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Summer Academy: "Resistant and Interdisciplinary – Ethnography as Epistemic Practice"
Event
- Starts on
- 16.07.26
- Ends on
- 17.07.26
Vienna
Event access: Internal
Ethnographic research has gained significance far beyond the boundaries of (European) ethnology/cultural anthropology in recent decades. Today, ethnographic research is present in a variety of academic disciplines – from human geography and sociology to law. In this context, "ethnography" is often reduced to a methodological approach – usually participant observation – or used as a methodological tool. However, there is less reflection on the epistemic prerequisites and implications of ethnographic research practice in the various disciplines. Due to their involvement in research, ethnographers are also repeatedly accused of bias and activism. Ethnography is resistant – it is uncomfortable, makes the invisible visible, is scientific work beyond the ivory tower and therefore a contested epistemic practice. This assumption will be discussed with experts during a summer academy, creating a space for reflection: the focus will be on how ethnographic approaches take shape in different disciplinary contexts and what researchers can learn about ethnography as an epistemic stance on this basis.
The organisers of the summer academy are Helen Ahner, Sarah Klosterkamp and Thorsten Merl.
- Research Groups
participating Members
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Helen Ahner
- person_research_subject
- Historical and Cultural Anthropology
- institution
- University of Vienna
- Phone
- +43-1-4277-44007
- helen.ahner@univie.ac.at
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Sarah Klosterkamp
- person_research_subject
- Human Geography
- institution
- Goethe University Frankfurt
- Phone
- +49 69 798 35176
- klosterkamp@geo.uni-frankfurt.de
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Thorsten Merl
- person_research_subject
- Educational Sciences
- institution
- University of Koblenz
- tmerl@uni-koblenz.de
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