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    Calls for Submission

    Campus Protest

    As we recently marked the one-year anniversary of Israel’s latest genocidal assault on Gaza in October 2024, no part of Palestinian society has been left unscarred, including its institutions of learning. Thousands of Palestinian students and scholars have been killed, and every university in Gaza has been destroyed. Around the world, the global Palestine solidarity movement continues to grow. Alongside mobilizations from activists and civil society, the past year has seen students at North American universities organize campus-wide sit-ins, occupations, and encampments decrying the Israeli military’s actions in Palestine, as well as institutional complicity in the financial, industrial, political, and social oppression of Palestinians.
    In spring 2023, Home/Field put out a call for anthropological reflections on this conjuncture. The work gathered here includes critical analysis, authoethnographic essays, and student-created maps. As an online space devoted to North American ethnography, Home/Field presents this series as an attempt to rethink anthropology and its institutional homes through the lens of Israel’s long war against Palestine and Palestinians. We do so to highlight the ways North American universities and anthropology have always been entangled with global relations of imperialism and colonialism, and with an eye toward the growing global solidarity movement with Palestine.
    This series of short-form works – e.g. essays, fieldnotes, interviews, poems, and multimodal pieces – reflect emergent themes from the university campus, including but not limited to the:

    • Institutional, social, and discursive responses to the student protests
    • Geographies of solidarity between North America and Palestine, including Palestinian universities
    • Shifts in student understandings of, and demands on, the university
    • Relations between the campus and the broader community
    • The evolution of mutual aid and mutual defense/transversal solidarity tactics
    • The significance of diaspora, return, or crossings for pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist organizing
    • The future of campus organizing as the war continues and expands

    Thoughts on movement-based ethnography
    Scholars have long worked and written alongside social moments. We envision this series as continuing a line of activist and movement-adjacent anthropology that contributes to the intellectual ferment of popular movements. An anthropology equal to the moment requires the deftness of deep ethnographic relations or a canny anthropological sensorium that can carry audiences past ideological pitfalls or analytical dead ends. At the same time, the discipline of Anthropology represented by the American Anthropological Association – with its Anglosphere orientation, apolitical pretensions, heavily stratified workforce, and cottage industry of publication within heavily financialized university systems – is itself implicated in the ways Palestine is approached as a topic of inquiry. We therefore encouraged submissions that address any issues of approaching Palestine that make reciprocal demands on anthropological inquiry.

    Anthropology in Florida: Praxis and its Limits

    Given the theme of “praxis,” it’s difficult to think of a more provocative location in North America to host the 2024 American Anthropological Association meeting than Florida. Recent book bans, crackdowns on reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, rising sea levels and extreme climate events, and attacks on higher education institutions, educators, and students have brought Florida to the forefront of academic discourse, particularly for the anthropologists working in, on, and around the state. Widespread calls to boycott the meetings have foregrounded the idea that Florida is exceptional within the US political landscape.

    In this call, Home/Field was interested in perspectives that engage with the idea of Florida’s (un)exceptionality as political geography, and/or that locate Florida within regional and historical formations that do not only conform to hegemonic geographies and temporalities of the present-day United States (e.g. the Caribbean, Atlantic, Gulf South, Confederate South, Indigenous North America). We invited critical reflections from cultural, linguistic, archaeological, medical, and biological anthropology, as well as from scholars and practitioners engaged in teaching, research, and political organizing in Florida’s higher education context. These commentaries should link such an analysis to the difficulties, conflicts, contradictions, impasses, and possibilities of gathering in Florida in November. For anthropologists concerned with theory and its applications, we consider this an opportunity to critically examine the stakes and commitments of anthropological praxis in real time.

    Submission Guidelines

    Thank you for your interest in Home/Field. Please complete the Pitch Form and the editorial team will be in touch via email regarding your pitch and the next steps. An editor is assigned to work with the author through the publication process and each accepted piece goes through two rounds of peer editing on the editorial board. Please review the guidelines below for more information on submission types and feel free to contact us at: homefieldsubmission@gmail.com.

    We encourage you to take a clear, lean, and conversational tone in your writing, targeting it to a broad audience beyond academia. Please hyperlink to citations if possible and avoid parenthetical citations. All submissions will be editor-reviewed. Each genre (Audio/Visual Essays, Engagements, and Author Dialogues) has its own specific parameters, listed below.

    Audio/Visual Essays

    This is a space for experimentation with multimedia and multimodal research. We welcome submissions that decenter text, or that go beyond the written word altogether. This could include photo essays, short documentary, video journals, musical scores, soundscapes, field recordings, collaborative art, and digital collaborations. Photo essays should have 4-8 photos and a maximum 1,000 words text. Images and photographs accompanying submissions should be supplied with the highest quality, with a minimum of 300 dpi, in JPG or TIFF format. A/V formats will primarily be hosted via embedded YouTube or audio player. Total time should not exceed 30 minutes for one essay.

    Engagements

    North American ethnography is filled with opportunity for meaningful dialogues and reflections spurred by engagement with our co-locutors and colleagues, theoretical debates, and methodological innovations. We welcome both collaborative dialogues and single-authored engagements with your Home/Field(s), broadly conceived. What are the ways we collaborate within and beyond our field sites? How do these interlocutions articulate what is critical to North American ethnography? Give us a line into your dialogues, a seat at your debates. 2,500 words max.

    Author Dialogues

    Some of the most clarifying scholarly moments come in casual conversation, where the serious work of hanging out and hashing things out can happen. This feature gives authors and their readers a chance to hang out textually. Rather than an author-meets-critic session, this is a place for an engaged and informed reader to ask all of the follow-up questions that every great book or article leaves us with. We are particularly interested in conversations about books that JANA has recently reviewed, or conversations that would serve as a stand-alone component of a book you would be interested in reviewing. Author Engagements should include a brief introduction to contextualize the conversation. 1,500 words max.

    Republication Guidelines

    We are licensing many of our articles and other published materials (Home/Field Content) under Creative Commons so they can be freely and easily republished.

    The license at the end of each piece will indicate how it may be reused. Our guidelines for republishing these pieces are as follows:

    1. Where noted Home/Field Content is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivatives 4.0 International (click the link to see legal details). If you have further questions, please contact us.
    2. Home/Field Content cannot be edited without express permission from Home/Field and the author(s) except for minor editorial style changes and edits for accuracy, for example, updating the time and calendar dates. If you would like to make more substantial edits, please email homefieldsubmission@gmail.com.
    3. You must credit the author with a byline, preferably at the top of the republished work.
    4. You must credit Home/Field as the source of the material with a brief sentence, preferably at the top of the work, such as, “This work first appeared on Home/Field under a CC BY-ND 4.0 license. Read the original here.” The words Home/Field should link to homefieldanthro.org and “original here” should link to the work’s URL.
    5. The links to our site and the use of our logo must not cast Home/Field, the Society for the Anthropology of North America, or the Journal for the Anthropology of North America in a false or disingenuous light, including suggesting any affiliation with you or our endorsement of your publication.
    6. You must provide a link to the CC BY-ND 4.0 license. This ensures that anyone who sees Home/Field content on a third-party site is aware that they too can use the material.
    7. Images, audio, and video in our articles are not included under the Creative Commons license. Please do not republish the images that accompany Home/Field Content without express permission from the copyright holder.
    8. You may not republish our material wholesale or systematically. You can only select individual stories for republication.
    9. These guidelines for republication have been adapted from Sapiens, with their permission.



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