Focaal

Appears 3 times a year

Focaal - Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision. It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as 'globalization' or 'empire'. Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between 'at home' and 'abroad' , 'center' and 'periphery'. The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an 'anthropology at large', that can accommodate issues of the global south, post-socialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.

Forthcoming Issue, Focaal 63

THEME SECTION

Changing flows in anthropological knowledge
Edited by Michał Buchowski and Virginia R. Dominguez

Introduction: The politics and ethics of collaboration among World Anthropologies
Michele Hanks

The world is a room: Beyond centers and peripheries in the global production of anthropological knowledge
Blai Guarné

Intricate Relations between ‘Western Anthropologists’ and ‘Eastern Ethnologists’
Michał Buchowski

Faltering Dialogue? Towards a doubly rooted cosmopolitan anthropology
Chris Hann

Mutuality, responsibility, and reciprocity in situations of marked inequality: Dilemmas of, and concerning, US anthropology in the World
Virginia R. Dominguez

Comments on ‘Changing Global Flows in Anthropological Knowledge’
Johannes Fabian

ARTICLE

Mobilizing for the petro-nation: Labor and petroleum in Ecuador
Gabriela Valdivia and Marcela Benavides

FORUM

Spaces of exception: The private administration of populations in the North and the South

Edited by Christopher Krupa and Gavin Smith

Unfolding the crease in liberal republican citizenship: An introduction to the postcolonial critique of Andrés Guerrero
Christopher Krupa

Echoes arising from two cases of the private administration of populations: African immigrants in twentieth century Spain and Indians in nineteenth century Ecuador
Andrés Guerrero

Andrés Guerrero
Interviewed and translated by Tristan Platt

Silence, echo, theory
Mark Thurner

The phantasy of theory and the missing people
João Biehl & Sebastian Ramirez

Response to Commentators
Andrés Guerrero

FORUM ARTICLE

Iran at the crossroads of democracy and dictatorship
Jakob Rigi