Anthropology with a Southern Attitude: An Interview of Cláudio Costa Pinheiro by Vinicius Kauê Ferreira

Decentering Migration Studies: Toward a Southern Attitude

“…One important aspect of our work builds upon what anthropologist and historian Claudio Pinheiro (who is also a member) calls a Southern attitude (Ferreira and Pinheiro 2022). A Southern Attitude is, first and foremost, a commitment to counteract the white, male, Christian‐centric, heteronormative, and ableist ethos that currently categorizes the hegemonic Northern academy.…”

“…And while the internationalization of the human sciences has increased significantly in recent years, as measured by the growth of global networks, funding initiatives, research publications, and international rankings, the centrality of the US and European academies endures. The introduction of more varied content, whether it be non-Western theories and epistemologies in classrooms in the South or North, still proceeds at a snail's pace (Ferreira and Pinheiro 2022;Levitt et al 2023a;Levitt and Rutherford 2019;Rutherford and Levitt 2020). "Non-centered" intellectual production must still be translated into English or other European languages to pass through the "center," whose universities, publishing houses, and journals still hold the keys to success.…”

Precarity in Global Anthropology: Reflexions on the margins of the Global Survey of Anthropological Practice

“…In other words, in order to get permanent positions, Southern scholars must fit into stereotypes largely shared by their local peers, including anthropologists, such as being a good representative of his region of origin. It is very clear that Southern scholars who do not study their own country are not nearly attractive in the commodified academic market, not to mention that they are hardly taken seriously (Ferreira & Pinheiro, 2020). Since the period that academic scholars have to face can easily represent 10 years of insecure positions, this is more than enough time for scholars looking for integration to abandon their real intellectual interests, which are very often critical of mainstream eurocentric research.…”