400032 SE Seminar für DissertantInnen: Theorie (2011S)
Praxiographies: From Logos to Practices
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Termine: Mo-Fr, 16.05.2011 - 20.05.2011, jeweils ab 9:30 Uhr
Ort: Institut für Höhere Studien, Seminarraum Soziologie, 1. Stock, Stumpergasse 56, 1060 WienAnmeldung über E-Mail-Adresse: troppert@ihs.ac.atInformationen zur Lehrveranstaltung (inlusive verpflichtende
Literaturliste) finden Sie auf der IHS Homepage:
http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/IHS-Departments-2/Sociology-1/Teaching-2/Courses.htm
Ort: Institut für Höhere Studien, Seminarraum Soziologie, 1. Stock, Stumpergasse 56, 1060 WienAnmeldung über E-Mail-Adresse: troppert@ihs.ac.atInformationen zur Lehrveranstaltung (inlusive verpflichtende
Literaturliste) finden Sie auf der IHS Homepage:
http://www.ihs.ac.at/vienna/IHS-Departments-2/Sociology-1/Teaching-2/Courses.htm
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The seminar features discussion sessions, each focusing on two central readings, in the mornings, a public lecture on Monday afternoon, and workshops in the afternoons. Participants are expected to come to the discussion sessions prepared, with a working knowledge of the readings and ready to share questions and talking points. The afternoon workshops will be oriented towards group and individual work on participants’ own research projects; these workshops are most productive if you are willing to openly discuss objectives, concerns, and questions pertaining to your dissertation projects. N.B. This is not a lecture series! Though I will of course be situating our texts, providing background and guidance for how to think about them, you will be expected to actively engage with, and share thoughts about, the reading materials and each others’ projects.
This will be a week of intensive, hard work, but it will be it will be immensely rewarding to immerse yourselves in the topic.
By the end of the week, you should have
(1) as a result of readings, lectures, and discussions, a working knowledge of current texts in praxiology
(2) as a result of your reflections and exchanges, a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach
(3) through exposure to the epistemic and methodological features of the approach, an assessment of whether and how your own work might be moved by a praxiological sensibility
(4) emerging from our workshop sessions, new insights into your dissertation project
The seminar features discussion sessions, each focusing on two central readings, in the mornings, a public lecture on Monday afternoon, and workshops in the afternoons. Participants are expected to come to the discussion sessions prepared, with a working knowledge of the readings and ready to share questions and talking points. The afternoon workshops will be oriented towards group and individual work on participants’ own research projects; these workshops are most productive if you are willing to openly discuss objectives, concerns, and questions pertaining to your dissertation projects. N.B. This is not a lecture series! Though I will of course be situating our texts, providing background and guidance for how to think about them, you will be expected to actively engage with, and share thoughts about, the reading materials and each others’ projects.
This will be a week of intensive, hard work, but it will be it will be immensely rewarding to immerse yourselves in the topic.
By the end of the week, you should have
(1) as a result of readings, lectures, and discussions, a working knowledge of current texts in praxiology
(2) as a result of your reflections and exchanges, a sense of the strengths and weaknesses of this approach
(3) through exposure to the epistemic and methodological features of the approach, an assessment of whether and how your own work might be moved by a praxiological sensibility
(4) emerging from our workshop sessions, new insights into your dissertation project
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Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Fr 31.08.2018 08:58
A recent turn in the social study of science, technology, and medicine takes us from the study of objects such as bodies and the practices that surround them, to an understanding of such practices as the loci where bodies are performed. Instead of, for instance, looking at the different medical interventions in thebody, medical practice becomes a way of doing bodies.Annemarie Mol’s now classic text The Body Multiple (2002) can be understood as a first step towards this new social theory: the book launches what Mol calls a praxiography of the body. In contrast to traditional ethnography, this praxiographic approach takes as its central concern not tribes, nor objects, but, rather, performative practices. This move has epistemic consequences: it assigns ontological status not to humans and objects in themselves, but to subjects/objects as they are enacted in practices. What a person or an object is, depends on how it is done and on what it does. This has immediate and far-reaching consequences for research questions, design, and if and when appropriate for resulting policy recommendations. But what are the conditions, the merits, and the implications of this approach?In this seminar we examine praxiography as a research programme, placing it in the broader discourse of contemporary science and technology studies, and offering participants an opportunity to explore how, and to what effects, this programme might inform or move their own work.