TY - CHAP

T1 - Object Exchange

AU - Korsby, Trine Mygind

AU - Stavrianakis, Anthony

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - The authors, building on prior collaborative experiments, decided to engage in a practice of object exchange: for a given period of time, we gave up and gave over, problematic objects from field inquiry – a field inquiry about the political and affective economy and relations between Romanian pimps and sex workers, and a field inquiry into assisted suicide in Switzerland. We use the term “object” in John Dewey’s sense of worked over subject matter from inquiry. Creating an environment in which objects from field inquiry could be handed over to, and held by, another person, afforded moments of both relief and disquiet in our collaborative space, as well as new analytic openings and new relationships to our objects and inquiries. In the text we describe what this practice of selecting and sending, holding, and receiving objects consisted in. The protocol that we engaged in is not a method, but rather a simple form (exchange) and a mode (holding) for a practice of thinking. The result of such exchange, we think, is clarification of the relation between objects and objectives in inquiry, for the inquirer.

AB - The authors, building on prior collaborative experiments, decided to engage in a practice of object exchange: for a given period of time, we gave up and gave over, problematic objects from field inquiry – a field inquiry about the political and affective economy and relations between Romanian pimps and sex workers, and a field inquiry into assisted suicide in Switzerland. We use the term “object” in John Dewey’s sense of worked over subject matter from inquiry. Creating an environment in which objects from field inquiry could be handed over to, and held by, another person, afforded moments of both relief and disquiet in our collaborative space, as well as new analytic openings and new relationships to our objects and inquiries. In the text we describe what this practice of selecting and sending, holding, and receiving objects consisted in. The protocol that we engaged in is not a method, but rather a simple form (exchange) and a mode (holding) for a practice of thinking. The result of such exchange, we think, is clarification of the relation between objects and objectives in inquiry, for the inquirer.

U2 - 10.1215/9781478013211-009

DO - 10.1215/9781478013211-009

M3 - Book chapter

SN - 978-1-4780-1199-6

SP - 82

EP - 93

BT - Experimenting with Ethnography

A2 - Ballestero, Andrea

A2 - Winthereik, Brit

PB - Duke University Press

CY - Durham

ER -