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• 01 fév 2013

  Louvain-la-Neuve

  Call for papers - Ethnology, anthropology

  Technology, Scale, and Difference in Contemporary Anthropology

  What challenges for contemporary anthropology?

  Without idealizing, exaggerating, or demonizing them, it is certainly the case that information and communication technologies are transforming the world and its inhabitants. While these transformations are taking place with a rapidity that can make their ethnographic analysis seem impossible, the starting point of our conceptual framework is that it is not only feasible but imperative that we better understand the multiple and often-unexpected character of these transformations. In particular, the emergence of online and mobile technologies compels rethinking questions of globalization that were a major theme of anthropological inquiry in the 1990s. In light of these various concerns, we open two lines of inquiry for the Singleton Chair 2013: one focusing on spatiotemporal transformations, and the second focusing on questions of difference.

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