Election statement: I believe that EASA is the best meeting-platform available to defend independent scholarship and support initiatives to reach new publics beyond academia. Over the course of my term, I’ll pay equal attention to the knowledge-making practices at the periphery of the discipline and the need to repair our epistemic tools in order to shift our ways of doing things from managing abundance to answering to precarity, and from textual ethnographies to reconsidering multimodal, collaborative, and experimental formats.
Currently, I lead a research project entitled “Europeanisation through Repair” at Tallinn University. I have also published in different languages and curated diverse exhibitions. I’m familiar with the EASA’s diverse operations, including the young scholar award, as well as with a number of European peripheries and with the work of the emerging generation of anthropologists. It is important to note that EASA integrates other ways of inhabiting academia at its core while working centrifugally, not just centripetally.
Nominating member: Miia Halme-Tuomisaari (Lund University); Supporting member: Chiara Pussetti (University of Lisbon)