Description
Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spending, and the introduction of neoliberal values into academia. Arguing ‘in defense of’ anthropology, the editors demonstrate the continued importance of the discipline and reveal how it contributes towards solving major problems in contemporary society. They also illustrate how anthropology can not only survive but thrive under these conditions. Moreover, Collaborations shows that collaboration with other disciplines is the key to anthropology’s long-term sustainability and survival, and explores the challenges that interdisciplinary work presents.
The book is divided into two parts: Anthropology and Academia, and Anthropology in Practice. The first part features examples from anthropologists working in academic settings which range from the life, behavioural, and social sciences to the humanities, arts, and business. The second part highlights detailed ethnographic contributions on topics such as peace negotiations, asylum seekers, prostitution, and autism. Collaborations is an important read for students, scholars, and professional and applied anthropologists as it explores how anthropology can remain relevant in the contemporary world and how to prevent it from becoming an increasingly isolated and marginalized discipline.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy and Jonathan Skinner
Part 1: Anthropology and Academia
1. Commercialism of the University
Chris Shore
2. Flying Below the Radar: A Lone Anthropologist in a Business School
Fiona Murphy
3. Anthropology in a Liberal Arts Context
Adam Kaul and Carrie Hough
4. Most Humanistic, Most Scientific: Experiencing Anthropology in the Humanities and Life Sciences
Jonathan Skinner
5. Critiquing the Limits of Anthropological Imagination in Peace and Conflict Studies: On the Complicity of Resistance with Counter-Hegemony
Philipp Lottholz
6. What it's All Cracked Up to Be: Austerity and Academic Introversion in Anthropology and Psychology
James Davies
Part 2: Anthropology in Practice
7. Cosmopolitanism in the Academy: The Creative Potential of Engagements with the Disciplinary 'Other'
Veronica Strang
8. Anthropology and Peace-making
Colin Irwin
9. Shaping Well-being? Merging Anthropological and Architectural Perspectives on Asylum-seeker Reception Centers in Norway
Anne Sigfrid Gronseth
10. Street Anthropology: Understanding Health Needs of Female Sex Workers in Dublin
Emma Heffernan
11. De-reifying Autism: A Social Science Perspective on a Social / Neurological Condition
Ben Belek
12. Conclusion
Emma Heffernan, Fiona Murphy and Jonathan Skinner
Afterword
Nigel Rapport
