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Tales of pastness and contemporaneity : on the politics of time in history and anthropology Ghent University
Methodological reflections for an anthropologic approximation to socio-environmental conflicts in terms of political ecology University of Antwerp
This article proposes a strategy for developing anthropological research about socio-environmental conflicts by articulating four perspectives (historical, political, economic and subject-oriented) with the main dimensions that political ecology privileges (multi-scale, multi-temporal, multi-sited and multi-agent). To illustrate this methodology, the article discusses the case of rural communities in the Guaviare region that have been the target ...
Economic Theological Anthropology and Metaphysics of Money: The Challenge of Optimism for Active Christian Hope KU Leuven
One of the most important issues in contemporary fundamental theology is the noted shift away from epistemology and towards the political. Within political theology itself, there is a new ‘economic turn’ that needs to be accounted for. Any substantial theological engagement with politics must also take into account the importance of economy for our socio-political context, especially in its current ‘neoliberal’ incarnation. In this chapter, the ...
Development anthropology and social engineering University of Antwerp
While ethnographic research can be carried out from a variety of political positionings, we plead for a ‘critical reformist’ stance, on the intersection of pure, applied and radical anthropology. We trace this positioning back to Max Weber and Karl Popper, for whom the essence of social science was to critically accompany policy processes by identifying all intended and unintended outcomes of policies. We also situate it in relation to various ...
The added value of anthropology for integrated control of neglected zoonotic diseases in the One Health movement Institute of Tropical Medicine
While globalisation has generated many benefits for society, it has also created many new challenges, particularly with regard to human, animal, and environmental health. Neglected Zoonotic Diseases (NZDs) are common where poverty, reliance on livestock or wildlife for social and financial capital and the close proximity of people and their animals favour transmission. These features also raise a growing challenge to the life sciences to ...
Chthonic science: Georges Niangoran-Bouah and the anthropology of belonging in Côte d’Ivoire KU Leuven Ghent University
Georges Niangoran-Bouah worked assiduously toward Africanizing national education, academia,and public culture in Ĉote d'Ivoire. As part of this venture, his research projects, including his study of "drummology," can be regarded as a quest for "chthonic" science, that is, an anthropology that uncovers and implements the deep tenets of African-Ivorian culture. Properly situated in its academic, ideological, and political umwelt, we demonstrate, ...
Questioning the Human: Toward a Theological Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century KU Leuven
Copyright © 2014 Fordham University Press. All rights reserved. Theological anthropology is being put to the test: in the face of contemporary developments in the spheres of culture, politics, and science, traditional perspectives on the human person are no longer adequate. Yet can theological anthropology move beyond its previously established categories and renew itself in relation to contemporary insights? The present collection of essays ...
The Postcolonial Turn: Re-Imagining Anthropology and Africa KU Leuven
This innovative book is a forward-looking reflection on mental decolonisation and the postcolonial turn in Africanist scholarship. As a whole, it provides five decennia-long lucid and empathetic research involvements by seasoned scholars who came to live, in local peopleís own ways, significant daily events experienced by communities, professional networks and local experts in various African contexts. The book covers materials drawn from ...
Dramaturgy of political negotiation. The porous border between real politics and political fiction Vrije Universiteit Brussel
American scenarist Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the legendary TV series West Wing, could be considered as a genius of political dialogue. His subtle mixture of deliberations taking place in the coulisses of power around the White House and the semi-romantic stories of his characters have proven to be extremely efficient for an audience. The skills of Sorkin are based upon a particularly constructivist idea of political negotiation: politicians do ...