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Condition humaine / Conditions politiques journal, the human condition and political conditions, an international journal of political anthropology

« Condition humaine / Conditions politiques », revue internationale d’anthropologie du politique

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Published on Wednesday, April 07, 2021

Abstract

Condition Humaine / Conditions Politiques was launched in December 2020 by a group of researchers based in France. This new journal proposes to develop and disseminate French and international research devoted to anthropological readings of politics in the contemporary world. Large-scale planetary transformations (ecological, social, digital, economic, etc.) are reconfiguring our presence in the world and consequently, the very concept of human being as an individual and collective political subject. In today’s world new forms of politics are emerging that go hand in hand with these transformations and invites to rethink the “political” object beyond its conventional boundaries.

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A new journal of political anthropology

Condition Humaine / Conditions Politiques was launched in December 2020 by a group of researchers based in France. This new journal proposes to develop and disseminate French and international research devoted to anthropological readings of politics in the contemporary world.

Large-scale planetary transformations (ecological, social, digital, economic, etc.) are reconfiguring our presence in the world and consequently, the very concept of human being as an individual and collective political subject. In today’s world new forms of politics are emerging that go hand in hand with these transformations and invites to rethink the “political” object beyond its conventional boundaries. The journal aims at providing the analyses that anthropology, associated with neighbouring disciplines, can perform of these radical transformations or reformulations of politics, including new forms of protests and alternative imaginations of futures, the reconfiguration of modes of the state in the age of globalization, but also of norms and flows, turmoil, fractures,.

Condition humaine / Conditions politiques aims to mobilize and set in motion the methods, approaches and concepts of political anthropology. It is grounded in the ethnographic method, in anthropological and historical knowledge, both about remote and near spaces, and in anthropological comparison. Its disciplinary boundaries overlap with those of other social and human sciences, historical and political sciences.

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Sections

Reshaping categories, reflecting on theoretical practices

This section analyzes the reciprocation of theories and categories among the various disciplines that deal with the political (as an) object of scrutiny. The aim here is to apprehend  the  current  renewal  of  political  anthropology  through  an  ongoing conversation between theory and field. (Contributions from 25.000 to 40.000 characters.) 

Turbulences

In this section we wish to account for the points of disruption, semantic shifts and muddling of categories that arise in current media debates and deserve particular attention from persons committed to scientific and civic engagement. (Contributions from 25.000 to 30.000 characters.) 

N.B.

Here are a few examples of themes present in current debates that may inspire contributions to Sections ‘Turbulences’ and ‘Reshaping categories’:

  • ‘Racism’, ‘State racism’ and ‘Anti-racism’;
  • ‘Universal’, ‘Creolization’ and ‘Métissage’;
  • ‘Beyond Intersectionality?’;
  • ‘Genesis, uses and misuses of a category: what is islamo-leftism?’;
  • ‘Thinking the gap: from anthropological decentering to historical anachronism’, etc.

A set of articles on categories, theories, and topical issues that are the subject of scientific debate and controversy may be proposed for publication in the Current Debates Section (see below).

Varia

Feature articles that focus primarily on political anthropology are published in this section, as well as contributions on visual arts, musics, litterature, etc. (Articles from 25.000 to 45.000 characters.)

Current Debates

This section focuses on specific issues, practices or geographical areas. Multidisciplinarity is welcome.

(Articles from 25.000 to 40.000 characters.)

Reviews and Interviews

This section welcomes reviews on books (15.000 characters) and Interviews (15.000 to 35.000 characters) with persons identified as major contributors to the field of political anthropology.

Submit an article

Condition humains / Conditions politiques is a French biannual multilingual journal. The journal hosts articles in French, English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

All the articles must include a long abstract of 3.000 to 4.500 characters, in English and in French.

The Journal comprises five Sections. We welcome authors’ contributions to the Journal’s following Sections: Reshaping categories, Turbulences, Varia, Current Debates, and Reviews and Interviews. Submissions to the first three sections are especially welcome.

Deadlines

  • Issue N° 3: We are now accepting submissions to Sections Turbulences and Varia only, through May 2021, for publication in December 2021.
  • Issue N° 4: We welcome submissions through October 2021 for publication in May 2022.
  • Issue N°5: We welcome submissions through May 2022 for publication in December 2023.

Kindly send articles and inquiries to : redaction.ch-cp@ehess.fr

For instructions to authors


Date(s)

  • Friday, March 31, 2023

Keywords

  • anthropologie politique, monde contemporain, pluridisciplinarité, globalisation, état, mouvement social, résistance

Contact(s)

  • Rédaction en chef CH/CH
    courriel : redaction [dot] ch-cp [at] ehess [dot] fr

Information source

  • Sabrina Melenotte
    courriel : sabrina [dot] melenotte [at] ird [dot] fr

License

CC0-1.0 This announcement is licensed under the terms of Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal.

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« Condition humaine / Conditions politiques journal, the human condition and political conditions, an international journal of political anthropology », Call for papers, Calenda, Published on Wednesday, April 07, 2021, https://calenda.org/862253

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