En/redar-se: Networking in/with/for World Anthropologies
The purpose of the present web page is to support
the formation of a self-organizing world anthropologies network.
Conceived as a process we hope that the network will constitute a
dialogic space for discussing 'anthropology' in its relation to a
multiplicity of world-making processes and events. We hope that the
network will contribute to the development of a plural landscape of
world anthropologies that is both less shaped by metropolitan hegemonies
and more open to the heteroglossic potential of unfolding globalization
processes.
We define this as en/redar-se. Modified from the
Spanish "to self-entangle," we suggest that this practice
should constitute the underpinning philosophy/activity of the network:
the constant, planetary interlocking of locally significant notions
aimed at producing shared, yet differentiated, anthropological practices.
Eventually, the network should move towards planetary
modes of inquiry while enabling plural, place-centered political/theoretical
visions and concerns and without imposing uniform agendas or styles.
Necessarily multilingual, and organized and effected
virtually as well as through concrete (and hopefully intentionally
unorthodox) events, the network will also aim at producing alternative
research and funding practices, emphasizing collective research agendas
and authorship, while remaining sensitive to place-based particularities.
