Glick Schiller, Nina (2016) “Positioning theory: An introduction” Anthropological Theory 16(2-3): 133-145.

Some key concepts and positions from this reading:
- Glick Schiller, and the other contributors to this issue of Anthropological Theory, see theory as political
    - specifically, theory should address issues of social justice, understand inequality, work to decolonize the discipline, and seek to be inclusive
- “theory from and for everybody”
    - theory should not emanate only from European modes of thinking
        - theory should be glocal
    - theory should be accessibly written
- theory should arise from careful observation, and should approximate reality
    - critical understanding of “science” and of “reality”
- reject notion of incommensurable cultural distinctiveness (“the ontological turn;” “worlding”); rather, theory should recognize commonalities, “shared human capacity to experience, understand, and communicate with others that has not been articulated by Euro-American universalisms” (p. 136)
    - argue that understandings are politically positioned, thus, need to understand who does theory, and who it is for
- theory should have the goal of achieving social justice (futurity)