Tobias Boos, Daniela Salvucci, Eleonora Mastropietro e Dorothy Zinn, coordinano il panel dal titolo “Writing and unwriting territories: participative, multimedia, and alternative methodologies” alla 17th international SIEF Congress presso University of Aberdeen in Aberdeen, Scotland, dal 3 al 6 giugno 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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How to \u201cwrite\u201d territories avoiding both objectifying reality and reproducing current stereotypes connected to both idealized self-representation as well as to external misrepresentation of \u201cthe other\u201d? Who is entitled to produce a narrative on places and their inhabitants? How could we, as researchers, propose an understanding of specific locations and their sociocultural dynamics, starting from the inhabitants\u2019 perceptions, but also contributing with our own independent and creative point of view?
This panel calls for \u201cunwriting\u201d and \u201crewriting\u201d territories as an opportunity to discuss alternative methodologies that promote participative, multimedia, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary understandings, narrations, and critical writings of inhabited territories. It fosters a dialogue among ethnology, folklore, anthropology, geography, art, visual, and performative disciplines about the possibility of unwriting and rewriting in a different way the places that we all dwell in.\u00a0
We take inspiration from those methodologies that attempt to produce unconventional and multimedia \u201cwritings\u201d of inhabited territories, such as the deep mapping-method. This is a relatively \u201canarchic\u201d practice based on collaboration between insiders and outsiders, beyond any hierarchy between experts and non, putting together inhabitants, scholars, and free-lance artists to rewrite places by unwriting preconstructed narratives as well as pejorative and stereotyped representations. We especially focus on those places that are often portrayed as \u201cmarginal,\u201d \u201cugly,\u201d or uninteresting, but also on those usually and uncritically described as \u201cuntouched,\u201d or \u201cidyllic,\u201d or even \u201cexotic.\u201d We are eager to discuss with colleagues and practitioners interested in participative, multimedia, and multidisciplinary alternative methodologies to unwrite and critically rewrite territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n