AIBR http://www.aibr.org Registro AIBR, SSCI text/plain; charset=utf-8 TY - JOUR JO - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana TI - NOT TO THE ENDS OF THE WORLD: THE PURCHASE OF THE ONTOLOGICAL TURN TO DIAGNOSE STRUGGLES FOR SOLIDARITY AND SOCIAL INCLUSION IN THE STATES OF THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA VL - IS - 2019 PB - Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red T2 - ARIES, Anuario de Antropología Iberoamericana PY - 2019 M1 - SN - 2530-7843 UR - https://aries.aibr.org/articulo/2019/20/2460/not-to-the-ends-of-the-world-the-purchase-of-the-ontological-turn-to-diagnose-struggles-for-solidarity-and-social-inclusion-in-the-states-of-the-former-yugoslavia DO - doi: AU - Sari Wastell A2 - A3 - A4 - A5 - A6 - A7 - SP - LA - Esp DA - 20/09/2019 KW - AB - Spanish: Distant tribes, post-colonial subjects, and other ‘exotic’ contexts that have offered the ethnographic baselines for the ‘ontological turn’ have also invited a barrage of criticism. Some of these criticisms can be fair, but many are misplaced and fail to recognise why many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities have found it very useful to make an analytical distinction between epistemological and ontological approaches. This presentation will explore the extent to which post-conflict forms of memory management and the social imaginaries of global governance structures (themselves entertaining a resolutely unique ontology) have misunderstood the sociality of the very populations they believe they are over-seeing and reconciling in the states of the former Yugoslavia. It is argued here that a political ontological diagnosis offers new resources and remedies to an intractable situation, but also reconfigures our understandings of basic concerns around ‘multiculturalism’, new forms of political protest across Europe and abroad, and the potential for new political and economic dispensations more generally. Ontology matters, and it does not require a long-haul flight to prove as much. English: Distant tribes, post-colonial subjects, and other ‘exotic’ contexts that have offered the ethnographic baselines for the ‘ontological turn’ have also invited a barrage of criticism. Some of these criticisms can be fair, but many are misplaced and fail to recognise why many disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities have found it very useful to make an analytical distinction between epistemological and ontological approaches. This presentation will explore the extent to which post-conflict forms of memory management and the social imaginaries of global governance structures (themselves entertaining a resolutely unique ontology) have misunderstood the sociality of the very populations they believe they are over-seeing and reconciling in the states of the former Yugoslavia. It is argued here that a political ontological diagnosis offers new resources and remedies to an intractable situation, but also reconfigures our understandings of basic concerns around ‘multiculturalism’, new forms of political protest across Europe and abroad, and the potential for new political and economic dispensations more generally. Ontology matters, and it does not require a long-haul flight to prove as much. CR - Copyright; 2019 Asociación AIBR, Antropólogos Iberoamericanos en Red ER -