Ontological differences and the pursuit of planetary well-being

This chapter emphasizes the importance of ontological dialogue and methodological choices to the conceptual development and practical enactment of planetary well-being. Starting from the premise that cultural practices, including scientific concepts and methods, shape realities, the chapter suggests approaching nature and culture as entangled with each other. From this perspective, this chapter deals with divergent biocultural realities rather than a single, universal Nature viewed from multiple cultural perspectives. Biocultural realities differ in terms of how well they enable more-than-human communities to regenerate themselves. The chapter proposes anthropologist Anna Tsing’s conceptual…

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Sense and Sensibility - Ethnology of Affect : 10th Ethnology Days in Pori, Finland, 15–16 March 2018

With the so-called “affective turn” in the humanities and social sciences, affect has become a popular theoretical frame in the research of human practice and sociality. The notion of affect places feelings, emotions, embodied experiences, and the feel of things at the front and center of academic interest. Researchers differ in their definitions of affect – some see affect as a potential to affect and an openness to being affected, while others approach it as an intensity, a sensation, or a bodily process. Whether and how affect is distinct from emotion is a subject of ongoing scholarly debate. nonPeerReviewed

Etnografia antropologiassa

Nautinnon merkitys etnografiassa

Mitä merkitystä hauskanpidolla, aistillisuudella ja nautinnolla on etnografisessa kenttätyössä? Antropologi Siru Auran esikoisromaani Myötäjäiset haastaa kaikkivoipaisen sankaritutkijan myyttiä ja ohjaa lukijaa näkemään nautinnon poliittisuuden. nonPeerReviewed