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July 5, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Call for Papers for the Special Issue “Positioning, Militancy and Public engagement”

Journal: Public Anthropologist, https://brill.com/view/journals/puan/puan-overview.xml Guest editor: Angela Biscaldi (University of Milan) Format: We welcome both research articles (between 6000 and 9000 words) and shorter essays (between 3000 and 5000 words). Abstracts submission: Please send your abstract to angela.biscaldi@unimi.it by September 9, 2024. Full papers submission: If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to …

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March 18, 2024 by Antonio De Lauri

Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024

The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2024 is Maria-Theres Schuler for her book Disability and Aid. An Ethnography of Logics and Practices of Distribution in a Ugandan Refugee Camp (Brill, 2023). Maria-Theres Schuler is a social anthropologist, journalist, and filmmaker with expertise in global inequality, corporate responsibility and social movements. Disability and Aid is an important book written with a …

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January 24, 2024January 24, 2024 by Public Anthropologist

Call for Papers | Special Issue: Speaking out against genocide and repression

In this special issue, we invite anthropologists to reflect on their responsibilities and experiences of speaking and acting out in response to Israel’s assaults on Gaza, and to consider what is at stake and what is possible through intervening inside or outside the academy.

October 26, 2023November 21, 2023 by Public Anthropologist

Statement on the situation in Palestine

Signed by scholars of humanitarianism, war, displacement and related fields, this statement calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, the urgent passage of humanitarian relief and a peace process that ends the occupation of Palestinian territories.

February 22, 2023July 3, 2023 by Antonio De Lauri

Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2023

The winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2023 is Gwen Burnyeat for her book The Face of Peace. Government Pedagogy amid Disinformation in Colombia. Gwen Burnyeat is Junior Research Fellow in Anthropology at Merton College, University of Oxford. The Face of Peaceis an engaging journey into the complexity of Colombians’ peace efforts and challenges. Moving between different …

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June 10, 2022October 7, 2022 by Antonio De Lauri

Public Anthropologist Award 2023 (PUAN-A)

PUAN-A is awarded to a social and cultural anthropologist who has published an outstanding contribution that addresses – in innovative, engaging and compelling ways – key societal issues related to one or more of the following topics: violence, war, poverty, social movements, freedom, aid, rights, injustice, inequality, social exclusion, racism, health, and environmental challenges. A …

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February 14, 2022February 5, 2024 by Antonio De Lauri

Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2022

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2022 is Catherine Besteman for her book Militarized Global Apartheid. Catherine Besteman is Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College. Throughout her career, she has worked on issues related to power dynamics that produce and maintain inequality, racism and …

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September 24, 2021September 24, 2021 by Public Anthropologist

Public Anthropologist Award 2022

Public Anthropologist Award (PUAN-A) is awarded to a social and cultural anthropologist who has published an outstanding contribution that addresses – in innovative, engaging and compelling ways – key societal issues related to one or more of the following topics: violence, war, poverty, social movements, freedom, aid, rights, injustice, inequality, social exclusion, racism, health, and …

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February 27, 2021February 5, 2024 by Antonio De Lauri

Winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2021

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Public Anthropologist Award 2021 is Ather Zia for her book Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism in Kashmir, University of Washington Press (2019) and Zubaan Publishing (2020). Ather Zia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Gender Studies Program at the University of Northern Colorado …

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June 21, 2020January 15, 2023 by Public Anthropologist

In Solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter and Call for Dismantling Structural Racism in Germany

Public statement issued by the Working Group Public Anthropology, German Anthropological Association. Drafted on 6 June 2020 Follow us on Twitter @AGPublicAnthro and Facebook In the aftermath of the brutal police killing of George Floyd, nation-wide protests have erupted against police violence and structural anti-Black racism in the United States. In most major cities …

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