Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.3167/saas.2023.310210
Eldar Bråten
Many thanks to Ruy Blanes and Bjørn Enge Bertelsen for their response to my critique (Bråten 2022a) of their special section on ‘Utopian Confluences’ (especially, Blanes and Bertelsen 2021; Bertelsen 2021), and to Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale for publishing the exchange. The theoretical questions that arise from our diverging stances are, hopefully, of general interest. While I take Blanes and Bertelsen (hereafter B&B) to argue an epistemologically all-inclusive irrealism, I favour an ontologically discerning realism. It is tempting to pursue the many theoretical entailments of this contrast further, but let me in this final reply comment on the character of the exchange itself: the kind of intellectual discourse that our diverging positions seem to foster. I believe B&B's response is illustrative of a ‘post-critical’ approach that recasts principles of scholarly debate in problematic ways. Addressing this issue allows me also to clarify a perplexity in their response: How could I possibly read their contributions as ‘irrealist’ and instances of a ‘migration out of academia’?
非常感谢Ruy Blanes和Bjørn Enge Bertelsen对我对他们关于“乌托邦的汇合”的特别部分的批评(br ten 2022a)的回应(特别是Blanes和Bertelsen 2021;Bertelsen 2021)，以及社会人类学/人类学协会出版的交流。从我们不同的立场中产生的理论问题，希望能引起普遍的兴趣。当我接受Blanes和Bertelsen(以下简称B&B)在认识论上论证包罗万象的非实在论时，我更倾向于本体论上的辨明实在论。我们很想进一步探讨这种对比的许多理论内涵，但让我在最后的回答中评论一下这种交流本身的特征:我们不同的立场似乎促进了一种知识话语。我相信B&B的回应说明了一种“后批判”方法，它以有问题的方式重塑了学术辩论的原则。解决这个问题也让我澄清了他们回答中的一个困惑:我怎么可能把他们的贡献解读为“不现实”和“从学术界迁移出去”的例子呢?
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.3167/saas.2023.310108
Didier Fassin
How universal is humanitarianism? Does it belong to the imaginary and politics of the West, not only that of so-called humanitarian organisations, such as Doctors Without Borders, Doctors of the World, Oxfam, Care, Unicef, but also that of states leading alleged humanitarian military interventions, like in Somalia, northern Iraq, former Yugoslavia and even Libya, or should it be recognised in other parts of the world in the form of vernacular humanitarianisms? This is the main question posed by the authors of this fascinating set of articles.
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This review article surveys all of the articles published in the major Anglophone European social anthropology journals in 2020. Taking a perspective from Joel Robbins' theorising of 'the anthropology of the good' as a critique of the primacy of 'dark anthropology', it highlights the rich range of ethnography and analysis recently produced. Focusing on the continuing interest in ontology, environment, relations and the problems inherent in anthropological comparison, the review article identifies how - during the crisis of the COVID-19 pandemic - the discipline has continued to respond with vigour and resilience. An ongoing resurgence of the anthropology of religion is noted, as is the emergence of powerful emic exploration of such global phenomena as care, debt and corporate capitalism. The review article concludes with a reflection on the ideological and epistemological challenges social anthropology continues to face, both in the academy and more widely.
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{"title":"Essence in excess: heritage and the problem of potentiality","authors":"Timothy P. A. Cooper","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13109","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44188240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies of and against austerity: gendered dispossession, agency and struggles for worth in Portugal","authors":"Patrícia Alves de Matos","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44165496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Safe and sound: listening to Guns N’ Roses in the car","authors":"Simone Dennis","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13105","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42654276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corporeal moderation: digital labour as affective good","authors":"Rae Jereza","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13106","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13106","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45471925","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Deportability and spirituality in a hostile environment: an intersubjective perspective","authors":"A. Waldstein","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.13103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47264151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PennyHarvey, ChristianKrohn‐Hansen and Knut G.Nustad (eds.) 2019. Anthropos and the material. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 272 pp. Pb.: US$26.95. ISBN: 978‐1‐4780‐0286‐4.","authors":"Juan Javier Rivera Andía","doi":"10.1111/1469-8676.12958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.12958","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":35019,"journal":{"name":"Social Anthropology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45667004","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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