Tag: papers

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…
Ian M. Cook , August 11th, 2021
This paper analyses three different types of displacement – social, cultural and economic – in the lives of three women and their families which have been affected by…
Ian M. Cook , August 11th, 2021
Népszínház utca is a street that begs to be the subject of study. Its name, People’s Theatre Street, produces expectations that are fully met. Its surroundings are a…
Ian M. Cook , August 11th, 2021
Environmentalists, and the EU, have long voiced concern over a toxic waste site on the banks of the Danube in northern Hungary. So why do most locals living…
Ian M. Cook , November 2nd, 2020
You: Can podcasts be used as a method in anthropology? Me: Yes! You: How? Why? To what ends? But what about (INSERT CONCERN HERE)? Oh, wow it might…

randiirwin , June 5th, 2020
Ishani Dasgupta (PhD Candidate, University of Pennsylvania) was awarded APLA’s 2019 Graduate Student Paper Prize for her paper…
Ian M. Cook , January 2nd, 2020
As I write, the Indian state appears to be flexing its majoritarian muscles through the joint implementation of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of…

randiirwin , November 19th, 2019
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…
Alberto Acerbi , June 6th, 2019
You have probably heard the adagio that “man bites dog”, and not “dog bites man”, makes for a good piece of news: unusual, exceptional, events are better stories…
randiirwin , April 21st, 2019
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…
Alberto Acerbi , February 15th, 2019
Online misinformation, fake news, false news, hoaxes, you name it, has been blamed for almost everything bad happening in the last years, from the success of Trump to…
Alberto Acerbi , September 19th, 2018
The phenomenon of online diffusion of misattributed quotes is so widespread that got its own dedicated meme. You may have seen a picture of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th…