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.
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 Part I: Proximity as Proclivity: New Directions in
Emergent Theory
1. Proximity as Method Prolegomena to a New Perspective on
Coexistences
2. Proximity: Towards a Definition And 15 Axioms
3. Finding
Ripe Oranges: Research For and By Whom? Proximity as Method in Rural Lao
Healthcare
4. Epistemic-Moral Hybrids as a Heuristic for Normative
Epistemology in Practice: Cases from Biology and Ethics in Work with
Proximities 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
6. Relations of Pandemicity:
Intersections of Spatio-Temporal, Viral and Temporal Proximities
7. The Work
of Proximity: Migration as Coexistence
8. Homo Proximus: The Migrant
Experience Negotiating Proximities
9. Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical
Interdependence, the Communal and Liveable Proximities: Interview with Arturo
Escobar Part III: Proximity as Production: The Arts 10.Inconvenient
Proximities: Negotiating Global Justice in Sissakos West-African Urban
Cinema
11. Against Proximity Denial: Thinking Relationally across Difference
12. Temporalities of Proximity: Three Anecdotes 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
14. Legal Ethnography, Knowledge Dialogues and Decolonial Research
within the Framework of Militant Legal Anthropology
15. Westernmost:
Remoteness and Proximity in South Australia
16. The Batticaloa Justice Walk
17. Coda: Proximity Method
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.
