Thinking with decoloniality: Authorship and collaborations in neoliberal times

One central demand is that anthropology needs more collaborative authorship and symmetric engagement with ethnographic interlocutors and minoritized scholars (Kennemore & Postero 2021). Partly as an engagement with these calls, but also due to changing requirements of funders, anthropologists today often participate in large interdisciplinary and transnational research teams. Yet, balanced collaboration and authorship are difficult, especially when pursued with international partners in the Global South and junior postdocs in the Global North. This essay interrogates the anthropological record in the JRAI as a way to contextualize this new push for anthropological collaboration. The selected articles offer comparative and critical lenses on anthropological collaboration by asking how decolonial perspectives fit within market-driven academic spaces, where neoliberal rules have dramatically impacted the ways in which academia operates.