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Accepted Paper:

Balancing between academia and the wider world: anthropology and journalism  
Henk Driessen

Paper short abstract:

Anthropology is not only an act of walking the high wire between the local and global but equally implies a balancing act between academia and wider society. The success of this act is essential for the survival of the discipline. For this we need to cooperate with journalists.

Paper long abstract:

Anthropology involves a balancing act between the local and global as well as between academia and the wider world, not only during fieldwork but also in view of communicating ethnographic knowledge. This means, among many other things, moving back and forth between detachment and engagement. In the end the success of this balancing act is essential for the survival of the discipline. This paper discusses the dilemmas and problems involved in reaching out to wider publics and the inevitable relationships between anthropologists and journalists.

Panel P15
Anthropology in, and about, the world: issues of audiences, modes of communication, contexts, and engagements
  Session 1