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Ethnographic Imagination Basel (EIB) – a series on reimagining the world from the mundane – is produced by the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Basel. It is a research, educational, and public engagement initiative exploring innovative forms of political imagination through ethnographic practice. The podcast promotes ethnography not only as a tool of scholarly research but also as a mode of imagination available to all, a means for pursuing deeper intercultural, contextual understanding and more ethical ways of being in the world.
Basel Social Anthropology hosts Ethnographic Imagination Basel, a science show with 25 episodes published.
How can embodiment be a key site from which to tackle the world in which we live? This episode, On Bodies , features Sabine Mohamed, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, who discusses the ways
How do migrations foster the development of imaginative strategies, and in what ways do the constraints encountered during these transitions prompt innovative approaches to navigating and reshaping our world? In this epi
How can thinking about funerals and life's endings offer new ways to imagine our worlds? In this episode, On Endings, our guest Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studie
How does the act of displaying items allow us to reassess our connection to the past and guide us towards new futures? In this episode, we will explore the concept of display, which includes the showcasing of images, obj
In this episode On Extractivism, the conversation centres on how the unpredictability of extractive economies opens and forecloses various futures, a global market premised on the extraction of natural resources and raw
How can plastic offer us an important window into today's epochal conundrum? This episode, On Plastics, looks at a historically salient material, ever so complexly entangled in our bodies and everyday life, with our gues
What does the desire to overcome death and preserve oneself for the far future tell us about the world in which we live? Immortality, ways to overcome death in the present, as imagined through new secular technologies, i
How might thinking about love, against and beyond dominant representations help us understand our attachments differently? In this episode with Serena Owusua Dankwa, we discuss love, affective attachments and emotional e
How does attending to and engaging our senses reveal our world otherwise? Our guest on this episode, On Sensing is David Howes, professor of anthropology and co-director of the Centre for Sensory Studies at Concordia Uni
What do depictions of the devil reveal about modernity, late capitalism and the world at large? In this episode with Birgit Meyer, professor of religious studies at Utrecht University, we talk about the devil in images a
Anima Adjepong, Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati, joins us as a guest in this episode, On Erotics. The discussion begins with the concept of the erotic as a form
This episode, “On Humanitarianism”, reviews how the incitement to rescue and save others has become vital to how we are what we are in the contemporary world. It also examines how a particular perspective on humanitarian
Our guest on episode #13, On Trance, is Michaela Schäuble. Her scholarly work explores innovative ways to engage with the experiences of trance through writing, film, and photography. This episode examines the transforma
Our conversation on this episode, On Data, is with Alec Bălăşescu, associate faculty at the Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada. Bălăşescu is a social and cultural anthropologist whose research and teachin
In this episode, On Surveillance, our guest is Katherine Verdery, Julien J. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Department of Anthropology at the City University of New York. Her research h
What can be gained from discussing materiality, as opposed to simply talking about objects? This episode, On Materiality, examines what it means to engage with objects, substances, and textures. We contemplate the more p
What does it mean to live in a world defined by mobility, a world where the here and now are also so centrally defined multiple elsewheres? In this episode, On Diaspora, our guest, Ghassan Hage, Distinguished Professor o
How do we approach listening, as a mode of perception? How can we be attentive to what others say? Not so much to respond, but in order to understand. In today's episode, On Listening, our guest is Mwenda Ntarangwi, a cu
This episode hosts two guests in a conversation about how dancing encompasses the elements of our changing worlds and allows us to act upon that world. Hélène Neveu Kringelbach is an Associate Professor of African Anthro
This episode "On Birth/ing" features Stephen Okumu Ombere, Professor of Anthropology at Maseno University in Kisumu, Kenya. Ombere has researched birth in relation to medicalization, social assistance programs, and vario
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Ethnographic Imagination Basel is hosted by Basel Social Anthropology. The show is categorised under science (social) and has published 25 episodes.
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