We talked about EASA´s development, the recent protests in and changes of Israeli society and anthropology´s tradition in the region as well as the discipline´s challenges. Dan shared his experiences of how he came to be an anthropologist and provides some advice for students considering a PhD in anthropology.

Dan is interested in ethnicity and nationalism, environment and society, globalisation and transnationalism, identity, ethnography, housing and housing co-operatives, the Palestinian citizens of Israel, Palestinians, Islamic movements, Israeli society and Middle East Politics; Bedouins and places such as Nazareth and Sinai.

Further talks recorded at EASA provide interviews with Helena Wulff, Professor at the University of Stockholm and Prof. Henrietta L. Moore from Cambridge University. For more information about EASA please check our http://www.easaonline.org/.

We talked about the meaning of the EASA conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the discipline in Sweden and how to keep friendships over vast distances. Central to the talk is Helena´s approach to writing and she provides helpful advice to develop strategies and techniques for the improvement of one´s own texts. We touched on issues concerning the handling of critique, rejection, envy, competition and collaboration, and the tension between the creative potential of crisis and increased competition due to shrinking funding opportunities.

Helena Wulff´s research is in the anthropology of communication and aesthetics based on a wide range of studies on the social worlds of literary production, dance, and visual arts. Her specialist skills are in expressive cultural form (dance, art, images, and text) in a transnational perspective, visual culture, the emotions, and media as well as anthropological methods. Helena has held visiting professorships at the University of Ulster, the University of Vienna, the National University of Singapore, and the University of Illinois. Drawing on her research, she also occasionally writes popular articles for newspapers and magazines in Sweden and the UK.

Helena has conducted field studies in Stockholm, London, New York, Frankfurt-am-Main, and Ireland (mostly Dublin). Her current research is on writing and literature as cultural process and form focusing on contemporary Irish writers as cultural translators and public intellectuals.

Further talks recorded at the EASA conference provide interviews with Henrietta Moore, Professor at Cambridge University and Dan Rabinowitz from Tel Aviv University. For more information about EASA please check our http://www.easaonline.org/.

This episode is another non regular one and comes from the University of Manchester Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (GDAT). The motion to be debated is: The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century.

The motion will be proposed by James Laidlaw (Cambridge) and Jonathan Mair (Cambridge and Manchester). It will be opposed by Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Oslo) and Keir Martin (Manchester).

This podcast was recorded at the 12th European Association of Social Anthropologists conference in Nanterre, Paris in July 2012 where I had the chance to interview Professor Henrietta Moore from the University of Cambridge.We talked about the meaning of the EASA conference theme “Uncertainty and Disquiet”, the tradition of the discipline in the UK and anthropology´s contemporary challenges. We touch on issues concerning the decline of funding, increasing protests and pressures of mobility as well as open access approaches, such as the HAU Journal of Ethnographic Theory (http://www.haujournal.org/index.php/hau). Professor Moore gives us her perspective on theoretical avenues pivotal to the discipline and her criteria for good anthropology and well-written ethnographies. She will also talk about the reasons for her long-term fascination for anthropology and give young anthropologists some advice for their academic career.

Henrietta Moore has a continuing long-term research engagement with Africa. Her research programme has focused on gender, livelihood strategies, social transformation and symbolic systems. She is one of the leading theorists of gender in Social Anthropology, and her work has developed a distinctive approach to the analysis of the interrelations of material and symbolic gender systems, embodiment and performance, identity and sexuality.

In dieser Sendung spreche ich mit Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt über die spannende Disziplin der Wissenschaftsforschung. Die Sendung gibt einen sehr guten Einblick in das Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft und Politik. Ich wünsche lehrreiche Unterhaltung und freue mich über Kommentare, E-Mails und Flattr-Klicks!   Referenzen:

Felt, Ulrike; Nowotny, Helga and Taschwer, Klaus (1995) ‘Wissenschaftsforschung. Eine Einführung’ (Frankfurt am Main/New York: Campus).

Felt, Ulrike; Nowotny, Helga (Hrsg) (1995) ‘Social Studies of Science in an International Perspective / Wissenschaftsforschung: Themen und Fragestellungen einer in Österreich neuen Disziplin, Proceedings of a Workshop (University of Vienna, 13-14 January 1994)’ (Wien: Institut für Wissenschaftstheorie und Wissenschaftsforschung, Universität Wien).

Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Stève (1979) ‘Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts’ (Princeton University Press).

Knorr Cetina, Karin (1981) ‘The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist and Contextual Nature of         Science’ (Oxford: Pergamon Press).

Nowotny, Helga; Scott, Peter; Gibbons, Michael (2001) ‘Rethinking science: knowledge in an age of uncertainty’ (Cambridge: Polity).

Fleck, Ludwik; Schäfer, Lothar; Schnelle, Thomas (Hrsg.) (1980) ‘Entstehung und Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Tatsache: Einführung in die Lehre vom Denkstil und Denkkollektiv’ (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp).

Wiener Institut für Wissenschaftsforschung 

WP: Wissenschaftsforschung

WP: Mode 2

Weltgesundheitsorganisation

Project OPUS

besprochenes Projekt zur Nano-Wissenschaft und österreichischer Gesellschaft

Institutsseite Ulrike Felt

Homepage von Helga Nowotny

WP: Adipositas

WP: Cern

WP: Grüne Gentechnik

WP: Ludwik Fleck

WP: Karin Knorr-Cetina

WP: Helga Nowotny

Internet Café in Ghana

Jenna Burrell is Assistant Profesor at the School of Information in Berkley and recently wrote a book about Internet Cafes in Ghana. During her seven year on-and-off fieldwork, she focused on the interesting topic of spamming and internet scams from youth groups in these african internet cafesy.

In this interview we take a look at the klischees against african internet users and how they acted as a self full filling prophecies that lead to the widespread of internet scams in Ghana. The internet is not so global and egalitarian after all, if live in the wrong place.

 

 

Referenzen:

Jenna Burrell. 2012. Invisible Users: Youth in the Internet Caf’s of Urban Ghana (Acting with Technology). MIT Press.

this book on amazon

Audio Recording from Jenna about her book

Video from Jenna about her book

Jenna’s blog

Jenna on twitter @jennaburrell

Jenna’s CV

the blog All Africa 

undersea cable map

homepage for the book

WP: Network Neutrality

WP: Internet Fraud

Ethnography Matters

blogpost about Ethnography Matters on the school of information blog

TA19 – African Hackerspaces interview with programmer from Ushahidi

UPDATE: a good explanation of the global distribution of internet access can one find in this comprehensive ARTE Video (german):

Gemeinsam mit meinem Freund und Podcast-Kollegen Daniel Meßner habe ich mir die Zeit genommen ein bisschen über die Bedeutung unseres Podcast Hobbys zu philosophieren. Wir sprechen über unsere Motivationen und Erfahrungen zum Senden ins Internet.

Mit dieser Episode will ich auch auf meine alternativen Produktionen hinweisen und einen Schlussstrich für die Netzpolitik und Netzkultur in diesem Kanal ziehen. Es soll hier nicht mehr um Themen gehen, die nicht einen anthropologischen oder wissenschaftlichen Bezug haben. Für Hörer_innen, die diese Themen geschätzt haben, gibt es von nun an Netzkinder.at.

Bratislava Hackerspace progressbar celebrated it’s first birthday and we gave it a visit. You hear the story of several slovaks one week before the national election 2012 talking about their situation as net-citizens. The show concludes by overflow from the metalab talking about a new project.

Birthday invitation to the progressbar hacker space

the dada-ACTA project

the webhosting company websupport which got sued and their austiran branch

overflows new project hackerspaceshop

WP: 3D Printer

the website of mitch altman

habitat.fm streaming collective

on the banned book about the corruption scandal:

more on the charges

an article mentioning the company WebSupport

on the slovak protests

society for open information technologies

on the Slovak National Security Office “hack”

short story about the police and the WebSupport servers

This is the yearly roundup panel at the 28. Chaos Communication Congress (28c3) about the future of the annual event of the chaos computer club (ccc) and the year in perspective of hacker events. Our guests were Tim Pritlove, Jérémie Zimmermann, Mitch Altman, Onkie from Telecomix, HJ from Noisebridge/Dresden, bicyclemark and on the decks was gmc.

In dieser Episode unterhalte ich mich mit Dr. Andre Gingrich im Rahmen der DGV-Tagung in Wien. Wir sprachen über die deutschsprachige Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie, die Zukunft des Faches, den Kulturbegriff, anthropologische Auseinandersetzungen mit Rassismus und das digitale Feld.