Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale

Editors
Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Greece
Arne Harms, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Book Reviews Editor
Magda Craciun, University of Bucharest, Romania
Assistant Editor
Ville Laakkonen, Tampere University, Finland


Subjects: Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociology, Ethnology, Ethnography


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Latest Issue Table of Contents

Volume 32 (2024): Issue 2 (Jun 2024)

Volume 32 / 2024, 4 issues per volume (spring, summer, autumn, winter)

Aims & Scope

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale is the acclaimed Journal of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, the major professional organization for anthropologists in Europe. While European in profile, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale has a global scope. It publishes key contributions by both established and up-and-coming anthropologists. As part of the intellectual vitality of the Journal, it also features exciting Forums and Debates, an annual Review Essay which discusses outstanding books in adjoining disciplines or in public debate from an anthropological point of view, and a thriving Book Reviews Section.

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale est la Revue-phare de l’Association Européenne des Anthropologues Sociaux, la principale organisation professionnelle pour anthropologues en Europe. De profil Européen, cette Revue parmi les meilleures dans le domaine a une portée mondiale. Elle publie des articles-clés dont les auteurs sont des anthropologues établis comme des talents prometteurs. La vitalité intellectuelle de la Revue est également assurée par des ‘Débats’ et Forums reguliers dédiés aux sujets contemporais, un ‘Article de Revue’ examinant des ouvrages exceptionnels de disciplines voisines ou d’intérêt public actuel d’un point de vue anthropologique, et une excellente section ‘Revue des Livres’.


Indexing/Abstracting

Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale is indexed/abstracted in:

  • Anthropological Index (Royal Anthropological Institute)
  • Anthropological Literature (Harvard University)
  • BIAB: British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (biab online)
  • Current Contents: Social & Behavioral Sciences (Clarivate Analytics)
  • Expanded Academic ASAP (GALE Cengage)
  • FRANCIS Database (INIST/CNRS)
  • InfoTrac (GALE Cengage)
  • ProQuest Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
  • Psychology Collection (GALE Cengage)
  • PsycINFO/Psychological Abstracts (APA)
  • Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest)
  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Clarivate Analytics)
  • SocINDEX (EBSCO Publishing)
  • Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)

Editors

Dimitra Kofti, Panteion University, Greece
Arne Harms, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany

Book Reviews Editor

Magda Craciun, University of Bucharest, Romania

Assistant Editor

Ville Laakkonen, Tampere University, Finland

EASA Editorial Board

Ana Ivasiuc, University of Maynooth, Ireland
Alexandra Oancă, KU Leuven, Belgium
Hege Høyer Leivestad, University of Oslo, Norway
Roger Sansi Roca, University of Barcelona, Spain
Dominic Bryan, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland
Hayal Akarsu, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Monica Heintz, University of Paris Nanterre, France
David Mills, University of Oxford, UK

International Editorial Advisory Board

Adam Yet Chau, University of Cambridge, UK
Alexandra Bakalaki, Aristotle University, Greece
Ammara Maqsood, University College London, UK
Caitlin Zaloom, New York University, USA
Charlotte Bruckermann, University of Cologne, Germany
Der-Ruey Yang, Nanjing University, China
Detelina Tocheva, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Eräsaari Matti, University of Helsinki, Finland
Gabriella Coleman, McGill University, Canada
Gisela Welz, Goethe University, Germany
Hanna Cervinkova, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Helena Wulff, Stockholm University, Sweden
Hugh Gusterson, George Washington University, USA
Insa Koch, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Jean-Sébastien Marcoux, HEC Montréal, Canada
Lukas Ley, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
Mark Maguire, National University of Ireland, Maynooth
Martin Lamotte, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France
Mihn Nguen, Bielefeld University, Germany
Nicholas de Genova, University of Houston, USA
Niko Besnier, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nitzan Shoshan, Colegio de México, Mexico
Olivier Allard, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, France
Paolo Favero, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Paul Wenzel Geissler, University of Oslo, Norway
Sarah Green, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sharon Macdonald, Humboldt University, Germany
Sophie Chevalier, Universite de Franche-Comte, France
Stephen Campbell, University of Bergen, Germany
Susana Narotzky, University of Barcelona, Spain
Tenhunen Sirpa, University of Helsinki, Finland
Todd Sanders, University of Toronto, Canada
Victor Buchli, University College, London, UK
Yael Navaro, University of Cambridge, UK

For a list of previous editors, click here.

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Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale is a refereed journal. Articles, which may be in English or French, should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere. Authors should submit their papers to Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale through Open Journals Systems (OJS).

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Articles should be no longer than 7000 words, including references and notes, but excluding the abstract. Articles may include an abstract in the language spoken in the main fieldsite.
Special Issue proposals will be considered twice a year. The first round will consider proposals submitted until January 1st, the second will consider proposals submitted unitil July 1st.
Preprints: Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale will consider for review articles available as preprints. We request that authors update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.


How to contact us

Technical questions? Contact the Assistant Editor at saas@berghahnjournals.com

Editors’ Questions? Please contact either:

Dimitra Kofti, d.kofti@panteion.gr or
Isabelle Rivoal, isabelle.rivoal@cnrs.fr

Book Reviews questions? Please contact harms@eth.mpg.de

Books for review can be sent to:
Arne Harms
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology 
04116 Halle/Saale
Germany
email: harms@eth.mpg.de


Publication Ethics Statement

Authors published in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale certify that their works are original and their own. The editors certify that all materials, with the possible exception of editorial introductions, book reviews, and some types of commentary, have been subjected to double-blind peer review by qualified scholars in the field. While the publishers and the editorial board make every effort to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions, or statements appear in this journal, they wish to make it clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor concerned. For a more detailed explanation concerning these qualifications and responsibilities, please see the complete Social Anthropology/Anthropology sociale publication ethics statement.

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In 2022 Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale joined the Berghahn Open Anthro subscribe-to-open initiative. Launched in 2020, BOA-S2O has successfully converted a collection of 16 anthropology journals to full Open Access using S2O as its equitable and sustainable model of choice.

Worlds of sense and sensing the world

A response to Sarah Pink and David Howes

Author:

In a recent debate with Sarah Pink in the pages of , concerning the prospects for an anthropology that would highlight the work of the senses in human experience, David Howes objects to what I have myself written on this topic, specifically in my book (Ingold 2000). In doing so, he distorts my arguments on six counts. In this brief response, I set the record straight on each count, and argue for a regrounding of the virtual worlds of sense, to which Howes directs our attention, in the practicalities of sensing the world.

Author:

The anthropology of neoliberalism has become polarised between a hegemonic economic model anchored by variants of and an insurgent approach fuelled by derivations of the Foucaultian notion of . Both conceptions obscure what is ‘neo’ about neoliberalism: the reengineering and redeployment of the state as the core agency that sets the rules and fabricates the subjectivities, social relations and collective representations suited to realising markets. Drawing on two decades of field‐based inquiries into the structure, experience and political treatment of urban marginality in advanced society, I propose a between these two approaches that construes neoliberalism as an that harnesses the first to impose the stamp of the second onto the third. Bourdieu's concept of bureaucratic field offers a powerful tool for dissecting the revamping of the state as stratification and classification machine driving the neoliberal revolution from above and serves to put forth three theses: (1) neoliberalism is not an economic regime but a political project of state‐crafting that puts disciplinary ‘workfare’, neutralising ‘prisonfare’ and the trope of individual responsibility at the service of commodification; (2) neoliberalism entails a rightward tilting of the space of bureaucratic agencies that define and distribute public goods and spawns a Centaur‐state that practises liberalism at the top of the class structure and punitive paternalism at the bottom; (3) the growth and glorification of the penal wing of the state is an integral component of the neoliberal Leviathan, such that the police, courts and prison need to be brought into the political anthropology of neoliberal rule.