Ethnographies of slow violence: Studying the effects of rural disintegration

Этнографии медленного насилия: исследование последствий разрушения сельской инфраструктуры

Vorbrugg, Alexander (Форбруг, Александр) ()
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Vorbrugg, Alexander (Форбруг, Александр): University of Bern

Russian Peasant Studies, 2020, vol. 5, 31-52

Abstract: The article considers the nexus of slow violence as a concept, research focus and prob- lem — on the one hand, and the practices and politics of ethnographic fieldwork and writing — on the other hand. It highlights two aspects; first, the epistemological alliances between researchers and research participants which confront forms of violence that as if remain partly elusive to both sides; second, the multi-temporal ethnographies that work through drawn-out and complex timescapes of violence by tracing cross-temporal connections. The notions of fieldwork are still defined mainly in spatial terms, and so the issue of slow violence is an important reminder to pay more attention to the temporal dimension. The article demonstrates how rural dwellers make sense of complex changes and loss by using the ruins of disintegration as signifiers, and how re- searchers can draw on this in their analysis. It is based on the ethnographic research conducted in rural Russia which shows how the concept of slow violence helps to make sense of and to make visible the forms of loss and dispossession that often remain elusive in academic and public representations of the Russian countryside.

Keywords: slow violence; multi-temporal ethnography; politics of representation; politics of fieldwork; rural Russia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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