This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges. Revealing that there is nothing global about such challenges at all, these perspectives highlight the implications of reimagining the ways in which challenges and crises are understood and addressed. The collection shows that a combination of deep understanding of the past along with collaboration, cooperation and inclusive dialogue about the future improves the chances of positive action. It not only stresses that perspectives must change, but also shows us exactly how that change might be realised. Whilst the contributions are authored solely by anthropologists, they are not solely for anthropologists. The book is illustrative of the practical and theoretical insights that anthropology can offer those individuals, teams, and policy- and decision-makers engaged in research, mitigation or intervention practices in relation to global challenges. It contributes to broader understandings of the challenges we collectively face at this point in time and how we might collectively and effectively address them.
This volume offers a snapshot of anthropological perspectives on global challenges.
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 todays entangled challenges
Elizabeth Rahmen and Franēoise 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
Emma Gilberthorpe is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of East Anglia, UK.
