Truth and Responsibility is the theme for the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting, which will be held November 17 – November 21 in Baltimore, Maryland…
What Do You Mean by Abolition?
Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary social and racial justice movements in various global contexts, for example, appearing in debates in the United States around calls to defund the police and consider the necessity of prisons. Despite the increased…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2021
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering…
APLA’s Statement on Academic Freedom in Turkey
APLA stands in solidarity with Boğaziçi University students, faculty and staff who have been protesting the anti-democratic and illegitimate…
Now Open: APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.
Recruiting: APLA Junior-Senior Mentoring
We are now recruiting mentors and mentees for the APLA Junior-Senior Mentor Program!
APLA On Demand
In addition to APLA’s livestream events at the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices, APLA is sponsoring a number of on-demand events including podcasts, talks, and a virtual poster, which can all be accessed at your convenience. A full list of the APLA’s on-demand events is available below:
APLA Livestream Events
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce its schedule of sponsored livestream events for the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices. Don’t miss these exciting panels, which begin on November 6th. While we don’t have the pleasure of meeting in person this year, we do hope to see you virtually at the panels below!
APLA 2020 Book Prize!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology…
Editorial Introduction: On the Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism
On March 23rd, 2019, the state of Texas banned abortion as the COVID-19 pandemic led to…
Business as Usual in the DR Congo: Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Global Complicity
“In much of Africa, ‘wife’ is a four-letter word,” writes Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí (2000: 1096, emphasis in original). “[Instead] Mother…
Waiting for LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers in Germany: A Form of State Control and Resistance
Since 2016, the European Union has made efforts to streamline and simplify the administrative procedure for international refugee protection…
Restricting and Shaping Women’s International Migrations from Indonesia
ases of abuse and violence against Indonesian migrant domestic workers abroad regularly make headlines nationally and internationally…
“Would You Come With Me to the Line?”: Lawfare and Legal Accompaniment at the US-Mexico Border
Between July 2015 and July 2018, when I did ethnographic fieldwork on the politics of care, hospitality…
Sounds Fishy?
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Livia Garofalo, Elisa Lanari, and Martina Cavicchioli – September 10,…
Kashmiri Goats, Imaginaries of Freedom, and the Planetary Pandemic
Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…
