BERGHAHN JOURNALS

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.

FOCAAL 56 (forthcoming Spring 2010)

THEME SECTION:
Non-binding coercions: Ethnographic perspectives on soft law

Edited by Filippo Zerilli

The rule of soft law: An introduction
Filippo Zerilli

Softening culture, opening Europe: The European Civil Society Platform for Intercultural Dialogue
Jeff Katcherian

From soft to hard law: Culture, identity, and language in the Northern Ireland Bill of Rights process
Elizabeth Craig

Untangling the “transnational social”: Soft affirmative action, human rights, and corporate social responsibility in Brazil
Rocío Alonso Lorenzo

ARTICLE

Participatory budgeting in Peru: Democratization, state control, or community autonomy?
Susan Vincent

FORUM

What makes our projects anthropological?
Edited by Gavin Smith

Culture and praxis in post-modern times
Kirk Dombrowski

Emergent anthropologies
Douglas R. Holmes

Coincidences as connections: "Reading across" disciplines while "reading from" anthropology
Jane Cowan

REVIEW ARTICLE

“Dutchness” and the migrant “other”: From suppressed superiority to explicit exclusion?
Halleh Ghorashi

Focaal

Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology

Aims & Scope