APLA Graduate Student Workshops at AAA 2014 Call for participants… Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for … More
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Human Rights Come Home?
Interested in how global oversight bodies shape the substance of human rights imaginaries? Source: UNOHCHR By Joshua Clark. A coalition of … More
HIV/AIDS, policing sex work and public health in India: an interview with Simanti Dasgupta
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is featuring interviews with our members who participated in Law and Society Association’s … More
New LSA Ethnography, Law & Society Collaborative Network
At the recent LSA meetings in Minnesota, a group of ethnographically-oriented researchers (including graduate students, post-docs, and faculty) came together … More
Graduate Student Paper Prize!
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition Deadline: August 1, 2014 The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board invites … More
Meet the new APLA Board Members!
APLA election outcomes are out! Catherine Besteman (Colby College) is now our President-Elect, Roberto Gonzales (San Jose State University) will … More
APLA at LSA Meetings ’14: Law and Inequalities – Global and Local
APLA members are launching a new Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Ethnography, Law and Society through the Law and Society … More
Update from Madelaine Adelman, APLA President!
The APLA Board and Committees have been busy working on a number of projects. Here is Madelaine Adelman’s summary of … More
PoLAR in Search of a New Editor!
Call for Nominations: Editor(s) of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) Board … More
Political Anthropology in Public: Thick Description in 1500 words or less
Natasha Zaretzky’s contribution to the APLA Anthropology News column is out, check it here! Natasha Zaretsky, left, with a research … More
Presidential Address Now Published!
Don’t miss Susan Coutin and Sally Merry’s joint APLA-AES 2013 Presidential Address now published in American Ethnologist: Technologies of truth … More
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D. and J.D.) to send stand-alone papers … More
Another of our 2013 AAA meetings mentoring workshops: mobility, law and citizenship
“Mobility, Law & Citizenship” Workshop, by Véronique Fortin, UC Irvine. On November 21st 2013, a small group of scholars gathered … More
New APLA Book Prize!
In 2014 APLA is launching its new Book Prize to recognize the innovative, cutting edge and thought provoking work that … More
APLA Business Meeting at AAA 2013
Don’t miss APLA’s business meeting substantive discussion on broadening anthropology’s reach! Saturday November 23rd, 12:15-1.30 pm, Chicago Hilton, Marquette Room.
Susan Coutin talks to ALLEGRA about her research and the challenges of communicating with broader audiences
Check out Susan Coutin’s (APLA President 2011-2013) recent conversation with ALLEGRA about research, communicating our work and new ways of … More
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