Writing in community: Relationship building and accountability in knowledge production
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | University of Maine, Desert Archaeology, Inc. Tucson Arizona USA, President, The Wenner‐Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research New York New York USA, Editor‐in‐Chief, American Anthropologist USA, Instituto de Investigaciones Arqueológicas y Paleontológicas del Cuaternario Pampeano INCUAPA‐CONICET‐UNCPBA Olavarría Argentina, Brown University, Michigan State University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program The College of Wooster Wooster Ohio USA, Columbia University, Instituto de Arqueología Facultad de Filosofía y Letras Universidad de Buenos Aires Buenos Aires Argentina, Department of Anthropology University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada, University Writing Program and Department of Anthropology George Washington University Washington, DC USA |
| ANO | 2025 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Anthropologist |
| ISSN | 0002-7294 |
| E-ISSN | 0002-7294 |
| EDITORA | Wiley (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1111/aman.28070 |
| ADICIONADO EM | Não informado |
Resumo
As anthropology reckons with its past, present, and future, anthropologists increasingly seek to challenge inequities within the discipline and academia more broadly. Anthropology, regardless of subdiscipline, is a social endeavor. Yet research often remains an isolating (though not necessarily solitary) process, even within research teams and in coauthorship contexts. Here, we focus on peer‐reviewed publication as the principal manifestation of knowledge production and propose a method for challenging division, hierarchy, power differentials, and adherence to tradition: writing in community. Writing in community is a collaborative form of writing that centers care, abundance, joy, and personal satisfaction over the individuality currently rewarded by the academy. This process engenders consensus, circumvents normative hierarchical research and writing, and promotes relationship building. Here, we experiment by inviting reviewers and editors into our community to collectively contribute to the writing process and reflect on that experience together. Ultimately, we challenge norms for scholarship, (co)authorship, and ways of knowing to offer a more equitable praxis of knowledge production. We propose that writing in community can help anthropologists enact values of multivocality and research transparency.