Ethnographic film as world-making: Connecting visual anthropology with Science and Technology Studies

Sanderien Verstappen; Sarah Davies

doi:10.1111/var.12338

Ethnographic film as world-making: Connecting visual anthropology with Science and Technology Studies

Sanderien Verstappen (Korresp. Autor*in)
, Sarah Davies

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This article initiates a dialogue between Science and Technology Studies (STS) and visual anthropology. It demonstrates how ethnographic filmmaking can be an avenue for STS research, teaching, and thinking. Highlighting similarities between knowledge practices in the natural sciences and the social sciences, it conceptualizes filmmaking as a world-making project. This is a new answer to the persistent question of how to understand the use of film as a research method. Our argument is based on a collection of short films made during an interdisciplinary course which explored the potential of ethnographic filmmaking for investigating the day-to-day doings of science and technology.

Originalsprache	Englisch
Seiten (von - bis)	147-160
Seitenumfang	14
Fachzeitschrift	Visual Anthropology Review
Jahrgang	40
Ausgabenummer	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/var.12338
Publikationsstatus	Elektronische Veröffentlichung vor Drucklegung - 3 Okt. 2024

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The development of this paper benefitted from discussions with Martina Griesser-Stermscheg, Sophie Gerber, Ildik\u00F3 Zonga Pl\u00E1j\u00E1s, and all students of the course Visual Ethnographies of Science. In developing this interdisciplinary course, we were supported by the departments of Social and Cultural Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, and in particular by Wolfgang Kraus and Maximilian Fochler. Students\u2019 film projects were facilitated by the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab with support by Viktoria Paar and Paul Katterl. The paper was copy-edited by Carole Pearce.

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