Participation, Process and Partnerships

Furman, Carrie; Bartels, Wendy-Lin; Bolson, Jessica

doi:10.3167/aia.2018.250301

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“…Case studies of anthropology in use are commonly published by North American anthropologists and Europeans from settings outside of Sweden, with examples related to community activism, healthcare, climate change adaptation, consumer research, native rights, and other subjects (e.g., Caldwell 2016;Cremers et al 2016;Furman et al 2018;Gillette 2011;Hansen and Rossen 2017;Hara and Shade 2018;Krmpotich and Peers 2013;Roberts 2006 etc.). This kind of publication, in which anthropologists describe and reflect on projects conducted in conjunction with a range of stakeholders, is less frequent in Sweden, although significant contributions have been published concerning research in the health sector, development, and business (see, e.g., Graffman 2013;Graffman and Börjesson 2011;Hagberg and Widmark 2009;Scott et al 2013).…”

Section: Case Studies Of Anthropologists At Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

Åkesson,

Gillette

2020

Kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

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This special issue of kritisk etnografi conjoins trends at three scales. First and most importantly, in Sweden and elsewhere around the world we see a widespread and accelerating sense of public crisis. Reports and commentaries in traditional and social media, mass actions on the streets and online, volatile voting patterns and deepening threats to democratic rights and institutions all testify to collective alarm around a range of issues affecting how we live and what the future will bring. The corona pandemic, climate change, and divisive debates on migration and integration are the most obvious manifestations of this distress in Sweden and Europe, but many other subjects, including the withdrawal of the welfare state and growing economic disparities, are also significant loci of public anxiety.Second, academic anthropologists have been troubled about the public contribution of anthropology as a distinct endeavour in relation to other social science fields. Over the past fifteen years, many have argued that anthropologists should "engage" and establish a more meaningful "public presence"; in some cases, such calls have been accompanied by efforts to identify and discuss existing anthropological "outreach" (e.g., Andersson 2018;Erikson 2006;Fassin 2018;Low and Merry 2010). Academic anthropologists have sharply criticised the discipline for not doing more to deliver anthropological knowledge and perspectives beyond the academic journals and publications that are the typical outlets for scholarly work (e.g., Burman 2018;Podjed et al. 2016;Sillitoe 2006). In Sweden, concerns that the discipline should become more "relevant" and useful to our interlocutors and the broader public have been driven in part by increasing expectations from funding agencies that anthropologists collaborate with actors outside the university (O'Dell 2018: 59-60, 65).Third, anthropologists inside and outside the university are questioning whether the anthropology curriculum adequately serves our students (e.g., Copeland and Dengah 2017;Lassiter and Campbell 2010;Roberts 2006;Stefanelli 2017). Several anthropologists have pointed out that the undergraduate anthropology curriculum has not kept pace with the discipline's evolution or the opportunities available to our students after they conclude their degrees (ibid.; see also Jöhncke Forthcoming; MacClancy 2017: 2). Indeed, some suggest that the anthropology curriculum may hamper our students' ability to operationalise their education outside the academy (Graffman and Börjesson 2011;Jöhncke Forthcoming;Rylko-Bauer et al. 2006). Rather than encouraging our former students to hide their primary subject area (see Graffman 2013), academic anthropologists should be helping them put anthropology to work. Revising the anthropology curriculum deserves a more prominent place in our discussions about the discipline: how and what we teach affects our ability to address the widespread public sense of crisis, academic worries about anthropology's relevance and contribution to the societies in which we liv...

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Section: Case Studies Of Anthropologists At Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

Åkesson,

Gillette

2020

Kritisk Etnografi: Swedish Journal of Anthropology

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“Farmers need the Land”: Georgia's agricultural future in the patchy Anthropocene

Schnur,

Maki,

Burchfield

2024

Journal of Rural Studies

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Role of Knowledge Networks and Boundary Organizations in Coproduction: A Short History of a Decision-Support Tool and Model for Adapting Multiuse Reservoir and Water-Energy Governance to Climate Change in California

Ziaja

2019

Weather, Climate, and Society

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Climate adaptation relies on theoretical frameworks of coproduced science and knowledge networks to produce acceptable outcomes for politically contentious resources. As adaptation moves from theory to implementation, there is a need for positive case studies to use as benchmarks. Building from literature on actionable science this paper presents one such positive case—the development of a hydropower and reservoir decision-support tool. The focus of this history is on the multiple phases of interaction (and noninteraction) between researchers and a semidefined community of stakeholders. The lessons presented from the Integrated Forecast and Reservoir Management (INFORM) system project stress that collaborations between managers and researchers were crucial to the success of the project by building knowledge networks, which could outlast formal processes, and by incorporating policy preferences of end users into the model. The history also provides examples of how even successful collaborative projects do not always follow the usual expectations for coproduced science and shows that, even when those guidelines are followed, external circumstances can threaten the adoption of research products. Ultimately, this paper argues for the importance of building strong knowledge networks alongside more formal processes—like those in boundary organizations—for effective collaborative engagement.

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Participation, Process and Partnerships

Cited by 4 publications

References 19 publications

Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

Putting Swedish Anthropology to Work

“Farmers need the Land”: Georgia's agricultural future in the patchy Anthropocene

Role of Knowledge Networks and Boundary Organizations in Coproduction: A Short History of a Decision-Support Tool and Model for Adapting Multiuse Reservoir and Water-Energy Governance to Climate Change in California

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