Convenors:
Alexandra D’Onofrio (University of Manchester)
Natalia Picaroni Sobrado (Universidad de Los Lagos (Osorno, Chile))
Angélica Cabezas-Pino (Universidad de La Frontera)
Discussants:
Sanderien Verstappen (University of Vienna)
Darcy Alexandra (University of Bern)
Abstract:
Multimodal anthropology plays a pivotal role by positioning itself within the intersections of collaborative, engaged, and public anthropology, emphasizing iterative, collaborative, and sensory engagement with participants and interdisciplinary colleagues. Co-creative ethnographic research aims at a shared anthropology, integrating interlocutors’ insights to transform traditional ethnographer-informant relationships into epistemic partnerships (Dattatreyan and Marrero‐Guillamón 2019; Holmes and Marcus 2021). However, critics caution against uncritical use of concepts, urging transparency in acknowledging power dynamics in intersubjective relations (Kazubowski-Houston 2010; Sjöberg 2017).
This panel seeks to explore the complexities of collaborative work in multimodal projects, recognizing that valuable knowledge often emerges from the messiness of collaboration, which celebratory accounts may overlook. Scholars are invited to reflect on the implications of challenging research hierarchies, considering the knowledge produced and its future. The conversation delves into the various forms of multimodal collaboration throughout the research process, addressing conflict resolution and the representation of disagreements with participants (Tilche 2022). Aligned with Haraway’s call to “make with others” in sympoiesis (2016), the panel encourages an discussion about the frictions inherent in these collaborative processes and openly asks what we should do with them.
Accepted contributions:
. Unsettling Encounters: Affective Dynamics in Collaborative Research on Ethnographic and Photographic Collections – Maren Wirth (FU Berlin)
. Reframing Collaboration in Multimodal Anthropology: Embracing Failure, Risk, and Uncertainty in HIV Sense-Making – Angélica Cabezas-Pino (Universidad de La Frontera)
. Making with Microbes: on the limits of multimodal, multispecies, and multisensory ethnography, Maya Hey (Centre for the Social Study of Microbes, University of Helsinki)
. F(r)ictions in co-creative ethnography. Reflecting on two experiences of fiction-based collaborative research projects – Dario Ranocchiari (Universidad de Granada)
. The impossible story: narrating memory regimes in post-conflict Peru – Martha-Cecilia Dietrich (University of Amsterdam)
. REIMAGINING COLLABORATION THROUGH PERFORMATIVE MEMOIR – Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston (York University )