John gledhill He is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, a Fellow of the British Academy and the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and editor of the journal Critique of Anthropology. He has conducted ethnographic and historical studies in Brazil and Mexico. His most recent monographic books are The New War Against the Poor: The Production of Insecurity in Latin America (Zed, 2015) and The hidden face of insecurity in Mexico (Paidós, 2017), and as an organizer, World Anthropologies in Practice: Situated Perspectives, Global Knowledge (Bloomsbury, 2016) and Disputes around urban space: processes of [re] production / construction and appropriation of the city, with Maria Gabriela Hita and Mariano Perelman (Edufba, 2017).

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Comment to the colloquium "Global turn to the right and the relevance of anthropology" by
  • Gustavo Lins Ribeiro
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Anthropological knowledge in times of "post-truth"

  • John gledhill

Keywords: "post-truth", current affairs, Anthropology.

TO In my opinion, Gustavo's diagnosis of our situation is very timely. Perhaps the voices of professional anthropologists are a bit more prominent in the world of "expert knowledge" linked to multilateral and international organizations and to advisory committees of governmental and non-governmental organizations, but in general I think we have to accept what he says about the weakness of our current professional public profile and our apparent inability to produce analyses of the "great challenges" of our time that manage to attract the interest of the general public and gain political weight.