Aims & Scope

Increasing to 3 issues in 2009!

Focaal - European Journal of 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 54 (forthcoming Summer 2009)

ARTICLES

Against ethnicity: Ring composition and conflict resolution
Paul Richards

Beyond the utility of violence: Interpreting five homicides in the South African Lowveld
Isak Niehaus

Inventing ‘women’s history’: Female valor, martial queens, and storytellers in the Bombay slums
Atreyee Sen

Border tricksters and the predatory state: Contraband at the Romania-Serbia border during the Yugoslavian embargoes
Cosmin Radu

FORUM:

Accumulation by dispossession and Asia’s ‘modernizing’ Left
edited by Luisa Steur

What’s left? Land expropriation, socialist ‘modernizers’, and peasant resistance in Asia
Luisa Steur and Ritanjan Das

The meaning of Nandigram: Corporate land invasion, people’s power, and the Left in India
Tanika Sarkar and Sumit Chowdhury

“Communist” dispossession and “reactionary” resistance: The ironies of the parliamentary Left in West-Bengal
Projit Bihari Mukharji

Land expropriation, protest, and impunity in rural China
Bo Zhao

Agricultural land conversion and its effects on farmers in contemporary Vietnam
Nguyen Van Suu

REVIEW ARTICLES

American death
Elizabeth Roberts