Vecākā pētniece Ieva Puzo piedalās Somijas Antropoloģijas biedrības konferencē

2023. gada 21. – 23. martā vecākā pētniece projektā (Re)moving Ties Ieva Puzo piedalījās Somijas Antropoloģijas biedrības organizētajā konferencē Relations and beyond, kas norisinājās Rovaniemi (Lapzemē).

I. Puzo konferencē uzstājās ar prezentāciju "Between Knowledge and Intimacy: Examining the Experiences of International Scholars in Japan and Latvia"

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Ieva Puzo

In this paper, I examine the tension between two contradictory factors shaping the (im)mobility of a specific group of transnationally mobile workers – namely, researchers. On the one hand, scholars face the demands of the dominant regimes of knowledge production that increasingly prioritize short-term employment contracts and expect unencumbered movements across borders from one position to another. On the other hand, the lived reality for many scholars is quite different, as they struggle to balance their work and personal lives and aim to build and maintain close relationships. Based on semi-structured interviews with international scholars in Japan and Latvia as well as other ethnographic data, I suggest that researchers consider personal relationships and kin ties – including hopes for creating them – an important factor when making decisions about their potential employment locales. As the narratives of my interlocutors reveal, researchers often make decisions to move to or, importantly, remain in places significant to their family members – and places that may enable the creation of new kin ties or the maintenance of already established ones. These choices, I suggest, destabilize the oft-accepted assumptions about the “ideal” research career path and “desirable” locales of knowledge production, highlighting the importance of intimacy-focused rationales when it comes to work-related decision-making.

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