1st Edition

Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges

Edited By Emma Gilberthorpe Copyright 2024
232 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

232 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges. Whilst it could not hope to represent the full scope of anthropological perspectives, those that are presented highlight some of the critical flaws embedded in such an all-encompassing notion. The contributors reveal the possibilities of reimagining the ways in which ‘challenges’ are understood and addressed and... Read more

Introduction

Emma Gilberthorpe 

1 Anthropology and development in the era of the ‘neo-liberal entrepreneurial university’

Katy Gardner

2 It takes a village: the learning environment, Amerindian relations and poor pedagogy for today’s entangled challenges 

Elizabeth Rahmen and Françoise Barbira Freedman

3 Perspectivity and anthropological engagements in heritage-making: Challenges from the Humboldt Forum, Berlin

Sharon Macdonald

4 A perspective through trees: anthropology, development and documentation

Lissant Bolton

5 Mining companies as trustees of society in Colombia: company and community ambiguities

Line Jespersgaard Jacobsen

6 Alternate service providers: Traditional healers for social change in tribal communities of odisha

Monika Oledzka Nielsen, Siddartha Shrestha and Lopamudra Tripathy

7 Reflections on Open Dialogue in mental health clinical and ethnographic practice

David Mosse

8 Jeopardised futures: Scanning the horizon in a changing climate

Aet Annist, Joonas Plaan, Noah Walker-Crawford, Bianka Plüschke-Altof and Alexander Horstmann

9 Mrs Rollison stops a deportation: The discourse of care in Poland in the 2010s

Dominika Michalak

Afterword

John Gledhill

Biography

Emma Gilberthorpe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of East Anglia, UK.