Abetting Everyday Harms reading group: 3rd meeting
The Abetting Everyday Harms reading group focuses on the concept and problem of complicity, exploring this through an interdisciplinary lens and with a particular focus on environmental contexts. Interested participants from all disciplines and all levels of seniority, including students, are invited to join
Info about event
Time
Location
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), meeting space on the third floor
Organizer
For this third meeting, readings include:
- Das, Veena. 2015. “What Does Ordinary Ethics Look Like?” Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane, Four Lectures on Ethics: Anthropological Perspectives. Chicago, IL: HAU Books. Pages 53-125.
- Fleetwood, Nicole. 2020. “Fraught imaginaries: Collaborative Art in Prisons.” Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Pages 150-189.
Both texts are available through AU Library. In case you do not have access to AU Library, please reach out to Andreas Thyrsted Laursen (anth@ca.au.dk) for help.
About the “Abetting Everyday Harms” reading group
This reading group will explore the concepts of moral complicity (and implication, its close cousin) by bringing together writings from multiple disciplines such as literary studies, law, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, history. We are seeking similarly interdisciplinary reading group participants.
Our exploration of complicity is at once focused through an emphasis on climate change, but at the same time seeks to draw from a broad and foundational conceptual base, and this mixture is reflected in the readings, some of which are devoted to the concept of complicity itself, and some of which are focused on climate. The aim is to set a moderate and achievable amount of reading for shared interdisciplinary discussion which can act as a framework for further individual reading.
The initial few readings will have set content but the organisers will welcome suggestions for additions later in the semester so that the program reflects collective interests as they develop.
We are particularly interested in the ways in which complicity shows up in unexpected ways in our life and work, and hope to think about what less complicit processes could look like. We are particularly interested in the role of cultural production and intellectual methodologies as sites of complicity and of its representation.
We aim to develop a framework for interdisciplinary discussion both of the problem of complicity and some accounts of how we might moving beyond, through, or past it. We are interested not only in why we necessarily abet everyday harms, but also how we might learn to abet them a little less.
This reading group will explore the concepts of moral complicity (and implication, its close cousin) by bringing together writings from multiple disciplines such as literary studies, law, philosophy, cultural studies, sociology, history. We are seeking similarly interdisciplinary reading group participants,
Our exploration of complicity is at once focused through an emphasis on climate change, but at the same time seeks to draw from a broad and foundational conceptual base, and this mixture is reflected in the readings, some of which are devoted to the concept of complicity itself, and some of which are focused on climate. The aim is to set a moderate and achievable amount of reading for shared interdisciplinary discussion which can act as a framework for further individual reading.
The initial few readings will have set content but the organisers will welcome suggestions for additions later in the semester so that the program reflects collective interests as they develop.
We are particularly interested in the ways in which complicity shows up in unexpected ways in our life and work, and hope to think about what less complicit processes could look like. We are particularly interested in the role of cultural production and intellectual methodologies as sites of complicity and of its representation.
We aim to develop a framework for interdisciplinary discussion both of the problem of complicity and some accounts of how we might moving beyond, through, or past it. We are interested not only in why we necessarily abet everyday harms, but also how we might learn to abet them a little less.