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Seon Shim

University of British Columbia

Multimodal Contributing Editor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog

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Collaborating with Precarity: Anthropology on Crip Time

Anthropology is widely recognized as a fragmented, precarious discipline: short-term contracts, insecure funding, and the pressure to publish on institutional time threaten our ability to do sustained, accountable work with communities. At the same time, anthropology is called upon to imagine more inclusive, equitable worlds in a polarized global order, a tension that raises a pressing question: how can we pursue meaningful collaboration, equity, and inclusion from within such a precarious, short-term, and unequal academic landscape? (more…) (read more...)