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Engaged Scholarship and Emancipation: 75 Years of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University

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TitleEngaged Scholarship and Emancipation
Subtitle75 Years of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies at Radboud University
ContributorToon van Meijl (editor)
Frans Wijsen(editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/PKKR9573
Landing pagehttps://books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/rup/catalog/book/engaged_scholarship_and_emancipation
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Publication placeNijmegen
Published on2023-06-26
Series
  • NICCOS Series vol. 55
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ISBN978-94-9329-605-3 (Paperback)
978-94-9329-605-3 (PDF)
Short abstractThis 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. Former and current staff members reflect on the changing meaning of engaged scholarship in relation to emancipatory issues. They offer a rich variety of essays about the shifting tension between engagement, emancipation and academic scholarship over the years.
Long abstractThis 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.
Print length212 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • Emancipation
  • Engagement
Contents

Introduction: Emancipation and Engagement over the Years

  • Frans Wijsen
  • Toon van Meijl

Vroklage, Founding Father of the Institute of Anthropology

  • Marie-Antoinette Willemsen

The Long Road to Inclusion: From Women to Gender to Diversity to …?

  • Willy Jansen

A Historiography of Australian Aboriginal Studies in Nijmegen

  • Marianne Riphagen
  • Eric Venbrux
  • Anke Tonnaer
  • Ad Borsboom

Categorically Unfriendly Towards Essentialism: An Intersectional Approach and a Supplement

  • Francio Guadeloupe
  • Tine Davids

In and Out: Reflections on Engaged Scholarship in Development Cooperation

  • Paul Hoebink

The Risks of Engagement: Criminal Justice Ethnography in the Crossfire

  • Paul Mutsaers

Coming-Of-Age as an Engaged Scholar Within the Neoliberal University

  • Karolien van Teijlingen

From Fieldwork Notes to a Comparative Anthropological Perspective and Back: Reflections on Money-Land Transactions in an Asian Setting

  • Willem Wolters

Engaged Scholarship and its Pitfalls: Biases Towards Collective Action and Resistance

  • Martijn Koster

Engaged Anthropology: Tightrope Walking between Involvement and Detachment

  • Toon van Meijl

Emancipation and Encroachment

  • Thomas Widlok

Lake Victoria Export Fishermen: Global Capitalist Precariat or Emancipated African Adulthood?

  • Joost Beuving

Engaged Scholarship in a ‘Minefield’: On the Challenges of Studying Resistance to Resource Extraction in Kenya

  • Marja Spierenburg
  • Luuk van Kempen
  • Maaike Matelski

Reduce or Refuse Plastic? The Contribution of Pesantren in Pasuruan

  • Frans Wijsen

Experiments in Empowerment: Research as Clearing

  • Anick Vollebergh
  • Naomi van Stapele

To do Livelihoods Research Now is to Recognize Coloniality and to Decolonize

  • Leo de Haan
  • Adalbertus Kamanzi
  • Alfred Lakwo

From Peasant Resistance to Agri-Food System Transformation

  • Willem Elbers
  • Lau Schulpen
  • Ruerd Ruben
Contributors

Toon van Meijl

(editor)
Radboud University

Toon van Meijl is professor of cultural anthropology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Frans Wijsen

(editor)
Radboud University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-9969

Frans Wijsen is professor emeritus of practical religious studies and mission studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen.