Special Issue Call for Papers

The Borders of “North America”

 

Existential and material risks under American authoritarianism shift conditions of knowledge production. Conducting ethnography now has more immediate ethical challenges as the most vulnerable have become even more so throughout the world. Universities are not safe havens (and for many never have been) for ever-expanding communities of people or ideas; and writing can land scholars and students in prison or deported. What do textbook authoritarian actions against thinking and action demand of those of us writing and acting from within and against the imperial university?  

This special issue of the Journal for the Anthropology of North America invites submissions interrogating the shifting conditions of North American knowledge production. We are open to original ethnographic research articles, reflections, creative