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Experiments in Engaged Anthropology

Experiments in Engaged Anthropology ETHNOGRAPHY-AS-ACTIVISM: STUDENT EXPERIMENTS, DILEMMAS FROM THE FIELD stuart kirsch, University of Michigan Engaged anthropology. Anthropology as advocacy. Ethnography-as-ac- tivism. Collaborative anthropology. Militant anthropology. Public an- thropology. Despite their differences, all of these projects share a com- mitment to mobilizing anthropology for constructive interventions into politics. Prior understandings of anthropology as objective sci- ence might be seen as giving way to new concerns about social justice. However, the notion of science is also undergoing a transformation in which science and society are increasingly intertwined (Nowotny et al. 2001). Scientifi c funding agencies increasingly require projects to in- clude mechanisms for making research results available to the public and sometimes request identifi cation of the project's social benefi ts. Science is no longer seen as estranged from social problems, which both expands and normalizes the relationship between research and its potential applications. Within anthropology this has resulted in the proliferation of new conceptual categories and practices, which might be described as a series of experiments in how to make anthropology politically relevant and useful. Recent transformations in social movement politics have also infl u- enced these new anthropological projects. The protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s culminated in mass marches http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Collaborative Anthropologies University of Nebraska Press

Experiments in Engaged Anthropology

Kirsch, Stuart
Collaborative Anthropologies , Volume 3 – Nov 19, 2010
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ETHNOGRAPHY-AS-ACTIVISM: STUDENT EXPERIMENTS, DILEMMAS FROM THE FIELD stuart kirsch, University of Michigan Engaged anthropology. Anthropology as advocacy. Ethnography-as-ac- tivism. Collaborative anthropology. Militant anthropology. Public an- thropology. Despite their differences, all of these projects share a com- mitment to mobilizing anthropology for constructive interventions into politics. Prior understandings of anthropology as objective sci- ence might be seen as giving way to new concerns about social justice. However, the notion of science is also undergoing a transformation in which science and society are increasingly intertwined (Nowotny et al. 2001). Scientifi c funding agencies increasingly require projects to in- clude mechanisms for making research results available to the public and sometimes request identifi cation of the project's social benefi ts. Science is no longer seen as estranged from social problems, which both expands and normalizes the relationship between research and its potential applications. Within anthropology this has resulted in the proliferation of new conceptual categories and practices, which might be described as a series of experiments in how to make anthropology politically relevant and useful. Recent transformations in social movement politics have also infl u- enced these new anthropological projects. The protest movements of the 1960s and 1970s culminated in mass marches

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Published: Nov 19, 2010

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