Centre for Political Ethnography Workshop “Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?” Event
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- 2025-07-02 09:00:00
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?Call for Submissions
The Centre for Political Ethnography (CPE) is pleased to announce a call for submissions for our first annual workshop, taking place on July 2nd, 2025, at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载.
Event details
Based in the Politics and International Relations Department (PAIR), CPE’s goal is to promote the use of ethnographic methods in political science and to foster interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers who use ethnography to explore topics related to politics — broadly understood.
As one of the few research centres in the UK dedicated to political ethnography, CPE aims to build a supportive, critical, interdisciplinary, and creative community around immersive research methods in politics. We take a broad view of political ethnography as research grounded in immersion, attentiveness to lived experience, and contextual understanding of political life.
???Who is this Workshop for
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 workshop — “Doing Ethnography in Political Contexts or Doing Politics via Ethnography?” — invites scholars using ethnographic or qualitative methods to study topics related to politics broadly understood. We particularly welcome submissions from PhD students and Early Career Researchers, though scholars at all career stages are encouraged to apply.
天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 goal is to support and foster a community of scholars doing grounded research on broadly understood political topics. Therefore, we welcome colleagues to submit work-in-progress, research design reflections, and ongoing fieldwork, not just finished papers.
We welcome interdisciplinary submissions from fields including (but not limited to) political science, anthropology, sociology, STS, media and cultural studies, geography, area studies, and others that work with political ethnography.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
? Migration
? Security
? Political Behaviour
? Political Parties
?Race, Racism, and Ethnicity
? Social Movements
? Misinformation
? Extremism
? Public Policy
? Political Elites
? Marine and Maritime Ethnographies
? Media and Cultural Studies
? Online Ethnographies
?? Workshop Format and Participation
The workshop will take place in person at the University of 天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 and feature in-depth discussions of up to ten selected papers. We will follow a read-in-advance format: accepted participants will be expected to read and engage with the papers of fellow attendees.
? Registration is free
? Lunch and refreshments provided
? Workshop dinner on the evening of July 2nd
? PAIR and CPE members will act as discussants
? Keynote speaker
Professor Rosana Pinheiro Machado , Professor of Global Studies in the School of Geography at University College Dublin (UCD) and director of the Digital Economy and Extreme Politics Lab (DeepLab)
Professor Pinheiro Machado's research focuses on economic and political transformations in emerging economies from an ethnographic perspective. She has been conducting fieldwork across several countries in the global south (especially Brazil, China, the Philippines, and India) and developing international collaborations globally. Her innovative research combines long-term and multi-sited on-the-ground ethnography with digital methods. She deals with authoritarianism, the far-right, labour and economic precarity, and consumption. A thread running through her research agenda is the desire to gain a longitudinal, local understanding of the major processes of world-making and world-ordering that have transformed emerging countries in economic and political terms.
? Bursaries and Inclusion
We are committed to making the workshop as accessible as possible. While we cannot fund all attendees, we have a limited number of travel/天发娱乐棋牌_天发娱乐APP-官网|下载 bursaries available. These will be allocated on a case-by-case basis, with priority given to scholars from groups traditionally underrepresented in the social sciences (e.g., women, LGBTQ+, ethnic minorities, first-generation graduates).
? How to Apply
To submit your proposal, please complete this form by May 30th, 2025. You will be asked to provide:
? A paper abstract (max 250 words)
? (Optional) A bursary request (max 150 words) explaining your need for support
Applicants will be notified of decisions by June 6th, 2025.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Dr Natalia Cintra at: ? n.cintra-de-oliveira-tavares@soton.ac.uk Please include ‘CPE Workshop” in the subject line.