Workshop International « Dark Shadows: Anthropology, Ideology, Violence »

Résumé:

This international exploratory workshop will examine the emerging research in the ethnographic study of right-wing movements, violent nationalism, racism, nativism, and contemporary fascisms. The study of these groups and processes remains an anthropology of the “dark shadows” for many scholars. In an era of reflexive anthropology, engaged scholarship, commitment to interlocutors, and what David Graeber has called “anarchist anthropology,” the anthropology of “the right” (a concept that will be unpacked and problematized during the workshop) occupies a unique and ambiguous space. On the one hand, ethnographers of the right have managed to gain in many cases unprecedented research access to fringe political groups and violent movements by forming research networks and interacting with conventional ethnographic empathy. But on the other hand, the ethnography of the right does not, and cannot, lead to a defense of right-wing fringe movements based on thick knowledge and the deployment of anthropological expertise. Scholars of the right produce knowledge in a very different context than engaged ethnographers who conduct research as a form of what Terence Turner called an “emancipatory cultural politics.” This exploratory workshop will bring together research and commentary as the first steps toward developing a theoretical and programmatic response to these dilemmas that is grounded in ethnographic studies of the right in Europe, Latin America, and the United States.

Programme :

December 7:

9h30 - 10h: Welcome coffee and registration

10h - 10h30: Introduction to workshop, participants, and objectives (Goodale)

10h30 - 11h30: Martina Avanza (University of Lausanne)

11h30 - 12h30: Elisa Bellè (University of Trento)

12h30 - 14h: Lunch

14h - 15h: Tore Bjørgo (University of Oslo)

15h - 16h: Anouk de Koning (Radboud University)

16h - 16h30: Coffee break

16h30 - 17h30: Maddalena Gretel Cammelli (University of Bologna)

17h30 - 18h30: Apéritif

19h: Dinner

December 8:

9h - 10h: Giacomo Loperfido (University of Barcelona)

10h - 11h: Mark Goodale (University of Lausanne)

11h - 11h30: Coffee break

11h30 - 12h30: Ida Susser (Hunter College / CUNY Graduate Center)

12h30 - 13h30: Lunch

13h30 - 14h30: Lynda Dematteo (EHESS)

14h30 - 15h30: Nitzan Shoshan (Colegio de México)

15h30 - 16h30: Agnieszka Pasieka (University of Vienna)

16h30 - 17h: Coffee break

17h - 18h: Wrap-up session, discussion of publication, concluding remarks

19h: Dinner