REACH: Research as regeneration

Abstract

The galvanising aim in curating ‘Epistemic attunements’ has been to reach beyond the infrastructural imaginaries of the corporate publishing regimes that so brutally standardise the form, production, and distribution of research. Yet rather than being wholly enamoured with the pursuit of new publics, or with the kind of reach and influence that our bespoke digital platform affords, we take the idea of ‘reach’ in a different direction. In short, what we propose here is that reaching beyond anthropology offers a way to return the discipline to its core commitments. REACH explores what happens when anthropology and its interlocutors come together to cultivate shared grounds of epistemic care and concerns. It asks, what happens when multiple histories show up in the process? It proposes that therein lies the grounds for a regenerative anthropology.