Engaged Scholarship and Emancipation: 75 Years of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University
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This collective volume celebrates that 75 years ago the foundation was laid for the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The contributions to this volume exemplify the evolution of the academic disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University in the course of its history. Radboud University itself celebrates its centenary in the year 2023. Originally this university was established for the emancipation of the Catholic population in the Netherlands. Emancipation continues to be a distinctive feature of the university’s policy, also of the scholarship as it is conducted in the department of anthropology and development studies.
As emancipation and engagement are key concepts in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies at Radboud University, former and current staff members focus their contributions to this anniversary volume on the various meanings of the concepts of emancipation and engagement in their academic practices. They reflect on changes in the meaning of engaged scholarship in their own work, especially in relation to emancipatory issues. The outcome is a rich variety of contributions centering on the shifting tension between engagement and scholarship in the disciplines of anthropology and development studies. Thus, they not only exemplify the evolution of these academic disciplines at Radboud University, but also offer a topical and innovative perspective on a highly dynamic field.
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Introduction:Emancipation and Engagement over the Years
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Vroklage, Founding Father of the Institute of Anthropology
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The Long Road to InclusionFrom Women to Gender to Diversity to ...?
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A Historiography of Australian Aboriginal Studies in Nijmegen
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Categorically Unfriendly Towards EssentialismAn Intersectional Approach and a Supplement
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In and OutReflections on Engaged Scholarship in Development Cooperation
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The Risks of EngagementCriminal Justice Ethnography in the Crossfire
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Coming-Of-Age as an Engaged Scholar Within the Neoliberal University
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From Fieldwork Notes to a Comparative Anthropological Perspective and BackReflections on Money-Land Transactions in an Asian Setting
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Engaged Scholarship and its PitfallsBiases Towards Collective Action and Resistance
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Engaged AnthropologyTightrope Walking between Involvement and Detachment
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Emancipation and Encroachment
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Lake Victoria Export FishermenGlobal Capitalist Precariat or Emancipated African Adulthood?
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Engaged Scholarship in a ‘Minefield’On the Challenges of Studying Resistance to Resource Extraction in Kenya
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Reduce or Refuse Plastic?The Contribution of Pesantren in Pasuruan
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Experiments in EmpowermentResearch as Clearing
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To do Livelihoods Research Now is to Recognize Coloniality and to Decolonize
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From Peasant Resistance to Agri-Food System Transformation
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