Networks of Power: The possibility of interdisciplinary approaches to the current research in the context of post-socialism
Abstract
The panel is focused on current approaches to and conceptualizations of power across anthropological subdisciplines. The aim of the panel organisers is to provoke discussion which can lead to interdisciplinary view on the issue of power, from both theoretical and empirical perspective.
The main purpose of the panel is to explore and articulate the bindings that connect the different approaches together and put them in an interdisciplinary framework. In two half-day sessions participants will have the opportunity of intense contact with each other.
The panel is designed mainly for students of social, cultural, historical, philosophical, cognitive anthropology and also of human ethology. Generally we focus on two main discourses (dimensions) of Power.
The first, ethical discourse highlights the importance of reflecting the position of the researcher and his/her relations to other social actors. In other words it focuses on power aspects of field research.
The second discourse is rather theoretical. Views on Power vary within each anthropological discipline.
In contemporary social theories the issue of power is frequently connected with topics of governmentality, gender, ethnicity, post-colonialism, migration, disciplination, marginality, adaptation etc. Participants will have the opportunity to present their perspective on the issues presented above.
This could be theoretical and methodological approaches, various empirical details, possibilities and limits of specific research methods and individual experience with an emphasis on characteristics of the field research.