PTRS@Porto: FINAL PROGRAMME

[Minor changes introduced December the 2nd]

Paths Towards Reflexive Sociology: Ethnography matters

Porto, Faculty of Arts, 10^th-11^th December 2009

Programme

Day 1

10^th December 2009

[Venue: Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Burmester Building, Room 103]

Facilitator: Bruno Monteiro (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal; PTRS Executive Committee)

10:00-10:30

Opening Session

João Teixeira Lopes (President of the Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

10:30-12:30

Session 1: “Grounded approaches to social change”

Aslam Fataar (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

Youth navigation of ‘dys-synchronous’ school spaces across the rural-urban divide in South Africa

Graça Cordeiro (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Lígia Ferro (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Tim Sieber (University of Massachusetts, USA)

The bright side of darker streets: discussing an unconventional exploratory field research experience with Boston community murals

João Caramelo (Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences – University of Porto, Portugal)

Employee ownership of a sugar factory in Brazil: an ethnography of a social and economic alternative experiment

Discussant: Wiebke Keim (Department for Social Work and Social Policy – Fribourg University, Germany)

12:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-16:30

Session 2: “Inside the state”

John Bourke (Macquarie University, Australia)

Rosemary Lucadou-Wells (Murdoch University, Australia)

Developing a reception theory for the analysis of colonial defamation cases in Van Diemens Land

Susana Durão (Institute of Social Sciences – University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Tales of the field: an ethnographic journey inside police worlds

Christian Hansen (University of Copenhagen, Danmark)

Social workers and the construction and reconstruction of the Danish Welfare State

Discussant: Stefania Barca (Centre for Social Studies – University of Coimbra, Portugal)

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-19:00

Session 3: “The sociological craft: practical sense and reflexivity”

Marie-Anne Dujarier (Polytechnique, CNAM – Sorbonne University, France)

Aurélie Jeantet (CRESPA – Sorbonne University, France)

Emmanuelle Savignac (CIM – Sorbonne University, France)

To intervene in the media as sociologists: a little exercise of reflexivity on the mediatisation of researchers and knowledge

Manuel Torres Cubeiro (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

Making no sense: biography, reflexivity and mental illness

Łukasz Krzyżowski (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology – AGH – University of Science and Technology, Poland)

Co-creating of transnational social spaces. Researching migrations across time and space

Isabel Cruz (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

Between macro and micro: a methodological eclecticism in consumption practices analysis

[DISTRIBUTED PAPER (WILL NOT BE PRESENT FOR ORAL PRESENTATION)]

Discussant: Rita Cachado (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

21:30-23:00

[Venue: E-Learning Café UP]

“Workers leaving the factory”, Harun Farocki (1995, 37’)

Film + Debate with Carlos Gonçalves (Department of Sociology and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal) and Luísa Veloso (Centre for Research and Studies in Sociology – ISCTE, Portugal)

Day 2

11^th December 2009

[Venue: Faculty of Arts, Main Building, Anfiteatro Nobre]

Facilitator: João Queirós (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal; PTRS Executive Committee)

10:00-12:30

Session 4: “Innovative ways of thinking and doing ethnography, innovative ways of disseminating results”

Paula Mota Santos (University Fernando Pessoa, Portugal)

Roberto Alzetta (University of Genoa, Italy)

The camera tends to lie and the audience tends to believe. The implications of the use of film in ethnographic research: the case of the international European research project TRESEGY

Pedro dos Santos Bóia (Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal, and University of Exeter, UK)

Living ethnography: tensions and articulations between researcher’s knowledge, the actors’ discourses and sociological ‘classic’ deconstruction

Raúl Cabrera (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico)

Anika Meckesheimer (Universidad Xochimilco, Mexico)

Alterity and autonomy in intervention – doing research with, not only about, civil organizations in Chiapas

Marcelle Dawson (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

Straddling the divide between academia and activism: exploring different forms of knowledge production

Jonathan London (Department of Asian and International Studies – City University, Hong Kong)

Representing child poverty in Viet Nam

[DISTRIBUTED PAPER (WILL NOT BE PRESENT FOR ORAL PRESENTATION)]

Discussant: Sofia Cruz (Faculty of Economy and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

12:30-15:00

Lunch

15:00-17:00

Final Session

Simon J. Charlesworth (Clare Hall – University of Cambridge, UK)

Education, unemployment, labour market segregation. Social division and meaningless pedagogy

Ariel Sevilla (Laboratoire Printemps and French Sociology Association, France)

Ethnographical data and international comparison. Research notes from the auto-industry in France, Brazil and Argentina

Discussant: José Madureira Pinto (Faculty of Economy and Institute of Sociology – University of Porto, Portugal)

Workshop closure