COMMENTARY: Public Anthropology. Where To? What Next?

Borofsky, Robert

doi:10.1111/an.2000.41.5.9

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“…As such, the character of public intellectual work is fundamentally democratic, always animated by dialogical encounters between the university and outside communities. 2 As Borofsky (2000) argues, such an arrangement allows for scrutiny and accountability of intellectual production from the broader public. By situating traditionally private and exclusive forms of knowledge production within the reach of a broader public, educational researchers are forced to operate within a context that limits the extent to which 'power elite can manipulate problems and solutions to their personal advantage' (9).…”

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Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

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2012

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

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This conceptual article explores the notion of educational researchers operating as public intellectuals. To do this, I situate my analysis within a broader tradition of public intellectual work in the American academy. I also offer a framework for three specific forms of public intellectual work, supported by relevant examples, which can be taken up by educational researchers. I then raise critical issues, concerns, and tensions that complicate such work, and conclude by offering suggestions for better linking educational research to the broader public. Although this article focuses largely on researchers working within the university context, particularly tenure-line faculty, many of its insights are applicable to independent researchers, policy analysts, or others working within the broadly defined field of educational research.

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Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

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2012

International Journal of Research & Method in Education

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“…A close examination of the contemporary anthropological practice, in the country, suggests the priorities of bringing public engagement close to the center of the discipline. The call for an engaged anthropology that addresses public issues has received growing importance is many recent articles and books (Basch, Saunders, Sharff, & Peacock, 1999;Borofsky, 2000Borofsky, , 2010Lamphere, 2004;Low & Merry, 2010;Patterson, 2001;Rylko-Bauer, Singer, & Willigen, 2006). Anthropology needs to find approaches and ways to generate the impacts of the discipline and connect to wider audiences (Borofsky, 2010;Rylko-Bauer et al, 2006).…”

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SITUATING ANTHROPOLOGY IN BANGLADESH: Transformations and Trajectories in the Anthropology Tradition

Rashid

Shafie

2017

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The Anthropology tradition, and the associated 'production of knowledge in the academic field, is relatively of recent origin in Bangladesh. The article intends to shed light on anthropology as becoming a separate field of knowledge through exploring the historical trajectories and significant transformations in Bangladesh. Anthropology remains a changing discipline in this country and as such, it continues to remain endlessly fascinating. The anthropological enterprises, in understanding social realities of this region, have begun in early fifties of the twentieth century. The early anthropological enterprises by individual scholars have paved the pioneering institutional pathways of engagement with anthropology in late seventies. The present article extensively reviewed these major anthropological enterprises in Bangladesh from a historical perspective, identifying changing subject matters and trends within this academic tradition, shifting patterns of interests, and depicting areas of activities and concerns of anthropology in this region. Drawing on the empirically grounded works, in Bangladesh and neighboring regions, the paper would allow the readers to assess the overall attainments and limitations of contemporary anthropology in Bangladesh. The article would critically analyze some of the existing dilemmas, contested issues, and contemporary theoretical and practical challenges of applying anthropological perspectives for accelerating development in Bangladesh.

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“…The broader debate for public anthropology (e.g. Borofsky, 2000Borofsky, , 2011Gottlieb, 1997;Lamphere, 2004;McClancy and McDonaugh, 1996;Purcell, 2000;Scheper-Hughes, 2009) or engaged anthropology (see, for example, see the essays in Current Anthropology, 2010) and for public sociology (e.g. Burawoy, 2005)-to name only two disciplines that have extensively batted around this issue-has framed the need for more socially relevant research that is focused on the emancipatory power and transformative potential of knowledge.…”

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Public ethnography: an introduction to the special issue

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Qualitative Research

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COMMENTARY: Public Anthropology. Where To? What Next?

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Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

Beyond ‘talking out of school’: educational researchers as public intellectuals

SITUATING ANTHROPOLOGY IN BANGLADESH: Transformations and Trajectories in the Anthropology Tradition

Public ethnography: an introduction to the special issue

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