Introduction

Carey, Matthew; Pedersen, Morten Axel

doi:10.3167/cja.2017.350203

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“…Such convictions, however, are the result of the infrastructural work (see Carey and Pedersen 2017) wrought by the positivist background assumptions that are written into our contemporary educational system and, in particular, into our contemporary neoliberal system of research funding. To a certain extent they are likely to be confi rmed for, as I stated above, our fi rst moment of ethnographic encounter is always a second (and a third, and fourth, etc.)…”

Section: Field Aporiasmentioning

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Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)

Cabral

2022

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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English Abstract: Basing itself in the three aspects of the world that Kant proposed (as source, as domain and as limit), this article argues that the ethnographic gesture is correspondingly marked by three registers of encounter: empathy, company, community. Taking recourse to an ethnographic vignette about an encounter with a man on a bike, it explores the sense of community that marked my ethnographic presence in Alto Minho (northwest Portugal) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The article proposes that ethnography depends on the determination of a ‘field’ for fieldwork and that this is aided by the identification of field aporias – that is, challenges to interpretation that both stop the ethnographer in her tracks, engaging the need for further determination, and provide momentum to the ethnographic narrative.French Abstract: En se basant sur les trois aspects du monde proposés par Kant (comme source, comme domaine et comme limite), cet essai soutient que le geste ethnographique est marqué de manière correspondante par trois registres de rencontre : empathie, compagnie, communauté. En recourant à une vignette ethnographique sur une rencontre avec un homme à vélo, il explore le sens de la communauté qui a marqué ma présence ethnographique dans l’Alto Minho (nord-ouest du Portugal) à la fin des années 1970 et au début des années 80. L’article propose que l’ethnographie se base sur la détermination d’un « champ » pour le travail de terrain. Cette démarche est facilitée par l’identification d’apories de terrain – c’est-à-dire des défi s d’interprétation qui, à la fois, arrêtent les ethnographes dans leur élan, engageant le besoin d’une détermination supplémentaire, et qui donnent une dynamique au récit ethnographique.

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Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)

Cabral

2022

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale

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“…Indeed, infrastructures have been researched in different ways. Sometimes infrastructures are visible, empirical objects such as a cross-national pipeline (Barry 2013), sometimes they are information infrastructures (Star & Ruhleder 1996), and yet, other times the concept does not denote some "thing" in the empirical field, an object of analysis, but is put to use as a heuristic device for analysing other phenomena infrastructurally, as when Carey and Pedersen talk about infrastructures of certainty and doubt (Carey & Pedersen 2017).…”

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Infrastructuring ageing: Theorizing non-human agency in ageing and technology studies

Ertner

2022

Int J Ageing Later Life

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Scholars of ageing and technology are becoming increasingly interested in how technology and ageing can be seen as mutually constitutive, an interest that is beginning to form new research agendas, alliances and fields of their own. Different concepts have been used to theorise and analyse this relationship of mutual construction. This article explores a concept from Science and technology studies, which has not previously been put in direct relation to ageing, namely the concept of infrastructure. It proposes the notion of “infrastructuring ageing” as a theoretical-analytical approach for studying the mutual constitution of ageing and technology. This approach implies slightly new versions of, or attentions to, the non-human actor, agency and socio-technical transformation, and opens up to fresh ethnographic views on the social, material and techno-political transformations of ageing.

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“…It has become clear that the infrastructures that produce, channel, or divert drinking or irrigation water stand in a dialectical relationship with social, hierarchized arrangements. They are imbued with “tacit social, political and cultural conventions, which are sometimes quite literally built into their framings” (Carey and Pedersen, 2017). These dialectics are far from stable or predictable, in part because the social contracts and constructs supporting large-scale infrastructure gradually change or disappear.…”

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Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost: An introduction

Ley

Krause

2019

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This theme issue re-engages the ghost of Wittfogel in ethnographically grounded conversations around the imbrication of water, power, and infrastructure. It examines social and political relations in ways that take their tensions and correspondences with water seriously, as Wittfogel did half a century ago, but in a less monolithic and totalizing manner. Instead, the contributions pay attention to the situated, partial, multiple, and open-ended encounters that (un)make these links. Together, the papers collected in this theme issue build a critical conversation around the role of water in configuring and reproducing power. Its major threads are the construction of authority through water, the social complexity of water relations, and the interrelationships between water, infrastructure, and political rule.

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Introduction

Cited by 10 publications

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Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)

Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)

Infrastructuring ageing: Theorizing non-human agency in ageing and technology studies

Ethnographic conversations with Wittfogel’s ghost: An introduction

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