Academic Freedom, Immigration, and Carceral Regimes At the American Anthropological Association Annual Meetings, New Orleans Cosponsored by APLA (Association for … More
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Resources and Links on Academic Freedom Relevant to Anthropologists
To be updated regularly. Last update March 21, 2025 Contact: Heath Cabot (heath.cabot@uib.no) Have you found yourself under attack within … More
APLA Taskforce on Academic Freedom
Letter from APLA President: Call for Action and Help March 21, 2025 Dear APLA Members and Friends, As you know, … More
Fighting to Breathe Video Conversation
Below is a video conversation about the 2024 book prize winner, Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth … More
Nominations Open: 2025 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2025 APLA Book Prize in … More
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
Announcing the winners of the APLA Book and Paper Prizes
APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology recognizes work that best exemplifies creativity and rigor in the ethnographic exploration of politics, law, and/or … More
Letter From The President
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take … More
“Non-Existent Plots”: Land Fraud in Nairobi’s Construction Boom
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Peter Lockwood In 2022, Lesedi Developers, a land-selling company in Kenya … More
Fire’s Alter-Lives: Climate Change Adaptation and Settler Futurity in Bolivia
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Mareike Winchell Jesús Valdivia planned to get his cows high. This, … More
Haunting Technoscientific Futures in South Korea
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Hae-Seo Kim – April 22, 2024 There is an underground cave … 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
Congratulations! APLA’s 2022 Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
The 2022 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology was awarded to James H. Smith for “The Eyes of the World: Mining the Digital Age in the Eastern DR Congo.” Congratulations!
Indeterminacy: A co-hosted spring conference
Registrations and submissions are now open! This year’s spring conference is committed to exploring the nature and dangers of indeterminacy. The time has come for indeterminacy to be interrogated, not least for the ways it prevents a rush to judgment, enables prurient behavior, and creates blind spots towards injustice. Yet if anthropology is to avoid retreating to a high moralizing stance…
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