Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.19
F. Masarovic, D. Müller, Alexandra Regiert, Sarah Wirschke
{"title":"Zwischen Nähe, Distanz und allen Stühlen. Fragen der Repräsentation und Ethik im Forschungsprozess. 16. DGEKW-Doktorand*innentagung, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, 4.–6. November 2022","authors":"F. Masarovic, D. Müller, Alexandra Regiert, Sarah Wirschke","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.19","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128602666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.16
Julia Gilfert, Lara Gruhn
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.18
H. Ahner
{"title":"Mädchen*fantasien. Zur Poetik und Politik des Mädchenhaften. 7. Tagung der Kommission für Kulturen populärer Unterhaltung und Vergnügen (KPUV), Universität Zürich, 2.–4. Juni 2022","authors":"H. Ahner","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.18","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"68 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127766630","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.14
M. Sandberg
{"title":"Cou/rage! On Permanent Temporariness and the Precarization of Academia","authors":"M. Sandberg","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.14","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"58 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120896732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.17
D. Eckhardt, Berit Zimmerling
What is digital future-making? How do we understand theoretically and ethnographically digital processes surrounding our fieldwork and research problems? How should anthropologists deal with digital futures played out in front of us? These are questions that I will address from my trajectory in technological design, imagination and future of work understandings. I will draw in the ethnographic projects that I am currently involved in on the ‘digitalization’ of work in service platforms and the health industry. This paper focuses on moral experience and materiality in an innovation context. Whereas most innovation studies focus on optimization and process management, this study investigates the relations between sociotechnical change through innovation, and how people experience meaning and purpose in their work throughout this change. Through an ethnographic fieldwork study with participant observation and in-depth interviews, I analyzed the everyday practices in an ‘innovation unit’ at the Dutch military organization. In this unit, sociotechnical change is designed and tested with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics. I observe that everyday practices in the unit evolve around the co-production of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’. Despite a shared imaginary of an ‘innovative military future’, there are conflicting perceptions, expectations and experiences on what technological innovation looks like, between military personnel at the policy level, the strategic level and the operational level of the innovation unit. Focusing on moral experience at the operational level of the unit, feelings of disappointment and frustration were leading topics in interviews. I argue that these feelings are exemplary of deeper sentiments of loss of meaning and purpose. As a result of conflicting perceptions, expectations and experiences, the military personnel slowly lose their faith in the imaginary. Therefore, their everyday practices become meaningless and purposeless – they no longer feel as if contributing to an ‘innovative military future’. I describe this process as ‘disillusionment’, which is a moral experience characterized by a value conflict between personal and professional values. It has a temporal and disruptive character, and could further develop into more severe symptoms of moral disorientation or moral injury if not being taken seriously by the organization. This paper integrates a focus on moral experience; materiality; sociotechnical change; imaginaries; (conflicting) perceptions on technological innovation. This paper will address the ethically-charged aspects of digitizing human death for museum publics and source communities, treating the digital as a novel but problematic space where new forms of exhibition, archiving, ethnographic research, and collaboration are possible. It will survey the landscape of new technological practices from 2019-2022 and review the range of new ethical issues that are bound up in the use of dig
{"title":"Digital Futures in the Making: Imaginaries, Politics, and Materialities. 8. Arbeitstagung der dgekw-Kommission „Digitale Anthropologie“ am Institut für Ethnologie, Universität Hamburg, 14.–16. September 2022","authors":"D. Eckhardt, Berit Zimmerling","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.17","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.17","url":null,"abstract":"What is digital future-making? How do we understand theoretically and ethnographically digital processes surrounding our fieldwork and research problems? How should anthropologists deal with digital futures played out in front of us? These are questions that I will address from my trajectory in technological design, imagination and future of work understandings. I will draw in the ethnographic projects that I am currently involved in on the ‘digitalization’ of work in service platforms and the health industry. This paper focuses on moral experience and materiality in an innovation context. Whereas most innovation studies focus on optimization and process management, this study investigates the relations between sociotechnical change through innovation, and how people experience meaning and purpose in their work throughout this change. Through an ethnographic fieldwork study with participant observation and in-depth interviews, I analyzed the everyday practices in an ‘innovation unit’ at the Dutch military organization. In this unit, sociotechnical change is designed and tested with technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics. I observe that everyday practices in the unit evolve around the co-production of ‘sociotechnical imaginaries’. Despite a shared imaginary of an ‘innovative military future’, there are conflicting perceptions, expectations and experiences on what technological innovation looks like, between military personnel at the policy level, the strategic level and the operational level of the innovation unit. Focusing on moral experience at the operational level of the unit, feelings of disappointment and frustration were leading topics in interviews. I argue that these feelings are exemplary of deeper sentiments of loss of meaning and purpose. As a result of conflicting perceptions, expectations and experiences, the military personnel slowly lose their faith in the imaginary. Therefore, their everyday practices become meaningless and purposeless – they no longer feel as if contributing to an ‘innovative military future’. I describe this process as ‘disillusionment’, which is a moral experience characterized by a value conflict between personal and professional values. It has a temporal and disruptive character, and could further develop into more severe symptoms of moral disorientation or moral injury if not being taken seriously by the organization. This paper integrates a focus on moral experience; materiality; sociotechnical change; imaginaries; (conflicting) perceptions on technological innovation. This paper will address the ethically-charged aspects of digitizing human death for museum publics and source communities, treating the digital as a novel but problematic space where new forms of exhibition, archiving, ethnographic research, and collaboration are possible. It will survey the landscape of new technological practices from 2019-2022 and review the range of new ethical issues that are bound up in the use of dig","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129249036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.13
W. Leimgruber
{"title":"Mief auch ohne Talare","authors":"W. Leimgruber","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.13","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"200 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130075276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.07
{"title":"Wie wir arbeiten (wollen)","authors":"","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128059767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.05
Juliane Tomann, Torsten Kathke, M. Uhlig
Während die Formierungsphase der anglo-amerikanischen Reen-actment-Szene bereits gut erforscht ist, steht eine Historisierung von Reenactments als populärkulturelle Praxis der Vergegenwärtigung von Vergangenheit für den euro-päischen Raum zum Großteil noch aus. Insbesondere über die Entwicklungen in in der DDR und der BRD ist bislang wenig bekannt. Hier setzt dieser Beitrag an und leis-tet eine erste Rekonstruktion und Einordnung der Entwicklungen in den zwei deut-schen Staaten, die vor allem in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren an Dynamik gewannen. Im Fokus steht dabei die subjektive Erfahrung zeitgenössischer Akteure, anhand der nachvollzogen wird, wie sich die Gruppen von Geschichtsinteressierten in den beiden deutschen Staaten formierten, konsolidierten und worin sie sich glichen beziehungs-weise unterschieden. Ebenso wird beleuchtet, unter welchen politischen Maßgaben und alltäglichen Bedingungen die Menschen handelten. Auf Grundlage dieser ersten akteurszentrierten Sondierungen macht der Text auf Forschungsdesiderata aufmerk-sam und entwickelt weiterführende Forschungsfragen für zukünftige Untersuchungen dieses Feldes, etwa in Bezug auf die transnationalen Beziehungen und Netzwerke der Reenactment-Szenen und die Entwicklungen der Nachwendezeit.
{"title":"Reenactment in der DDR und der BRD. Eine akteurszentrierte Sondierung","authors":"Juliane Tomann, Torsten Kathke, M. Uhlig","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2023/01.05","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2023/01.05","url":null,"abstract":"Während die Formierungsphase der anglo-amerikanischen Reen-actment-Szene bereits gut erforscht ist, steht eine Historisierung von Reenactments als populärkulturelle Praxis der Vergegenwärtigung von Vergangenheit für den euro-päischen Raum zum Großteil noch aus. Insbesondere über die Entwicklungen in in der DDR und der BRD ist bislang wenig bekannt. Hier setzt dieser Beitrag an und leis-tet eine erste Rekonstruktion und Einordnung der Entwicklungen in den zwei deut-schen Staaten, die vor allem in den 1970er und 1980er Jahren an Dynamik gewannen. Im Fokus steht dabei die subjektive Erfahrung zeitgenössischer Akteure, anhand der nachvollzogen wird, wie sich die Gruppen von Geschichtsinteressierten in den beiden deutschen Staaten formierten, konsolidierten und worin sie sich glichen beziehungs-weise unterschieden. Ebenso wird beleuchtet, unter welchen politischen Maßgaben und alltäglichen Bedingungen die Menschen handelten. Auf Grundlage dieser ersten akteurszentrierten Sondierungen macht der Text auf Forschungsdesiderata aufmerk-sam und entwickelt weiterführende Forschungsfragen für zukünftige Untersuchungen dieses Feldes, etwa in Bezug auf die transnationalen Beziehungen und Netzwerke der Reenactment-Szenen und die Entwicklungen der Nachwendezeit.","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125409659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.31244/zekw/2023/01.20
Juliane Tomann, Torsten Kathke, Mirko Uhlig
While the formative phase of the Anglo-American reenactment scene has already been well researched, a historicisation of reenactments as a popular cultural practice of visualising the past is still largely lacking for Europe. In particular, little is known about the developments in East and West Germany. This is the starting point for our article, which provides an initial reconstruction and classification of the developments in the two German states, which gained momentum especially in the 1970s and 1980s. Our focus is on the subjective experience of contemporary actors, on the basis of which it we trace how various groups of people interested in history in the two German states formed and consolidated and in which ways they were similar or different. It also sheds light on the political and everyday conditions under which people acted. On the basis of these initial actor-centered explorations, the text draws attention to desiderata for further research and suggests research questions for future studies in this field – for example with regard to the transnational relationships and networks of both reenactment scenes and the developments during the post-reunification period.
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{"title":"Rebekka Endler: Das Patriarchat der Dinge. Warum die Welt Frauen nicht passt. Buchbesprechungen","authors":"Julia Marzoner","doi":"10.31244/zekw/2022.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31244/zekw/2022.27","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":106373,"journal":{"name":"Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124465421","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}