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SUMMARY:Making difference: queer activism and anthropological theory - Pao
 lo Heywood (Department of Social Anthropology)
DTSTART:20190228T130000Z
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CONTACT:Richard Staley
DESCRIPTION:This paper examines two paradoxes. The first is ethnographic: 
 queer activists in Bologna\, Italy are concerned with defining themselves 
 in opposition to fixed categories of identity and forms of politics based 
 on them. In so doing however\, they must engage with the risk that this en
 deavour of difference-making itself becomes as fixed and uniform as the id
 entities to which it is opposed. The second paradox is theoretical: a rang
 e of anthropologists have recently argued that the relationship between th
 eoretical and ethnographic material should be one of identity or correspon
 dence. Yet such arguments\, though highly conceptually stimulating\, often
  reproduce in form what they refute in content: abstraction and metaphysic
 al speculation\, thus re-inscribing the difference between our concepts an
 d our data. This paper simultaneously connects these respectively ethnogra
 phic and theoretical questions\, whilst also deliberately holding them apa
 rt. The beginnings of an answer to both\, it suggests\, lie in an explicit
  attention to the boundaries and differences\, rather than simply the isom
 orphisms\, between theory and ethnography.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 2\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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