Abstract
At a time when political, social and environmental inequalities proliferate around the globe, anthropologists need to be equipped to diagnose, analyse and respond. This review of the anthropological research published in European journals in 2017 identifies three sets of tensions for an inquiry into global inequalities: first, between macro political economy processes and their localised workings/effects; second, between institutional processes of legitimisation and their everyday forms of resistance; and third, between future‐oriented projects of change and the political demands of the present. Taken together, these sets of tensions not only offer a starting point for analysing how global inequalities are locally channelled, experienced and acted on from below, but also point to the political and methodological challenges that anthropologists face in today's neoliberal climate of higher education.
Highlights
2017 was yet another year of uncertainty, crisis and proliferating tensions
Hart put it, ‘the west is in the grip of a moral panic – or perhaps political breakdown would be nearer the mark’ (2017: 1)
My suggestion has been that this can be done by focusing on three sets of tensions: first, between political economy processes and everyday processes of social reproduction; second, between institutionalisation and their various acts of contestation; and third, between political aspirations for the future and the demands of the past and present
Summary
Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: social anthropology in 2017. Original citation: Koch, Insa (2018) Towards an anthropology of global inequalities and their local manifestations: social anthropology in 2017. This version available at: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/87754/ Available in LSE Research Online: June 2018. LSE has developed LSE Research Online so that users may access research output of the School. Users may download and/or print one copy of any article(s) in LSE Research Online to facilitate their private study or for non-commercial research. You may not engage in further distribution of the material or use it for any profit-making activities or any commercial gain. You may freely distribute the URL (http://eprints.lse.ac.uk) of the LSE Research Online website
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