Immutable: Eight Answers to the Question if Ethnographic Research in Asian Russia Has Fared Well or Got Shipwrecked with Colonial/Decolonial Ambitions (1724-2024). Part 2 Session 5 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching”; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
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Title
Eight Answers to the Question if Ethnographic Research in Asian Russia Has Fared Well or Got Shipwrecked with Colonial/Decolonial Ambitions (1724-2024). Part 2 Session 5 of the digital lecture series „Decolonizing Anthropology: A Self-Critical Appraisal of the Current State of Research and Teaching”; German speaking departments of social and cultural anthropology.
Author
Habeck, J. Otto
Editor
boasblogs
Other contributor
Rao, Ursula
Publishing institution
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Date of publication
16 May 2024
Terms of use
(CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) Namensnennung + nicht kommerziell + keine Bearbeitung
Abstract
Previous speakers in this lecture series have addressed multiple aspects of the legacies and ongoing dynamics of colonialism and anthropology, and ways towards decolonising the discipline. Understandably, this debate has mainly drawn on “overseas” entanglements and interactions between Global South and Global North. However, colonial and decolonial perspectives from what some have called “the North beyond the Global North” can offer some unexpected views and bring lesser-known voices into this debate.
Sketching out eight short episodes from the early 18th century to the present, this presentation will show how the past and present of ethnographic research and anthropological theory cannot be separated from colonial, imperial, and geopolitical ambitions; nor can it be separated from large-scale social engineering. Simultaneously, this lecture will exemplify how anthropology in and about Siberia has been a platform for counter-discourses, political emancipation, and critique against state policies. These ambivalences have induced some colleagues to ask about similarities and distinctions between postsocialist and postcolonial scholarship. Moreover, in the light of historical “openings” and “closures” of transnational Indigenous ties and academic partnership, it is relevant to ask what the future of anthropology and activism may look like in Siberia in times of heightened geopolitical tension.
Keywords
Decolonizing Anthropology
Cultural Anthropology
Social Anthropology
Ethnologie
Decolonization
History of Ideas
Methodology
Epistemology
Russia
GND Keywords
Sozialanthropologie 4129436-1
Kulturanthropologie 4133903-4
Ideengeschichte 4138031-9
Wissenschaftstheorie 4117665-0
Methodologie 4139716-2
Postkolonialismus 4566658-1
Entkolonisierung 4070860-3
Russland 4076899-5
Sibirien 4054780-2
Postkommunismus 4998161-4
Ethnologie 4078931-7
DDC
301 Soziologie und Anthropologie, 306 Kultur und Institutionen, 378 Hochschulbildung (Tertiärbereich), 957 Sibirien (Asiatisches Russland)
RVK
LB 25326
LB 53326
Language
eng
Publication type
CourseMaterial
File format
MP4
Publisher DOI
Dauer / Länge
01:06:19