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Department of Social Anthropology

Research seminar with Andrea Petitt: "An artful horseback ethnography of a Rocky Mountain..."

Seminar

Date: Monday 26 May 2025

Time: 13.00 – 14.30

Location: B600

Research seminar with Andrea Petitt: "An artful horseback ethnography of a Rocky Mountain ranching Multispecies Triad"

Abstract:

In this talk, Andrea will take us on a horseback ethnography journey through the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, the Kalahari of Botswana, the Meadows of Sweden and the Himalayas of Nepal. A multispecies ethnographer at the core, Andrea has increasingly engaged in artistic methods and expressions to develop ‘artful’ research methods within the social sciences. With an academic background in anthropology, rural development and theoretical philosophy, and a creative background in rhyming and cowboy poetry as well as drawing, Andrea shows how these practices have become crucial to her ethnographic research as methods to both collect data in the field and to analyse, theorize and disseminate research results. Showcasing film, ethnographic poetry and analytical drawings, Andrea will explain how she developed the concept of 'the multispecies triad' and a multispecies intersectionality theory.

Bio:

Andrea Petitt is an affiliated researcher at the Centre for Gender Research at Uppsala University. She is currently working on an international post-doc project titled "Global equestrian cultures in change: New gendered human-horse relations emerging from Western riding?, researching how gendered human-animal relations of the American West are influencing the growing interest in Western horse and cattle practices in Sweden. Andrea holds a Ph.D. in Rural Development from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), an M.Sc. in Anthropology from Université de Montréal, Canada, and an M.Sc. in Africa and International Development Cooperation from the University of Gothenburg.

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Last updated: February 18, 2025

Source: Department of Social Anthropology

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