Cultural Differences and Transnational Processes CREOLE

Current Debates in Social Anthropology

Mittwoch, 19.03.2025

In this seminar, current developments in social anthropology will be discussed. Starting from postcolonial, postmodern and feminist interventions in the 1980s and the effects of globalization relevant breaks, continuities and innovations in social anthropology will be presented as well as the essential scientific turns or major contributions will be discussed on the basis of ethnographic monographs. For example, it will be asked what problems feminist anthropology reveals today and what contributions it makes to violence, kinship, sexuality and reproduction. In addition, we will discuss how research on globalization and nationalism has developed and how this enables a better understanding of political polarization, right-wing populism and justice in distribution. We discuss border studies and state institutions to explore security and surveillance or care and control. Equally, we are interested in what has been coined as “crises as continuity”, or “times of extremes” as anthropologists study interventions in wars zones and catastrophes and how analyses of affects and morality contribute to a better understanding of borders, migration and asylum. How things and affects are brought together in ethnography will be discussed as much as the meaning of time and temporalities. For this course, ethnographies and key scholarly articles will be used to highlight important turns and debates in the discipline.

Dozierende(r):	Prof. Dr. Sabine Strasser
19.03.2025:	10:15 - 12:00
Ort:	2. Etage, S221 am Institut für Sozialanthropologie Unitobler Lerchenweg 36
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