Racism, BLM and Immigrant Rights: Discussion at APLA Business Meeting
In 2016, global politics brought race and immigration to the forefront of political debates. Humanitarian crises stemming from conflict in the Middle East, the U.S. presidential election, and the U.K. Brexit referendum highlighted conflicts about race, place, and belonging…
Human Rights Vernacularizations: Celebrating the Work of Sally Merry
In the last decade Sally Merry’s work on vernacularization and translation has recast anthropological analysis of human rights. These concepts have helped anthropology move beyond the universalism-relativism debate to open a new ethnographic and theoretical terrain concerned with the practice of human rights…
Life Matters: Accountability, Complicity, Politics
Anthropology’s knowledge project has long been entangled with its political project. The questions we have asked have emerged from specific real world issues and problems, while also exploring broad theoretical questions…
Evidence of Malfeasance
The globalization of both liberal, transparent selfhood and neoliberal, commodified selfhood have altered local ethical regimes around the world. But has this changed how we verify ethical breaches?…
Post-Genomic Constitutions: Law, Science and the Politics of Inclusion
We live in a world where human health is increasingly rendered knowable through technologies of molecularization. These technologies raise important questions about the intersection of law and science…
APLA Early Career Mentoring
At the 2016 AAA meetings, APLA will be offering two Early Career mentoring events; these events are free and open to all conference attendees.The first event, titled “Writing for the Media,” asks how we can contribute to public…
APLA Graduate Student Workshops
Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops…
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