Full Description
This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences - and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.
The volume:
- Brings together diverse theoretical approaches and utilizes a range of methodological instruments - conceptual, textual-analytic (whether in the realm of literary or religious studies, or theology or law), archival, digital, sociological or politological;
- Includes empirical case-studies that allow calibrated and scaled exemplifications;
- Launches forays onto unexplored conceptual terrain, or call into question hallowed truths of scholarly procedure.
The volume will be essential reading for students and early researchers in the social sciences and the humanities.
Contents
Introduction: Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present Part I: Proximity as Proclivity: New Directions in Emergent Theory 1. Proximity as Method - Prolegomena to a New Perspective on Coexistences 2. Proximity: Towards a Definition - And 15 Axioms 3. Finding Ripe Oranges: Research For and By Whom? Proximity as Method in Rural Lao Healthcare 4. Epistemic-Moral Hybrids as a Heuristic for Normative Epistemology in Practice: Cases from Biology and Ethics in Work with Proximities Part II: Proximity as Problematic: Case Studies from Past, Present and Future 5. Truths and the Devil: Translating Differences into Similarities in the Sixteenth Century 6. Relations of Pandemicity: Intersections of Spatio-Temporal, Viral and Temporal Proximities 7. The Work of Proximity: Migration as Coexistence 8. Homo Proximus: The Migrant Experience - Negotiating Proximities 9. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, the Communal and Liveable Proximities: Interview with Arturo Escobar Part III: Proximity as Production: The Arts 10.Inconvenient Proximities: Negotiating Global Justice in Sissako's West-African Urban Cinema 11. Against Proximity Denial: Thinking Relationally across Difference 12. Temporalities of Proximity: Three Anecdotes Part IV: Proximity as Project and Promise: Activism 13. Brokers of Words and Worlds? Reflections on Skills and Responsibilities of Non-Indigenous Translators in Indigenous Peoples' Struggles 14. Legal Ethnography, Knowledge Dialogues and Decolonial Research within the Framework of Militant Legal Anthropology 15. Westernmost: Remoteness and Proximity in South Australia 16. The Batticaloa Justice Walk 17. Coda: Proximity Method
