Dr. Darcy Alexandra

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Biography

Darcy Alexandra is a Guest Lecturer at the Institute of Social Anthropology. Her ongoing research, '(Virtual) Wall: Surveillance Futurity Mexico Borderlands', highlights her expertise in co-creative audiovisual research with diverse communities. Alexandra utilizes filmmaking, photography, and poetry to examine the dynamic socio-political landscapes of the Sonoran Desert and the implications of mass migration and detention. This research is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project titled 'Big Data Lives: Anthropological Perspectives Tech Imaginaries Human Transformations', directed by Michaela Schaeuble. Her doctoral thesis, 'Visualising Migrant Voices: Co-Creative Documentary Politics Listening' (2015), delves into arts-based practices and ethnographic research to foster cross-cultural critiques and facilitate communication. Over her career, she has published extensively, including theories around documentary practices that reveal the complex issues surrounding audience expectations and narrative trajectories. In 2018, she received first place from the American Anthropological Association's Society for Humanistic Anthropology for her ethnographic poetry collection addressing violence and migration. Her research interests encompass Multimodal Audiovisual Anthropology, Landscape Ethnography, De-colonial Ecologies, and Ethnographic Poetry.

Research Interests

Multimodal Audiovisual Anthropology Landscape Ethnography De-colonial Ecologies Border Regimes Politics of Listening Storytelling Ethnographic Poetry Animated Documentary Violence Reconciliation Anthropology of the Americas Irish Diaspora

Courses

Critical Auto-ethnography Multimodal Practice Landscape Ethnography Ethnographic Documentary Theory Ethnographic Writing: Personal, Sensory, More-than-Human Hydro-social Relations Multi-modal Anthropology Theory and Practice of Ethnographic Film Imagining Otherwise: Social Movements and Livable Futures in the Sonoran Border Region Experimental Ethnography in the Anthropocene Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Inherited Pasts, Imagined Futures Ethnography- Intensive Methods Course Indigenous Media: Self-Representation, Identity Politics and Cultural Activism Anthropology of Voice and Listening: Intersectional Subjectivities Co-Creative Documentary: Introduction to Digital Storytelling

Requirements for University of Bern

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3
Prerequisites
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent Maximum 60 ECTS credits of additional requirements if background is slightly different
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Specialization Notes

Part of the Swiss Joint Master in Computer Science (Bern, Fribourg, Neuchâtel).