Debra Vidali
Biographic Data
| ID | 209853 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Debra Vidali |
| GIVEN NAMES | Debra |
| FAMILY NAME | Vidali |
| SIGNATURE | VIDALI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Emory University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5489-3906 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 184 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Two Row Repair
The Two Row Repair trilogy refuses erasure as it tracks a journey of attempted recovery and repair, using the Two Row Wampum (Kaswenta) as inspiration, model, and directive. The Two Row Wampum, a foundational agreement made between Haudenosaunee and Dutch in 1613, extends into the present as a promise between Haudenosaunee and people of European descent to co-exist in peace, respect, and friendship, and in common stewardship for all orders of lif…
Flame thrower
This poem is part of a special section in honor of Kathleen Stewart. Imagined as a staccato spoken word piece, the short lines with visual semantic and sonic parallelisms flow like an urgent, nonstop process of throwing flames, barbs, disruptions, and unexpected care into anthropological spaces. As such, the poetic layout pays tribute with an itemized list of Katie's interventions: surgical strikes, sharp, powerful presences, and gentle lyric cla…
Ethnographic Installation and “The Archive”
This essay examines the haunted relationality of ethnographic archives and anthropology, and the potential for multimodal installations to highlight these tensions while bringing anthropology toward new audiences and new types of collaborations. We argue that experimental ethnographic installations can be used to foreground complex relations among fieldwork, archives, re/dislocation, and aspiration, through nonlinear forms of argumentation and en…
Gogo Breeze
Reviewed by: Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech by Harri Englund Debra Vidali Harri Englund, Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288 pp. The vibrancy and vitality of radio is beautifully conveyed in this careful ethnography about a single broadcaster whose news, advice, and cultural programs dominate the airwaves of Breeze FM, a communitybased co…
Ethnographic Theater Making
Ethnographic theater making is not just a modality for staged representation or reenactment. It is a modality of radical anthropological knowledge coproduction, one that disrupts authorship, self, linearity, and proposition-based knowledge through multimodal, multisensorial, collaborative, and embodied processes. In both incubation and performance, multimodal and multisensorial elements such as voice, body, memory, sound, movement, text, rhythm, …
Five Ways In Mike Poltorak, Sonja Brühlmann, and Alyssa Lynes, dirs. 73 min. United Kingdom, 2014. https
Multisensorial Anthropology
A Language for Re-Generation
Repairing a Screaming Silence
I am beginning to pay attention to the screaming silences around Native American stories in the United States today. Part of this is because there is a silenced story in my own family. Aunt Dot shu
The ethnography of process
This article problematizes the ethnography of process with respect to civic engagement and political subjectivity. Process is approached in a two-pronged sense: as a target of ethnographic/phenomenological discovery and as a place-based issue particular to the US. Regarding the first sense, I examine the dialogic emergence of political subjectivity in specific communication contexts. Concurrently, I raise epistemological questions about the power…
Introduction
It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue of Ethnography on ‘Civic Mediations’. The two of us have long felt that the time is ripe for a deeper conversation about what it means to do an ethnography of the public sphere. In this issue we seek to problematize what public sphere ethnography means as an epistemological problem, as a matter of ethnographic engagement, and as a mode of ethnographic writing and re-presentation. The …
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Ethnographic Theater Making
Ethnographic theater making is not just a modality for staged representation or reenactment. It is a modality of radical anthropological knowledge coproduction, one that disrupts authorship, self, linearity, and proposition-based knowledge through multimodal, multisensorial, collaborative, and embodied processes. In both incubation and performance, multimodal and multisensorial elements such as voice, body, memory, sound, movement, text, rhythm, …
Multisensorial Anthropology
Introduction
It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue of Ethnography on ‘Civic Mediations’. The two of us have long felt that the time is ripe for a deeper conversation about what it means to do an ethnography of the public sphere. In this issue we seek to problematize what public sphere ethnography means as an epistemological problem, as a matter of ethnographic engagement, and as a mode of ethnographic writing and re-presentation. The …
Ethnographic Installation and “The Archive”
This essay examines the haunted relationality of ethnographic archives and anthropology, and the potential for multimodal installations to highlight these tensions while bringing anthropology toward new audiences and new types of collaborations. We argue that experimental ethnographic installations can be used to foreground complex relations among fieldwork, archives, re/dislocation, and aspiration, through nonlinear forms of argumentation and en…
The ethnography of process
This article problematizes the ethnography of process with respect to civic engagement and political subjectivity. Process is approached in a two-pronged sense: as a target of ethnographic/phenomenological discovery and as a place-based issue particular to the US. Regarding the first sense, I examine the dialogic emergence of political subjectivity in specific communication contexts. Concurrently, I raise epistemological questions about the power…
Two Row Repair
The Two Row Repair trilogy refuses erasure as it tracks a journey of attempted recovery and repair, using the Two Row Wampum (Kaswenta) as inspiration, model, and directive. The Two Row Wampum, a foundational agreement made between Haudenosaunee and Dutch in 1613, extends into the present as a promise between Haudenosaunee and people of European descent to co-exist in peace, respect, and friendship, and in common stewardship for all orders of lif…
Anthropology and Mass Media
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
The ethnography of process
This article problematizes the ethnography of process with respect to civic engagement and political subjectivity. Process is approached in a two-pronged sense: as a target of ethnographic/phenomenological discovery and as a place-based issue particular to the US. Regarding the first sense, I examine the dialogic emergence of political subjectivity in specific communication contexts. Concurrently, I raise epistemological questions about the power…
Introduction
It is with great pleasure that we introduce this special issue of Ethnography on ‘Civic Mediations’. The two of us have long felt that the time is ripe for a deeper conversation about what it means to do an ethnography of the public sphere. In this issue we seek to problematize what public sphere ethnography means as an epistemological problem, as a matter of ethnographic engagement, and as a mode of ethnographic writing and re-presentation. The …
A Language for Re-Generation
Repairing a Screaming Silence
I am beginning to pay attention to the screaming silences around Native American stories in the United States today. Part of this is because there is a silenced story in my own family. Aunt Dot shu
Multisensorial Anthropology
Five Ways In Mike Poltorak, Sonja Brühlmann, and Alyssa Lynes, dirs. 73 min. United Kingdom, 2014. https
Ethnographic Installation and “The Archive”
This essay examines the haunted relationality of ethnographic archives and anthropology, and the potential for multimodal installations to highlight these tensions while bringing anthropology toward new audiences and new types of collaborations. We argue that experimental ethnographic installations can be used to foreground complex relations among fieldwork, archives, re/dislocation, and aspiration, through nonlinear forms of argumentation and en…
Gogo Breeze
Reviewed by: Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech by Harri Englund Debra Vidali Harri Englund, Gogo Breeze: Zambia's Radio Elder and the Voices of Free Speech. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018. 288 pp. The vibrancy and vitality of radio is beautifully conveyed in this careful ethnography about a single broadcaster whose news, advice, and cultural programs dominate the airwaves of Breeze FM, a communitybased co…
Ethnographic Theater Making
Ethnographic theater making is not just a modality for staged representation or reenactment. It is a modality of radical anthropological knowledge coproduction, one that disrupts authorship, self, linearity, and proposition-based knowledge through multimodal, multisensorial, collaborative, and embodied processes. In both incubation and performance, multimodal and multisensorial elements such as voice, body, memory, sound, movement, text, rhythm, …
Flame thrower
This poem is part of a special section in honor of Kathleen Stewart. Imagined as a staccato spoken word piece, the short lines with visual semantic and sonic parallelisms flow like an urgent, nonstop process of throwing flames, barbs, disruptions, and unexpected care into anthropological spaces. As such, the poetic layout pays tribute with an itemized list of Katie's interventions: surgical strikes, sharp, powerful presences, and gentle lyric cla…
Two Row Repair
The Two Row Repair trilogy refuses erasure as it tracks a journey of attempted recovery and repair, using the Two Row Wampum (Kaswenta) as inspiration, model, and directive. The Two Row Wampum, a foundational agreement made between Haudenosaunee and Dutch in 1613, extends into the present as a promise between Haudenosaunee and people of European descent to co-exist in peace, respect, and friendship, and in common stewardship for all orders of lif…
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