Editorial Introduction: Migration, Mobility, and Displacement
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…
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Sounds Fishy?
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology for Anthropology News By Livia Garofalo, Elisa Lanari, and Martina Cavicchioli – September 10, … More
The Specter of Gender Discrimination in the Removal of Kashmir’s Autonomy
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)…
Kashmiri Goats, Imaginaries of Freedom, and the Planetary Pandemic
Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…
Social Contract and Its Discordance in Gilgit-Baltistan
By: Aziz Ali Dad This piece is part of APLA’s newest Speaking Justice to Power Series, which focuses on Kashmir … More
Laughter and leaked memos: debating state violence at a Kashmiri baker’s shop
A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…
Call for Nominations: Editor(s) of Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
The APLA Board of Directors seeks nominations for the next editor(s) of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We aim to announce the appointment by February 2021.…
Insecurity on Both Sides of the Line of Control
Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…
“The Kashmirization of India”: Comparison, Solidarity, and “Paranoid” Reading
What happens when the state of…
Chicaneries of Power and Subterfuge:
On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Union Government of India unilaterally revoked the special status accorded to India’s only Muslim majority state of Jammu and Kashmir…
Bollywood and the Banality of Militarization
On August 5, 2019, the Parliament of India unilaterally rescinded Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granting relative autonomy to the state…
Care of the Land: Sovereignty and Stewardship
The removal of Article 370 also stripped away Article 35A, that recognized the permanent residents (“state subjects”) of Jammu and Kashmir…
Which Kashmir? Pakistan wala ya India? Konsa Kashmir? Pakistan’s or India’s?
Last year, after the AAA meeting in Vancouver…
A Year of Siege:
One of the most significant historic transformations in the modern era of state and nation building is currently playing out through modalities of border warfare, permanent emergency and…
Statement and Resources
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) condemns the recent reprehensible killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, David McAtee, Tony McDade, and so many other…
Interview with Ishani Dasgupta, 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner
Ishani Dasgupta (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) was awarded APLA’s 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper…
Call for APLA Graduate Student Representative!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is currently accepting applications for a third Graduate Student Representative to the section’s Board of Directors. The successful applican…
APLA Graduate Student Paper Prize 2020
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 on the analysis of political…
Canceled: APLA/AES Spring Conference
Over the past few days, we have been closely following the potential impact of the global COVID-19 outbreak on Borders/Bridges, the AES/APLA joint spring conference in Austin, Texas.…
Now Open: 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology
Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, we have changed the name of the APLA book prize to the “APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology.” APLA is…
Borders/Bridges Preliminary Program!
We are pleased to announce that the preliminary conference program for the AES/APLA Spring 2020 Conference is now available HERE. Please note that the schedule is subject to…
AAA Annual Meeting 2020 CFPs
The 2020 AAA Annual Meeting, will be held November 18 – November 22 in St. Louis, Missouri. If you are looking for panelists for your session or looking for…
2019 Schedule for APLA at AAA/CASCA!
Welcome to the 2019 edition of APLA at the AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting schedule. Below is a list of events, panels, and workshops that are sponsored or co-sponsored by…
APLA Book Prize Winners!
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Book Prize! After months of work, the APLA Book Prize committee…