Election statement: I was elected as EASA exec member on a platform prioritising 1) authorship, exploitation, and teaching-only contracts in big projects 2) recruitment practices of anthropological departments 3) decolonisation of the discipline. Since my election, I was involved in several initiatives with marvellous colleagues working toward these goals. With Martin Fotta (PrecAnthro) and Raluca Pernes we published the EASA Careers Report exposing deepening precarity and divisions in anthropology. Our Brussels AGM2019 on the politics of knowledge production, initiated a dialogue with lobby groups and ERC on the need to rethink authorship, ethics, and hiring politics in the social sciences. With our EASA2020 exec plenary, co-organised with Prem Kumar Rajaram, decolonising and the rise of authoritarianism and new solidarities took center stage in our conference. Continuing my mandate I aim to strengthen EASA’s work on these topics vis-à-vis impending climate and labour crises, and the promises and perils of COVID-19’s ‘digital turn’.
Nominating member: Martin Fotta (Czech Academy of Sciences); Seconded by: Prem Kumar Rajaram (Central European University)