Alex Ungprateeb Flynn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 886337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Alex Ungprateeb Flynn |
| NOMBRES | Alex Ungprateeb |
| APELLIDO | Flynn |
| FIRMA | FLYNN A U |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5894-5328 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Struggling with Citational Politics as a Pathway to Unlearning and Relearning for Collective Action
There is a growing movement committed to the values of equitable and just citation, but the material practices of altering citational politics are more challenging. For instance, researchers in the Global South are under-cited, but how many citations are enough to correct this bias? How do we best determine when an author is from the Global South to begin with? We present a case study where social and natural science researchers (the authors) spe…
Teorizando a dobradiça cartonera
Trata-se de uma tradução do capítulo "Methods: Trans-Formal Research for Transformational Practice", parte do livro Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America (2022). Ao longo do artigo, os autores acompanham as atividades das cartoneras mexicanas La Rueda Cartonera e Viento Cartonero para teorizar sobre o fazer cartonero e, ao mesmo tempo, elaborar uma reflexão sobre a metodologia para fazê-lo, partindo de uma visão interd…
Relational Art
Relational art refers to a mode of artistic practice informed by “relational aesthetics,” a term first used by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud. Relational art shifts its point of composition from an object, such as a sculpture or painting, to propose an open‐ended shared space in which viewers become active coparticipants and coproducers in the elaboration of meaning. Such work is typically based on a convivial space where the artist seeks to en…
Once upon a time in Utopia
From cartonera publishing practices to trans-formal methods for qualitative research
Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies and qualitative research, as scholars over the past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable and ever-shifting methods (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on the interdisciplinary thought of Jacques Rancière and Caroline Levine on the one hand and tr…
Returning to Form
This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation between social and aesthetic form. It draws on the authors’ work with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small community-based collectives whose members make low-cost books from recycled cardboard in an explicit attempt to make both the consumption and production of literature accessible to wider society. We begin by descr…
Reconfigurando a cidade
Neste artigo, exponho como os praticantes da arte contemporânea incorporam desobediência epistêmica e o conceito de ocupação para proporem uma reconfiguração da cidade. Primeiro, argumento que há cada vez mais reflexão sobre a ressignificação do espaço urbano, provocada por um tipo particular de prática de arte contemporânea intersticial; em seguida, defendo que os contextos em que essas práticas ocorrem sugere que artistas trabalhando com tais p…
Aesthetic gestures, moral frameworks
This article, focusing on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil, demonstrates how members of Latin America's largest social movement perform the diverse compacts of obligation and reciprocity that characterise an MST occupation. MST encampments seek to enact a transformation of the land on which members are situated, but also emphasise a transformation of the human subject itself, from unproductive to productive. Performing this transfor…
Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning
In this article I analyse the notion that social movement politics and contemporary art interventions increasingly traverse a porous boundary, be it in terms of practices, relations, or institutions. Premised on Nicolas Bourriaud’s seminal reading of 1990s art, I contend that the theory of “relational aesthetics” (2002) offers a synthetic platform from which we can understand how artistic interventions with activist connotations are increasingly …
Micro-utopias
rationale and Contexthe editors began discussing this special issue in 2014 through a serendipitous encounter.Ruy and Maïté were interested in the possibility of promoting an anthropology of utopia, and simultaneously an anthropology as utopia.Alex and Jonas, working on anthropological approaches to contemporary artistic practices, were seeking to develop the theorising potential of relational art. he immanent space of connection was, precisely, …
Reflecting on Political Performance
Rural Santa Catarina in sub-tropical South Brazil, and Mülheim, a pleasant German city in the post-industrial Ruhr valley. As editors, our field sites are strikingly different and hard to imagine side by side. In Brazil, you arrive along a dusty track to huge concrete gymnasia where state meetings of Latin America's largest social movement, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) take place. Cows stand idly in pens in adjacent fields. Coaches that h…
Anthropological theory and engagement
Engagement with pressing social and political issues is often presented as a threat to the elaboration of sophisticated anthropological theory that needs to be protected from such concerns in order to flourish. However the history of anthropological theory demonstrates that some of the discipline's most important contributions have tended to arise as a result of its proponents' desire to engage in such debates. Although we cannot reproduce the cu…
Transformation and 'Human Values' in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil
Social movements often seek transformation in wider society, but they are also themselves subject to the fluidity and ephemerality of the environments in which they operate. Academic literature has long held the view that social movements inevitably come to be beset by institutionalisation and a loss of relevance, and in Brazil, where socio-economic change has been so dynamic, the future of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra …
Whiter Shades of Pale
Debates surrounding race in Brazil have become increasingly fraught in recent years as the once hegemonic concept of racial democracy (democracia racial) continues to be subject to an ever more agnostic scrutiny. Parallel to these debates, and yet ultimately inseparable from them, is the question of what it is to be “white.” In this interdisciplinary paper, we argue that whiteness has become increasingly established in Brazilian public discourse …
Bongo Bongo’ and reconfiguring the ‘other’ (Respond to this article at http
Fear of immigration has brought about a shift in UK politics. In this new climate, diversity is no longer welcome and the Home Office's message is clear: ‘go home or face arrest’. This editorial addresses the overlap between legal and ethnic categories in this politics of alterity and argues that what is at stake in these debates is nothing less than the reconfiguration of a fit‐and‐proper UK citizen
Translated Abstracts
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mística, myself and I
How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases on key issues? This article centres its analysis on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST - Landless Rural Workers' Movement) and instances of the movement's cultural activity, in particular, mística. It is recognised that the MST's cultural activity reflects a deep engagement with cultural politics, and further, that the movement's culture secto…
The Mechanics of Legitimation
Narratives dominate the environmental agenda. Emery Roe has first confronted such narratives as ′Ex-cept-Africa′ and secondly argued that these narratives cannot be easily undermined. Rather, counter-narratives need to be generated that can better represent the nuanced realities of the situations to which they pertain. But what makes a successful narrative? This article argues that successful environmental narratives (a) conform to a certain lite…
Micro-utopias
rationale and Contexthe editors began discussing this special issue in 2014 through a serendipitous encounter.Ruy and Maïté were interested in the possibility of promoting an anthropology of utopia, and simultaneously an anthropology as utopia.Alex and Jonas, working on anthropological approaches to contemporary artistic practices, were seeking to develop the theorising potential of relational art. he immanent space of connection was, precisely, …
Mística, myself and I
How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases on key issues? This article centres its analysis on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST - Landless Rural Workers' Movement) and instances of the movement's cultural activity, in particular, mística. It is recognised that the MST's cultural activity reflects a deep engagement with cultural politics, and further, that the movement's culture secto…
Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning
In this article I analyse the notion that social movement politics and contemporary art interventions increasingly traverse a porous boundary, be it in terms of practices, relations, or institutions. Premised on Nicolas Bourriaud’s seminal reading of 1990s art, I contend that the theory of “relational aesthetics” (2002) offers a synthetic platform from which we can understand how artistic interventions with activist connotations are increasingly …
Transformation and 'Human Values' in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil
Social movements often seek transformation in wider society, but they are also themselves subject to the fluidity and ephemerality of the environments in which they operate. Academic literature has long held the view that social movements inevitably come to be beset by institutionalisation and a loss of relevance, and in Brazil, where socio-economic change has been so dynamic, the future of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra …
From cartonera publishing practices to trans-formal methods for qualitative research
Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies and qualitative research, as scholars over the past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable and ever-shifting methods (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on the interdisciplinary thought of Jacques Rancière and Caroline Levine on the one hand and tr…
Reconfigurando a cidade
Neste artigo, exponho como os praticantes da arte contemporânea incorporam desobediência epistêmica e o conceito de ocupação para proporem uma reconfiguração da cidade. Primeiro, argumento que há cada vez mais reflexão sobre a ressignificação do espaço urbano, provocada por um tipo particular de prática de arte contemporânea intersticial; em seguida, defendo que os contextos em que essas práticas ocorrem sugere que artistas trabalhando com tais p…
Aesthetic gestures, moral frameworks
This article, focusing on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil, demonstrates how members of Latin America's largest social movement perform the diverse compacts of obligation and reciprocity that characterise an MST occupation. MST encampments seek to enact a transformation of the land on which members are situated, but also emphasise a transformation of the human subject itself, from unproductive to productive. Performing this transfor…
Anthropological theory and engagement
Engagement with pressing social and political issues is often presented as a threat to the elaboration of sophisticated anthropological theory that needs to be protected from such concerns in order to flourish. However the history of anthropological theory demonstrates that some of the discipline's most important contributions have tended to arise as a result of its proponents' desire to engage in such debates. Although we cannot reproduce the cu…
The Mechanics of Legitimation
Narratives dominate the environmental agenda. Emery Roe has first confronted such narratives as ′Ex-cept-Africa′ and secondly argued that these narratives cannot be easily undermined. Rather, counter-narratives need to be generated that can better represent the nuanced realities of the situations to which they pertain. But what makes a successful narrative? This article argues that successful environmental narratives (a) conform to a certain lite…
Whiter Shades of Pale
Debates surrounding race in Brazil have become increasingly fraught in recent years as the once hegemonic concept of racial democracy (democracia racial) continues to be subject to an ever more agnostic scrutiny. Parallel to these debates, and yet ultimately inseparable from them, is the question of what it is to be “white.” In this interdisciplinary paper, we argue that whiteness has become increasingly established in Brazilian public discourse …
Bongo Bongo’ and reconfiguring the ‘other’ (Respond to this article at http
Fear of immigration has brought about a shift in UK politics. In this new climate, diversity is no longer welcome and the Home Office's message is clear: ‘go home or face arrest’. This editorial addresses the overlap between legal and ethnic categories in this politics of alterity and argues that what is at stake in these debates is nothing less than the reconfiguration of a fit‐and‐proper UK citizen
Translated Abstracts
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Mística, myself and I
How do grassroots social movements respond to shifting perceptions within their bases on key issues? This article centres its analysis on the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST - Landless Rural Workers' Movement) and instances of the movement's cultural activity, in particular, mística. It is recognised that the MST's cultural activity reflects a deep engagement with cultural politics, and further, that the movement's culture secto…
Reflecting on Political Performance
Rural Santa Catarina in sub-tropical South Brazil, and Mülheim, a pleasant German city in the post-industrial Ruhr valley. As editors, our field sites are strikingly different and hard to imagine side by side. In Brazil, you arrive along a dusty track to huge concrete gymnasia where state meetings of Latin America's largest social movement, the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) take place. Cows stand idly in pens in adjacent fields. Coaches that h…
Anthropological theory and engagement
Engagement with pressing social and political issues is often presented as a threat to the elaboration of sophisticated anthropological theory that needs to be protected from such concerns in order to flourish. However the history of anthropological theory demonstrates that some of the discipline's most important contributions have tended to arise as a result of its proponents' desire to engage in such debates. Although we cannot reproduce the cu…
Transformation and 'Human Values' in the Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil
Social movements often seek transformation in wider society, but they are also themselves subject to the fluidity and ephemerality of the environments in which they operate. Academic literature has long held the view that social movements inevitably come to be beset by institutionalisation and a loss of relevance, and in Brazil, where socio-economic change has been so dynamic, the future of the Landless Workers' Movement (Movimento dos Sem Terra …
Subjectivity and the Obliteration of Meaning
In this article I analyse the notion that social movement politics and contemporary art interventions increasingly traverse a porous boundary, be it in terms of practices, relations, or institutions. Premised on Nicolas Bourriaud’s seminal reading of 1990s art, I contend that the theory of “relational aesthetics” (2002) offers a synthetic platform from which we can understand how artistic interventions with activist connotations are increasingly …
Micro-utopias
rationale and Contexthe editors began discussing this special issue in 2014 through a serendipitous encounter.Ruy and Maïté were interested in the possibility of promoting an anthropology of utopia, and simultaneously an anthropology as utopia.Alex and Jonas, working on anthropological approaches to contemporary artistic practices, were seeking to develop the theorising potential of relational art. he immanent space of connection was, precisely, …
Reconfigurando a cidade
Neste artigo, exponho como os praticantes da arte contemporânea incorporam desobediência epistêmica e o conceito de ocupação para proporem uma reconfiguração da cidade. Primeiro, argumento que há cada vez mais reflexão sobre a ressignificação do espaço urbano, provocada por um tipo particular de prática de arte contemporânea intersticial; em seguida, defendo que os contextos em que essas práticas ocorrem sugere que artistas trabalhando com tais p…
Aesthetic gestures, moral frameworks
This article, focusing on the Landless Workers' Movement (MST) of Brazil, demonstrates how members of Latin America's largest social movement perform the diverse compacts of obligation and reciprocity that characterise an MST occupation. MST encampments seek to enact a transformation of the land on which members are situated, but also emphasise a transformation of the human subject itself, from unproductive to productive. Performing this transfor…
Returning to Form
This article puts forward a methodological pathway for work between anthropology and art that is premised on the relation between social and aesthetic form. It draws on the authors’ work with cartonera publishers in Latin America, small community-based collectives whose members make low-cost books from recycled cardboard in an explicit attempt to make both the consumption and production of literature accessible to wider society. We begin by descr…
Once upon a time in Utopia
From cartonera publishing practices to trans-formal methods for qualitative research
Interdisciplinarity, multidisciplinarity and counter-disciplinarity are the hallmark of cultural studies and qualitative research, as scholars over the past three decades have discussed through extensive self-reflexive inquiry into their own unstable and ever-shifting methods (Denzin and Lincoln, 2018; Dicks et al., 2006: 78; Grossberg, 2010). Building on the interdisciplinary thought of Jacques Rancière and Caroline Levine on the one hand and tr…
Relational Art
Relational art refers to a mode of artistic practice informed by “relational aesthetics,” a term first used by French curator Nicolas Bourriaud. Relational art shifts its point of composition from an object, such as a sculpture or painting, to propose an open‐ended shared space in which viewers become active coparticipants and coproducers in the elaboration of meaning. Such work is typically based on a convivial space where the artist seeks to en…
Teorizando a dobradiça cartonera
Trata-se de uma tradução do capítulo "Methods: Trans-Formal Research for Transformational Practice", parte do livro Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America (2022). Ao longo do artigo, os autores acompanham as atividades das cartoneras mexicanas La Rueda Cartonera e Viento Cartonero para teorizar sobre o fazer cartonero e, ao mesmo tempo, elaborar uma reflexão sobre a metodologia para fazê-lo, partindo de uma visão interd…
Struggling with Citational Politics as a Pathway to Unlearning and Relearning for Collective Action
There is a growing movement committed to the values of equitable and just citation, but the material practices of altering citational politics are more challenging. For instance, researchers in the Global South are under-cited, but how many citations are enough to correct this bias? How do we best determine when an author is from the Global South to begin with? We present a case study where social and natural science researchers (the authors) spe…
Sociology (13 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Politics (11 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Philosophy (8 obras) · Aesthetics (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Philosophy (6 obras) · Art (5 obras)