Stuck Moving

Reviews / Votes

"Peter Benson takes his readers on a wild ride into the depths of his emotional turmoil and to the limits of his profession, propelled by writing that is genre-busting and beautiful." * American Anthropologist * "Benson takes us on a wild ride of reflections and analysis. . . to lay open an academic life, a neoliberal order, and a man stuck in the middle."
* Missiology: An International Review * "This book would be of value to those interested in experiments in ethnographic writing or the anthropology of the United States. Faculty members or graduate students who feel conflicted about the field would find this unique book generative in their own rethinking of what anthropology might be. . . . Intimacy is essential to the kind of writing that moves us. Yet, as Benson explores over the course of the book, it is often extractive and subsequently erased in our writing in the name of professionalism. The book is a call to consider what else might be possible or if we are all simply stuck moving." * Anthropological Quarterly * "With Stuck Moving, Peter Benson has written an unconventional book. It's self-critical, honest and deeply personal. . . . It takes courage to write a book like this, and skill to write it in this way. Benson has proven both, and his book will appeal to students and professionals interested in the human behind the monograph, the person behind the tenure." * Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale *