Stuck Moving

Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-520-38874-1
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 380 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 516 g

Reihe: Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century

This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips. No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary society.

Stuck Moving follows a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology’s rigid genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial model of extractive knowledge production. By satirizing the discipline’s function as a culture resource for global health and the neoliberal university, this book unsettles anthropology’s hopeful claims about its own role in social change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Benson, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Gesundheitssoziologie, Medizinsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgments

Author’s Note

1. Sixteen Candles

2. Lost in Translation

3. And Everything Is Going Fine

4. Murmur of the Heart

5. Do the Right Thing

6. Rushmore

7. Toy Story

8. Shame

9. Life Is Sweet

10. The Graduate

11. My Own Private Idaho

12. Boyhood

13. Broken Flowers

14. Stagecoach

15. The Red Balloon

16. Planet of the Apes

Credits

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Benson is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Tobacco Capitalism and a coauthor of Broccoli and Desire.