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Narrating More-than-human Politics in Latin America. Prof. Kregg Hetherington

This in-person workshop aims to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty investigating more-than-human politics in Latin America. This workshop will explore ways to bring other living entities into our analyses of Latin American politics to both illuminate the complex relations of human and non-human worlds without falling back on easy symmetries or analogies. Our goal is to think with ethnographic forms that bring the non-human to politics in ways that challenge what we think of as standard political categories like interest, action, agency, alliance. In preparation for the workshop, participants will write a short introduction to non-human being that lives in or near their fieldsite in the form of a short speculative fiction. In a second exercise, we will seek out ethnographies of non-humans that experiment with voice to enable new forms of analysis.

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