Interview with Helen Verran - Part 2 of 2

Video

License

Creative Commons Licence

Contributors

Contributed date

August 5, 2018 - 10:43pm

Critical Commentary

This is Part 2 of a two-part video interview with Helen Verran, a key figure in Australian Science and Technology Studies.  

Part 2 covers Helen Verran's concepts

Part 1 covers Helen Verran's background / STS in Australia and its relationship to STS overseas, and can be found here.

Timestamps:

Helen Verran’s concepts

00:00 Own work: tensions between philosophy and anthropology

01:20 The disconcertment

04:47 Becoming a knowing self

07:33 Material-semiotics

08:30 Making explicit metaphysical commitments

11:40 Ontics (vs ontology)

14:25 Ethics and politics in Helen’s work by way of ontology (ontological turn in anthropology)

19:35 Working in good faith

24:06 Comparison and Participant Comparison

26:04 Ethnography and generative work

29:15 Influences

35:36 Interlocutors

40:31 How students and intellectual friends relate to Helen’s work and how this work can be taken further

43:05 Management and organization studies

Language

English

Cite as

Helen Verran, Giles Campbell-Wright and Nicholas B. de Weydenthal, "Interview with Helen Verran - Part 2 of 2", contributed by Benjamin Nicoll, STS Infrastructures, Platform for Experimental Collaborative Ethnography, last modified 5 August 2018, accessed 29 March 2024. https://stsinfrastructures.org/content/interview-helen-verran-part-2-2