Arguing the Intervention

Abstract

As anthropologists studying people who live under conditions of extreme duress and distress, we feel it imperative to link theory to practice. Otherwise we would be merely intellectual voyeurs. It is politically and analytically gratifying to engage with critical theory, but we also need to operate at the level of immediate policy options and specific local interventions that can be implemented in both the short term and the long term to reduce the structurally imposed suffering of our research subjects. Show more