SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR - MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2015 - PATRICK LAVIOLETTE (UNIVERSITY OF TALLINN - ESTONIA)
| Dates: | 23 November 2015 |
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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: | Patrick Laviolette |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 23rd November 2015
4:15-6:00pm
(Tea and Coffee will be available outside the boardroom at 4:00pm)
PATRICK LAVIOLETTE (UNIVERSITY OF TALLINN - ESTONIA)
TITLE: GETTING TO THE OTHER... STOPPING THE AUTO WITH ROADSIDE ANTHROPOLOGY
Once a ubiquitous phenomenon of modern societies the world over, hitch-hiking has inspired and been inspired by entire movements in literature and the arts. This paper (based on a research fellowship application I've just finished) aims to draw together my personal experience of this practice with a hermeneutic reading of it as it occurs in the genre of travel writing and the 'mobilities turn' literature. Recently, I have argued that this mode of transport is a valid ethnographic methodology as well as a powerful conceptual metaphor of dissent and subversion within the contemporary world of travel narratives. The intention with this wider hitching project is thus to expound upon such a position by exploring a number of poetic and political themes related to the alternative modalities of experience involved in thumbing a ride. Hence, the idea is to investigate some of hitch-hiking's cultural narratives and embodied expressions within the British context, comparing such findings cross-culturally with the phenomenon of auto-stop as it occurs in Benelux, Germany and the Baltics.
2.016/2.017, Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Patrick Laviolette
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of Tallinn (Estonia)
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2nd floor Boardroom, 2.016 / 2.017
Arthur Lewis Building
Manchester
