Too Much Democracy in All the Wrong Places

Kelty, Christopher

doi:10.1086/688705

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“…We see similar stakes in a special section of Current Anthropology on new media. Here, Charles Hirschkind, Maria José A. de Abreu, and Carlo Caduff () argue that new media is not so much about particular technologies but rather “relationships among media practices and processes of mediation” (see also Coleman ; Dent ; Gürsel ; Jain ; Kelty ; Masco ; Morris ; Murrell ; Spyer ; Stein ; Weber ; Wong ; Zillinger ). A series of essays published elsewhere also considers questions about media technologies and transformation.…”

Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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Section: Relationality Subjectivity and Mediationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…), and Occupy Wall Street in the United States. Our research also shows how participation can lead to transformative processes when technocratic approaches are avoided (Hickey and Mohan ), and when alternative expressions such as “self‐management” or “citizen empowerment” are used (Kelty ).…”

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“…The project aims to analyze critically how ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of participation, as well as its key institutions and actors, affect heritage management. In doing so, it contributes to the anthropological examination of what Kelty () has recently described as the “grammar of participation” that results in creating “too much democracy in all the wrong places” while constantly shifting “from a language of normative enthusiasm to one of critiques of co‐optation and bureaucratization” (S77).…”

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ParticiPat: Exploring the Impact of Participatory Governance in the Heritage Field

González

Álvarez

Roura-Expósito

2018

PoLAR

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This Directions piece presents the project ParticiPat: Patrimonio y participación social: propuesta metodológica y revisión crítica (ParticiPat: Heritage and Social Participation: Methodological Proposal and Critical Review). ParticiPat is a multidisciplinary and multisituated research project involving fourteen researchers from different disciplines and institutions that aims to analyze critically the ubiquitous buzzwords and practices of participation—as well as its key institutions and actors—affecting heritage management in Spain, Portugal, or Mexico. This article advances preliminary results derived from the authors’ case study of a natural park and biosphere reserve in Spain. In doing so, it contributes to the anthropological examination of what has recently been described by different authors as the emergence of a new form of governance based on discourses and practices of participation.

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“…Scholars have both hoped and doubted that it could act as an extension of the public sphere [1][2][3][4]. With digital technology becoming increasingly ubiquitous, initiatives to democratize participation have sprouted up everywhere in workplace or in government settings [5]. Some have made the case that the Internet will make government more democratic by making citizen engagement more feasible [6][7][8].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Some have made the case that the Internet will make government more democratic by making citizen engagement more feasible [6][7][8]. Others have been more cautious, arguing that widespread enthusiasm about the Internet as a magic tool to increase participation has yet to be followed up by any true changes in the participatory structure of government [5]. A large literature has emerged pointing out that the Internet has not only a decentralizing logic, but also a centralizing logic through its data collection and processing capabilities [9,10].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%