1st Edition
Proximity as Method Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present
This book examines proximity as a benchmarked concept that can be deployed across a range of humanities disciplines to rethink the ways in which existences in the world are always already coexistences – and to parse the heuristic, ethical, epistemological, praxeological consequences of this recognition.
The volume:
- Brings together diverse theoretical approaches and utilizes a range of methodological instruments – conceptual, textual-analytic (whether in the realm of literary or religious studies, or theology or law), archival, digital, sociological or politological;
- Includes empirical case-studies that allow calibrated and scaled exemplifications;
- Launches forays onto unexplored conceptual terrain, or call into question hallowed truths of scholarly procedure.
The volume will be essential reading for students and early researchers in the social sciences and the humanities.
Introduction: Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present
Riccarda Flemmer, Bani Gill, Dorothee Kimmich, Jacky Kosgei and Russell West-Pavlov
Part I: Proximity as Proclivity: New Directions in Emergent Theory
1. Proximity as Method – Prolegomena to a New Perspective on Coexistences
Russell West-Pavlov
2. Proximity: Towards a Definition – And 15 Axioms
Russell West-Pavlov
3. Finding Ripe Oranges: Research For and By Whom? Proximity as Method in Rural Lao Healthcare
Elizabeth Elliott
4. Epistemic-Moral Hybrids as a Heuristic for Normative Epistemology in Practice: Cases from Biology and Ethics in Work with Proximities
Thomas Potthast
Part II: Proximity as Problematic: Case Studies from Past, Present and Future
5. Truths and the Devil: Translating Differences into Similarities in the Sixteenth Century
Renate Dürr
6. Relations of Pandemicity: Intersections of Spatio-Temporal, Viral and Temporal Proximities
Carola Lorea
7. The Work of Proximity: Migration as Coexistence
Bani Gill
8. Homo Proximus: The Migrant Experience – Negotiating Proximities
Keyvan Allahyari, Jacky Kosgei, Pavan Malreddy, AbdouMaliq Simone and Russell West-Pavlov
9. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, the Communal and Liveable Proximities: Interview with Arturo Escobar
conducted by Esteban Morera Aparicio and Sebastian Thies
Part III: Proximity as Production: The Arts
10.Inconvenient Proximities: Negotiating Global Justice in Sissako’s West-African Urban Cinema
Luis-Fernel Rosero-Amaya and Sebastian Thies
11. Against Proximity Denial: Thinking Relationally across Difference
Astrid Franke
12. Temporalities of Proximity: Three Anecdotes
Tina Steiner
Part IV: Proximity as Project and Promise: Activism
13. Brokers of Words and Worlds? Reflections on Skills and Responsibilities of Non-Indigenous Translators in Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles
Riccarda Flemmer
14. Legal Ethnography, Knowledge Dialogues and Decolonial Research within the Framework of Militant Legal Anthropology
Orlando Aragón Andrade
15. Westernmost: Remoteness and Proximity in South Australia
Prudence Black and Stephen Muecke
16. The Batticaloa Justice Walk
Ponni Arasu
17. Coda: Proximity Method
John Kinsella
Biography
Riccarda Flemmer is Junior Professor in Political Struggles in the Global South, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Bani Gill is Junior Professor in Urban Futures of the Global South, University of Tübingen, Germany.
Jacky Kosgei is Junior Professor in Cultures of Knowledge/Global Epistemologies, University of Tübingen, Germany.
