Hong Kong anthropologists within global neoliberalism and national and local politics
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2629673 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G Mathews (0000-0002-9437-5246, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 28 (2 |
| Pages | 533-547 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Etnografica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0873-6561 • E-ISSN: 2182-2891 |
| Publisher | OpenEdition (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.4000/11xjl |
| OpenAlex | W4400291271 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
There are global neoliberal pressures on the academy that are more or less faced by anthropologists around the world. To what extent are anthropologists required to publish in English in SSCI-ranked journals to keep their jobs and get promoted? But there are also distinctly national and local pressures to some extent counteracting or eclipsing these global pressures. In this article I explore these counteracting pressures in the context of Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, my home society, neoliberalism has reigned supreme, with a remarkably short-term mentality. Yet despite this, anthropology has been flourishing, and has operated with great freedom and generous funding that is quite exceptional by global standards. However, this may be coming to an end. In China there is direct government control over anthropology. Hong Kong, following the protests of 2019 and the advent of the national security law in 2020, may be following suit, with many democratic political figures and some journalists now in jail. In light of this ongoing narrowing of room for freedom of inquiry, what will happen to Hong Kong academics and to anthropology
China · Democracy · Flourishing · Freedom of information · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Law · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
The general state of anthropology in China and its future outlook
Anthropology in China today
The view from Hong Kong anthropology
Korean anthropology between global market and local community
Auditing Chinese higher education? The perspectives of returnee scholars in an elite university
Anthropological Knowledge and Styles of Publication
Hong Kong Universities in the Shadow of the National Security Law
Audit culture and Illiberal governance
East Asian Anthropology in the World
On the Referee System as a Barrier to Global Anthropology
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |