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Seminar
WiSe 22/23: Crises of the Contemporary: Anthropological perspectives
Dominik Mattes
Kommentar
Ranging from a global financial crash to worldwide pandemics, wars, related flows of migration, and environmental disasters, in the past two decades, we have witnessed numerous large-scale phenomena that have discursively been framed as existential ‘crises’. Crisis, in fact, seems to have become an essential mode of experiencing, conceptualizing, and acting in and upon the contemporary world. In this seminar, the notion of crisis will be theoretically assessed in regard to its temporal logics, affective undercurrents, and potential for political mobilization. Students will further turn to specific contemporary crisis scenarios in order to get an empirically grounded understanding of how respective situations and processes emerged, are ‘lived’, and dealt with ‘on the ground’. More than that, the seminar will discuss ways for social anthropologists to not only approach ‘crises’ as an object of analytic enquiry but a field of practical political engagement.
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Literaturhinweise
Suggested reading:
- Vigh, Henrik. 2008. Crisis and chronicity. Anthropological perspectives on continuous conflict and decline. In: Ethnos 73(1): 5-24.
- Vigh, Henrik. 2008. Crisis and chronicity. Anthropological perspectives on continuous conflict and decline. In: Ethnos 73(1): 5-24.
16 Termine
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Di, 18.10.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 25.10.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 01.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 08.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 15.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 22.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 29.11.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 06.12.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 13.12.2022 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 03.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 10.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 17.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 24.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 31.01.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 07.02.2023 10:00 - 12:00
Di, 14.02.2023 10:00 - 12:00