{"pk":42101,"title":"Transforming Teaching towards Empowered Learning: What #MeToo Taught Us about Anthropology","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This article calls for revisiting how we teach anthropology in light of three mutually reinforcing “moments” – the #MeToo Movement, the development of the American Anthropological Association’s first Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Policy, and shifting student expectations regarding personal safety and wellbeing. By thinking anthropologically about anthropology, against a backdrop of larger questions for the discipline as a whole, we single out the consequences of the “lone anthropologist” trope as it reproduces idealized notions of fieldwork in ways that limit access to the discipline. We suggest ten practical strategies for changing normative pedagogies as a way to increase benefits and reduce harms as we work to minimize risk for sexual violence while preserving the benefits of immersive fieldwork. We conclude by exploring how the classroom itself is feeding back into transforming cultures and institutional structures.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial  4.0","short_name":"CC BY-NC 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\n\nNonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes.\n\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"Anthropology"},{"word":"sexual violence"},{"word":"#MeToo"},{"word":"fieldwork"},{"word":"pedagogy"}],"section":"Commentaries","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7bd848hh","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"M.","middle_name":"Gabriela","last_name":"Torres","name_suffix":"","institution":"Wheaton College","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Dianna","middle_name":"","last_name":"Shandy","name_suffix":"","institution":"Macalester College and Elon University","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2019-11-12T05:46:47-08:00","date_accepted":"2019-11-12T05:46:47-08:00","date_published":"2019-12-30T00:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/teachinglearninganthro/article/42101/galley/31440/download/"}]}