Karen Waltorp
Biographic Data
| ID | 164118 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Waltorp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Waltorp |
| SIGNATURE | WALTORP K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Aarhus University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3293-1769 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
An anthropology of crosslocations By SarahGreen, SamuliLähteenaho, PhaedraDouzina‐Bakalaki, CarlRommel, Joseph J.Viscomi, Laia SotoBermant, and PatriciaScalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 202…
An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies
This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional app…
Anthropology of Futures and Technologies
Fieldwork as Interface Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter
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Why Care? Volunteer work and the ethical demand among young Afghan-Danes
Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town's Prison-township Circuit
In this paper, we explore how townships and prison are linked in South Africa among criminalised populations. While the two are often described - also by residents - as belonging to radically different moral worlds, the article shows how they are entangled in often awkward and difficult, yet necessary ways. We show this by paying acute attention to kinship structures and how kin are disavowed, allowed and sometimes denied as residents find their …
Fieldwork as Interface: Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter
Intimacy, Concealment and Unconscious Optics: Filmmaking with Young Muslim Women in Copenhagen
This article deals with the critical role filming plays in the production and communication of knowledge pertaining to transparency and concealment in intimate, private and public spaces. Drawing on fieldwork and filmmaking with young Muslim women in Copenhagen, in the neighborhood of Nørrebro, I describe intimate scenes I was allowed to film. The concealment enacted as the women move from private to public space is discussed here, and I conceptu…
Camera, Intervention and Cultural Critique: An Introduction
The key questions of the research project Camera as Cultural Critique, in which all contributors to this section of the issue participated, are outlined here. The overall purpose of the project was to explore how the use of audiovisual media in ethnographic research may contribute to sustained cultural critique. Grounding that critique in a certain understanding of the temporality of the present-as always in a state of emergence and involving ima…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Keeping cool, staying virtuous: Social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen
This article builds on long-term anthropological fieldwork among young Muslim women in a social housing area in Copenhagen. It explores how morality, modesty, and gender- and generational relations become reconfigured in the ways in which young women use the Smartphone and social media to navigate their everyday lives. I focus on love and marriage, the imperatives of appearing cool among peers, and keeping the family's honour intact through the d…
Public/private negotiations in the media uses of young Muslim women in Copenhagen: Gendered social control and the technology-enabled moral laboratories of a multicultural city
Building on a participatory media project and ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish social housing area Blågården in Copenhagen, this article explores how technologically mediated places in the city are created through the uses of portable devices and everyday practices of web-based social media by a group of young Muslim women in the area. These second-generation female immigrants partake in self-presentation and interpersonal audiencing …
Sæbeopera som forestillingsgenererende teknologi
analyserer artiklen dramaserier på tv som en art social teknologi, der tillader informanterne at generere forestillinger om andre liv og andre verdener, der på én gang er langt væk og tæt på. Serierne, der indbefatter sæbeoperaer produceret i USA og Europa, arabiske ,,musalsalat' og latinamerikanske ,,telenovelas', indvirker påog forskyder noget i informanternes liv. I artiklen argumenteres der for, at serierne indgå i forskellige ,,associationer…
Uddannelse og opposition: Marginalisering og manglende medborgerskab i den farvede township Manenberg
Karen Waltorp: Education & Opposition. Marginalization and Lack of Citizenship in the Coloured Township of Manenberg Young and old alike speak of education as an ideal in the coloured township Manenberg in South Africa. In practice, though, 70 percent of the young men and women do not graduate from high school, and only a small number of those who do graduate study further. Education is a widely recognized form of 'symbolic capital', but among su…
Introduktion: Skolens børn og samfundets borgere
Intet resumé
Keeping cool, staying virtuous: Social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen
This article builds on long-term anthropological fieldwork among young Muslim women in a social housing area in Copenhagen. It explores how morality, modesty, and gender- and generational relations become reconfigured in the ways in which young women use the Smartphone and social media to navigate their everyday lives. I focus on love and marriage, the imperatives of appearing cool among peers, and keeping the family's honour intact through the d…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Public/private negotiations in the media uses of young Muslim women in Copenhagen: Gendered social control and the technology-enabled moral laboratories of a multicultural city
Building on a participatory media project and ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish social housing area Blågården in Copenhagen, this article explores how technologically mediated places in the city are created through the uses of portable devices and everyday practices of web-based social media by a group of young Muslim women in the area. These second-generation female immigrants partake in self-presentation and interpersonal audiencing …
Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town's Prison-township Circuit
In this paper, we explore how townships and prison are linked in South Africa among criminalised populations. While the two are often described - also by residents - as belonging to radically different moral worlds, the article shows how they are entangled in often awkward and difficult, yet necessary ways. We show this by paying acute attention to kinship structures and how kin are disavowed, allowed and sometimes denied as residents find their …
Intimacy, Concealment and Unconscious Optics: Filmmaking with Young Muslim Women in Copenhagen
This article deals with the critical role filming plays in the production and communication of knowledge pertaining to transparency and concealment in intimate, private and public spaces. Drawing on fieldwork and filmmaking with young Muslim women in Copenhagen, in the neighborhood of Nørrebro, I describe intimate scenes I was allowed to film. The concealment enacted as the women move from private to public space is discussed here, and I conceptu…
Camera, Intervention and Cultural Critique: An Introduction
The key questions of the research project Camera as Cultural Critique, in which all contributors to this section of the issue participated, are outlined here. The overall purpose of the project was to explore how the use of audiovisual media in ethnographic research may contribute to sustained cultural critique. Grounding that critique in a certain understanding of the temporality of the present-as always in a state of emergence and involving ima…
Uddannelse og opposition: Marginalisering og manglende medborgerskab i den farvede township Manenberg
Karen Waltorp: Education & Opposition. Marginalization and Lack of Citizenship in the Coloured Township of Manenberg Young and old alike speak of education as an ideal in the coloured township Manenberg in South Africa. In practice, though, 70 percent of the young men and women do not graduate from high school, and only a small number of those who do graduate study further. Education is a widely recognized form of 'symbolic capital', but among su…
Introduktion: Skolens børn og samfundets borgere
Intet resumé
Public/private negotiations in the media uses of young Muslim women in Copenhagen: Gendered social control and the technology-enabled moral laboratories of a multicultural city
Building on a participatory media project and ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in the Danish social housing area Blågården in Copenhagen, this article explores how technologically mediated places in the city are created through the uses of portable devices and everyday practices of web-based social media by a group of young Muslim women in the area. These second-generation female immigrants partake in self-presentation and interpersonal audiencing …
Sæbeopera som forestillingsgenererende teknologi
analyserer artiklen dramaserier på tv som en art social teknologi, der tillader informanterne at generere forestillinger om andre liv og andre verdener, der på én gang er langt væk og tæt på. Serierne, der indbefatter sæbeoperaer produceret i USA og Europa, arabiske ,,musalsalat' og latinamerikanske ,,telenovelas', indvirker påog forskyder noget i informanternes liv. I artiklen argumenteres der for, at serierne indgå i forskellige ,,associationer…
Field theory approaches to new media practices: An introduction and some theoretical considerations
In this article introducing the theme of the special issue we argue that studies of new media practices might benefit from especially Pierre Bourdieu's research on cultural production. We introduce some of the literature, which deals with the use of digital media, and which have taken steps to develop field theory in this context. Secondly, we present the four thematic articles in this issue and the articles outside the theme, which includes two …
Keeping cool, staying virtuous: Social media and the composite habitus of young Muslim women in Copenhagen
This article builds on long-term anthropological fieldwork among young Muslim women in a social housing area in Copenhagen. It explores how morality, modesty, and gender- and generational relations become reconfigured in the ways in which young women use the Smartphone and social media to navigate their everyday lives. I focus on love and marriage, the imperatives of appearing cool among peers, and keeping the family's honour intact through the d…
Fieldwork as Interface: Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter
Intimacy, Concealment and Unconscious Optics: Filmmaking with Young Muslim Women in Copenhagen
This article deals with the critical role filming plays in the production and communication of knowledge pertaining to transparency and concealment in intimate, private and public spaces. Drawing on fieldwork and filmmaking with young Muslim women in Copenhagen, in the neighborhood of Nørrebro, I describe intimate scenes I was allowed to film. The concealment enacted as the women move from private to public space is discussed here, and I conceptu…
Camera, Intervention and Cultural Critique: An Introduction
The key questions of the research project Camera as Cultural Critique, in which all contributors to this section of the issue participated, are outlined here. The overall purpose of the project was to explore how the use of audiovisual media in ethnographic research may contribute to sustained cultural critique. Grounding that critique in a certain understanding of the temporality of the present-as always in a state of emergence and involving ima…
Awkward Entanglements: Kinship, Morality and Survival in Cape Town's Prison-township Circuit
In this paper, we explore how townships and prison are linked in South Africa among criminalised populations. While the two are often described - also by residents - as belonging to radically different moral worlds, the article shows how they are entangled in often awkward and difficult, yet necessary ways. We show this by paying acute attention to kinship structures and how kin are disavowed, allowed and sometimes denied as residents find their …
Why Care? Volunteer work and the ethical demand among young Afghan-Danes
An Anthropology of Futures and Technologies
This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures. It asks how technological futures are being constituted and the roles anthropologists can play in their making; how anthropologists engage with emerging technologies within their fieldwork contexts in research which seeks to influence future design; how to create critical and interventional app…
Anthropology of Futures and Technologies
Fieldwork as Interface Digital Technologies, Moral Worlds and Zones of Encounter
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
An anthropology of crosslocations By SarahGreen, SamuliLähteenaho, PhaedraDouzina‐Bakalaki, CarlRommel, Joseph J.Viscomi, Laia SotoBermant, and PatriciaScalco. Helsinki: Helsinki University Press, 202…
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