It can’t be revolution: an interview with Tania Li.
2017. Dialogues, Cultural Anthropology website.
Abstract
What can anthropology add to the larger complex of forces that bring about social change? What follows is a lightly edited transcript of an interview between contributing editor Atreyee Majumder and Tania Murray Li, who is Professor of Anthropology and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy and Culture of Asia at the University of Toronto. Li discusses her experiences doing fieldwork with activists and NGOs in Indonesia, aiming less to engage in activist anthropology than to impart an ethnographic sensibility to those who are engaged in activist work and to invite them to use it to think through their own questions and problems.