Krissed Off: Nebraska 2018
Do you like
whiteboards? Are you excited by oversize pads of paper on easels? Then you'll
want to hear all about our editorial retreat.
Last month
the acquisitions editors at Nebraska conducted a self-study aimed at setting
our priorities for the next five years. The official results of our retreat are,
of course, written in code and kept in a briefcase handcuffed to my wrist. But
here's a taste of what you can expect:
1) More social science. Nebraska's had some pathbreaking books on
environment and food in our At Table and Our Sustainable Future series – check out something like Green
Illusions,
if you haven’t already – and we've got one of the best lists in the
anthropology of indigenous North America anywhere. But there's an opening
for more along these lines, particularly given excitement on campus about the
Water for Food Institute and similar
initiatives. We've already started to grow in that direction with the
announcement of a new series called Critical Environments – led by, among
others, the hotshot geographer and public intellectual Julie Guthman, author of
“Why Michael Pollan Makes Me Want to Eat Cheetos” – which will explore the relationship among science, politics, and
environment. You'll start to see a more diverse portfolio in anthropology,
too, particularly in fields like public anthropology, environmental
anthropology, and ethnographies of the contemporary United States.
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