AN Call for Proposals: The Futures of Anthropology
Anthropology News seeks contributions for a thematic issue on the future/s of anthropology. To participate, email a 300-word abstract and 50-100-word biosketch to editor Dinah Winnick by August 17. Selected authors will be asked to submit commentaries of 1000-1400 words or shorter pieces for other articles types.
This topic responds to the 2009 AAA Annual Meeting theme "The End/s of Anthropology," prompting conversations on contemporary challenges facing the discipline and innovative visions of new directions, goals, audiences, theoretical orientations and methodologies. Proposed articles may address a variety of issues related to this theme, including (but not limited to):
What does our increasing emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and public engagement mean for the future of anthropology?
How will the diffusion of anthropological theory and practice into other disciplines impact anthropology education and how we identify as anthropologists?
How will we experience the relation between academic and practicing anthropology, and anthropology as a four-field discipline, in future years?
How will US-based anthropologists' increasing awareness of and engagement with vibrant scholarly communities outside the US impact the discipline?
How are anthropology's relationships to various publics and disciplines changing?
What kinds of publics might we seek to address or produce with our work, and how will we push the field's epistemological and presentational conventions to effectively do so?
How must we rethink notions of space and time in relation to new anthropological subjects and audiences, including migrant, diasporic, transnational and digital communities?
How do we conceptualize the proliferation of mass mediated intimacies, and what can this tell us about new forms of engagement?
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