[IMCnetwork] (next date) IMC/HDR Conversation Over Coffee: Nov 5

[Heba Al Adawy]

Dear All,

Thank you all who came to our discussion today on Genealogy!

We discussed how some of our works implicitly adopt a genealogical method (or makes a claim to do so), but the importance of getting 'genealogy' right conceptually and spelling it out as a method and what it does (thanks to Koopman's very comprehensive work on Genealogy as Critique). We spent some time on the 'how' of genealogy - with a close reading of the text and the concept of 'descent' and 'emergence.' And finally, we spent some time pondering over how a genealogical history or a genealogist's history (for those of us who are interested in the 'problematization of the present' or in building a 'thick description' of our 'experience near' concepts ethnographically ) may be different from other historical approaches, especially those that do factor in contingency and complexity.

For a topic for the next session, I thought we might take ideas from the group.  You can write to me. Either way, please save the date for the next discussion: Friday, Nov 5th!

See you then!


Heba Al-Adawy
Doctoral Researcher
Department of Political & Social Change
Coral Bell School of Asia & the Pacific
Australian National University
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