Ethnography Workshop, co-director
Harris Solomon's involvement in The Ethnography Workshop (co-director, AY 2019-20) emerges from his broader work on the connections between bodies, environments, and health in urban India. He brings to the Workshop his present research on traffic injuries and trauma care in Mumbai, a context where questions of bodies, medical technologies, ethics, and urban space are particularly relevant. What sort of ethnographic method and narrative forms might be possible in contexts of pervasive disease, injury? How might ethnography’s varied forms attend to questions of survival and care? And to what ends can ethnography describe the hazy boundary between the clinic and everyday life? Guided by these questions, he looks forward to engaging students and faculty in reading, designing, carrying out, and writing ethnographic research, and to expanding undergraduate student engagement with ethnography into domains such as science, technology, medicine, and health. He will be leading the Ethnography of Science, Medicine, and Technology research stream, for which he plans to develop a new course.
