In this special issue of SITES, due for publication in December 2024, we invite submissions that continue and expand upon this year’s ASAANZ conference theme, “Engaging Anthropology.”
Social Anthropology is a field of diverse application, interest, and scope. In this call for papers we invite contributors to think about “engaging” anthropology, in two senses. First, who are anthropologists engaged with – what communities, stakeholders, and power structures, are we connected to, and what possibilities do these relationships generate? Second, what does it mean for our work to be engaging to others – who are we communicating to, and how do we make anthropological knowledges meaningful and accessible to them?
We invite papers of 6,000–8,000 words to be submitted by 15 April, 2024. Author guidelines are available at https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/about/submissions
For further information, please contact Ruth Fitzgerald: ruth.fitzgerald@otago.ac.nz
Call for roundtable contributions: “Austerity in Academia”
In this special section for our December 2023 issue, due for publication in early 2024, we invite short opinion pieces on challenges to our disciplines at a time when some 1,000 academic jobs may be lost in total across the post-compulsory education sector in Aotearoa.
We welcome your thoughts on the current state and future prospects for learning, research and teaching where many disciplines – and the people who are at the heart of what we do – are under tremendous stress. Topics might include (but are not limited to): Taking note of what is happening and where – reshaping research aspirations and methods under austerity – tertiary education policy in an election year – impacts on local and national research capabilities – opportunities to rethink priorities and approaches – ethnography of redundancy, precarity, personal stories – new landscapes and spaces of education and knowledge production.
We invite papers of 3,000–4,000 words to be submitted by 31 January, 2024. Author guidelines are available at https://sites.otago.ac.nz/Sites/about/submissions
For further information, please contact Jenny Lawn: j.m.lawn@massey.ac.nz
About the journal:
Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing scholarly papers which explore aspects of Pacific societies and cultures. We define the Pacific in its widest possible sense to include the Pacific Rim, Oceania, New Zealand and the diasporas of people outwards from these regions. We welcome original papers focused on empirical studies or theoretical, methodological or pedagogical topics which fall within this broad purview. Our journal is trans- and multidisciplinary and we invite submissions at any time from scholars from a diverse array of disciplinary traditions.
