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Hi VANEASA List,


here an invite on part of the working group for audiovisual anthropology of
the German Anthropological Association,

"Empty Home" with Sanderien Verstappen and Willy Sier, Mo. 27 May, 56:30 pm
(online).


Everybody is welcome joining & discussing with us

best, Thomas


Dear all,

please find in this email the Zoom invite for our upcoming Werkstattgesprch
"Empty Home" with Sanderien Verstappen and Willy Sier on Monday 27 May, 56:30
pm.

You find the abstract and further information on the film in the email below.

Beitreten Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/98891122779?pwd=L21uVVEwdE12OHdNODF6bTlRSGFUZz09

Meeting-ID: 988 9112 2779
Kenncode: 140673

I look forward to an exciting session and wish you all the best.

Cathrine


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Dear all, we hope this finds you well.

After our last in-person meeting at the DGSKA conference in Munich, we
are very glad to proceed with our online Werkstattgesprch-format this
summer term 2024.

Meant as an informal and hands-on forum to discuss and exchange
about research material, be it text, film, photography, exhibition,
multimodal material in the field of Visual Anthropology, we are today
very delighted to invite you for a WERKSTATTGESPRCH WITH SANDERIEN
VERSTAPPEN [1] (VIENNA) AND WILLY SIER [2] (UTRECHT) THEIR FILM PROJECT
EMPTY HOME [3] ON MONDAY, 27TH OF MAY FROM 5-6:30 PM.


ABSTRACT


With 22 per cent of its housing stock vacant, China has the highest
vacancy rate in the world. Yet Chinese cities are marked by constant
expansion and the construction of high-rise buildings. Why are all these
empty homes being built? And what moves people to buy homes in
which they cannot live? Our project Empty Home explores these questions
through a filmmaking project embedded in long-term ethnographic
fieldwork in Wuhan. The film Empty Home focuses on the social and
symbolic aspects of home- and city-making, revealing the importance of
homeownership for mobile Chinese families in a rapidly transforming
society. The accompanying article discusses the real-estate market as an
important site for constructing citizen-state relations and argues that
the symbolic and social significance of empty homes is crucial for
understanding the deep meanings of the Chinese states drive for urban
expansion and Chinese citizens desire to become homeowners. In
addition to contributing to knowledge about Chinese homemaking, the
project shows how using filmmaking in ethnographic fieldwork can
strengthen the research process.


Sier, Willy, and Sanderien Verstappen. Empty Homes: Filming
Homeownership in Rapidly Urbanising China. _Visual Studies_ 39, no.
12 (2 January 2024): 2432.
https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2023.2217796
[4].


During the Werkstattgesprch we will watch the film (17.19 min) and
discuss your questions/comments as well as some that Sanderien and Willy
have raised in their abstract.


The Zoom link will be provided shortly before the meeting.


We are looking very much forward to seeing you then.


Best wishes,


Cathrine and Thomas


Dr. Cathrine Bublatzky


Senior Lecturer and Researcher
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Burgsteige 11
Tuebingen University
72070 Tuebingen, Germany


email: cathrine.bublatzky@uni-tuebingen.de

phone: +49(0)7071 29-73999


project: Iranian Diasporic Photography [5]


latest publication: Mobile Belonging in Digital Exile (2022, OA) [6]


Links:
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[1]
https://ksa.univie.ac.at/institut/mitarbeiterinnen/professorinnen/verstappen-
sanderien/

[2] https://www.uu.nl/staff/WMSier
[3] https://www.sanderienverstappen.com/empty-home

[4] https://doi.org/10.1080/1472586X.2023.2217796

[5] https://iraniandiasporicphotography.wordpress.com/

[6]
https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/5379




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