cfp (Un)commoning the Future(s) and its Visualities – For a Visual Anthropology of (Un)Commoning
(Un)commoning the Future(s) and its Visualities For a Visual Anthropology of (Un)Commoning
https://tagung.dgska.de/workshops-roundtables-labs/#15987
Convenors: Cathrine Bublatzky (Asia and Orient Institute, Tuebingen University) Thomas John (FU Berlin & Universitt Mnster)
(Un)commoning the Future(s) and its Visualities For a Visual Anthropology of (Un)Commoning. Workshop P018 at conference DGSKA2025 Un/Commoning Anthropology. https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/dgska2025/p/15987
Short Abstract:
With the interest in emphasizing the role of visual cultures and practices in active living processes and an everydayness of commoning, this panel opens a discussion on (Un)commoning the Future(s) through the lens of (Audio)Visual and Multi-modal Anthropology.
Long Abstract:
When commoners organize and take responsibility for different resources and its sustainable, fair, and future-oriented production, use, and distribution, the everydayness of commoning means an active living process (Bollier 2020) for a common future.
In this process, people choose different strategies to come together, live and act on the basis of solidarity, justice, equality and sustainability. They use strategies to build social relations and spaces of creativity and social reproduction in areas such as housing and urban coexistence, supra-human relations and environmental social activism, collective action on climate change or equal sharing of resources.
With the interest in emphasizing the role of visual cultures and practices in such active living processes and everydayness of commoning, this panel opens a discussion on (Un)commoning the Future(s) through the lens of (Audio)Visual and Multi-modal Anthropology.
It asks: How do groups, collectives and activist movements make use of (audio)visual practices to (re)claim visibility, political justice, and public awareness? What visualities do people use and create as a strategy to build and strengthen their commoning practices in contexts such as environmental activism and resources scarcity, urbanism, claim for human rights, gender diversity and political justice? What can (audio)visual anthropology contribute to understanding, and even supporting such movements in different societies as a form of engaged anthropology?
We invite anthropologists to contribute to a visual anthropology of (un)commoning and to present their research projects, methods and experiences with (audio-)visual technologies, practices and collaborations in the fields of film, photography, sound, art, visual archives or multimodal projects.
Thomas John | Doctoral Researcher | Lecturer | Filmmaker Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universitt Berlin Associate Lecturer Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Mnster Teaching Co-Coordinator MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices https://www.uni-muenster.de/Ethnologie/en/personal/lehrbeauftragte/thomasjohn .html https://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/ethnologie/personen/doktorand_innen/john.html MA Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices: https://weiterbildung.uni-muenster.de/visual-anthropology
- Co-speaker working group Visual Anthropology (DGSKA / German Anthropological Association)
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