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From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
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Introduction: Building Bodies for Thought
While academic thinking increasingly shapes itself along the structure of the scientific journal article, compelling steadfast arguments that smoothly steer
SECTION TWO: DESTABILISING CONCEPTS
Introduction: Destabilising Concepts Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård Moving from the first section of the thread where hundreds performed as
Section Three: Understanding as Resonance
Introduction: Understanding as Resonance Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård In this third section of the thread, Understanding as Resonance,
Section Four: Whose Thinking?
Introduction: Whose Thinking? Aja Smith and Anne Line Dalsgård From the sounds of the third section, we turn in the fourth