#engagedanthropology — Public Fediverse posts
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CW: Emerging thoughts about a critical, engaged anthropology
Fundamentally, (a critical) anthropology asks:
- how is it that humans have developed the institutions, worldviews, beliefs, behaviours we see today (and have seen historically)?
- how is it that humans have seemingly transcended the limits of pure biological capability, and radically transformed the world around us?
- what are the implications - positive and negative - of humanity's cultural, social, technological development, for individuals, communities, the human species, and the biosphere?
- how might we re-engage with the world around us and re-establish a balance that optimises for life at a planetary scale, the supports both well-being for individuals, communities, humanity, and the planet?#criticalAnthropology #engagedAnthropology #politicalEcology
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An overdue #introduction 👋 (thanks for the prompt when I switched instances @aussocialadmin )
My name is Scott and I live in Sydney (on Wangal Country in the Inner West). My pronouns are he / him.
I was born and raised in Canada (Alberta, even), and have lived in some great places around the world (Montreal, NYC, Vermont, rural Kenya). Being a Canadian man of a certain age, yes, I play hockey. Even in Australia.
I've been very (not extremely) online since the 90s. First it was rec.music.phish, then fark.com, then the Big Tech Socials.
I strive to behave with compassion and to be more kind than nice. But I also shitpost from time to time because internet.
I'm interested in lots of things and barely maintain a blurred boundary between personal and professional. See hashtags below or on my profile for a more specific list, but I think it's generally encompassed by the concept of #interbeing which I understand as being coined by Thich Nhat Hanh and drawn from Vietnamese and older Buddhist concepts.
Hashtags ftw: #anthropology #anarchism #buddhism #collaboration #collectiveImprovisation #complexity #complexSystems #conviviality #culture #decolonisation #design #designResearch #engagedAnthropology #engagedBuddhism #engagedDesign #ethnography #foresight #futures #hockey #improvisation #JustTransition #music #pluriverse #politicalEcology #protopia #serviceDesign #strategicDesign #systemsTheory #systemsThinking #speculativeEverything