An anti‐genealogical take on US anthropology and disciplinary reform

American Ethnologist · 2023-07-13 · 4 citations

Abstract The “decolonizing generation” is a critical new movement that has captured the imaginations of many younger scholars. While the author would like to consider herself an older member of this generation, she questions whether this moment needs periodization. Is today's moment really so different from the past, when we saw the rise of world anthropologies, postmodernism, the crisis in representation, neo‐Marxism, and anti‐racist movements? And what is meant by “decolonizing anthropology” when experiences with colonialism and decolonization differ around the world? While acknowledging the value of reforming the discipline, the author encourages her colleagues to separate the very important critique of anthropologists’ gatekeeping practices from idealized renderings of what anthropology should be. Rather than decolonization, the discipline ought to focus on establishing a continual decentering of hegemonic knowledge production.

Ethnoarchaology and Food Security in West Africa - <i>The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana</i> By Amanda L. Logan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. <i>xvi</i> + 244. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780520343757).

The Journal of African History · 2021-11-01

Ethnoarchaology and Food Security in West Africa - The Scarcity Slot: Excavating Histories of Food Security in Ghana By Amanda L. Logan. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Pp. xvi + 244. $34.95, paperback (ISBN: 9780520343757). - Volume 62 Issue 3

Necropolitics versus Biopolitics: Spatialization, White Privilege, and Visibility during a Pandemic

Cultural Anthropology · 2021-08-17 · 64 citations

Anthropologists have used Michel Foucault's thesis on biopolitics to critique modern institutions. Yet while useful, biopolitics is often misapplied. The arrests, killings of unarmed Blacks by police, COVID-19 racial health inequities, and the January 6 white nationalist act of sedition made visible fault lines between a biopolitical system set up to care for whites and a necropolitical system that treats Black bodies as expendable. By critiquing the facile overuse of biopolitics and biopower, this article also speaks to what COVID-19 uncovered within the academy.

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2. Racial Redemption

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1. Black Christian Redemption

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It’s All Free Speech Until Someone Dies in a Pandemic

Anthropology Now · 2020-01-02 · 5 citations

As teens, at the suggestion of something risky or edgy, my friends and I would do our best impersonation of a scolding parent. We would wag our fingers and joke, “It’s all fun and games until someo...

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