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

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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