Seminar: Performing International Development – Non-Places, Empty spaces & Tired Faces

This is the topic of a seminar that will be held by Ørecomm participant Tobias Denskus on Wednesday, 23 April 2014, 10-12 am.

“While undergoing visible changes at the surface – from celebrity humanitarianism to micro loans or voluntourism – international development, or more precisely: the growing professional aid industry, is also a space for traditional rituals, performances and illusions about social change. Based on organisational ethnographic fieldwork in bureaucratic aid organisations, at global conferences and localised workshops this talk will try to link old anthropological metaphors to the emerging ritual economy around ‘helping the poor’. The guiding question for the seminar will be: ‘What is development’s interpretation of reflexive capitalism in the 21st century?’”

Read more about the key issues of the seminar at Tobias’ blog Aidnography.

Where?

• Aktersalongen, Kranen room E203, Östra Varvsgatan 11A, Malmö