Das Seminar für Ethnologie der MLU lädt zu einer öffentlichen Vorlesung von Kim Fortun (University of California, Irvine), am Mittwoch, den 14. Juni, um 16:15 Uhr, im Seminarraum des Max-Planck-Instituts für ethnologische Forschung, Advokatenweg 36 in Halle. Fortun spricht zu “Late Industrial Ethnography Redoubled – Form Politics to Methods and back”. 

Sie ist Direktorin des EcoGovlab und Professorin für Anthropologie an der University of California, Irvine. Ihre Forschungs- und Lehrschwerpunkte sind Umweltgesundheit, Ungerechtigkeit und Katastrophen; experimentelle ethnografische Methoden; und die Poetik und Politik der Dateninfrastruktur.

Ihren Vortrag ordnet sie wie folgendermaßen ein:

"´Late industrialism´ points to both a historical period (since the mid- 1980s) and an analytic framework that draws out ways environmental hazards, vulnerabilities, and injustices are produced through tight coupling of historically sedimented socio-technical, political-economic, eco-atmospheric, cultural and discursive systems. I began to puzzle through these couplings about a decade ago, concerned about what it meant to "Remember Bhopal" 30 years after the historic toxic gas disaster in India (where I began my research career); 30 years into the environmental justice movement. In this presentation, I'll share how the world and my framing have developed since, implicating how I practice, teach and work to infrastructure ethnographic research. I'll also share and invite participation in diverse, experimental ethnographic projects."