Life, death, ethnography: epistemologies and methods of the quasi-event
Posocco, Silvia (2017) Life, death, ethnography: epistemologies and methods of the quasi-event. Qualitative Research Journal 17 (3), pp. 177-187. ISSN 1443-9883.
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Abstract
What is the relation between the biopolitical and necropolitical terrain in and through which experience unravels and the conceptual apparatuses which hold the promise of analysis and critique? What analytics, methods and ethics do contemporary life-and-death formations and intersecting precarious modes of existence elicit? What difference, if any, does it make to appeal to the ordinary and the everyday, the situated and always-already-in-relation, the emergent and the quasi-event (Povinelli, 2011), as simultaneously sites, objects and frames? In this article, I approach these questions ethnographically, with reference to debates in social and cultural theory and drawing on long-term anthropological research in Guatemala. The article aims to make an original contribution to debates on biopolitical and necropolitical processes and dynamics, by reflecting on the implications for epistemologies, methods and infrastructures.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | biopolitics, necropolitics, exception, immunity, camps, terror formations, drones, infrastructure, ethnography, Guatemala |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Silvia Posocco |
| Date Deposited: | 26 May 2017 07:22 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:33 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/18786 |
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