Accepted Panels

The “Making Anthropology Global” Task Force, consisting of Yasmeen Arif, Chen Gang, Gonzalo Diaz Crovetto, Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P-J Ezeh, Gordon Mathews, Shannon Morreira, and Takami Kuwayama, from India, China, Chile, Norway, Nigeria, Hong Kong, South Africa, and Japan, has sought to examine the stances of anthropologists in different societies around the world towards Anglo-American hegemony, and more broadly, to examine the comparative situation of anthropologists in different societies across the globe, investigating conditions of work, research, and publication.  This roundtable reports on the findings of this task force.  Members of the taskforce will in turn address issues of publications and how they are valued, citation indexes and their uses and strictures, tenure and what it signifies in different institutional settings, academic hierarchy in the anthropological workplace, political pressure on academics in different societies, pressures from the Global North in terms of publication, valuations of anthropological public impact in different societies, and generational change among academic anthropologists. Once the members of the taskforce go over their findings, in eight 5-minute capsule presentations, the roundtable session will be opened to the audience, particularly to those from societies outside those represented in the task force, to add their insights.  In its conclusion, the roundtable will explore what broad, global solutions might be possible to the common problems faced by anthropologists around the world.