Post-conventional anthropology
A paradigm for cultivating pluralism and confidence in uncertainty
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2230672 |
|---|---|
| Authors | A Kearney (0000-0002-4559-0660, San Diego State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 242-256 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2049-1115 • E-ISSN: 2575-1433 |
| Publisher | HAU-N.E.T (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1086/735868 |
| OpenAlex | W4412746541 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 37 |
This article details an encounter of anthropological instruction on cross-cultural perceptions of the environment and cultural heritage which was provided to lawyers, environmental scientists, and environmental engineers regulating offshore oil and gas ventures. Shaped as a rapid organizational ethnography, my task was to inspire unknowing and release the grip on epistemic certainty. Operating within a contentious space, regulatory decision-making on the risks that oil and gas ventures pose to Indigenous peoples' heritage is a concern which keeps this regulatory body in a state of organizational and directive anguish. By sharing anthropological insights on ways of knowing, plurality, ethics, and care, configured cross-culturally, the aim was to alleviate their concerns and open pathways toward better informed decision-making. The event took shape as an exercise in post-conventional anthropology, in which the post-conventional is distinguished as going beyond normative practice and aligning with a broader social contract. That social contract is progressing non-Indigenous ethical engagements with Indigenous knowledges
Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology
Confidence in Uncertainty
Unconventional Methods for a Post-conventional Anthropology
Homecoming
Anthropology as Vocation
Pathways, Challenges, and Opportunities for Public Anthropology, Impact and Commercialisation
The Weight of Listening to ‘ Keeriyeduthadhu’
Forms of Project
Multi-Agent Ethnography
Anthropology Put to Work
Anthropology is a Martial Art
Reflexive Ethnographic Practice
Is Water H2O?
Indigenous knowledge and the shackles of wilderness
Why Doesn't This Feel Empowering? Working Through the Repressive Myths of Critical Pedagogy
Morality
The University in Ruins
Critical Analysis of the Production of Western Knowledge and Its Implications for Indigenous Knowledge and Decolonization
Democratising sustainability transformations
Energy, Anthropology and Ethnography
Identifying and working through settler ignorance
Post-conventional moral reasoning and reputation
A Pedagogy of Unknowing
Indigenous Knowledge' and 'Science
"What's in the Name "Applied Anthropology
Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage
Might Be Something
The Eleventh Thesis
The quickening of the unknown
Can Oil Speak? On the Production of Ontological Difference and Ambivalence in Extractive Encounters
An anthropology of the social contract
Existential Anthropology - Events, Exigencies and Effects
Enactments of Expertise
Oil and Anthropology
Warning against and experimenting with morality
Ethics, morality, and moralizing in anthropological research
The Primacy of the Ethical
The Search for Relevance
Action and the urgency of anthropological voice
Spirit and System
Relational ethnography
Short-Term Ethnography
| Unique citing works | 10 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 10 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |