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Craig Campbell

Assistant Professor Ph.D., University of Alberta

Craig Campbell

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Biography

Fascinations

My research has most recently been concerned with the realm of ethnographic and documentary images. The research and visual experiments that I undertake explore the possibility for failed, defaced, degraded, manipulated, and damaged photographs to activate interpretive fields typically unacknowledged in conventional ethnographies and histories. This intermedia and aesthetic approach pushes the sensuousness of the world back into an intellectual and scholarly understanding of it.

The geographical focus of my research has been located primarily in Siberia and the Canadian North. 

For more information about my projects, publications, and other activities please visit my website:

www.metafactory.ca

Assistant Professor Craig Campbell received his Ph.D. in Theory and Culture from the University of Alberta where he was also the Co-coordinator and manager of the Intermedia Research Studio [www.intermedia.ualberta.ca].  He is currently developing an Intermedia Ethnography Lab in f0lkl0r3 & Public Culture.

Interests

Siberia, Central Siberia, Indigenous Siberians, Evenki, Evenkiia, Reindeer hunting and herding, Travel and mobility, Socialist colonialism, early forms of Sovietization. Visual and intermedia ethnography

REE S325 • Traveling Culture

88160 • Summer 2011
Meets MTWTH 100pm-300pm SAC 4.118
(also listed as ANT S325L )
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Travelling ideas, images, artifacts, and people have troubled traditional scholarly notions of bounded cultures and cultural wholes. Mobilities are about boundaries and passages: conceptual and actual rifts and ruptures. This course will look specifically at mobility as a point of inquiry into questions of identity, community, belonging, place and landscape, art, representation, cultural difference, experience, and history. Both major and minor travels or mobilities are suggestive not only of engaging bodily with the world but also of spectatorship, looking, and being looked at. From mundane experiences of sauntering and wandering, to ritualized forms of travel as well as life-changing displacements we will explore mobility as generative of cultural exchange (marking sameness and difference), hybridization, exploration, and play.

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