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imperative only those blinded by greed would refuse to let a friend make a copy large corporations of course are blinded by greed the laws under which they operate require it their shareholders would revolt at anything less and the politicians they have bought off back them passing laws giving them the exclusive power to decide who can make copies there is no justice in following unjust laws it s time to come into the light and in the grand tradition of civil disobedience declare our opposition to this private theft of public culture we need to take information wherever it is stored make our copies and share them with the world we need to take stuff that s out of copyright and add it to the archive we need to buy secret databases and put them on the web we need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks we need to fight for guerilla open access with enough of us around the world we ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge we ll make it a thing of the past will you join us aaron swartz 1986 2013 july 2008 eremo italy in memoriam 24 jun thesis defended issue 3 where to now posted by o w in uncategorized leave a comment 30 apr thesis defended issue 2 public anthropology posted by o w in uncategorized tagged anthropology anthropology audience open access publishing peer review journals public anthropology public engagement leave a comment a few weeks have gone by flowers have bloomed the snow is gone and i m far less agitated then i was immediately after the thesis defence experience in other words this is a great time to touch on a few more issues some readers felt i d been trying to make the argument that with the internet anthropologists are finally able to leave their sheltered university homes to finally write to the public they felt that i was arguing on behalf of a more publicly engaged anthropology and so in response to my thesis the point was made that anthropologists have always been engaging public issues public engagement in anthropology isn t anything new the internet one reader voiced is not facilitating change in anthropology at all rather it is about continuity this however was a misunderstanding i tried to show that anthropologists have always been interested in public engagement i used the example of dr james hunt who started the anthropology society of london i used him as an example of public engagement gone bad there is absolutely nothing inherently good about public engagement ie a good example today is the human terrain teams aka anthropology soldiers who are not good and who are not good for anthropology i balanced this out with arguments from thomas hylland eriksen as i was not trying to say public engagement was necessarily bad either in fact i tried to show that anthros have used the internet in some amazing ways i used wesch s work as a brief example which i contrasted with jay ruby s in hopes of developing the idea of anthropology in public and public anthropology but in dealing out a negative example of public engagement this reader argued that anthropologists have done a lot of good why only cite a few selective examples i suppose the quote from eriksen wasn t enough to balance things out i didn t want to write a complete history of the discipline but in only presenting a few examples i opened the door to what about so and so or as i was asked more exactly why did you not just start the thesis with what blogging and open access have to offer tell us what they do for the discipline rather than review in an ad hoc way selected bad moments in the discipline why not lead from your strengths to the strengths of the discipline what is the negative and cynical portrait of the discipline intended to accomplish i developed chapter 2 as a literature review that revealed pressures for change in the discipline ie i wanted to introduce reasons anthropologists have for 1 collaborating with non anthropologists and non academics vine deloria jr s arguments 2 engaging public debates ala thomas hylland eriksen s arguments and 3 opening the social sciences ala wallerstein et al s book open the social sciences and to answer as clearly as possible i found these examples showed reasons why anthropologists would want to write outside traditional peer reviewed presses and why the internet has provided a number of tools to help anthropologists engage this change optimism to clear this issue up further chapter 2 is not a complete history of anthropology it s highly selective showing a few examples that have pressured anthropologists to change the way they do anthropology in terms of public engagement there have been successful anthropological engagements i never argued otherwise a reader suggested i include the following works to present public anthropology in its full glory in the few pages you do devote to public anthropology you do not cite these anthropologists who very publicly identify themselves with public anthropology and they kindly included this excellent list franz boas margaret mead hortense powdermaker the anthropologists who wrote and protested about the vietnam war anthropologists who were foundational in the women s movement meg luxton hugh brody luke lassiter laura bohannan ruth behar amitav ghosh camilla gibb phillipe bourgois nancy scheper hughes paul farmer etc well this is a tough issue to respond to for one i don t think that mentioning public anthropology demands that i cite every public anthropologist especially when my point was that there are reasons for anthropologists to engage the public and that publishing in expensive to access journals isn t the way to do it and more importantly to my thesis was the issue that writing on a blog isn t public anthropology either since the topics anthros blog about are rarely meant to be interesting to those outside the discipline why i talked about public anthropology 1 reasons to make research accessible 2 is making research accessible online anthropology in public or public anthropology would citing these other researchers have helped i m sure they could have but i think that would take another few years and a ph d more issues to come don t worry 29 mar thesis defended issue 1 representing anthropology being cynical posted by o w in uncategorized 13 comments how was it brutal even if it was accepted with minor revisions i ll do my best to summarise the experience and issues raised over the next few posts the biggest issue that came up chapter 2 why i was asked would i present anthropology in such a negative light what does such a negative portrait hope to accomplish why would i want to participate in such a horrible world real question why not lead from the strengths the thesis can make to the discipline why did i reference vine deloria jr and why did i reference james hunt to paraphrase the question haven t people pooped on anthropology enough is it really necessary to select particularly nasty examples of anthropology to describe what anthropology is and how it has changed have anthropologists not changed enough already that you could just cite what they do now my answer it hasn t helped to shove anthropology s dirty laundry under the rug the history of anthropology shocked me to the core and i wasn t about to ignore it vine deloria s arguments that i cite in chapter 2 are the best definition and critique of anthropology i ve ever read i stand by that reference 100 james hunt well sure he isn t representative of all anthropologists and i ve been told i cannot say that his work is seen as biggoted and racist in a thesis even if his work is but the reason i chose james hunt was that he founded the anthropology society of london with the intention of mixing politics and science and he promoted public engagement anthropologists aren t all saints and when they engage the public it isn t necessarily virtuous that was my point my bigger point was that anthropologists get things wrong and that we need to give people a place to respond and interpret anthropologists interpretations finally while i probably didn t express this well enough in the thesis chapter 2 was not a complete representation of the discipline i was looking at the history of the discipline to find breaking points frictions that pushed the direction in different directions the point i wanted to make in chapter 2 was that there are arguments for 1 increased collaboration with non anthros 2 increased public engagement and 3 to open the social sciences now say what you want but i think the examples i give do back that up i m not sure i did that well enough in chapter 2 though the reactionary response i received from one reader has forced me to correct this to somehow open up chapter 2 with recognition that the points discussed are very selective and not trying to represent the discipline as a whole many more posts to come p s i also learned the proper definition of reactionary i used the word to represent a person reacting which it is not this has since been corrected and i did my best to use it correctly in the paragraph above reactionary is restricted to a conservative backlash someone defending the status quo and not to someone getting pissed off by your actions p p s when given the option to select your thesis committee give it a lot of thought don t allow faculty members to turn your thesis into a battleground even if that s what social science is all about next post issue 2 why didn t you include the following works list included 9 mar open access books journals posted by o w in uncategorized 2 comments this post is a reply to a reader s question what about books discussions related to open access often focus on journals but as one thesis reader has asked me what about books open access is about removing the price barriers to peer reviewed academic research whether it be book journal article or whatever else the peer review system for book publishing is different than that of a journal but anthro books are still considered quality research that should be disseminated charging 20 100 for a book is still a significant barrier for many libraries as one teacher commented a really good anthropology book will sell about 1000 copies so if the books were cheaper would they be disseminated and read more would more copies end up being distributed maybe should academics be concerned about the dissemination of their work is it okay for people to try and make money off your research at the expense of researchers having easy access to it so to be clear the same oa arguments apply to books and journals but there are some interesting particularities to look at for example google books makes it simple to read and scan through millions of expensive published academic books it lets you read a portion of the text which is plenty for scholars to decide if they would benefit from purchasing or borrowing the book in this way google books improves the visibility of academic work published in book form while still demanding that people and libraries pay to read it to answer a readers question since people still need to pay to get full access google books is not a form of open access publishing and while e books and e book readers are taking off many people still hate to read large documents on the computer it s just nicer and easier to read away from the computer the confusion creeping in here is that open access is associated with online dissemination journals rather than with removing price barriers to research where ever they may be so yes as lorenz khazaleh recently posts oa is also about books he writes more and more journals have gone open access now it s time for open access books oapen open access publishing in european networks is an initiative in open access publishing for humanities and social sciences monographs several european university presses have joined the initiative that aims to improve the accessibility and dissemination of academic books further books can be open access in that they are free to access online and they cost money in print at the very same time a book can be published oa and at the same time printed and sold take a look at what max has done with his edited volume of student authored essays titled the new imperialism he describes the process involved having seen from early on that i would be receiving a batch of excellent papers i asked the seminar participants if they would not want to put their output on the record to publish their work one option was to have all the papers online on the seminar website the other was to publish it like my department also publishes an annual volume of student research stories from montreal they opted for the latter and i got busy creating something i had never planned to establish a publishing entity alert press amazingly the name was not taken that was just the start then came getting an isbn arranging for the national library of canada to do cataloguing in publication getting a copyright certificate and formally registering the press the printing would be done on demand which is where the services of lulu come in then there was the index no proper book can go without one that is as some know a particularly large expense which had to be out of pocket each of the papers had to be revised edited proof read and re corrected references checked formatting done for the book providing images that are free under a creative commons license up to the front and back covers of the book and then indexed only the very best papers were included which in this case means that only 14 of the initial 25 papers made the final cut one or two opted out of the publication idea from the start it is entirely voluntary and not a course requirement but it will be an annual feature now published the book is available in a number of forms the paperback costs about 10 a hardcover sells for 19 and an e book version can be downloaded anytime for free this shows how open access can work alongside other publishing models christopher kelty a blogger at savage minds published his book two bits the cultural significance of free software on the books website and through duke university press the entire book can be read and commented on online exploring ways readers can help contribute content to the book after it has been published kelty also talks about modulating his work as part of an experiment that looks at how open access to research and new more flexible licensing models allow people to use the work in new ways the prickly paradigm press and the earlier prickly pear press also provide a number of oa books licensed under the creative commons an interview with marshal sahlins discusses the history of the publishing organization and why free access to research and the creative commons license is important sahlins writes i just want to say that i truly support the idea of the free dissemination of intellectual information and that i truly lament the various forms of copyrights and patents that are being put ...