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Jun 22
4 min

Discussing Policy with Prisoners

Association for the Anthropology of Policy Jason Bartholomew Scott June 16, 2020 I teach an anthropology course within the Wisconsin Depa...

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Mar 20
5 min

China, Soft Power, and Confucius Institutes with Jennifer Hubbert

A conversation with Jennifer Hubbert, author of China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization.

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Jan 22
6 min

Talking about Sovereignty and Action with Gregory Feldman

In this Association for the Anthropology of Policy column, Ted Powers interviews Gregory Feldman about his 2019 book, The Gray Zone.

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Nov 1, 2019
3 min

ASAP at the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting

ASAP is sponsoring four panels and two section events at the Annual Meeting in Vancouver this month.

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Jul 12, 2019
6 min

Encounters with Lunar Dust

"From Neil Armstrong’s footprints to future missions to Mars, contamination fears and policies lie at the heart of our cosmic explorations."

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May 2, 2019
6 min

Readmission Policy and State-NGO-Funder Relations in Malawi

"I examine power in development through the review of Malawi’s 1993 Readmission Policy banning the expulsion of pregnant girls from school."

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Mar 6, 2019
4 min

Notes from the Section Leadership

The activities of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy in review, by ASAP co-Presidents Carol MacClennan and Paul Stubbs

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Nov 5, 2018
3 min

Situating Policy in an Unsettled World at the 2018 Annual Meeting

A discussion of ASAP panels and events at the upcoming AAA 2018 meeting in San Jose, CA.

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Jul 13, 2018
5 min

Forecasting Policy Trends

"Applying predictive technologies to public policy questions allows anthropologists to inject a human-focused approach into policy tools..."

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Mar 9, 2018
4 min

Notes from the Section Leadership

The activities of the Association for the Anthropology of Policy in review, by ASAP co-Presidents David Haines and Cris Shore.

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Feb 15, 2018
5 min

Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner

“The Neighborhood School Stigma: School Choice, Stratification, and Shame”

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Jan 8, 2018
5 min

Blue Children and All Shades of Responsibility

Review of: One Blue Child: Asthma, Responsibility, and the Politics of Global Health, by Susanna Trnka. Review by Ema Hrešanová .

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Nov 3, 2017
4 min

Making Sense of Nuclear Waste

I pitch an anthropological take, to our understanding of the broad and complex contexts out of which public policy on nuclear energy arises

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Nov 1, 2017
4 min

Policy Matters

A discussion of ASAP panels and events at the upcoming AAA 2017 meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Sep 19, 2017
5 min

Graduate Student Paper Prize Winner: In the Loop and Off the Record

"I call attention to an 'in the loop and off the record' culture that reinforces the privileged status of this political community."

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Jul 24, 2017
3 min

The Anthropology of Policy Emerges

ASAP seeks to advance the contributions of the anthropology of policy to theory and method in anthropology, as well as to research and actio

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Apr 27, 2017
4 min

Between Tradition and Modernity

The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Numvi Gwaibi (University of Pretoria) April 27, 2017 Politics and Policy in Cameroon The g...

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Apr 4, 2017
3 min

Notes from the Section Leadership: ASAP sessions at the IUAES in Dubrovnik (May 2016)

A note from section leadership on finding ways to be part of discussions about the anthropology of policy beyond the AAA

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Apr 2, 2017
4 min

Speaking Ethnography to Policy

"We propose that the anthropology of policy should be concerned to communicate its knowledge to the community of policy makers."

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Mar 3, 2017
5 min

Presidential Election in Austria and Rise of the Far Right

"A case study of the presidential elections in Austria helps us move beyond polls to more deeply analyze social transformations."

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