Abstract
Abstract: During these times of overlapping crises brought forth by the dominant destructive world-making practices of what John Law (2011) calls the “One-World World,” we need to re/imagine how ethnographic methods might respond to and dance along with uncertain times. This essay details a collaborative ethnographic project that methodologically builds from the tools of socially engaged art practice and is oriented around uncertainty and not-knowing as a way of redefining “survival” outside the ontological coordinates of heteropatriarchal capitalist modernity. I chronicle the process under which I engaged in an ethnographic experiment with people from an unemployment center in Vaasa, Finland, during the time of the year when the sun never sets. Because we had a lot of “free” time, we followed our bodies and the rhythms of the land/scape to trouble and transgress capitalist time/space. I theorize how ethnographic practice steeped in collaborative uncertainty might help communities find ways of worlding outside the dictates imposed upon us, shifting geographical landscapes as well as the ontological and affective landscapes inside of each of us.
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