Radical Humanism Initiative
This initiative is engaged in the development of a Radical Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology and is designed to explore and implement what a radically humanist anthropology could look like. This initiative merged in response to Ryan Jobson’s 2019 year-in-review essay for American Anthropologist, “The Case for Letting Anthropology Burn”. Through various collaborations has been committed to the parsing of the field’s enduring legacies of objectification, dehumanization and erasure, and to consider how we can continue to rebuild the field of anthropology by reflecting on core principles of an engaged and decolonizing anthropology, both as it has been formulated in the past and as it develops to address the specific needs of the present.
In conjunction with the Wenner-Gren Foundation and a range of additional partners such as Association of Black Anthropologists, the Transformative Memory Project, the Center for Experimental Ethnography, and the Anthropology Southern Africa, the intiative has been working on elaborating a radically humanist anthropology that is grounded in a praxis of equality and a notion of being and becoming that moves us beyond the conceptualization of a liberal subject that is knowable and reducible to cultural units and ethnographic data. The intention has been to imagine new horizons for the discipline and insist that anthropology be done in the service of real-time material, affective, and ideological transformations through an interrogation of the Problem of Method; the Problem of Knowledge Production; and the Problem of Representation. Read More
Talking African Justice: Interrogating International Law
“Talking African Justice is an on-line forum under the direction of Professor Kamari Clarke that provides an opportunity to feature key issues concerning international and regional justice in Africa and beyond. By translating legal and political principles for public engagement Talking African Justice provides a platform for critical conversations about international justice and its relevance to the African life worlds. The forums range from Public Briefs to Conversational feedback domains to Lectures, Podcasts and Analyses of Country Campaign data and provide resources for understanding the complexities of bringing into force an African Court of Justice and Human and People’s Rights with three jurisdictions – criminal, human rights, and general jurisdiction.
Talking African Justice has been generously funded by the Open Society Foundation with the collaboration of the African Union Legal Counseland the African Court Research Initiative(ACRI).”
“The African Court Research Initiative approaches the study of justice in Africa in relation to its larger ecologies of justice. The study of the African Court is a study of the court in relation to its judicial, political, social and the particularities of justice within African geographies of justice.”
– ACRI Research Team
Transnational Justice Project
The Transnational Justice Project (TJP) is a research cluster engaged in the transnational study of justice. By conducting research projects aimed to understand the nature of injustice in society and its connection to law, culture, power, and the state, TJP aims to explore the complexities of cultural change in our world. Read More
Visualizing Justice Project
Visualizing Justice is a project that seeks to make visible and accessible the social, political, and historical contexts in which racial injustice occurs. Through an innovative transdisciplinary approach that brings insights from law, anthropology, history and art, together with practices of film-making and visualisation, the project explores ways of depicting layers of injustice that are often invisible to legal processes. Our objective is to create new possibilities for memorialization, pedagogy, advocacy, and litigation. Read More