Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But seriou... more Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But serious abuses within the prison system– from lack of medical care to isolation from visitors– remain.
Last year, our small group of three anthropologists trained in the United States and Great Britai... more Last year, our small group of three anthropologists trained in the United States and Great Britain decided to attempt a rare professional move: to forego participating in the more normative, individualized pursuit of tenure-track work in the global North in order to create a novel space of team-oriented scholarly production in Ecuador—a country we call home. Our decision was admittedly somewhat frightening; not seeking tenure-track work or affiliations with academically better-known universities, colleges, or research centers is often viewed as tantamount to rejecting one’s disciplinary conventions. Unfortunately, North-centric labor conventions or expectations are rather commonplace in academia, even within a patently internationalist or comparativist discipline such as anthropology. Nevertheless, in the current and increasingly global context of academic labor precarity, what we call “mobile research teams” can carve out rewarding and highly innovative academic spaces—often vis-à-vis unlikely partnerships or unexpected national contexts.
Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But seriou... more Ecuador's New Prison Model seeks to shift away from from neoliberal prison management. But serious abuses within the prison system– from lack of medical care to isolation from visitors– remain.
Last year, our small group of three anthropologists trained in the United States and Great Britai... more Last year, our small group of three anthropologists trained in the United States and Great Britain decided to attempt a rare professional move: to forego participating in the more normative, individualized pursuit of tenure-track work in the global North in order to create a novel space of team-oriented scholarly production in Ecuador—a country we call home. Our decision was admittedly somewhat frightening; not seeking tenure-track work or affiliations with academically better-known universities, colleges, or research centers is often viewed as tantamount to rejecting one’s disciplinary conventions. Unfortunately, North-centric labor conventions or expectations are rather commonplace in academia, even within a patently internationalist or comparativist discipline such as anthropology. Nevertheless, in the current and increasingly global context of academic labor precarity, what we call “mobile research teams” can carve out rewarding and highly innovative academic spaces—often vis-à-vis unlikely partnerships or unexpected national contexts.
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