Below is a video conversation about the 2024 book prize winner, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth … More
Author: Jennifer Curtis
Jennifer Curtis is a Visiting Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.
Speaking Justice to Power 2025: Inauguration Discussion
APLA invites members and the public to a livestream event on Friday, January 24, 2025, from 12—2 PM Eastern Standard … More
2024-25 Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge and … More
AAA Town Hall on the Annual Meeting in Tampa
AAA invites members to join a Town Hall on Tuesday, February 27th from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. EDT, for a discussion of … More
APLA Statement in Support of Critical Scholarship
To add your name, complete this form. As concerned anthropologists and social scientists, we join scholars and scholarly associations around … More
Repair: AES / APLA Spring Conference 2024
April 4-6, 2024 | University of Pittsburgh In the face of compounding harms—mass extinctions, settler-colonial dispossession, gentrification, displacement—what does it … More
Florida 2024 Annual Meeting: APLA Calls for AAA Transparency
This statement is a call to action from the board of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology. The Association … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Contingent Labor
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology The seventh episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on contingent labor in … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Australia
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology This sixth episode of Hiring Rituals focuses on hiring practices in … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in South Africa
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fifth podcast episode explores how South African anthropology departments hire. … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Sweden
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our fourth podcast episode explores how Swedish anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Hiring in Norway
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our third podcast episode explores how Norwegian anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: UK Hiring
Presented by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology Our second podcast episode explores how UK anthropology departments hire. Every … More
Academic Hiring Rituals Podcast by APLA: Law School Hiring
This series on academic hiring for anthropologists asks academics in different countries with considerable experience on hiring committees how hiring works in their academic systems to enable applicants to navigate these different processes.
Speaking Justice to Power Ebooks Available!
The Speaking Justice to Power series is now available as downloadable ebooks. SJP I & II are available on our teaching resources page. You may also download them here:
From Structural to Stochastic Violence
Last spring, Karina Biondi, 2017 APLA Book Prize winner, approached us to develop a Speaking Justice to Power series on incarceration and confinement in the Americas, their role in authoritarian political movements…
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