Saving
Broadway Avenue and 19th Street. Oakland, CA. May 2020.
Photograph by Lucia Cantero Featured in "The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn?" by Ryan Cecil Jobson |
Anthropologists are currently reckoning with legacies of racism within our field and asking itself: Is anthropology worth saving, or should we let it burn?
We are compelled by a broader question that implicates anthropology as much as the worlds we inhabit and examine: Is anything worth saving? Rarely a day passes without a headline, speech, campaign, or policy to save something precious and at risk, something worthy of protection. Saving is having a moment as a key term for our time and we are reckoning with human impulses, projects, politics, and practices committed to saving. |
Writing
The research article "Saving Embryos in Stem Cell Science and Christian Adoption" is included in a December 2018 special issue in New Genetics & Society on ontologies of the living within biobanking. Drawing on feminist science and technology studies, this article examines the saving as an ethics and set of practices that govern the repurposing of leftover embryos in the US. Read here.
The essay "Reckoning with Saving" is co-authored with Jessica Hardin and Zoe Nyssa and featured in the April 2020 issue of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America. We offer saving as a contemporary keyword requiring ethnographic reckoning. Read here.
The essay "Reckoning with Saving" is co-authored with Jessica Hardin and Zoe Nyssa and featured in the April 2020 issue of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America. We offer saving as a contemporary keyword requiring ethnographic reckoning. Read here.