Zeitschrift für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft. Journal for Cultural Analysis and European Ethnology

Forum der Ausgabe 2023, 2

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Grenzverkehr – EKW und Offentlichkeit

2023-12-13T17:42:18+01:00

Popularwissenschaftliches Schreiben und der Ruf der Disziplin

2023-12-13T17:55:32+01:00

Blog und Magazin

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Ethnografischer Film

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Social Media

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Ausstellungen

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Vortrags- und Diskussionsformate

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Photovoice und Plakat

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Berichte der Ausgabe 2023, 2

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Berichte der Ausgabe 2023, 2

Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kerkhoff-Hader 1940–2023

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Nachruf Prof. Dr. Bärbel Kerkhoff-Hader

Doing Kinship by Doing Law? Zur Alltagsbedeutung von Recht in verwandtschaftlichen Kontexten

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Alle Artikel der Ausgabe 2023, 2

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Alle Artikel der Ausgabe 2023, 2

Staging Economics

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The cultural analysis of economics that draws from European Ethnology is still clearly underemphasized. This article highlights its potential and explores possible approaches. It begins with a search for traces of the previous disciplinary preoccupation with economy and economics (economic theorizing). Then, using examples from the author’s own research (studies on business cycle research and on the phenomenon of economy museums), ways of approaching and their potential for knowledge production are concretised. Based on this, further-reaching perspectives are presented. Basically, it is not enough to limit the European-ethnological study of economy and academic economic activities to everyday actors and practices. It is also indispensable to look at economic expertise, its efficacy in economic processes and the „fabrication“ of this expertise – in the academic sphere and beyond.

Algorithmen und Daten in kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung

2023-12-13T17:33:32+01:00

This article outlines a research programme for the specific perspective of empirical cultural studies in the digital humanities. As six areas of digital humanities in application, it elaborates computational methods and algorithms, digital and digitised data, infrastructures, resources, digital handcraft and basic digital skills. These are combined with perspectives of reflection, especially in relation to algorithmic assemblages, practices in the community of practice, infrastructures and resources as power structures, and data in its changeability and incompleteness. Due to researchers’ fear of algorithms and data, these areas have so far only been realised in rudimentary form. However, it is precisely with the expertise of empirical cultural studies that uncertainties and misunderstandings can be used productively to further develop existing approaches, expand them to meet the needs of cultural studies and iteratively connect them with cultural analytical concepts. Possibilities and implications cannot be explored with tools and scripts as a transfer of existing methods into digital procedures. These change approaches to knowledge that can be realised in close human-technology relations combined with computational thinking.

Professionelle Authentizitat

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The idea of an authentic self is at the heart of building trust in NGO fundraising. This paper asks how personal fundraising by paid workers ( ‚dialogers‘) relates to expectations of authenticity. Building on a review of the online self-representations of NGO fundraising agencies’ and on an ethnographic study of fundraisers’ work, it traces where the concept of the authentic self becomes relevant in fundraising and how it relates to notions of neoliberal labour. A conceptual history of personal authenticity, attempts at interpretation from cultural studies and media studies, as well as reflections on authenticity in fundraising marketing serve as approaches to the research field and lead to an account of the dialogers’ narrative selves. This enables a reflection on how authenticity as a powerful discourse relates to NGOs and to neoliberal worlds of work in general. The paper aims to condense the broad theory on personal authenticity and relate it to salaried work in the context of voluntary engagement. Furthermore, the examination of this special case of professional trust work helps to review assumptions that all too quickly arise from the interpretive pattern of ‚neoliberalism‘.

Empirischer Posthumanismus

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Although posthumanism has arrived in cultural anthropology, there is still uncertainty regarding the methodological implementation and practicability of its postdualist, post-anthropocentric, post-humanist demands. This paper addresses these uncertainties asking what ethnographers can do to participate in or even advance the posthumanist project, which empirical methods are suitable for this purpose, or how they have to be transformed in the light of the posthumanist paradigm. The thesis pursued here is that due to their ethnographic orientation cultural anthropologist have always possessed a posthuman sensibility, which equips them well for the posthuman turn. Indeed, cultural anthropology and posthumanism can benefit from and complement each other to an empirical posthumanism. To explore the field of empirical posthumanism, anthropological positions that can be identified as empirical posthumanist are first discussed. In a further step, concrete methods are presented that have proven suitable in empirical posthumanist geo-centered studies conducted by the author in Kashubia. Then, it is clarified, how an empirical-posthumanistic approach affects the researcher’s attitude in the research process as well as the quality of the knowledge produced, and what implications it has for the research ethics.

Alle Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 2023, 2

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Alle Buchbesprechungen der Ausgabe 2023, 2

Ulrich Ermann / Malte Höfner / Sabine Hostniker / Ernst Michael Preininger / Danko Simic (Hrsg.) Die Region. Eine Begriffserkundung

2023-12-15T08:49:17+01:00

Bettina Grimmer: Folgsamkeit herstellen. Eine Ethnographie der Arbeitsvermittlung im Jobcenter

2023-12-15T08:57:05+01:00

Martin Warnke / Anne Dippel: Tiefen der Tauschung. Computersimulation und Wirklichkeitserzeugung

2023-12-15T09:03:15+01:00

Klaus Näumann / Gisela Probst-Effah (Hrsg.): Musikethnologische Feldforschung. Historische und gegenwartsbezogene Perspektiven

2023-12-15T09:05:20+01:00

Johannes Müske / Michael Fischer (Hrsg.): Schlager erforschen. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf ein populäres Phänomen

2023-12-15T09:12:43+01:00

Julia Gehres: Fest, Event, Spektakel? Zur Inszenierung des venezianischen Karnevals im Kontext gesellschaftlicher Transformationsprozesse

2023-12-15T09:14:38+01:00

Judith Schmidt: Kalkulierte Mobilität. Ökonomische und biographische Perspektiven auf Saisonarbeit

2023-12-15T09:17:01+01:00

Gerhard H. Hommer: Attraktionen der Straße. Eine Berliner Literaturgeschichte 1927–1932

2023-12-15T09:20:49+01:00

Tabea Stirenberg: Scham, Schmerz, Hysterisierung. Kulturwissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf Menstruation als Alltagspraxis

2023-12-15T09:25:19+01:00

Natalie Reinsch / Frauke Geyken / Cornelia Eisler / Thomas Overdick (Hrsg.): Herkunft. Heimat. Heute. Zur Musealiserung von Heimatstuben und Heimatsammlungen der Fluchtlinge, Vertriebenen und Aussiedler*innen

2023-12-15T09:27:09+01:00

Marc Meißner: Mit Pinsel und Farbe zwischen Kohle und Chemie. Bernhard Franke & Walter Dötsch: Maler, Grafiker und Pioniere des DDR-Volkskunstschaffens aus Bitterfeld

2023-12-15T09:30:17+01:00

Editorial

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