Universiteit Leiden
ABSTRACT
How can anthropologists further problematize hierarchies of knowledge production that are haunting the discipline? In the past decades, significant debates around responsibility and ethics have taken place in anthropology, debates that we can consider a turning point for the discipline. It is, for example, now probably very uncommon to embark on a research project without addressing ethics and some degree of reflexivity. At present, we continue to discuss what it means to work ethically in the discipline. One key tenet of these discussions is questioning hierarchies of knowledge and knowledge production. While certainly, each project will have its own particularities, limitations and opportunities, anthropologists are rarely working in a vacuum. Collaboration in and outside the field, in and across disciplines, with and beyond institutions is actually much of what we do. The question is: do we credit it and how? One way, but surely not the only one, could be co-authorship. More often than not collaborations allow us to recognize our interconnections, to keep on moving in ways that de-centre hegemonic narratives and voices, to keep on decolonizing by telling our own stories in plurivocality.
https://www.leidenanthropologyblog.nl/contributors/daniela-paredes-grijalva