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…
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…
The Specter of Gender Discrimination in the Removal of Kashmir’s Autonomy
On August 5, 2019, the quasi-autonomy of Indian administered Kashmir was removed militarily without consulting the Kashmiri legislature or the people. This move was as illegal (Parthasathy 2019) and deemed…
Social Contract and Its Discordance in Gilgit-Baltistan
Historically, the region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan was governed through “microstates” and tribal councils in different valley domains. For centuries…
Laughter and leaked memos: debating state violence at a Kashmiri baker’s shop
A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…
