Andrea Petitt: "An artful horseback ethnography of a Rocky Mountain ranching Multispecies Triad"
Mon 26 May
|B600, Department of Social Anthropology
Research Seminar
Time & Location
26 May 2025, 13:00 – 14:30
B600, Department of Social Anthropology, Universitetsvägen 10B, 106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
About the event
An artful horseback ethnography of a Rocky Mountain ranching Multispecies Triad
Abstract
In this talk, Andrea will take us on a horseback ethnography journey through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Kalahari of Botswana, the Meadows of Sweden and the Himalayas of Nepal. A multispecies ethnographer at the core, Andrea has increasingly engaged in artistic methods and expressions to develop ‘artful’ research methods within the social sciences. With an academic background in anthropology, rural development and theoretical philosophy, and a creative background in rhyming and cowboy poetry as well as drawing, Andrea shows how these practices have become crucial to her ethnographic research as methods to both collect data in the field and to analyse, theorize and disseminate research results. Showcasing film, ethnographic poetry and analytical drawings, Andrea will explain how she developed the concept of 'the multispecies triad' and a multispecies intersectionality theory.
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