Abstract
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on “anthropological publics, public anthropology,” organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists’ experiences of doing “public anthropology,” and asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider publics for a “public anthropology,” and what anthropologists can do better.
Highlights
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on “anthropological publics, public anthropology,” organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists’ experiences of doing “public anthropology,” and asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider publics for a “public anthropology,” and what anthropologists can do better
This turn in Norwegian politics represented a bit of a paradox, in that we had hoped that the debate which followed in the wake of the worst terrorist attacks in Norwegian history, perpetrated by a white right-wing extremist and one-time Progress Party member, Anders Behring Breivik, on July 22, 2011 might have enabled a greater inspection of the state of public discourse about Islam and Muslims in Norway
A great deal of research funding available for anthropology in Norway comes from the state. This means that many of my fellow Norwegian anthropologists, for perfectly understandable reasons, have reacted with studied silence in the face of the new political and intellectual climate that has been ushered in. This is a climate in which anthropology has in far-right and populist right-wing circles come to embody, at best, an irrelevant interest in and respect for human difference, and, at worst, a pernicious threat against the rising from the historical ashes of the far-right in contemporary Europe
Summary
Based on a transcript from the AAA 2016 roundtable on “anthropological publics, public anthropology,” organized by Sindre Bangstad, held at the AAA Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 18, 2016, and edited, referenced, and footnoted by Sindre Bangstad, this forum explores prominent anthropologists’ experiences of doing “public anthropology,” and asks what kind of structural impediments there are in our time to the engagement of wider publics for a “public anthropology,” and what anthropologists can do better. That is one example, and I will come back to the question as to in what ways these are anthropological publics.
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