Carpi, Estella;
(2025)
Ascona Charter Response—Towards a Just Academia: Proposing a Personalization Approach.
Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology
, 31
(1)
pp. 206-208.
10.36950/sjsca.2025.31.11677.
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Abstract
This contribution proposes a primary focus on academia as a relational economy that subtends academics as individuals, rather than on relationships running between academics and the outside world—such as research participants. In this regard, while we academics hide behind fatalistic determination that underlies the abstract idea of a “neoliberal academia”—as though “neoliberal academia” could ever be a given formula, a given reality— the “neoliberal academia” that also the Ascona Charter refers to is empirically about people’s attitudes, personal decisions and deeds. In order to liberate anthropologists from the discursive abstractivism of transformation, the contribution invites us to acknowledge the relational economy we are all part of and our own deontology of research and teaching as individual-centred and entirely individual-dependent.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Ascona Charter Response—Towards a Just Academia: Proposing a Personalization Approach |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.36950/sjsca.2025.31.11677 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.36950/sjsca.2025.31.11677 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2025 This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives, 4.0 License. (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |
| Keywords: | Personalization, relational economy, behavioural dissonance, radical pedagogy, discursive abstractivism |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10214512 |
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