Anthropology as Cosmopolitics. Globalizing Anthropology Today
For a few decades, anthropologists have been debating the need to establish other international flows and exchanges of scholarly knowledge. Similarly to what we do with other globalizing pretensions, it is necessary to take into consideration the knowledge already accumulated within this debate, its possibilities and constraints. Here the changes in global anthropology are seen in relation to the national level of integration and to hegemonic internationalization which generate structural limitations to the practices of anthropologists, in spite of the existence of a universalizing trend that is typical of the discipline. The notion of cosmopolitics is used to deal with the problems inherent to the pluralist integration of the discipline. It helps to devise, from a different angle, the dilemmas and challenges we face. The World Anthropologies Network and the World Council of Anthropological Associations are presented as initiatives that aim to stimulate pluralism within global anthropology. Can we debabelize anthropology? Can we have a truly diversified global anthropology?