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randiirwin , April 10th, 2022
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program to send papers centering the analysis of political and/or legal institutions and processes…

randiirwin , March 11th, 2022
APLA has compiled a list resources for Ukrainian scholars in an attempt to create a simple, accessible, and comprehensive list of support services and placements for those in…


randiirwin , February 7th, 2022
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2022 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition…

randiirwin , November 18th, 2021
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to announce the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology!

randiirwin , October 21st, 2021
Incoming Co-Editors of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) journal, Sindiso Mnisi Weeks and Georgina Ramsay, are inviting…

randiirwin , April 27th, 2021
Truth and Responsibility is the theme for the 2021 AAA Annual Meeting, which will be held November 17 – November 21 in Baltimore, Maryland…
randiirwin , April 15th, 2021
Abolition is increasingly being used in popular and public discourse to describe contemporary social and racial justice movements in various global contexts, for example, appearing in debates in…

randiirwin , April 7th, 2021
The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program (including M.A., Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., S.J.D. etc.) to send papers centering…

randiirwin , February 23rd, 2021
APLA stands in solidarity with Boğaziçi University students, faculty and staff who have been protesting the anti-democratic and illegitimate…

randiirwin , February 5th, 2021
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to invite nominations for the 2021 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology competition.

randiirwin , February 5th, 2021
We are now recruiting mentors and mentees for the APLA Junior-Senior Mentor Program!

randiirwin , November 5th, 2020
In addition to APLA’s livestream events at the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices, APLA is sponsoring a number of on-demand events including podcasts, talks, and a…

randiirwin , November 5th, 2020
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology is pleased to announce its schedule of sponsored livestream events for the 2020 AAA fall event, Raising Our Voices. Don’t miss…

randiirwin , October 30th, 2020
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology to Dr. Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) for her book Nightmarch: Am…

randiirwin , September 16th, 2020
Between July 2015 and July 2018, when I did ethnographic fieldwork on the politics of care, hospitality…

randiirwin , September 16th, 2020
Since 2016, the European Union has made efforts to streamline and simplify the administrative procedure for international refugee protection…

randiirwin , September 16th, 2020
ases of abuse and violence against Indonesian migrant domestic workers abroad regularly make headlines nationally and internationally…

randiirwin , September 16th, 2020
“In much of Africa, ‘wife’ is a four-letter word,” writes Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí (2000: 1096, emphasis in original). “[Instead] Mother…

randiirwin , September 16th, 2020
On the Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism by María Lis Baiocchi – On March 23rd, 2019, the state of Texas banned…
randiirwin , September 10th, 2020
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Livia Garofalo, Elisa Lanari, and Martina Cavicchioli – September 10, … More

randiirwin , September 2nd, 2020
On August 5, 2019, the quasi-autonomy of Indian administered Kashmir was removed militarily without consulting the Kashmiri legislature or the people. This move was as illegal (Parthasathy 2019)…

randiirwin , September 2nd, 2020
Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…

randiirwin , August 25th, 2020
By: Aziz Ali Dad This piece is part of APLA’s newest Speaking Justice to Power Series, which focuses on Kashmir … More