Author: kevinkarpiak
kevinkarpiak , May 7th, 2018
This piece is a little different from previous iterations of “Tip of The Cap.” Earlier entries into this series were written by published scholars, and they were written…
kevinkarpiak , April 5th, 2018
Please kindly consider the following panel proposal for the 2018 Annual Meeting for the American Anthropological Association (November 14-18, 2018 in San Jose, California). Panel Title: Secura: Secur…
kevinkarpiak , August 23rd, 2017
When we started this blog over 8 years (!) ago, part of the motivation was that those of us working on issues of policing from within the discipline…
kevinkarpiak , June 1st, 2017
Welcome to the last post of the 2016-2017 year of Anthropoliteia’s #BlackLivesMatter syllabus. We’ve invited all of the series contributors to offer their thoughts here as we reflect…
kevinkarpiak , March 29th, 2017
Desk of a Police sergeant in Munich, Germany © Wikimedia Commons The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to continue an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will …
kevinkarpiak , March 27th, 2017
Call for Papers for AAA 2017 Meeting in Washington, DC Session Title: Anthropology of Police: Techno-politics, Reform, and Questions of Violence Organizer: Hayal Akarsu Discussant: Kevin G. Karpiak…
kevinkarpiak , November 30th, 2016
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to present the latest entry in on ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagogical…
kevinkarpiak , November 15th, 2016
It’s that time of year again: time for Anthropoliteia’s list of papers and panels pertaining to police, security, crime, law and punishment at the Annual Meeting s of the…
kevinkarpiak , August 26th, 2016
In the most recent (September) issue of American Anthropologist, Angelique Haugerud has an excellent review of “Public Anthropology in 2015” which features both our series “#Ferguson…
kevinkarpiak , July 12th, 2016
If you’re like me, you may have had two academic articles with seemingly conflicting arguments run through your Facebook feed lately. The first, an article by Cody T….
kevinkarpiak , May 16th, 2016
See below a CFP for a special issue of the journal Qualitative Sociology on “Ethnographies of Security,” to be guest edited by Anthropoliteia contributor Rebecca Hanson The policies…
kevinkarpiak , March 24th, 2016
Organizers: Victor Kumar (Johns Hopkins U) and Amrita Ibrahim (Georgetown U) At a time when many aspects of law enforcement are coming under increased scrutiny, anthropologists have a renewed…
kevinkarpiak , November 10th, 2015
The editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome a special guest post from Orisanmi Burton as part of our series of anthropological reports From the Field The New York State Department…
kevinkarpiak , August 7th, 2015
Two bits of news concerning both Anthropoliteia and the journal Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR): First, we’re all so excited that our own William Garriot, along with friend-of-A…
kevinkarpiak , July 20th, 2015
The Editors of Anthropoliteia would like to welcome Greta Uehling for the latest in our continuing Forum, What’s Going on in Ukraine? As the war in Eastern Ukraine…
kevinkarpiak , July 15th, 2015
Abstracts are currently being solicited for a special issue of the journal Theoretical Criminology on the theme “the new anthropology of police as a mode of critical thought”…
kevinkarpiak , June 18th, 2015
Conference on Global Policing, Oxford UK (23 and 24 April 2015) Recently several of us here at Anthropoliteia were able to participate in a conference organized by Ian…
kevinkarpiak , May 7th, 2015
The AAA has decided to feature the “most-discussed” articles (as measured by Altmetrics) from Anthrosource by making them temporarily open-access. Among these are several articles that mi…