{"id":11683,"date":"2013-08-15T21:46:53","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2013-08-15T21:48:12","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T02:48:12","slug":"ethics-other-relationality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.terada.ca\/discourse\/2013\/08\/15\/ethics-other-relationality\/","title":{"rendered":"ethics other relationality"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alterity, Intersubjectivity, Ethics<\/a><\/p>\n

Workshop Abstract:<\/p>\n

The \u2018ethical turn\u2019 across the arts and humanities has taken its place in social and cultural anthropology primarily as a way to address long-standing questions of human agency within cultural and political systems. Anthropologists have been developing their own take on questions of ethics and morality in ways drawing largely from neo-Aristotelian and Foucauldian theorisations. Building on this emerging literature, but cautious of some of its ontological assumptions, the premise behind this workshop questions the prioritisation of certain notions of the \u2018self\u2019 over inquiries into the nature of the ethical \u2018subject\u2019.<\/p>\n

The workshop will approach questions of ethics from different theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, which have thus far remained marginal in the emerging anthropology of ethics and morality. Anthropology has traditionally sought to understand the socially or relationally constituted nature of persons and the historical processes within which they are embedded, and yet literature on ethical agency has often foregrounded voluntaristic notions of self-cultivation. We ask what contributions theories concerned with the relational or intersubjective nature of subject formation framed as responsibility for the other can make to our conceptualisation of ethics and ethical agency.<\/p>\n

Theories of subjectivity, gendered or sexual difference, affect, and the \u2018post-human\u2019 have become prominent in investigations that question the bounds of the self\/subject, and the ways in which we can conceptualise it as socially or politically emplaced. We ask what such theories, and different disciplines\u2019 elaborations and critiques of them, can usefully lend our conceptualisations of ethics and morality.
\nWe hope to open up avenues for further research and collaboration amongst those attending the workshop, in the form of publication and\/or a broader conference at a later date.<\/p>\n

Workshop format:<\/p>\n

The aim of the workshop is primarily to exchange ideas across disciplines and with different theoretical and ethnographic references. The day therefore will be structured so as to promote as much discussion as possible, rather than presenting polished research results. The workshop will be divided into four thematic sessions, with a keynote lecture delivered by Associate Professor Jarrett Zigon of the University of Amsterdam.<\/p>\n

The four sessions will address the themes of:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Feminism and the question of the other
\n\u2022 Ethics, violence and politics
\n\u2022 Post-humanism and animal\/human relations
\n\u2022 Affect and the ethics of noise<\/p>\n

Each of the four sessions will be structured around a research paper, to be pre-circulated to all workshop participants, which will form the starting point for the discussion. The discussions will be co-facilitated by the paper authors and workshop organisers. In the abstract and in the suggested questions for discussion below, we have started to shape and open the discussions in particular directions. However these questions are both preliminary and open-ended, and we welcome different perspectives and challenges that are relevant to the workshop\u2019s themes and concerns.<\/p>\n

Workshop preparation<\/p>\n

After registering each participant will receive the research papers in advance for each of the four sessions and you are strongly encouraged to read these prior to attending the workshop. The workshop welcomes participants across academic disciplines keen to engage in lively discussions and raise questions and ideas during the day.<\/p>\n

Questions to initiate discussion:<\/p>\n

\u2022 What analysis of attachments and detachments across sameness and difference do concepts such as affect enable or disable?<\/p>\n

\u2022 What are the challenges to more recent feminist theories that attempt to show how ethics is suggested and solicited by an ontology of interdependency between people?<\/p>\n

\u2022 How do lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex subjectivities complicate ethical and political responses to deeply ingrained normative practices?<\/p>\n

\u2022 In light of the central place of \u2018the Other\u2019 in anthropological concerns, how can feminist and other theories of alterity inflect anthropological theories of ethics?<\/p>\n

\u2022 How do questions of politics enter into, impact upon, or undermine our theorisations of the ethical?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Can claims of relationality and acknowledgment of difference be shown to be fundamentally non-violent? How do we continue to address violence within ethics?<\/p>\n

\u2022 How can psychoanalytic theories addressing subject\/object, or self\/other, relations, help us to theorise the space in which ethical subjectivity is formed?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Do contemporary theories of affect push us beyond concepts of \u2018relationality\u2019 or \u2018intersubjectivity\u2019 in theorisations of ethics?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Can Levinasian theories of ethics as the pre-subjective relation to the Other inform ethnographic inquiries into ethical relationality?<\/p>\n

\u2022 What other approaches from philosophy or other disciplines can inform the study of ethics and morality?<\/p>\n

\u2022 Do these theoretical approaches invite us to question the idea of intersubjectivity as the place of ethical relationality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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