{"id":4178,"date":"2019-11-26T10:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:20:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T10:20:36","slug":"event-approaching-brexit-ethnographically-in-times-of-nationalism-racism-and-xenophobia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/11\/26\/event-approaching-brexit-ethnographically-in-times-of-nationalism-racism-and-xenophobia\/","title":{"rendered":"Event &#8211; &#8216;Approaching Brexit ethnographically, in times of nationalism, racism and xenophobia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Monday 9th December 2019, 14:00 &#8211; 17:00. Swingland Room, Marlowe Building, University of Kent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We are confronted with a challenging and timely dilemma: how can we study Brexit-related issues\u2014ethnographically\u2014without de-rationalising or pathologising Brexit supporters, but also without producing an ideological justification for the nationalism, racism and xenophobic stereotyping promoted by Brexit-discourse? Since its conception, ethnography has encouraged a respect for unofficial views and local reason. But how are we to proceed with our ethnographic studies when we discover that local reasoning is ridden with essentialism and prejudice?<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/cer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Centre for Ethnographic Research<\/a>, the event will bring together anthropologists, sociologists and geographers concerned with &#8216;how&#8217; to study Brexit from a perspective that captures local meaningfulness, but is also critical and non-apologetic towards the emerging inequalities.<\/p>\n<p>The event is\u00a0<strong>free<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>open to all<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Please contact Professor <a href=\"mailto:dt256@kent.ac.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dimitrios Theodossopoulos<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday 9th December 2019, 14:00 &#8211; 17:00. Swingland Room, Marlowe Building, University of Kent We are confronted with a challenging and timely dilemma: how can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/2019\/11\/26\/event-approaching-brexit-ethnographically-in-times-of-nationalism-racism-and-xenophobia\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40284,"featured_media":4180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159341,6598,124,6600,159350],"tags":[141095],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4182,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions\/4182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/sac-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}