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[Commlist] call for candidates: Towards a counter-hegemonic bottom-up creation of concepts PhD course

Fri Oct 21 21:22:52 GMT 2022





PHD COURSE: Towards a counter-hegemonic bottom-up creation of concepts**



Bergen, December 1-2 2022

https://www.uib.no/en/course/MEVI905 <https://www.uib.no/en/course/MEVI905>

Join us in Bergen in December for fundamental, research-close discussions about what to do when your theoretical concepts become challenged by your object of study. This course is intended for PhD candidates and postdocs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities who work on empirical research projects, but is especially targeted towards everyone working with ethnography, ethnomethodology or doing research with marginalised groups. Organised and taught by media and communication scholars, it will be of special interest for young scholars in these fields.

Through two days of lectures, workshops and discussions of your own research projects, we will dissect and problematize the key concepts we use in our research.

PhD candidates from any institution might apply,andthe course is freeof charge, although candidates must cover their own travelandaccommodation. Completion of the course gives 2 ECTS. Keynote for the course will be professor Radha S. Hegde, New York University.

COURSE CONTENT

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That theoretical concepts never fit perfectly with empirical reality is a well-known tenet in all disciplines of the social sciences and humanities. However, this problem of definition has become especially pertinent for methods where the researcher takes a close interest in the insider perspective of the people they study, like ethnography and different forms of ethnomethodology; for anyone working within critical traditions like feminism and postcolonialism; and indeed for anyone working with marginalised groups, where the question of how key scholarly concepts like democracy, trust, or technology are infused by hegemonic power always demonstrates it relevance.

The aim of the course is to critically examine key concepts that anchor our approaches to the social sciences and the humanities, and critically engage with their application in developing research methodologies. With an emphasis on embracing counterhegemonic perspectives and ethnography, the course aims to raise researchers' awareness about social and cultural diversity, and how well-established scholarly concepts and research methods reproduce hegemonic understanding of our social and cultural world. This calls for developing cultural capabilities that require continuous development and practice in understanding cultures, openness to examining one's own beliefs and values, and devising culture-sensitive and bottom-up methodologies. The subject offers examples of ethnographic methodologies developed by academics who could create space for diverse voices and knowledges, as well as bottom up-perspectives. In addition to general understanding and recognition of these issues, the subject will also walk the participants through their own current projects in order to rethink and re-examine the concepts and constructs they rely on within a more diverse context, in order to devise a roadmap towards re-storing them.

HOW TO APPLY
Application deadline: November 15th 2022

Link to application form:https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=11820469 <https://skjemaker.app.uib.no/view.php?id=11820469> As part of your application, please submit a short abstract on your PhD project or any other research project of yours you would like to use in the workshop.


FURTHER INFORMATION

For questions pertaining to the course, please contact Knut Risnes
(adminandapplications) (atKnut.Risnes /at/ uib.no) <mailto:(Knut.Risnes /at/ uib.no)> or John Magnus Dahl (course content) (atJohn.Dahl /at/ uib.no) <mailto:(John.Dahl /at/ uib.no)>

Learning outcomesanda preliminary course schedule and syllabus  available on the
course website, which will be updated with further information:
https://www.uib.no/en/course/MEVI905 <https://www.uib.no/en/course/MEVI905>

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