Editing the Times

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2435541
AutoresAnne Allison (0000-0001-8626-9550, Duke University), Charles Piot (0000-0002-9166-9935, Duke University)
Año2015
Volumen30
Número4
Páginas525-530
Fecha de publicación2015-11-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCultural Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0886-7356 • E-ISSN: 1548-1360
EditorialAmerican Anthropological Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.14506/ca30.4.01
OpenAlexW2148136310
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas15

Every editorship is faced with constraints and possibilities, ones arising from the world and times in which we live and others embedded in the practice and politics of the publishing medium we are tasked with stewarding.As editors of Cultural Anthropology between 2010 and 2014, we oversaw a historic moment of movement and flux, but also of uncertainty and constriction.It was a time of global precarity and financialization, of state pullback and NGO-ization, of migration and stuckedness.It was also a time of rapid change and challenge in the academy when publishing was becoming digitized, the classroom was going online, and the humanities and interpretive social sciences were increasingly under attack and at risk.Cultural Anthropology, from its inception, has been a journal that has attempted to capture and resonate with the times.As editors, we sought to remain true to the journal's experimental and dynamic history-its commitment to innovative scholarship and brilliant writing, to pushing the anthropological envelope in form as well as content, and to publishing pieces that conjured that magical mix of theory and ethnography-while also ensuring that the journal's pages gave voice to the distinctiveness of the times in which we were living.To begin, we embraced the important work begun by Kim and Mike Fortun of enhancing the journal's web presence (see Fortun and Fortun 2015) by migrating significant amounts of journal content online-supplemental pages (of

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