About this Event
The Antonio Gramsci Society UK welcomes (for the first time) Dr Mattia Fumanti.
In this paper Mattia will talk about the limits and challenges of reflexivity and collaboration in anthropological research. Based on a failed collaborative film with people living with bi-polar disorder in contemporary Namibia, this paper underlines the generative and transformative forces of reflexive and collaborative methods, whilst simultaneously exploring their potential for stagnation and failure, and the possibilities of creating from a space of (dis)-epistemology, collective and caring academic communities.
Dr Mattia Fumanti is a senior lecturer and head of department in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews with research interests in colonial and postcolonial Africa, the anthropology of migration and medical anthropology. He has conducted research in Namibia, Ghana and London. He has published two monographs The Politics of Distinction. African Elites from Colonialism to Liberation in a Namibian Frontier Town (2016, Sean Kingston Publishing) and Religion and transnational citizenship in the African diaspora: Akan London (2022, Routledge), as well as many articles in peer reviewed journals. He has edited two short films and one documentary shot in Ghana entitled Crusade Ghana Style.
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Event Venue
Online
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