Publications
Article in Public Anthropologist journal, March 2022
Papageorgiou, Alexandros, Siotou, Alexandra and Papailias, Penelope. (2022). “Reflections on Anthrobombing: Experiments in Performing, Publishing and Becoming with (Other) Publics”, Public Anthropologist, 4 (1): 78-101.
Abstract
This article is based on a two-year collaborative research program on public anthropology in Greece focused on narrative experimentation with stand-up comedy and alternative publishing with handmade books, or cartoneras. Viewing in anthropology a powerful tool to dismantle prevalent commonsense about nationalism, gender norms and capitalist progress, we “bombed” time-spaces in which academic discourse is not usually present. The embodied experience of performing and publishing in an “anthropological way” outside of spaces of academic communication led to insights about the potential of humor, multimodal forms and performance for anthropology, new questions about “who anthropology is for” and “what makes knowledge anthropological”, and an emergent concern for becoming-with, rather than just bombing, publics.
Keywords
public anthropology; multimodality; stand-up comedy; humor; alternative publishing
Paper presentation at the 17th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Belfast, July 2022)
Paper title: Reflections on Anthrobombing: Experiments in Performing, Publishing and Becoming with (Other) Publics
Panel: Experiments in Multimodal Anthropology: Transforming the Discipline, Transforming the World
Papageorgiou, Alexandros, Siotou, Alexandra and Papailias, Penelope. (2022). “Reflections on Anthrobombing: Experiments in Performing, Publishing and Becoming with (Other) Publics”, Public Anthropologist, 4 (1): 78-101.
Abstract
This article is based on a two-year collaborative research program on public anthropology in Greece focused on narrative experimentation with stand-up comedy and alternative publishing with handmade books, or cartoneras. Viewing in anthropology a powerful tool to dismantle prevalent commonsense about nationalism, gender norms and capitalist progress, we “bombed” time-spaces in which academic discourse is not usually present. The embodied experience of performing and publishing in an “anthropological way” outside of spaces of academic communication led to insights about the potential of humor, multimodal forms and performance for anthropology, new questions about “who anthropology is for” and “what makes knowledge anthropological”, and an emergent concern for becoming-with, rather than just bombing, publics.
Keywords
public anthropology; multimodality; stand-up comedy; humor; alternative publishing
Paper presentation at the 17th biennial conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Belfast, July 2022)
Paper title: Reflections on Anthrobombing: Experiments in Performing, Publishing and Becoming with (Other) Publics
Panel: Experiments in Multimodal Anthropology: Transforming the Discipline, Transforming the World
