The Unintentional Activist: Questions of Action, Activism, and Accountability

Resnick, Elana

doi:10.1353/cla.2010.0007

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“…Yet Schuller is circumspect about these positions; assuming the role of a scholar‐academic, he suggests, takes the risk of erasing the vitality of public collaboration or invoking imperial power and privilege. Elana Resnick (2010) counters that there may not be any anthropology that cannot be construed as activist, but she also probes precisely what constitutes “activism” in an ethnographic context. Examining her own experiences of conducting ethnography in Bulgaria, she wonders if a self‐styled activism brings with it “certain moral assumptions about what ‘taking action’ means” (Resnick 2010:108).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Elana Resnick (2010) counters that there may not be any anthropology that cannot be construed as activist, but she also probes precisely what constitutes “activism” in an ethnographic context. Examining her own experiences of conducting ethnography in Bulgaria, she wonders if a self‐styled activism brings with it “certain moral assumptions about what ‘taking action’ means” (Resnick 2010:108). Resnick believes that engagement is amplified by a conscious focus on the balance between our conceptions of activism and constituencies’ own senses of appropriate actions, requiring a constant tacking between activists’ intentions and the unintended consequences of ethnographic research.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Practicing Anthropology and the Politics of Engagement: 2010 Year in Review

Mullins

2011

American Anthropologist

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In 2010, a rapidly growing body of public scholars continued to conduct engaged research that involved various forms of collaboration, advocacy, and activism. Practicing anthropologists are among the most powerful champions of engaged scholarship and are increasingly focused on tracing the concrete dimensions of public engagement. Practicing anthropologists in 2010 made a concerted effort to critically assess precisely what constitutes collaboration, engagement, activism, advocacy, and a host of similarly politicized but ambiguous terms. This self-reflection has probed the philosophical, political, and methodological dimensions of engagement and painted a rich and complex picture of practicing anthropology. In this article, I review those 2010 studies that are focused on critically defining an engaged anthropology and expanding it to rigorously four-field public scholarship with conscious and reflective politics.

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Section: Defining Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Defining Engagementmentioning

confidence: 99%