Conference "Perspective Difference - On the Ethnography of Communicative Action"

Difference in perspective - On the ethnography of communicative action

9th Fieldwork Days, Dortmund, June 21/22, 2024

The crisis of the interpretation of signs and of speaking with 'the' and about 'the' other experiences new twists in communicative action. The problem of representation has become generalized into everyday life and cannot be subordinated to a coarse-grained distinction between 'foreignness' and 'familiarity'. Differing backgrounds of experience, but also ideological differences, challenge assumptions of certainty and routines of interpretation. Topic of the conference: whether and how the canon of ethnographic strategies can be expanded with regard to the description of differences in perspective in communicative action, and whether and how an adequate recording of differences in perspective is even conceivable in view of a decentralized and, for its part, perspective-differentiated ethnographic positioning. As communicative action, ethnography is required to enter unsecured terrain of world exploration. This is - initially - not a special art of interpretation, but an attitude that imposes social reality on 'us'.

You can find the program at: https://as.sowi.tu-dortmund.de/perspektivendifferenz/