Social Anthropology Seminar - Monday 25th of September 2017 - Dr Stef Jansen - University of Manchester
| Dates: | 25 September 2017 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Dr Stef Jansen |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 25th September 2017
Dr Stef Jansen - The University Of Manchester
(Non-)Events: anthropological (in)fidelities to Alain Badiou
This presentation constructs a dialogue between Alain Badiou's philosophy of the event and the demands of and opportunities offered by social scientific analysis of change and reproduction. Reflecting on the (after)life of one happening in Bosnia and Herzegovina (the 2014 Winter Revolt) in light of another happening (the 1992–1995 war), I investigate the conditions under which happenings may or may not come to function—and be recognised—as catalysts of change. Substantially departing from Badiou's normative-universalist approach, I nevertheless seek to demonstrate how a core dimension of his project—an effort to address events processually in relation to subject formation—can inspire the formulation of interesting avenues for anthropological investigation. Particularly, addressing questions of perspective, intensity and duration, I contend that anthropologists are well-placed to trace what Badiou calls 'fidelity'. Alert to different modalities of fidelity, I counter-intuitively suggest that we mobilise Badiou's event theory to analyse non-events too.
Second Floor Boardroom 2.016 / 017
Arthur Lewis Building
Time 4:15 - 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Dr Stef Jansen
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Manchester
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2nd floor Boardroom - 2.016 / 17
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
