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In this article, the implications of foregrounding ontology for teaching and learning in higher education are explored.
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An indigenous feminist's take on the ontological turn: ‘ontology’ is just another word for colonialism.
Jun 20, 2017 turn, turn, turn anthropology, for the ontologists, is the creation of new concepts through mental encounters with worlds for which our extant.
Dec 15, 2015 ontology, vibrant matter, new materialisms, and other terms that mark the ontological turn in theory appear regularly in discard.
Editor’s note: in the wake of all the discussion about the ‘ontological turn’ at this year’s american anthropological association conference, we asked four scholars, “which texts or resources would you recommend to a student or colleague interested in the uses of ‘ontology’ as an analytical category in recent work in anthropology and science and technology studies?”.
A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development.
The ontological turn amounts to a sustained theoretical experiment, which involves a strategic decision to treat all ethnographic realities as if they were “ relationally.
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The second chapter will elaborate on two strands of work that aim to give a voice to spirit ontologies: works are discussed that represent what is called the ontological turn in cultural anthropology, and those that defend a new kind of animism as a form of environmental ethics.
2 the politics of nature - designing for an ontological turn took place on june 18th, 2020 during pdc2020-imagenfest.
Dec 19, 2017 a hands-on training for turning your demons into allies.
Conclusionthe ontological turn, as a reaction against the popular 'writing culture' trend in anthropology, represents a radical reframing of multiple anthropological concepts. This reframing is based largely on the ontological focus and conception of difference, which has been the main exploratory basis of this paper.
E present book is about the turn of anthropological thinking that such questions exemplify. With reference to recent debates about ontol-ogy within anthropology and related disciplines, and with a desire to intervene in them, we call this the ontological turn of anthropologi-cal thinking.
Jan 25, 2016 thus understood, the ontological turn involves deepening and radicalizing three features that have always been present in mainstream.
Philippe descola’s anthropology is rooted in ethnology and amazonian ethnography; bruno latour’s ontological turn begins in science and technology studies and technographic development of french philosophies of emergence. Sahlins and de almeida continue a french anthropological conversation about universals and cultural relativity, recently on amazonian perspectivism, and fundamentally about extremities in realities of different human groups.
Readings at bottom of page) ontology is another word for culture another way to compose the common world (latour) ontological wrong turns (arc).
The ontological turn proposes that we dispense with these metaphysical implications, in favour of a radical methodological openness to difference of all kinds, be it what we would call cultural and epistemological or natural and, indeed, ontological.
Jul 25, 2017 in this article, i consider how the revived interest in ontology within sonic theory connects to questions of race.
Huehls's wager hinges upon tracing an ontological turn across a wide-range of literary forms and genres, which he argues is an organic product of the growing scepticism towards the political affects of largescale ideological critique.
The chapter discusses the critical perspectives on the turn, but for the sake of avoiding confusion from the outset, it is worth making clear that, like its progenitors, the ontological turn is aiming to collapse distinctions between ontology and epistemology.
A recent and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present.
Oct 28, 2014 those of us who have been brought up in the science and technology studies ( sts) tradition look at claims of an 'ontological turn' with a strange.
The ontological turn continues a long tradition in anthropology of aiming to take difference seriously and understand it as best we can on its own terms. Furthermore, whatever perspective one takes on it, it is clear that it has obliged anthropologists to reconsider some of their most cherished and fundamental ways of thinking about difference.
An ontological turn for higher education gloria dall’albaa* and robyn barnacleb a university of queensland, brisbane, australia; b rmit university, melbourne, australia abstract in this article, the implications of foregrounding ontology for teaching and learning in higher education are explored.
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The ontological turn is a ‘technology of ethnographic description’, which deepens and intensifies three concerns that have long been at the centre of anthropological analysis, namely reflexivity, conceptualization and experimentation.
The workshop focuses on the so-called ‘ontological turn’ within social anthropology and related fields. Proponents of this perspective commonly present themselves as promoting a radical, even revolutionary politics.
274) chapter 13 the ontological turn source: the universe as we find it author(s): john heil publisher: oxford university press.
Conscious control of my mind and, in turn, change my life in very drastic and scientific studies show that specific mental training turns on parts of the brain that.
Ontological turn sketched here enables macro organization behaviour to better address the emergence and dissolution of categories – a topic of great importance that is at present largely neglected by organizational research that focuses on legitimacy and conformity.
Jan 25, 2014 i did read a post over on allegra by isaac morrison about this whole “ontological turn” thing that makes some good points.
The ontological turn, instead, proposes that worlds, as well as worldviews, may vary. That idea has significant implications, not only for anthropology, but for the multitudinous contexts in which 'culture' and 'society' have come to operate in academic and everyday parlance.
a new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary.
An ontological turn: four proposals these are are our suggestions for changes in the paradigm of the meaning of meaning. First, we have created a generalized grammar that works across all forms of meaning.
A recent example is the ontological turn, which included the disruption of fundamental northern frames of thought by using southern views, including the destabilization of the premise of a single.
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This chapter argues that there is an important and interesting difference of form between the 'ontological turn' and a number of the 'schools'. It provides an analysis in anthropology more broadly: in other words, of anthropological theory. The chapter discusses the critical perspectives on the turn, but for the sake of avoiding confusion from the outset, it is worth making clear that, like its progenitors, the ontological turn is aiming to collapse distinctions between ontology.
Jack kaminsky - 1976 - international studies in philosophy 8:192-194.
Mar 28, 2017 the ontological turn is a 'technology of ethnographic description', which deepens and intensifies three concerns that have long been at the centre.
A commentary on ‘human geography without scale’, by sallie marston, john paul jones ii and keith woodward the ‘ontological turn’ in social theory.
The strong ontological option, fletcher argues, leaves actors with only two options: brute power politics or a retreat into ontological particularity. He concludes that a strong ontological position is incompatible with – and indeed, quite detrimental to – both research and political engagement committed to social and environmental justice.
a new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present.
Mar 31, 2017 this paper follows recent debates on the ontological turn in the social sciences and humanities to exemplify how this turn creates important.
Following this critique, which is built up around a classification into four different varieties of phenomenological anthropology, i discuss the relationship between phenomenological anthropology and the ontological turn (ot).
In such ways, the ontological turn “heralds a new an- thropological dawn.
It has been argued that higher education pedagogy needs to take an 'ontological turn' because the focus on the development of generic skills does not enable.
The ontological turn amounts to a sustained theoretical experiment, which involves a strategic decision to treat all ethnographic realities as if they were “relationally” composed, and, in keeping with its “recursive” ambitions, seeks to conduct this experiment in a manner that is equally “intensive” itself.
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I suggest that the recent ‘ontological turn’ in social theory has seen the emergence of new-materialist approaches – including deleuze and guattari’s ontology of assemblage and methodology of assemblage analysis – which allow us to consider disability as a material phenomenon without a return to essentialism.
Jul 14, 2016 rc16 sociological theory (host committee) language: english the ontological turn in social theory is a phenomenon of growing relevance,.
The ontological turn covers a broad range of ideas in different disciplines, but is basically focused on a being-ness, liveness, or agency of non-humans. It’s about how things are in relation with one another, regardless of whether they are human.
I discuss different scientific and nonmodern worlds as they appear in a performative (rather than representational) idiom, situating my analysis in relation to the recent ontological turns in sts and anthropology. I propose an ontology of decentred becoming that can help us take seriously the multiplicity of ‘found’ ontologies.
It traces the roots of the ontological turn in the history of anthropology and elucidates its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades, showing how it has emerged in the work of roy wagner, marilyn strathern and viveiros de castro, as well a number of younger scholars.
Ontology is the branch of philosophy that studies concepts such as existence, being, becoming, and reality. It includes the questions of how entities are grouped into basic categories and which of these entities exist on the most fundamental level.
Within anthropology, social explanations of cultural phenomena have a much longer and drearier history.
Sahlins makes a forceful case for unification of descola's fourfold scheme of ontologies.
The ontological turn broadly relates to a development in a number of philosophical and academic disciplines that led to an increased focus on being. The ontological turn in anthropology is not concerned with anthropological notions of culture, epistemology, nor world views. Instead, the ontological turn generates interest in being in the world and accepts that different world views are not simply different representations of the same world.
The work explores and discusses a key argument of the ‘ontological turn’ in anthropology: the call to go beyond cultural relativism, ‘taking seriously’ the ontological assumptions of the collectives under study.
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Magic lies at the heart of any such experiment, because it is the one thing that most resists our naive construal of reality. But in order to take magic seriously, scholars need to find an alternative to their usual historicizing ways. To do that, some scholars have suggested a new approach, which they call “the ontological turn.
Editor’s note: in the wake of the discussion about the ‘ontological turn’ at this year’s american anthropological association conference, we asked several scholars, “which texts or resources would you recommend to a student or colleague interested in the uses of ‘ontology’ as an analytical category in recent work in anthropology.
Buzzwords and signifiers for a broad ‘turn’ in anthropology which seeks to render visible the epistemological hierarchy.
Feb 23, 2018 in the heyday of the new criticism, john crowe ransom could produce an essay entitled “wanted: an ontological critic” (1941).
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