Type of course

Admission requirements

Recommended previous knowledge is Masters degree in humanities, social sciences or fisheries science.

Target group:

1) PhD-students in humanities, social sciences and fisheries science at the University of Tromsø. 15 seats are prioritized according to target group and category 1-3 in §10 in Regulations for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor (PhD) at the University of Tromsø.

2) The course is extended with 15 seats for participants with a minimum of a Master¿s degrees (or equivalent) who have not been admitted to a PhD-programme. Within this category the students are prioritized in the following order: 1) Academic staff at the University of Nordland 2) academic staff at the University of Tromsø, 3) academic staff at other North Norwegian University Colleges 4) other applicants who are satisfying the required previous knowledge (Master¿s degree). Fill out the normal application form and on this form write where you are employed. Note that students that are not admitted to a PhD programme have to pay a semester fee.

Course content

In an era of intensifying global connections, nature, culture, knowledge and place are not what they used to be. Where does this leave anthropology and the social sciences more generally? What do ethnographic practices become in such an era? How to recognize heterogeneous materialities and engage the flows of collective on-going life? How to do difference together?

The PhD-course will attend to these and a range of other important questions. It will work as an introduction to STS (science, technology and society-studies), postcolonial studies and the on-going work being done to integrate these approaches within anthropology, sociology, fishery studies and other disciplines.

STS implies that knowledge-traditions are performative - generative of reality rather than merely reflecting it. The keynote speakers are all researchers who are concerned with method as some form of intervention. This implies that methods tend to produce in contradictory ways the worlds they claim to be describing. This PhD-course will create the space for debating the social, theory, and methods through materialities in an interdisciplinary forum. How do we work as researchers: and how do we do theory as well as ethnography in these moments?

See also the course webpage (link in lower right corner of this website)

Objectives of the course

Language of instruction and examination

Teaching methods

The course content is approx 10 hour lectures during 2 days. There will be seminars where paper will be presented og discussed.

Abstract in English, 300 words, have to be submitted before the course, deadline: 1. February 2012 to Assoc. professor Britt Kramvig; britt.kramvig@uit.no

Assessment

Recommended reading/syllabus