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- Lundquist, Elin, 1986-
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Flyktiga möten : Fågelskådning, epistemisk gemenskap och icke-mänsklig karisma
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis investigates birdwatching and focuses on the knowledges, skills and ideas that are obtained and acknowledged among birdwatchers. The aim is to explore how these ways of relating to birds are constituted. Birdwatching is considered as an epistemic practice, which produce and maintain knowledge. Thus, the human participants of these practices are regarded as members of an epistemic community. The overall theoretical framework is based on a material-semiotic perspective: the epistemic community, is viewed as not only made up of human beings, but of a variety of human and nonhuman actors – birds, technologies and landscapes – which altogether co-produce the practices. To investigate how habitual ways of relating to birds are established, the geographer Jamie Lorimer’s theoretical model of non-human charisma is applied to the analysis. The joint ways of relating to and engaging with birds are interpreted in terms of “affective logics” that characterize the epistemic community.The study is based on a multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork which took place at different birdwatching spots in Sweden; at birdwatching fairs and on websites where birdwatchers discuss and share information about birds. Furthermore the study is based on interviews with birdwatchers. The methodological approach during the fieldwork as well as in analyzing the research material, is to “follow the object”, or more precisely to follow how birds are acknowledged in these different settings. The ways of relating to birds are interpreted as embodied skills and “knowledge by familiarity” with different species and landscapes. One central affective logic is the “joy of recognition” which motivates birdwatchers to learn how to identify birds in the field.The main method for gathering information in order to make claims about the objects of knowledge, i.e. the birds, within the epistemic community is through these embodied skills.The analysis shows that claims, based on these observations, are undergoing a number of validation processes. This creates a certain type of observer that must be prepared to get their claims reviewed. The methods for establishing claims are however challenged when new technologies, such as DNA-techniques and digital tools, are put to use in the identification processes.The analysis also shows that while all wild birds are potentially interesting as objects of knowledge within the community, not every bird is attended to with the same kind of interest and enthusiasm. Birdwatchers are more devoted to some species of birds, than others, in relation to the spatial and temporal circumstances of the encounters, and in relation to the birdwatcher’s previous experiences of similar encounters. A central theme that characterizes the practices is a negotiation of approximating the birds without disturbing them. This is made possible by the use of various technological extensions, such as binoculars and hides. However the analysis also shows that some of the, rather new, digital tools are acknowledged as potentially causing intrusive behavior.
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- O’dell, Tom, et al.
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Applied cultural analysis : Ethnography as compositional practice
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Ingår i: Handbook of Anthropology in Business. - : Routledge. - 9781611321715 - 9781315427850 ; , s. 787-799
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Folke sits on a two-meter-high chair in the corner of a Norwegian man’s kitchen, observing, taking notes, and drawing up diagrams. Both he and the man he studies have been given clear instructions: the observer must be allowed to come and go as he pleases, must not be spoken to, and must never be included in the daily chores or routines of the people he is supposed to be studying. But things don’t go as planned.
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- O'Dell, Thomas, 1962-, et al.
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Multi-Targeted Ethnography : Refunctioning Academia in an Age of Bibliometic Measurements and Demands for Societal Usefulness
- 2015
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Ingår i: 33. Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. ; , s. 24-24
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Over the past decade scholars in the humanities and social sciences have increasingly been pressed to demonstrate the manner in which their research is “useful” to society while simultaneously, funding for their research has been more tightly tied to bibliometric measurements that prioritize high-brow scholarship geared towards publish results in “leading” international peer-review journals. In many ways these are two demands that seem to point in rather different directions – oriented to very different goals and outcomes for the research in question. This paper works to develop an understanding of how the challenge of moving in two directions at once can be approached.In order to do this it develops the notion of multi-targeted ethnography, inspired by George Marcus’s notion of multi-sited ethnography, but with a different focus. Where Marcus’ multi-sited ethnography constitutes an accumulative mode for acquiring research materials, information and inspiration, multi-targeted ethnography, as we develop the concept, is highly distributive in its orientation to the dissemination of potential results and outcomes of the ethnographic endeavor. In addition to developing the concept of multi-targeted ethnography, the paper provides several concrete examples of how multi-targeted ethnographies can be assembled to meet the joint challenges of social engagement and academic advancement.
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- O'Dell, Thomas, et al.
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Samverkansbegreppets skiftande betydelse
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Ingår i: Samverkans former : Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap. - Nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap.. - 9789144121383 ; , s. 51-68
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det här kapitlet fokuserar på samverkan som begrepp och kulturell företeelse. Även om begreppet samverkan kan ha en lika kortvarig popularitet som sina föregångare kan en kulturhistorisk förståelse för denna företeelse och begrepp bidra till att förstå dess betydelse, möjligheter och begränsningar. En sådan kontextualisering görs i detta kapitel med utgångspunkt i den humanistiska forskningstradition som jag själv är del av: amerikansk kulturantropologi, svensk etnologi och den form av tillämpad kulturanalys som har utvecklats i Lund under 2000-talet. Med särskilt fokus på utvecklingen av tillämpad kulturanalys i amerikansk antropologi kommer kapitlet att visa hur olika former av samverkan har kommit till uttryck: från tidigt 1900-talets antropologiska engagemang, till andra världskriget och vidare i Vietnamkrigets kölvatten. Denna historiska återblick stannar upp vid mitten av 1980-talet för att förklara betydelsen av den postmoderna kulturkritik som bidrog till att antropologin utvecklade nya perspektiv och sätt att förhålla sig till samverkan. Denna kritik bidrog till att det på allvar började talas om samverkan inom antropologi och andra områden inom kulturforskning. Kapitlet avslutas med en diskussion av hur den amerikanska erfarenheten har lämnat spår efter sig inom svensk etnologi. Ett centralt tema som binder ihop texten och de olika exempel som diskuteras igenom kapitlet berör frågan om de maktförhållanden som uppstår då humanistiska forskare ger sig in i samverkansfält. Låt oss dock börja med att titta närmare på själva begreppet ”samverkan”.
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- Pink, Sarah, et al.
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Data Ethnographies 5 : Broken Data
- 2016
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In a world where predictive big data analytics and data driven policy and design are increasingly prevalent, the concept of broken data seeks to interrogate and disrupt the possibilities associated with these trends. Concepts of breakage, damage and repair, and recent literatures about ‘broken world’ type theories, offer us an alternative starting point: what are the implications of putting these concepts at the centre of our understanding of digital data and its futures? By whom and where does data explicitly and more invisibly manifest itself as broken, incomplete and damaged? How is it repaired?What might an agenda for broken data research look like? And why might we need one?
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Samverkansformer : nya vägar för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Samverkan har blivit en nyckelterm för att förstå akademins förväntade roll i samhället. Genom samverkansprojekt ska nya värden, lösningar och framgångar skördas. Men hur går detta till i praktiken? Samverkan handlar om relationer, och relationer förändras över tid. Just föränderligheten och brokigheten när det gäller samverkan är viktig att förstå. Vilka är utmaningarna och möjligheterna? Samverkan kan leda till praktiska, etiska och även känslomässiga utmaningar, samtidigt som den också kan ge upphov till helt nya värden. I den här boken visar författarna på möjliga vägar för samverkansprojekt och hur forskning inom humaniora och samhällsvetenskap har en viktig plats även utanför akademin.
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