{"title":"Toward an Ontological Politics of Collaborative Entanglement: Teaching and Learning as Methods Assemblage","authors":"Boone W. Shear","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this essay I reflect on and theorize efforts to teach, learn, and advance solidarity economy, a movement and design project to create the conditions for community determination and collective well-being. I draw from five years of ethnographic work and two years of teaching efforts to reassemble the resources at hand into a pedagogical intervention along the lines of what Jon Law (2004) describes as a \"methods assemblage,\" a set of practices, techniques, and relations that work to organize and condense particular realities. I explore how a methods assemblage of solidarity economy can open epistemological, ideological, and material trajectories toward other ways of being in the world.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"50 - 75"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47679055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Assembling Fair Trade: Power and Performativity in the Global Economy","authors":"Sarah Lyon","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0007","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article situates fair trade within the broader landscape of diverse economies theory. It explores how assemblages of objects and practices, including scholarship and teaching, boThenact economy and contain the performative potential to constitute economy as other than itself. I demonstrate how this occurs through three overlapping political realms: ethico-political practices; the politics of performativity; and ontological politics through which the practices of \"being in common\" hold the performative potential to constitute the economy other than itself. Ultimately, I argue that we should embrace rather than occlude the inevitable tensions that emerge from the suturing of realist analyses and performative politics.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"24 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43179288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Designing Education for Living Well? Rethinking Public Education and Ethnographic Intervention","authors":"V. Lyon-Callo","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0010","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Escalating incidents of social suffering take the form of anxiety, depression, and suicide attempts among students in the United States. Often this emotional insecurity overlaps with an increased sense of precarity and economic insecurity. Is it possible that the very conditions that are producing sufferings may also open a possibility for interventions on an ontological level that produce new possibilities for redefining success and how to live well together? Exploring a collaborative engagement within a high performing, midwestern United States K–12 public school system, this article analyzes community members' struggles to respond. Emphasis is placed upon considering how ethnographers and community members dialogically begin to think differently and collectively design new educational practices that allow for community members to think through the range of possibilities for what it might mean to educate for flexibility, striving for collective autonomy, and for producing the possibility of living well together in today's world.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"107 - 123"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47560985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"V. Lyon-Callo, Boone W. Shear","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"1 - 23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42824403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Critical Relational Solidarity: Collectivist and Transformative Knowledge Practices in and beyond the US Academy","authors":"J. Sandler","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0009","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What is the potential for higher education projects to develop among diverse students, faculty, and community colleagues, projects and practices of becoming-together, across lines of difference, toward collective world-making? This article offers a framework for thinking about such practices in terms of critical relational solidarity and discusses one programmatic effort to enact and sustain them. The UMass Alliance for Community Transformation (UACT) involves classroom, organizational, and community-engaged knowledge practices. UACT's practices constitute a set of ongoing experiments, engaging students' precarious lives and individualized selves with robust community organizing resources to develop distinctly collectivist ways of becoming.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"12 1","pages":"106 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44727592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers by Philip Jones (review)","authors":"A. Sorensen","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"11 1","pages":"110 - 113"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43498122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nuxnuxskaca Cts'e i elt, Sáwllkwa, Natali Euale Montilla, T. McIlwraith
{"title":"\"Doctors and Professors Aren't the Professors of the Land\": Reflections on the Interconnected Environment with Splatsin Elder Nuxnuxskaca Cts'e7i7elt","authors":"Nuxnuxskaca Cts'e i elt, Sáwllkwa, Natali Euale Montilla, T. McIlwraith","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this paper, Splatsin Elder Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt (Julianna Alexander) reflects on the state of our environment. In these reflections, Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt suggests that all life is connected and that a holistic understanding of those connections is an effective way to understand human wellbeing, explain poor health, and describe environmental change. The paper is presented in the voices of all authors, including those of Tad McIlwraith and Natali Euale Montilla, who are both academically trained in anthropology but are learning about Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt's perspectives through interviews, informal conversations, and trips on the land. It introduces Sáwllkwa (Water) as an author and motivator for these reflections. All authors contribute their expertise to this work and, in doing so, remind us that academic presentations of Indigenous practices are valuable because they can extend conversations creatively. Yet, wordy academic statements like this can be ineffective at expressing and conveying lived experiences (Marcus 1986, 264–65). In sum, the paper presents Nuxnuxskaca cts'e7i7elt's views of the interconnected environment within a multi-authored and collaborative presentation.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"11 1","pages":"1 - 25"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46916933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text by Stuart Kirsch (review)","authors":"C. Menzies","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"11 1","pages":"113 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44490776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Drawing the Contours of Ethnography: Ethnographic Refusal and Anarchistic Consent in Fieldwork and Writing","authors":"S. Fessenden","doi":"10.1353/cla.2019.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/cla.2019.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Research participants and researchers participate together to draw the contours of ethnography. Refusals and consents shape any given ethnographic research and writing project. Setting out on an ethnographic field research project, I followed a contact to an \"un-named\" city in the US to study how local chapters of an anarchist-inspired project (\"Food Not Bombs\") confronted challenges presented by spatial politics. While this city has a name, it is not one I can share. This is the subject of this paper. What is the place of refusal in ethnographic research design and implementation? What does \"consent\" mean in an anarchist context? In this paper, I will describe my experience acquiring consent to research (with) an anarchistic organization, how anarchistic (dis)organization presents challenges to an institutional consent process, and how that same (dis)organization can open up opportunities for more robust collaboration. Drawing on McGranahan (2016), Ortner (1995), and Simpson (2007), I look at the concept of refusal in the context of ethnographic research. I then use my own experiences and failures to interrogate the meanings of consent and the place of refusal in ethnographic research.","PeriodicalId":88456,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative anthropologies","volume":"11 1","pages":"109 - 92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1353/cla.2019.0003","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46783622","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}