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SUMMARY:Comparing what? Ethnography at the riverbanks and the potential of
  experimental comparison  - Lucilla Barchetta (Gran Sasso Science Institut
 e\, Italy)
DTSTART:20180309T110000Z
DTEND:20180309T120000Z
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DESCRIPTION:This seminar is about conceptualising comparison in the fields
  of urban studies and ethnographic knowledge construction\, by looking at 
 the interrelationship between time and blight in two riverbank spaces in T
 urin (Italy). The study suggests an experimental and relational approach t
 o comparison that is retrospective and processual. Therefore\, the aim of 
 the research was not to compare how processes of abandonment worked in dif
 ferent contexts. It was only while conducting ethnographic fieldwork in th
 e two spaces separately that correspondences\, both similarities and diffe
 rences\, have emerged throughout the endless and intertwined operations of
  observation\, description and comparison. The seminar is then an attempt 
 to foreground the practical and epistemological opportunities and challeng
 es of engaging with the 'messiness' of ethnographic practice as a means of
  researching the relational and complex nature of socio-spatial realities.
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LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Geography\, Downing Site
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