A Radical Experiment with Ethnographic Form: Live Interactive Documentary
Dr. Maple Razsa
Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies, Colby College, USA
2019年10月14日上午10點至12點
本所新館3樓2319會議室
How work with European radical networks (alterglobalization protesters, anarchist-punk squatters, migrant-labor organizers, video activists, and, most recently, opponents and transgressors of the European border regime movements) provokes aesthetic and formal experimentation in ethnographic media, experimentation with political implications of its own. First, informants’ use of video, as a tool for affective, sensory, and bodily self-fashioning, intensified the speaker’s own awareness of these qualities of the medium, and confirmed for me the importance of taking up video not just as a research tool, but as a means for representing that research. Second, activists’ ethic of political experimentation, especially around direct democracy, encouraged the speaker and his collaborators to create a live, participatory, and interactive documentary, one which invites audiences into a quite different relationship to “the field” than other ethnographic forms. Here he offer some reflections on the implications of such experiments for both anthropology and its audiences.
Maple Razsa is an Associate Professor and Director of Global Studies at Colby College. He is committed to using text, images, and sound to embody the lived experience, as well as the political imaginations of contemporary social movements. Trained as a filmmaker and anthropologist at Harvard University, Maple has conducted fieldwork with alterglobalization protesters, anarchist-punk squatters, migrant-labor organizers, video activists, and, most recently, opponents and transgressors of the European border regime. His films—including The Maribor Uprisings, Occupation: A Film About the Harvard Living Wage Sit-In, and Bastards of Utopia—have shown in festivals around the world, including CPH: DOX, Hot Docs, and DOK Leipzig. The Society for Visual Anthropology named Uprisings the Best Feature Film of 2017. Bastards of Utopia: Living Radical Politics After Socialism (Indiana University Press, 2015), the written companion to the film of the same title, won the William A. Douglass Prize in Europeanist Anthropology. Maple has held fellowships from IREX, NSF, Wenner-Gren, ACLS, Fulbright and Truman Foundations. His current research project is Insurgent Mobilities (in collaboration with Nadia El-Shaarawi), an ethnography of refugee and activist struggles to enact freedom of movement in Europe.
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