Why did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? Hitch-Hiking as a Stochastic Modality of Travel

Laviolette, Patrick

doi:10.1080/00141844.2014.986149

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“…Pegar carona é uma situação que pede uma postura atenta à todas variações contextuais, a passagem dos carros, uma possível chuva, riscos de assalto ou assédio. Em suma, é uma postura necessária para a abertura ao acaso e ao infinito de possibilidades (Laviolette, 2014). A carona espontânea 10 num contexto urbano como Florianópolis, capital do estado de Santa Catarina no Brasil, difere da maioria das experiências de pesquisas sobre a prática em deslocamentos intermunicipais (Carlson, 1972;Purkins, 2012;Laviolette;Kendall, 2016).…”

Section: Deslocando-se De Carona Por Florianópolisunclassified

Produzindo o público e o privado no deslocar e no habitar: diálogos cruzados entre etnografias de práticas de caronas e de formações permaculturais no espaço urbano

Hilal

Neves

2021

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Desenhar fronteiras entre espaço público e privado nas cidades urbanas contemporâneas se articula com reflexões sobre a ação de intervenção do Estado para regulação do uso comum do espaço frente aos interesses e demandas de uso privado de indivíduos, grupos sociais, e/ou corporações. Se a posse coletiva dos espaços remete aos domínios de ação de diversos agentes monitorados pelo Estado em função de seu poder de governabilidade (Foucault, 2012), a apropriação privada dos espaços tende a ser associada a figura do indivíduo e a esfera de suas ações. A proposta deste trabalho surge do diálogo entre duas pesquisas etnográficas: uma sobre a prática de deslocamento de carona na cidade de Florianópolis (SC, Brasil) e a outra sobre as práticas de formação e construção de habitação permaculturais em Porto Alegre e Pelotas (RS, Brasil). Nos interessa pensar como estas podem vir a borrar e desestabilizar fronteiras imaginadas/construídas entre o que é público e privado a partir de um olhar para as infraesutruturas (Star, 1999; Larkin, 2013).

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Section: Deslocando-se De Carona Por Florianópolisunclassified

Produzindo o público e o privado no deslocar e no habitar: diálogos cruzados entre etnografias de práticas de caronas e de formações permaculturais no espaço urbano

Hilal

Neves

2021

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“…Much like pain or prayer, movement is also a means to transform the self and translate across worlds, as Jan Kapusta shows in his description of Mayan pilgrimage as a historical and phenomenological experience (Kapusta ), and Annika Lems demonstrates through a biography of a Somali woman who moved to Australia in the early 2000s (Lems ). Patrick Laviolette applies similar logics to anthropologists themselves, suggesting that hitchhiking as a ‘stochastic method’ directs anthropologists to ‘experiential zones of near‐infinite possibilities’ (Laviolette : 398), transforming selves and creating new convivialities. Humour and gossip were also seen as transforming relations and selves.…”

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‘Edgy’ politics and European anthropology in 2016

Coates

2017

Social Anthropology

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Focusing on anthropological publications in Europe‐based journals in 2016, this review reflects on the politicisation of anthropology in recent years, tracing the contours of this scholarship through the trope of ‘edges’. From debates about the marginalisation of Euro‐anthropology and analyses of lives ‘on edge’ within Europe, to efforts to push political thinking to its conceptual edges as a form of ‘alter‐politics’, this review explores the ‘edgy’ politics of Euro‐anthropology in 2016. The paper examines how the edges of state and solidarity, self and sociality, human and non‐human futures intersect in the political emphasis of European scholarship in 2016. At the same time, it critically reflects on how and why it is important not to allow this form of political optimism to turn into Eurocentrism, arguing for the continued importance of comparison and encounter outside of epistemic central Anglo‐European worlds.

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“…The anthropologist's outsider role is likened to that of the driver offering a lift to a hitchhiker (Laviolette, 2014). Years earlier, between terms at the Sorbonne, when I was hitchhiking through France, drivers would confide in me precisely because we would never meet again.…”

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Gypsy Intermediaries Guide the Stranger: Bringing Reciprocity, Some Misunderstanding, but Protection from Outsiders

Okely¹

2017

J. Disc.

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An independent Gypsy and policy project inspired unexpected controversy from both the Research Centre and State. Committed to ethnographic long-term fieldwork, the anthropologist eventually succeeded in living on Gypsy sites. She was guided by key individuals- here recalled, celebrated and contextualized. These Associates were all literate in a then largely non-literate culture. As intermediaries, they could point to specific challenges across the cultural divide. The future author, wherever possible, hoped to reciprocate their gifts of knowledge and know-how. Select readings of early “Gypsiologists” and pioneering anthropologists proved insightful. Countering populist stereotypes in the dominant majority society, all the Gypsies encountered in fieldwork were protectors of that young woman. This was in contrast to a few maverick outsiders, invariably from other disciplines, who seemingly resented a female intruder on “their” territory and specialism.EDITORS' NOTE: This is a revised version of the paper following a minor editorial redaction dated 20/06/2017.

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Why did the Anthropologist Cross the Road? Hitch-Hiking as a Stochastic Modality of Travel

Cited by 15 publications

References 18 publications

Produzindo o público e o privado no deslocar e no habitar: diálogos cruzados entre etnografias de práticas de caronas e de formações permaculturais no espaço urbano

Produzindo o público e o privado no deslocar e no habitar: diálogos cruzados entre etnografias de práticas de caronas e de formações permaculturais no espaço urbano

‘Edgy’ politics and European anthropology in 2016

Gypsy Intermediaries Guide the Stranger: Bringing Reciprocity, Some Misunderstanding, but Protection from Outsiders

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