Abetting Everyday Harms reading group: 5th meeting
The fifth and final meeting of this semester-long initiative jointly organized by the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS) and CEH takes place on January 9
Info about event
Time
Location
Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS), building 1630, room 301
Organizer
The material for this session can be accessed through AU Library. The readings are:
- Rosiek, J. L., Jimmy Snyder, and Scott L. Pratt. 2020. ”The New Materialisms and Indigenous Theories of Non-Human Agency: Making the Case for Respectful Anti-Colonial Engagement.” Qualitative Inquiry, 26 (3-4): 331-346. (AU library link for Rosiek)
- Humphrey, Caroline. 2008.”Reassembling individual subjects: Events and decisions in troubled times.” Anthropological Theory, 8 (4):357-380. (AU Library Link for Humphrey)
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.