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Proximity as Method Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present

Edited By Riccarda Flemmer, Bani Gill, Jacky Kosgei Copyright 2024
272 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

272 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

272 Pages 10 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

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... Read more

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.