Anthro Theory + Commons

Ghosts · Anthropological Theory

we are thrilled to announce Ghostly Lessons, a new special Theory Forum at ATC, edited by Emma Kowal and Amanda Domingues. Their intro is here www.at-commons.com/pub/k3r17d8f... and keep checking our @ as the entire Forum will be rolled out in the next two weeks here: www.at-commons.com/ghosts

see Public Anthro's important Special Issue "On Speaking Out: Refusing Complicity with Genocide" brill.com/view/journal...

The Rest and the West In the wake of a pandemic that tested economies and societies, geopolitical conflict has taken on a new intensity. The Rest and the West locates the origins of this development in the turbulent dynami...

can we interest any anthropologists (of security, capitalism, logistics, war, their intersections) in reviewing the new Mezz and Neil @versobooks.bsky.social? Those two are always a good time
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Book Reviews · Anthropological Theory reviews

for more on our book reviews, see: www.at-commons.com/reviews

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological ...

anyone want to review, in an anthropological theoretical vein, this new one on late Marx? So much to sink teeth into, given anthro's recent and longstanding concerns with colonialism, gender, and communism (indigenous and otherwise).
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check out Cambridge University Social Anthropology Society (CUSAS) Magazine's new issue: ‘Excess’

fittingly, there's too much good stuff in there:
www.cusas.socanth.cam.ac.uk/magazine-hom...

Errant phenomenology: an interview with Cheryl Mattingly

AT author Cheryl Mattingly reflects on how she does theory
www.at-commons.com/pub/pcmcrp4w..., examining how anthro takes on phenomenology can assist in grasping how we think about stigma and disability. Her interview continues our series with AT authors, see here: www.at-commons.com/interviews

Hurray - „Leaking panic as policy“, now published! Thanks so much @anthrotheory.bsky.social

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Book Reviews · Anthropological Theory reviews

we are soliciting anthropologists to review books of theory for how they apply to anthro (see here www.at-commons.com/reviews). Pitch us, and we'll get you a book for your trouble (press willing)

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feeling like we are in weeks where decades happen? want to theorize it, anthropologically? see www.at-commons.com and submit something.

Communitas revisited: Victor Turner and the transformation of a concept - Sarah Haggar, 2024 Victor Turner's concept of communitas has been used in and beyond anthropology for years in a variety of ways. It is an effective concept for understanding one ...

📰new article📰 by Sarah Haggar tackles Victor Turner's concept of communitas, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of the underdeveloped concept journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Immanent Externalities

any economic anthros (or adjacent) interested in reviewing Immanent Externalities for ATC? www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2403-i...

🚀 New Website! 🚀
#BlueAnthro - we at Anthro Theory Commons are pleased to announce that our new website at-commons.com is up!
This website can mint DOIs, which, when combined with our peer review process, makes your short-form theory more recognizable as scholarly text.

Social connections and ethical entrapments: On doing anthropology of and through the border regime - Viola Castellano, 2024 The article aims to conceptualize the relational dimension of the border regime and its function in reinforcing and reproducing global inequalities. It does so ...

find her article, "Social connections and ethical entrapments: On doing anthropology of and through the border regime," here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🎙️interview🎙️
Viola Castellano describes the "friction between wanting to uphold the right to move of people who are de facto immobilized and the fear of accidentally contributing to their encounter with the necropolitical forces of the border regime." www.at-commons.com/pub/tnlxpxyc...

"Interview: Human Remains and Essentialist Assumptions" www.at-commons.com/2023/10/09/i... - in which
Jonatan Kurzwelly and Malin S Wilckens discuss their AT article “Calcified identities: Persisting essentialism in academic collections of human remains”

Stringer Bell telling everybody that ATC is back up

Hi Hi Blue Sky! The new and improved ATC is coming your way soon! Watch this space for author interviews, idea incubator essays, thematic collections, and more – all with peer review and editorial support. Your new fav home for theory in short form.