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: Early Career Mentoring Events
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is committed to mentoring students and early career scholars. At the 2015 AAA meetings, the section will be offering two Early Career mentoring events; these events are free and open to all conference attendees…
Creativity, Recognition, and Indigenous Heritage
What happens when people decide to claim ownership over ritual dances? What is the effect of declaring such expressions as heritage? Who should control collective knowledge…
AAA 2015 Preview: Graduate Student Workshops
Each year during the AAA meetings, the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) sponsors a series of special workshops in which small groups of graduate students and faculty…
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..
LSA 2016: Law and Ethnography CRN Call for Proposals
AT THE DELTA: Belonging, Place and Visions of Law and Social Change June 2 – 5, 2016 Law and Society…
Registration Now Open for Cannabis Cultures AAA 2015
Cannabis Cultures Event Registration: http://tinyurl.com/n9awxhe As you plan for the American Anthropological Association meeting in November, save the date for a special cannabis…
New in PoLAR Online: Emergent Conversations
In 2015, the Political and Legal Anthropology Review is introducing a new feature, Emergent Conversations. For years, we have featured…
APLA at LSA 2015
#LSAWA2015 Connect with APLA at the Law and Society Association Annual Meeting in Seattle, May 28-31. APLA members are active…
APLA Announces 2015 Graduate Student Paper Prize
“A Kind of Magic” by Gisela Giardino APLA (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology) is pleased to announce that the…
Disavowing the Law and Engaging Politics in Rural China
By Andrea E. Pia – PhD Candidate, LSE This month, APLA is proud to present a column by the winner…
APLA Book Prize 2015!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to launch its 2015 prize for the book that best exemplifies…
#BlackLivesStillMatter: Race and Justice at AAA 2015
In response to the overt racial injustice embedded in the organization of American policing and justice system, made undeniably visible…
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…
Producing Political and Legal Knowledge through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements
By Jennifer Curtis APLA hosted its inaugural salon, Producing Political and Legal Knowledge through Cross-Disciplinary Engagements, on December 3, 2014…
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