*On the podcast**, *Ian interviews world-renowned historian of the
Anthropocene, Distinguished Professor Dipesh Chakrabarty about the
contentious politics of knowledge production.
"....And that general understanding of anthropology or history is, in the
end, more Western, even though we think of it as ‘general.’ But the
‘general’ is a Western ‘general.’ So what happens is, because of this
unevenness of resources, these poorer countries actually have a tough time
coming to understand themselves. I actually think sometimes that the West
is producing its own intellectuals everywhere in the world.”
https://soundcloud.com/thefamiliarstrange/7-dipesh-chakrabarty
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*On the blog*, Guest blogger Dr Annie McCarthy responds, thoughtfully but
vehemently, to a recent article in The Conversation that called for a
rethink of the acronyms LGBTQIA+.
"Notwithstanding the very real problems with LGBTQIA+, in response to
Altman, I would say that it is actually in the adoption of a universalising
tool of bureaucratic governance that we risk losing all meaning."
https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2018/02/01/living-with-lgbti-acronyms/
And Ian explores that longing for belonging that can overcome
anthropologists in the field, by telling us his story of searching for an
Indonesian version of baseball.
https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2018/01/25/searching-for-home-plate-in-indonesia/
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