ETHNOGRAFEAST III - Ethnography and the Public Sphere / Ethnographie et Sphère Publique
The first edition of Ethnografeast was held in 2002 at the University of California, Berkeley. Its purpose was 'to take stock of the past achievements, to reflect on the contemporary practice, and to sketch out the promise of ethnography as a distinctive mode of inquiry and form of public consciousness'. Its spirit was to foster a dialogue across three divides: 1) the split between national traditions, 2) the separation of sociology and anthropology, that is, the two major disciplines historically tied to the creation and to the definition of ethnography's standards, and 3) the diversity of styles of ethnographic work. Since then, the continued expansion and proliferation of ethnographic methods into other disciplines, from literature to political science to business, has made reflecting on current ethnographic approaches by the founding disciplines of ethnography all the more critical. As a result, in 2004 at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Ethnografeast II focused on 'The Making of Ethnography' in its different stages of production.
The Ethnografeast III deepens and extends the wide-open discussions launched at the previous two meetings. It brings together a new group of field-based scholars to address the relationship between ethnography and the public sphere. Questions raised by this relationship go beyond classical discussions about 'applied' or other research whose 'usefulness' is understood strictly in instrumental terms. They involve not only research which engages policy-making and makers, but, more widely, research that tackles salient social issues or politically significant phenomena -- such as immigration, urban poverty, incarceration, health care, the transformation of welfare policies, new genetic technologies, new forms of family and 'relatedness', the politics of culture and cultural heritage -- in ways that challenge common political notions and institutions. The relevance of ethnographic research for civic concerns or the public framing of research questions and findings, the agendas, the audiences and the circulation of ethnographic products, the negotiation of ethnographic expertise, the question of the continuities and discontinuities between ethnographic knowledge and civic choices or political decisions, for example, are issues that call for a broad reflection on the effects of public debates on ethnography and vice-versa.
The conference coordinators,
Manuela P. da Cunha (CEAS/IDEMEC/NEA-University of Minho)
Antónia P. Lima (CEAS/ISCTE)
Loïc Wacquant (University of California, Berkeley/Centre de sociologie européenne, Paris)

PROGRAMME
June 20
DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS
09:30am
Reception of participants and conference opening
10:00am - 12:00am
Session 1 [Chair: Clara Saraiva || Discussant: Pedro Vasconcelos]
Margarida Moz | When Ethnography and Sexuality Clash.
Maria do Mar Pereira | Media Coverage of Ethnographic Work: Opportunities, Problems and Dilemmas.
Vincent Planel | Veiled (male) ethnographers: Reflexive blind spots and gender segregation in Yemen.
Lunch
02.00pm - 04:00pm
Session 2 [Chair: Manuela Cunha || Discussant: Luís Fernandes]
Juliana Prates Santana | Street Children: daily routine, trajectories of life and cultural expressions.
Catarina Fróis | Knowing Me, Knowing You: Surveillance, Anonymity and Privacy in Ethnographic Studies: a critical account.
Luís Almeida Vasconcelos | A Festa Trance: Lugar, Transformação e Mobilidade.
Coffee Break
04:30pm – 06:30pm
Session 3 [Chair: Antónia Lima || Discussants: Luís Baptista]
Emília Marques | Making materiality into an anthropological topic: The case of work‑and‑consumption practices and narratives.
Miguel Chaves | Explorando o novo espírito do capitalismo: a etnografia no universo das novas classes medias.
Susana Durão | The path of reception. Responses to an ethnography about the police force.
07:30pm Porto de honra
June 21
CATEGORIES, QUESTIONS, AGENDAS
09:00am
Reception of participants
09:30am
Loïc Wacquant, Manuela Cunha, Antónia Lima | Ethnography and the Public Sphere.
10:00am - 12:00am
Session 4 [Chair: João Leal || Discussant: Michael Herzfeld]
Jean- Yves Durand | A reification is a reification is a reification. Ethnographic authority and the certification of crafts.
Susana de Matos Viegas | Mediating agendas: Tupi ways of belonging and the ‘Traditional occupation of indigenous territory’ (Brazil).
David Mosse | Experts, officers and altruists: notes on the anthropology of expertise and professionals in international development.
Lunch
01:30pm - 03:30pm
Session 5 [Chair: Sylvie Fainzang | | Discussant: Loïc Wacquant]
Mario Small | Lost In Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Research More Scientific.
Miguel Vale de Almeida | Webbing Ring. On Fieldwork Blogging, Ethnography, and the Public Sphere.
Michael Herzfeld | The politics of gesture: ethnographic reflections on the embodiment of globalization.
Coffee Break
04:00pm - 06:00pm
Session 6 [Chair: Antónia Lima | | Discussant: Ramon Sarró]
Antonádia Borges | Mats, blankets, songs and flags: ethnography of the politics of funerals in contemporary South Africa.
Maria Cardeira da Silva | Fragility as attraction, Orientalism as merchandize, anthropology as marketing.
Karin Knorr-Cetina | Frontrunning ethnography.
June 22
FIELD MEETS PUBLIC SPHERE
10:00am - 12:30am
Session 7 [Chair: José Virgílio Pereira || Discussant: Susana Narotzky]
Marcelo Rosa | Landless experiences: youth and social movements in Brazil and South Africa.
Erik Bahre | The janus head of insurances in South Africa: Networks of inclusion and bureaucracies of exclusion.
Antónia Lima | Ethnography as an asset: elites' uses of ethnographic work.
Vincent Dubois | Le dévoilement ethnographique des transformations structurelles de l’Etat social. À propos du traitement bureaucratique des « mauvais pauvres »
Lunch
02:00am - 04:00pm
Session 8 [Chair: Manuela Ivone Cunha| | Discussant: Cristiana Bastos]
Chiara Pussetti | Ethnographies of new clinical encounters: Immigrant’s emotional struggles and transcultural psychiatry in Portugal.
Rayna Rapp | On the Visibility and Invisibility of Learning Disabilities: What Makes Them Public, Why Make Them The Subject of Anthropological Inquiry?
Sylvie Fainzang | Between ethnology and the public sphere: a pas de deux.
Coffee break
04:30pm - 06:30pm
Session 9 [Chair: José Virgílio Pereira || Discussant: Javier Auyero]
Megan Comfort | Clemmer and Sykes in the “Tube” at San Quentin: The Secondary Prisonization of Women Visiting Inmates.
Isabelle Coutant | Le sociologue, le délinquant et la sphère publique. Enquête ethnographique en banlieue parisienne au début des années 2000.
Philippe Bourgois | Neoliberal Lumpen Abuse in the 2000s: A 25 Year Ethnographic Retrospective on Violence.
08:00pm Conference dinner
June 23
THE CIRCULATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE
10:00am - 12:30am
Session 10 [Chair: Manuela Ivone Cunha || Discussant: Cristiana Bastos]
Javier Auyero & Debora Swistun | The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty.
Joseph Masco | The Nuclear Public Sphere.
Carolyn Rouse | Stakeholders vs. Interlocutors: Translating Ethnographic Research into Public Policy Speak.
Loïc Wacquant | Social and Professional Obstacles to the International Circulation of Ethnography
Coffee break
01:00pm - 01:30pm
Loïc Wacquant, Manuela Cunha, Antónia Lima | Concluding remarks
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WHERE WILL ETHNOGRAFEAST TAKE PLACE?
The conference will take place at the ISCTE campus on Avenida das Forças Armadas, Lisbon.
The exact venue is room B203. The closest metro station is Entrecampos, which is on the yellow metro line (Linha Amarela). From Entrecampos, Follow the Avenida das Forças Armadas until the entrance marked ISCTE. Take the entrance at your right and continue through the passage between two buildings (one on the left marked ISCTE and one on the right marked INDEG). Walk across the square to the front entrance of ‘Edificio II’. After entering the building, first turn left and then turn right. At the end of the corridor is room B203.
[map here: http://ceas.iscte.pt/ethnografeast/mapa_iscte.jpg

Organizers:
Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social
Sponsors:
The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
Fundação Luso-Americana para o Desenvolvimento
Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa
Caixa Geral de Depósitos (ISCTE)

+ info: ceas(at)iscte.pt
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