EASST/4S Prague: How does long-term ethnographic research affect concept work and case-making in practice?

The conference theme alerts us to ‘timing’ and thus the difficulty of conducting research on emerging phenomena without becoming a fleeting observer ourselves. We ask how long-term research commitments affect how we conceptualize and construct cases, how we attend to the temporalities of these cases and how these temporalities in turn affect our concept work. Inspired by anthropology’s emphasis on long-term ethnographic research, we ask how long-term engagements with research fields shape STS research in practice.

Zusammenfassung

  • Was Call For Papers — EASST/4S Prague: How does long-term ethnographic research affect concept work and case-making in practice?
  • Wann to (Europe/Berlin / UTC100)
  • Wo Pague
  • Teilnehmer*innen Martina Klausner (Goethe Universität Frankfurt), Jörg Niewöhner, Josefine Raasch & Patrick Bieler (all Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • URL https://www.easst4s2020prague.org/
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Beschreibung

To turn our attention to those stated effects, we propose to focus on the following three dimensions:

1) Based on the assumption that long-term interactions with the interlocutors have an impact on the processes and outcomes of conceptualizing, we ask: What matters shape our conceptualizing? How are these concepts, developed in long-term research, generative of re-conceptualizations in STS?

2) In a similar way, long-term interactions shape the processes and outcomes of case-making. How does long-term research commitment shape what matters and how we construct our cases? How do these cases, developed in long-term research, shape our modes of generalising?

3) And last, we wonder how timing matters in the ways we think about and conceptualize continuities and ruptures: How does it help us to understand degrees of freedom and formations of (inter-)dependencies of processes we observe?

We seek contributions that address these questions based on long-term empirical research projects. The panel is meant to foster an exchange of experiences with long-term research, provide a space for reflecting current efforts and a platform for discussing ways forward.

Abstracts (max. 250 words) can be submitted via the program website unti February 29, 2020.

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