There’s also less need, than when compared to our cousins in sociology, to frame our research in terms of societal problems that need to be addressed. Anthropologists used to quite happily join colonial projects: measuring their political worth by the amount of heads they measured.I think that this legacy has made us, rightly, a little more careful. If you told your mum that, ‘I became an anthropologist because I wanted to change the world’ she might legitimately ask, ‘and how do you do that?’ If you told your colleagues at a conference, ‘I became an anthropologist because I wanted to change the world’ they might snigger in your general direction.Īnthropology is great at critique, at deconstructing, but its ability reconstruct, to meaningfully contribute to political practice, is often less clear. It’s sometimes hard to say that we, as anthropologists, create impact. I checked my H-index because I needed to create a metricised, accountable, legible version of myself for a grant application. It’s almost as depressing as doom scrolling. I checked the number of times my publications had been cited by other authors. Cook: Yesterday I took a break from my morning doom scrolling through anger, pain, fear, and aggression to check my H-Index. TRANSCRIPT OF THE AUDIO ESSAY (listen if you can, don’t read, this is for reference)
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