UPDATE on our Collective Letter Against the Eradication of Anthropology in Poland

This is a follow-up post to our collective letter which we drafted last month in support of our colleagues in Poland who are fighting the eradication of anthropology as an independent discipline.

In the meantime, our letter has been shared numerous times worldwide, for example by the Association of Social Anthropologists of Aotearoa/New Zealand (ASAA/NZ). An email has been sent by the Chair of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK & Commonwealth (ASA), Professor Nigel Rapport, encouraging all members of ASA to sign and various collectives and groups have shared our initial post via their social media networks. Thank you all for your support!

The American Anthropological Association (AAA), who had issued its own letter of support already at the end of last year, has signed our letter as have hundreds of others, sometimes with detailed comments. Browsing through the list, we were struck by the outpour of solidarity. Here are a couple of comments to give those who are new to the issue an idea of what is at stake:

Where do we go from here? We have already mailed out the first list of signatures (550 of them) on January 31, 2019.

We have now agreed to send out a new regular mail to Minister Gowin every time we add 500 new signatures to our list in order to keep the pressure up.

So please keep on sharing our post and make sure you alert people to the accompanying post  by Mateusz Laszczkowski for background information on the situation in Poland.

If you haven’t done so already, please sign here by adding your name to the comment section at the end of the letter.

Thanks, Allies!