30/09/25
 
Plenary Session Un/Commoning Anthropology
Plenary Session III Un/Commoning Anthropology Chair: Nina ter Laan and Hauke-Peter Vehrs (Universität zu Köln) Anthropological methods and forms of knowledge-making are part and parcel of various forms of Commoning and Uncommoning. This plenary brings together scholars from around the world to reflect on the histories, effects and potentialities of anthropological Un/Commoning. On the one […]

30/09/25
Digital (Un)Commoning as Ethnographic Praxis
In the late 1990s and early 2000s there was a hopefulness that emerging information and communications technologies would usher in an unprecedented, global commons. For instance, notable media scholars enthusiastically prognosticated that new technologies would collapse the distinction between producers and consumers of mass media.[1] The birth of the so-called ‘prosumer’ heralded the possibility of […]