SUP fireside chat: Conversations with Tim Ingold

To celebrate our first-ever open access book, Conversations with Tim Ingold: Anthropology, education and life, we ran a fireside chat with Tim Ingold and his three co-authors on Thursday 24 October 2024. 00:00 Introduction 03:13 Tell us about the decision to publish open access. 05:44 Why specifically SUP to publish with? 11:41 Can you share any tips/advice with colleagues considering publishing OA? 08:22 Where did the idea for the book come from? 13:54 Why an interview format for the book? What did it bring to the book? 15:01 Were there any challenges with the interview format, e.g. transcriptions, etc. 18:25 Did any of the questions take you somewhere unexpected? 20:29 Do you have any specific thoughts on what the general audience/reader might take from the book? 25:53 Governments encourage tertiary education institutions to promote entrepreneurialism, supporting individuals in business rather than people or communities. How can we teach students to demand economic democracy with means of production or shared? 29:37 If you could choose only one, would you prefer the book to be a commercial success or a critical success? 30:38 Can you expand a little further on the evolution without inheritance article? 33:53 Since ethnography is a research method now used widely across disciplines, what makes a particular ethnography anthropological and others not? 37:00 Did you think of a podcast as a medium to share the interview with or perhaps as a companion to the book? 38:22 Does anyone have any tips on combatting interview hindsight, i.e. dealing with what you should/shouldn’t have said during the interview? 39:53 Did it make it difficult in terms of editing the book, e.g. did you keep adding more, and was it hard to draw a final line with it? 41:48 When thinking about SUP’s funding model, how does money work with OA? 43:24 Can the panel share thoughts on what the knock-on effects might be of open publishing structure of SUP? Are there any worries for future, e.g. Protection measures, AI, etc? 47:23 What do authors think of the future dialogue for disputation as a literary format. It was very popular in the Renaissance but seems to have waned in popularity. Are you spearheading a comeback? 48:48 A previous point was made about the future of academia. Do you see the future of academia texts being more accessible for wider audiences and do we see a day when academic concepts and theories are written in a manner that people would research or be able to read them, or is that not the goal of academia? 52:57 What’s next in terms of future collaborations or individual projects? 56:20 Summary and close. Download the book for free: https://books.sup.ac.uk/sup/catalog/b... Join Tim Ingold, Robert Gibb, Philip Tonner, and Diego Maria Malara with Hannah Whaley and Gillian Daly in SUP’s fireside chat as we discussed: Behind the book: discover the inspirations, challenges, and key takeaways from Conversations with Tim Ingold Why open access matters: insights from the authors on why they chose SUP and how they found the experience Live Q&A: have your questions ready! Tim Ingold and his co-authors will respond live. Keep up-to-date Subscribe to our YouTube, and follow us on X (https://x.com/ScotUniPress) and LinkedIn (  / sup-scurl  ) to keep up to date with our latest book launches and news. Learn more about our books: https://www.sup.ac.uk/news/sup-announ... Publish your next book open access: https://www.sup.ac.uk/why-publish-wit... If you’re affiliated with one of our participating member institutions, submit your book proposal and benefit from subsidised costs: https://www.sup.ac.uk/submit-a-monogr... For all enquiries, contact us at info@sup.ac.uk.