ONGOING CALL FOR PAPERS
Themed peer-reviewed issue: 'Law-making' between anthropology and public settings. The Journal of Legal Anthropology invites a broad range of papers on the interfaces between anthropology and public settings. What, for instance, are the different ways anthropology is visible and becomes part of the context within academia and in wider public settings? In what ways do customs and 'law-making' as implicit and explicit legal environments contribute to these settings? How might anthropology retain its academic integrity while engaging with the public and making its knowledge a sought-after product? What are the customary or legal frameworks that (should) sanction the meeting between government and academic anthropology? Whist certain debates produce anthropology as a 'select' discipline, it is increasingly relevant in contemporary concerns about difference and belonging. These concerns are produced in security-conscious contexts where anthropologists have to find ways to 'engage' and make anthropology accessible whilst maintaining an ethically-involved approach. In considering the body of practices which emerge as rules and guides in bringing anthropology into the public, practices and critiques emerge which (may) allow for a continual critical shaping of anthropology and, thus, reinforce its visibility as privileged in knowing about humans. How might this visibility be examined in relation to anthropological forms of knowledge construction and its publics? In what ways do these forms allow for such understandings of anthropology? How do critiques contribute to or reshape anthropological boundaries and its publics within and beyond academia? The journal also invites short pieces to provide for debate or a long conversation for consideration in the Forum section.
Please also propose book reviews on these and related topics.
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ONGOING CALL FOR PAPERS
The Journal of Legal Anthropology invites papers which explore how the transnational is composed and experienced in social, political and socio-legal settings. Papers may consider how families and other groups deal with borders and the forms of separation and re-making which occur, for instance. How does the national and transnational occur and or intervene in people's lives through the use of international conventions and human rights' laws? When is a custody right a violation or unenforceable? How are 'culture rights' and 'human rights' experienced within and across socio-legal, social-cultural and physical borders? In what ways are national/transnational families affected through movement, separation, re-settlement, and different understandings of rights and culture? What are the roles of new and old technologies in forming, un-making and mediating these settings? Papers may reflect on these and related issues in discussing multiple forms of belonging in relation to people and legal phenomena in the transnational. We also invite book reviews on these topics.
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