Economy & Society Summer School 2023 - Theorising at the Edge of the World, UCC
The Economy & Society Summer School 2023 took place in University College Cork from 11-13 April 2023. The theme for this year was "Theorising at the Edge of the World".
Bjorn Thomassen: Political anthropology as reflexive sociology
Tom Boland: The Experimentalism of Modern life
Chris Rojek: How Not To Study Celebrity
Tríona Ní Shíochain: Disqualified Knowledges: Singing, Subjectivities & Power
Adrian Favell: Islands For Life: Artistic Responses To Remote Social Polarisation and Population Decline in "Post-Growth" Japan
James Cuffe: Smart City
Kate Kenny: Messy Parrhesia: Speaking Truth to Power in Organizations
Aisling Tuite: Banks & Care
Ray Griffin: Yan is the loneliest sheep: Data, people, numbers and their performances
Paul Clogher: Cinematic Theology at the Edge of the World
Day 3
Speakers:
Damien O'Doherty: Walking into Dystopias: The Management of Ethnography
Des Fitzgerald: The City of Today is a Dying Thing
Norah Campbell: Eating Capitalism
Tracey Skillington: Sacrificing nature
Ger Mullaly: Sustainability at the edge
Mechanical Care
Identity Interpretation & Power
Thinking ecology for the Anthropocene
Architectures of life
The subject of Critique
Further reading
HECAT EU Project Blog on the Summer School Economy and Society Summer School 2023; Exploring at the Edge – HECAT
What to bring with you? A hat and scarf, an anorak and sun cream.
An umbrella and a parasol perhaps.
Bring pen & paper to think and notate – a phone or tablet rather than a laptop..
Day 1
Speakers:Bjorn Thomassen: Political anthropology as reflexive sociology
Tom Boland: The Experimentalism of Modern life
Chris Rojek: How Not To Study Celebrity
Tríona Ní Shíochain: Disqualified Knowledges: Singing, Subjectivities & Power
Day 2
Speakers:Adrian Favell: Islands For Life: Artistic Responses To Remote Social Polarisation and Population Decline in "Post-Growth" Japan
James Cuffe: Smart City
Kate Kenny: Messy Parrhesia: Speaking Truth to Power in Organizations
Aisling Tuite: Banks & Care
Ray Griffin: Yan is the loneliest sheep: Data, people, numbers and their performances
Paul Clogher: Cinematic Theology at the Edge of the World
Day 3
Speakers:Damien O'Doherty: Walking into Dystopias: The Management of Ethnography
Des Fitzgerald: The City of Today is a Dying Thing
Norah Campbell: Eating Capitalism
Tracey Skillington: Sacrificing nature
Ger Mullaly: Sustainability at the edge
Reading Groups
Anthropology & Social TheoryMechanical Care
Identity Interpretation & Power
Thinking ecology for the Anthropocene
Architectures of life
The subject of Critique
Further reading
HECAT EU Project Blog on the Summer School Economy and Society Summer School 2023; Exploring at the Edge – HECAT