How material conditions shape the project of European anthropology

0547065 - EÚ 2022 eng A - Abstract
Fotta, Martin … Total 2 authors
How material conditions shape the project of European anthropology.
[DGSKA 2021 conference. 27.09.2021-01.10.2021, Bremen]
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : European anthropology * academic employment * hierarchy of knowledge
OECD category: Antropology, ethnology
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European anthropology, as anthropology done in Europe, gets its shape through a heterogeneous series of modes of mutual recognitions that are key for entering networks of professional relationships. These modes of mutual recognitions scale differently. Some of the space/times emergent from these modes mimic national and/or linguistic boundaries, while others are shaped by specific scholarly interests, creating their own canons. Only certain scholars, and on certain occasions, become primarily engaged in, and seek recognition via, encounters defined explicitly as ‘European’. Much attention has been given to how the project of European anthropology as such a fragmented, uneven, and variously scaled field of knowledge is being recreated through discussions about its theories, methodologies, hierarchies of knowledge, and so on. The project is thus conceived as epistemological. Addressed less has been how do everyday practices of academic life, such as employment hiring, career progression, and precarity, structure these varied space/times (Brkovic 2020). How do these largely unreflected material conditions of the production of knowledge shape and are shaped by various scales of anthropological theorizing and analysis? How do people jump, slide, scale-up, or nest between space/times -- give and demand recognition -- while seeking to remain in the profession?
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0325044