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There's a great panel going on right now at @AmericanAnthro #RaisingOurVoices2020 -- On Writing Otherwise: Rethinking the Genre and Forms of Ethnography with @kwissoker @anandspandian @gfosado, Hugh Raffles, Angela Garcia, & Carole McGranahan
Angela Garcia talks about writing through disruption and disabilities -- "it's not just a matter of craft but is essential to the moment we're in" -- we need to write "openly and explicitly with feeling" -- including our "actual embodied response" as much as we include theory
Carole McGranahan: writing used to be a vehicle for our scholarship but was thought of as separate from the ideas within it. More room for different voices now. Breaking the stranglehold of the "objective observer." Writing as anthro rather than adjacent to it.
Seeing more & more creative dissertations lately. Writing more about people who come to life in our work, not just as representative categories. Thinking more about who we're writing for.
Anand Pandian: Each project requires a new voice, form, register. Writing as channeling, being a medium or waystation. The text as a portal into another world, allowing both writer & readers to see things otherwise.
Hugh Raffles: Ethnography is a flexible genre that allows us to do things those in other fields can't. Anthropology is a generous field interested in the unexpected. But lately we are also up against pressure to produce more instrumentalist work.
Need to think about ways to make theory more inviting, explore different theoretical registers.
Ken Wissoker: Trying to enable theorists who work in a writerly way. Writing & theory are becoming less separable. Social media helps expand our audiences. New ideas about what constitutes an anthropological object & that requires a new way of writing & thinking.
Q about whether experimental writing can only be published in non-peer-reviewed venues.
McGranahan says: no need to wait till you get a job or get tenure to take some risks in your writing.
So send your stuff to us at @AnthroHumanism! We publish peer-reviewed experimental work.
McGranahan says: no need to wait till you get a job or get tenure to take some risks in your writing.
So send your stuff to us at @AnthroHumanism! We publish peer-reviewed experimental work.
. @anandspandian: Let's make & create new peers!
