Proshant Chakraborty

Sal: 302

Welcome to our third seminar.

Slides: 4.coauthorship-collaboration-h22.pptx

Drawing on our learnings and reflections from the previous seminars, today we will look at how we can effectively use feminist and anthropological ideas on co-authorship in both, praxis (ie, collaboration with interlocutors, communities, etc.) and practice (ie, working with local and global institutions).

Our discussing will focus on the following themes:

Co-authorship is the norm rather than the exception in collaborative engagements, whether practice or practice/policy. How does that change or affect the idea of "publics" that has been central in most discussions on public anthropology?
How do we address problems of translation and power relations in co-authorship? By drawing on feminist or anthropological ideas (eg, power, hegemony, resistance, etc.), are we imposing our terms on that of local actors? Or can these terms have positive effects in collaborative encounters?
Alternatively, how can we take local or emic terms and scale them upwards, into transnational domains or circuits?

Readings:

Nagar, Richa. 2014. Chapter 6: Four Truths of Storytelling and Coauthorship in Feminist Alliance Work. From Muddying the Waters: Coauthoring Feminisms Across Borders and Scholarship.

Crooms, L., Falcón,, S., and Haldane, H. 2011. Intersectional and Multiple Forms of Discrimination in the Context of Violence Against Women. Background paper prepared for the Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women, and its causes and consequences, Rashida Manjoo. [Please note: We will be reading the following section: IV. Using a Holistic Approach To Recognize The Human Rights Of All Women To Be Free From Violence And Discrimination , pp. 64-79].

Suggested readings:

Waltrop, Karen. 2018. Chapter 5: Fieldwork as Interface. In Estalella and Criado, eds., Experimental Collaboration.

Schiller, Maria. 2018. Chapter 2: The 'Research Traineeship.' In Estalella and Criado, eds., Experimental Collaboration.