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Desperately seeking a way out, I started writing essays for a wider audience and giving interviews in Chinese in the early 2010s. I was surprised by young people’s acute demand for theories – yes, theories! – that could help them understand their dilemmas and worries. I realised that young people want to know why things are the way they are, and why they feel the way they do. And they ask how they can see, and live, their lives differently. They taught me that anthropology, the study of life experience itself, has much to offer. In short, they helped me to rediscover the value of my discipline.
At MPI I hope to experiment with anthropology-for-living – that is, research that provides insights that people can use to build a better collective life. This requires an approach that starts not with academic questions, but rather with concerns that people are grappling with in their everyday lives, concerns that reflect their subjective experience of objective social contradictions. Acutely felt but rarely articulated, these concerns cannot be readily analysed using established theories and methods. As such, I hope this approach will also open up space for theoretical innovation. I want to spend my time on real-world issues that both I and my audience care about. I hope our department will advance anthropology by putting it to good use in real people’s lives.
At MPI I hope to experiment with anthropology-for-living – that is, research that provides insights that people can use to build a better collective life. This requires an approach that starts not with academic questions, but rather with concerns that people are grappling with in their everyday lives, concerns that reflect their subjective experience of objective social contradictions. Acutely felt but rarely articulated, these concerns cannot be readily analysed using established theories and methods. As such, I hope this approach will also open up space for theoretical innovation. I want to spend my time on real-world issues that both I and my audience care about. I hope our department will advance anthropology by putting it to good use in real people’s lives.
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