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Soziologie und Anthropologie ; Das Sozialverhalten beeinflussende Faktoren ; Medizin und Gesundheit
    Abstract: The molecular biological field of epigenetics has recently attracted attention not only in biology, but also in the broader scientific community and the popular press. Commentators paint a very heterogeneous picture with some arguing that epigenetics is nothing but another aspect of gene regulation, and others enthusiastically proclaiming a paradigmatic shift in developmental biology. This article analyses a particular approach to environmental epigenetics – a subfield of epigenetics that is central to the recent excitement. The focus lies on an ethnographic analysis of research practices that enable a particular lab group to study the impact of different levels of context, for example, changes in the social and material environment, on epigenetic modification and thus phenotypic variation. The article argues that changes in the practice of doing epigenetic biology contribute to a molecularisation of biography and milieu, suggest the configuration of somatic sociality and produce a different concept of the body: the embedded body. This article concludes with a brief discussion of customary biology as a potential new research agenda at the interface of material and social inquiry.
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    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner: “Epigenetics: Embedded bodies and the molecularisation of biography and milieu”. In: BioSocieties 6.3 (2011), pages 279–298. DOI: 10.1057/biosoc.2011.4
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  9,4, Seiten 528-536
    ISSN: 1569-1330 , 1569-1330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (8 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Brill
    Angaben zur Quelle: 9,4, Seiten 528-536
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: involvement ; comparability ; ethnography ; process ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: This short contribution is a response to Robert Prus' commentary paper "Ethnographic Comparisons, Complexities and Conceptualities.'' We agree with many of the points raised and merely reiterate three aspects of our position in order to reinforce the unique features of our notion of thick comparison: First, ethnography has an important role to play in social inquiry. Second, ethnographers appropriate fields by getting involved in them. This involvement enables the production of comparability, which we do not understand to be an inherent quality of the world. Third, producing comparability is an ongoing process at the heart of thick comparison. Its failure and limitations are productive.
    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner and Thomas Scheffer: “Producing Comparability Ethnographically: Reply to Robert Prus”. In: Comparative Sociology 9.4 (2010), pages 528–536. DOI: 10.1163/156913210X12555713197213
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  9,4, Seiten 544-547
    ISSN: 1569-1330 , 1569-1330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (4 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Brill
    Angaben zur Quelle: 9,4, Seiten 544-547
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: involvement ; comparability ; ethnography ; process ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner and Thomas Scheffer: “Putting Complex Worlds into Words: A Final Response to Prus”. In: Comparative Sociology 9.4 (2010), pages 544–547. DOI: 10.1163/ 156913210X12555713197295
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    Berlin : Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    In:  7,3, Seiten 273-285
    ISSN: 1569-1330 , 1569-1330
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (11 Seiten)
    Publ. der Quelle: : Brill
    Angaben zur Quelle: 7,3, Seiten 273-285
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: comparison ; ethnography ; Soziologie und Anthropologie
    Abstract: Editorial of the special issue "Thick Comparison: How Ethnography Produces Comparability" of the journal "Comparative Sociology", published in 2008.
    Note: Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen): Jörg Niewöhner and Thomas Scheffer: “Introduction”. Issue Editorial. In: Comparative Sociology 7.3 (2008), pages 273–285. DOI: 10.1163/156913308X306627
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