Week 11: Does everyone deserve sympathy, empathy, loyalty?
ANTH 3623: Reconciling justice with anthropology (Semester 1,
2026)
May 11, 2026
Main reading: Teitelbaum (2019); Açıksöz (2024)
Other reading: Harding (1991); Harding (2021); Pasieka (2017); Gusterson (2017); Pinheiro-Machado and Scalco (2021); Salem (2024)
Notes
None
References
Açıksöz, Salih Can. 2024. “Ethnographic Betrayals.”
Current Anthropology 65 (S26): 91–105. https://doi.org/10.1086/732089.
Gusterson, Hugh. 2017. “From Brexit to Trump: Anthropology and the
Rise of Nationalist Populism.” American Ethnologist 44
(2): 209–14. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.12469.
Harding, Susan. 1991. “Representing Fundamentalism: The Problem of
the Repugnant Cultural Other.” Social Research 58 (2):
373–93. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40970650.
———. 2021. “Getting Things Back to Normal: Populism,
Fundamentalism and Liberal Desire.” Social Anthropology
29 (2): 310–15. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13042.
Pasieka, Agnieszka. 2017. “Taking Far-Right Claims Seriously and
Literally: Anthropology and the Study of Right-Wing Radicalism.”
Slavic Review 76 (S1): S19–29. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26564942.
Pinheiro-Machado, Rosana, and Lucia Scalco. 2021. “Humanising
Fascists? Nuance as an Anthropological Responsibility.”
Social Anthropology 29 (2): 329–36. https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-8676.13048.
Salem, Tomás. 2024. “Grappling With Complexity in Research with
the Military Police The Far-Right and Anthropology’s Civilizing
Mission.” Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology 21:
e211009. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1590/1809-43412024v21e211009.
Teitelbaum, Benjamin R. 2019. “Collaborating with the Radical
Right: Scholar-Informant Solidarity and the Case for an Immoral
Anthropology.” Current Anthropology, June. https://doi.org/10.1086/703199.