Panel – «Confinement institutions, ethnography, and public relevance (EASA)

2015/12/29 Panel – „Confinement institutions, ethnography, and public relevance“ by Manuela Cunha (Universidade do Minho, CRIA-UM) & Ueli Hostettler (University of Bern), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) 2016 -Conference in Milan, Italy, 20-23 July
Abstract: How do anthropologists of confinement navigate a variety of interlocutors shaped by particular understandings of confinement institutions as ’social problems‘? How do anthropologists engage with policy-oriented publics and in what ways do they assert the relevance of ethnographic research?
We invite scholars of prison and confinement to critically address these issues by reflecting on their experiences of engagement with a range of relevant publics — before, during or in the aftermath of field research. For more information on the panel and the 9 individual papers, please  follow this Link