Journal updates

Join us in congratulating Dialectical Anthropology for receiving their first Impact Factor

This special issue interrogates how the precaritization of labor affects the form and possibilities of contemporary work-based politics. It does so in reference to ethnographic research conducted in a wide variety of contexts that consider how the experience of precarity vary between the Global North and South. It demonstrates strategies, histories, and experiences from South, East, and Central Asia, as well as the Middle East, Europe, and Latin America in order to analyze how labor politics are embedded in daily life and what it means to live with risk, resistance, aspiration, bureaucracy, morality, class conflict, and the state. 

For this special issue of Dialectical Anthropology, we invite you to submit papers that explore how minority actors in South Asia—including social activists, filmmakers, citizen journalists and others—navigate new digital environments and how their practices of becoming visible—or, in fact, of remaining invisible—alleviate or exacerbate their often-precarious lifeworlds.

This special issue calls for ‘integrative’ ethnographies of class formation in Africa. It seeks comprehensive research that considers the historic relationships, ruptures and ‘long dispossessions’ through which individual and collective identities are formed. Rather than class as a single, static status signifier, we seek studies which embed class in dialogue with family, community and nation; as they explore its material, experiential and moral aspects. The special issue therefore calls for contributions that consider African workers and their unions through history, culture and identity-making. It aims to explore how workers’ local, vernacular identities and tangible solidarities create working classes and considers how classed identities shape social change.  

We call for revisiting “anti-imperialist theory from the south” as a conceptual resource for developing a renewed anthropology of empire in the present. We invite papers of approximately 7,000 words for a small, online workshop of 6 - 7 participants, to be held in May 2023 with the aim of putting together a special issue for Dialectical Anthropology.

The 2020 impact metrics for Dialectical Archaeology are given below. We thank our authors, reviewers, readers, editorial board, and editorial staff for a wonderful year.

Call for Commentaries

Deadline: October 15, 2021

This special issue calls for papers that engage the labor theory of value from anthropological perspectives.

Manuscript length:

Approximately 7,000 words including notes and bibliography.

Due Dates:

Abstract: 04 Dec 2020

Full Version: 01 February 2021

Please indicate your interest by contacting:

Guest editor:

Luis Angosto-Ferrandez, University of Sydney, email: luis.angosto-ferrandez@sydney.eu.au

A Dialectical Anthropology Forum Series  

Dialectical Anthropology (DA) welcomes proposals for Special Issues/ Themed Sections. Please submit a proposal of approximately 300 words to Editors with a title and outline of the aims of the issue/section. The proposal should also include a list of potential topics within the theme that will be covered and if possible, potential authors. The proposal will be reviewed by editors.The coordinators of the accepted proposal will be invited to serve as guest editors. If needed, a call for papers will be posted on the DA website with guidelines for potential authors.Each issue of Dialectical Anthropology will also include volunteered papers.

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