These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
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#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part I
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Following the Law
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists…
AAA 2015 Preview: Rethinking the Household for the Age of Finance
One of the sessions in the upcoming AAA meeting in Denver, sponsored by the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology, looks at contemporary transformations of one of our most basic units of analysis, the household.
AAA 2015 Preview: Undisciplining Law and Economy
When we first sat down to discuss the idea for this panel, we knew we wanted to account for the comingling of legal and economic techniques, technologies, and forms of knowledge in the worlds we study…
AAA 2015 Preview: Speaking of Evidence
While many anthropologists’ discussions of evidence turn on a disciplinary concern with the ethnographic record and ethnographic texts as forms of evidence, the making and application of both evidence and evidence protocols are widespread, iterative social…
AAA 2015 Preview: The Actant Archive: On Surveillance, Subversion and Self-Fashioning
Anthropology’s interest in archives (and/or “The Archive”) is, of course, nothing new…From our own work in two East European contexts, we have discovered common..
Participatory democracy, civic engagement and citizenship education
“By The People” Participatory democracy, civic engagement and citizenship education Photo by Sara CALL FOR PROPOSALS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Arizona State … More
Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” at the AAA Meetings
Save the date! Happy Hour Salon: “Producing Political and Legal Knowledge Through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements” When: Wednesday, December 3, 6-8 pm. … More
APLA at that AAA Meetings, Washington D.C. 2014
Photo by Will Marlow Final preparations for the 2014 AAA Annual Meeting in Washington, DC have begun! As usual, APLA … 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
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
Upcoming AAA events!
Take a look at some of the events that APLA is organizing for our upcoming AAA meetings. The full list … More
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