Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 iCal

Wednesday Seminar

Emplacement, Intimate Care and Human-Plant Relations in Migration (Hilal Alkan, Leibniz Zentrum Moderner Orient)

Übungsraum A, Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien

Vortrag

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***** Due to an overlap with the IWM Lectures in Human Sciences, the first seminar of the semester will exceptionally take place on Thursday. *****

 

People-plant relationships are multi-faceted and range from purely utilitarian to highly affective. In my research I work with Turkish and Kurdish migrants on their relationships with the plants they grow in Germany. Within the migration trajectories and processes of my research participants, the affective relationships with plants have two affordances: Firstly, the intimate care given to plants facilitate the emplacement of both the plants and the humans. Secondly, plants lend people the metaphors to reflect on their migrant conditions. Through these two affordances and under the circumstances of climactic and societal difference, xenophobia and precarity, plants and people grow closer and survive together, while the human participants of these relationships draw reciprocal parallels between themselves and their plant companions. These parallels, anthropomorphisms and phytomorphisms, unfold as modalities of intimacy within the lives of my interlocutors.

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Veranstalter

Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie

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Kontakt

Hanna Vietze
Institut für Kultur- und Sozialanthropologie
+431427749565
hanna.vietze@univie.ac.at

Erstellt am Dienstag, 01. Oktober 2024, 11:04
Letzte Änderung am Montag, 14. Oktober 2024, 13:43