[Linganth] “Politics of Participation:Anthropological Reflections on Power and Interaction" - symposium at Helsinki Collegium Oct. 18-19, 2018

[Elina Hartikainen]

Dear Colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to join us next week at the international
symposium *"Politics of Participation - Anthropological Reflections on
Power and Interaction" *in Helsinki, Finland. The symposium will take place
at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Fabianinkatu 24, 3rd floor
<https://maps.google.com/?q=Fabianinkatu%0D%0A+24,+3rd+floor&entry=gmail&source=g>,
Common
room) on October 18-19, 2018.

The event is free and open to the public – welcome!


*Politics of Participation - Anthropological Reflections on Power and
Interaction*
The symposium interrogates the concept of "participation," which in recent
years has been trumpeted as a panacea to the hierarchies that once divided
the governing and the governed across fields as varied as development,
budget-making, citizenship, and even surveillance.

Participation, however, is not a self-evident good. If it heralds new forms
of openness and involvement, it also implies forms of social ordering and
regulation. Key questions to be explored at the symposium will be: what
counts as “participation” in specific contexts?  How does “participation”
emerge through norms of practice, their institutionalization and discourses
on them?  What forms of sociality are displaced or occluded by demands for
participation?  And, if efforts to expand participation are undertaken with
the goal of (re)organizing power relations, as is often the case, what
new – and perhaps unintended – power relations emerge through participatory
logics?

The symposium examines the concept of participation, as articulated in
contemporary political, economic and organizational forms, from a
language-oriented perspective. To this end, the symposium gathers scholars
from across the social sciences whose work takes a language-focused
perspective on “participation” in democratic politics and governance,
finance and commerce, education, and media and communications. The
symposium includes two days of panels punctuated by two key note lectures
offered by *Asif Agha* (University of Pennsylvania, Anthropology) and *Celia
Lury* (University of Warwick, Center for Interdisciplinary Methodologies).


Read the full symposium program here:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/politicsofparticipation/


Organizers:
*Elina I. Hartikainen,* Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
*Andrew Graan*, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki
*Irina Piippo*, Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University
of Helsinki
*Timo Kaartinen*, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki
*Johanna Sumiala,* Media and Communication Studies, University of Helsinki


Kind regards,
Elina Hartikainen


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Elina I. Hartikainen

Core Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies,

University of Helsinki
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Elina I. Hartikainen
Fellow, Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
University of Helsinki
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