The “Exchange” series is a vital part of ARC’s effort to promote collaborative inquiry in the human sciences. The series will capture exchanges that are already taking place on blogs, through email, and in conferences. But it will also instigate exchange as a key site of concept-formation. An important aim of the series is to recognize – and to make available for reflection – various contributions to the process of inquiry that are not usually valorized in an academic system of distinction that rewards the production of books and articles. In particular, the exchanges seek to capture the discussion of tentative results and preliminary ideas as they are subjected to critique and revision, and to acknowledge the contributions that the interlocutors in this process make to the final results of academic production.
1. Concept Work and Collaboration in the Anthropology of the Contemporary (2006). Instigated by Tobias Rees