24.06.2022

When Anthropology bites Academia

Ein Vortrag im Rahmen des Projekts C 06

When Anthropology bites Academia Challenges, Times and Spaces for Public  Anthropology in Research and Teaching
In her presentation Echi Gabbert gives insights into anthropological engagement outside academia. Examples from her  collaborative approaches in teaching, policy making, human rights activism, and diverse public spaces show how anthropology that flourishes outside the ivory towers is a decision that deliberately does not curry favor with certain academic environments. All the more these spaces are worth exploring for an anthropology that makes sense in its very temporality.

Echi Christina Gabbert is an anthropologist and a lecturer at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology at Göttingen University, Germany. Her research foci are agro-pastoralism, music and oral history, political ecology, and peace and conflict studies. Her long-term fieldwork in Ethiopia resulted in the award-winning PhD thesis ‘Deciding Peace’. She has extended the ‘Cultural Neighbourhood Approach’ to ‘Global Neighbourhood’ scenarios, where global investment schemes meet smallholders’ livelihoods, and she is coordinating the Lands of the Future Initiative, an interdisciplinary project about pastoral livelihoods in the twenty-first century.

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