Research description
This research project aims to start an open, ongoing discussion about the role and responsibility of the social sciences, humanities and, especially, anthropology, in Greece today, and about experimental ways of capturing and disseminating scientific knowledge. At the same time, it hopes to engage more researchers and research teams with practices that will contribute to the interaction between members of the academic community and individuals with different backgrounds, through the use of a variety of expressive and technological means.
In this context, the "anthrobombing" team attempts to experiment with multimodal narrative techniques and with new ways of description and analysis of anthropological discourse, to seek new spaces of expression outside the university context, new interlocutors, new collaborations.
Our goal is not to replace or supersede anthropological knowledge, nor to simplify it by "popularizing" it. It is, after all, the existence, richness and breadth of this knowledge that gives rise to the possibility and the need for its wider diffusion.
On the contrary, the experimentation we propose aims to highlight the social usefulness and relevance of scientific knowledge and to make it more visible and attractive, by making it known to a wider audience and facilitating access to it.
In order to do so, we adopt humor, "playfulness" and experimentation that operate subversively in regards both to what "counts" as scientific knowledge and how the role of the scientist as an intellectual is defined. We try to include anthropology in the frame of public life, making it visible as a discipline that offers a different gaze at familiar and trivial issues.
As part of this research, the Anthrobombing team designed and implemented various public actions (stand-up comedy, cartoneras), which aim to identify or invent alternative processes for learning, producing and disseminating anthropological knowledge.
In addition, Anthrobombing members support the practice of working collaboratively rather than the anthropologist's solitary career path, which is accompanied by a sense of isolation amid the current competitive climate in the academic workplace. The establishing of -preferably interdisciplinary- research teams, following the model of digital / experimental humanities (Papailias & Petridis 2015: 2.2, 2.4) enables researchers to claim rights and resources collectively, as groups or as laboratories and no longer individually.
In this context, the "anthrobombing" team attempts to experiment with multimodal narrative techniques and with new ways of description and analysis of anthropological discourse, to seek new spaces of expression outside the university context, new interlocutors, new collaborations.
Our goal is not to replace or supersede anthropological knowledge, nor to simplify it by "popularizing" it. It is, after all, the existence, richness and breadth of this knowledge that gives rise to the possibility and the need for its wider diffusion.
On the contrary, the experimentation we propose aims to highlight the social usefulness and relevance of scientific knowledge and to make it more visible and attractive, by making it known to a wider audience and facilitating access to it.
In order to do so, we adopt humor, "playfulness" and experimentation that operate subversively in regards both to what "counts" as scientific knowledge and how the role of the scientist as an intellectual is defined. We try to include anthropology in the frame of public life, making it visible as a discipline that offers a different gaze at familiar and trivial issues.
As part of this research, the Anthrobombing team designed and implemented various public actions (stand-up comedy, cartoneras), which aim to identify or invent alternative processes for learning, producing and disseminating anthropological knowledge.
In addition, Anthrobombing members support the practice of working collaboratively rather than the anthropologist's solitary career path, which is accompanied by a sense of isolation amid the current competitive climate in the academic workplace. The establishing of -preferably interdisciplinary- research teams, following the model of digital / experimental humanities (Papailias & Petridis 2015: 2.2, 2.4) enables researchers to claim rights and resources collectively, as groups or as laboratories and no longer individually.
