Collaborations

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.

Vorwort
Demonstrates the importance of anthropology using case studies from academia and practice and argues that symbiotic collaboration with other disciplines is key to the long-term survival of the discipline.

Autorentext

Emma Heffernan is Clinical Lecturer in the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Fiona Murphy is Research Fellow at the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's University Belfast, UK.

Jonathan Skinner is Reader in Anthropology at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Klappentext

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.

Inhalt

Foreword; Introduction Part 1: Anthropology and Academia; 1. Symbiotic or Parasitic? Universities, Academic Capitalism and the Global Knowledge Economy; 2. Leave a Light On For Us: The Future of a Collaborative Anthropology in the Neoliberal University; 3. Most Humanistic, Most Scientific: Experiencing Anthropology in the Humanities and Life Sciences; 4. Polyphony for the Ivory Tower Blues: Critical Pedagogies in Graduate Professional Development; 5. Symbiosis or Entrepreneurialism? Ambivalent Anthropologies in the Age of the (Neo)Liberal Arts; 6. Matters of Anthropology and Social Justice: Reflections on Collaborations; Part 2: Anthropology in/of Practice; 7. Anthropology, Art and Design as Collaborative Agents of Change for a Sustainable Future: The Give a Shit Project as Case Study; 8. Anthropology and Architecture: Motives and Ethics in Creating Knowledge; 9. Collaboration in Crisis: Towards a Holistic Approach to Health and Social Care Supports for Vulnerable Populations; 10. Anthropology and Peace Making; 11. More Than a Matter of Proportion: A Critical Consideration of Anthropology's Role in Peace and Conflict Studies; 12. For Christ and State: Collaboration, EJK, and the Communal Subject