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.

Forthcoming Issue, Focaal 61

THEME SECTION

Elusive promises: Planning in the contemporary world
Edited by Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys

Anthropologies of planning: Temporality, imagination and ethnography
Simone Abram and Gisa Weszkalnys

Tenure reformed: Planning for redress or progress in South Africa
Deborah James

Invaded city: Structuring urban landscapes on the margins of the possible in Peru
Sarah Lund

Making a river of gold: Speculative state planning, informality, and neo-liberal governance on the Hooghly
Laura Bear

Even Governmentality Begins as an Image: Institutional Planning in Kuala Lumpur
Richard Baxstrom

ARTICLES

Policing production: Corporate governmentality and the Cultivation System
Albert Schrauwers

The incinerator and the beach: Community, activism, and the “Big Society” in a Sussex Town
Elizabeth Harrison

FORUM

Wal-Mart, American consumer citizenship, and the 2008 recession
Jane Collins

REVIEW ARTICLE

States, hinterlands, and governance in Southeast Asia
Jonathan Friedman