Submissions for the AES Senior Book Prize are currently open!
The Prize goes to a work that is deeply ethnographic and speaks to contemporary social issues with relevance beyond the discipline and beyond the academy.
The deadline for submissions is April 15th, 2026.
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Our Editor in Chief, Susanna Trnka, comments on gender and global politics in AE 53.1 editor's note.
In light of current political battles over gender, she argues for anthropologyβs continued relevance in understanding gender, power and contemporary politics.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author points that ethnographies of housing, money and sanctions reveal value, property and capitalism as being continually reworked through everyday practices.
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Nicholas D'Avella's commentary, 'Ecologies of value: troubling great transformations', is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, Polson elaborates how the promises of middle-class stability through property and asset ownership are fragile fictions.
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Michael Polson's 'Property, capitalism, and the value-shaping power of states' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author examines how everyday life becomes organized around enduring precarity rather than security amid neoliberal restructuring and geopolitical sanctions.
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Ehsan Lor Afshar's 'Property, precarity, and the politics of crisis' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author explores how the aspiration of owning a home is continually displaced by global finance, sanctions, and neoliberal housing regimes.
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Veit Braun's 'What does it mean to have a home?' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
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Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Access here:
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As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, Elliott underlines how contemporary crises of financialization and sanctions transform property from a source of security into a volatile, extractive and often illusory promise.
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Hannah Elliott's 'What property did next, and other stories' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author reveals how money and property function as unstable vehicles that extract value from workers while undermining the very aspirations they are meant to secure.
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Hadas Weiss's 'Value and its vehicles' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author ethnographically traces how people navigate loss, debt, and mobility under global financial and political constraints.
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Mareike Winchell's 'Negative property: From accretive enclosure to im/mobility and loss' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, the author explores global financial regimes, state policies, and international power structures through struggles over housing in Iran and Mexico.
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Guillermo de la PeΓ±a's 'Ethnographies of globalization: Fictitious commodities, deceitful property, and the illusion of upward social mobility' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Only two more days to submit to AES Online's forthcoming collection on "Audio Visual Experiments in Ethnography." Submissions due Jan. 31, 2026! #anthrosky #ethnography #anthropology
More details: americanethnologist.org/news/aes-onl...
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Emrah YΔ±ldΔ±z's 'Outsmarting sanctions: Experiments with fictitious commodities across Iran and Turkey' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View, as part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
As part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum, Hassan reflects on her fieldwork in Turkey and Iran, which stimulated her to attend closely to the moments where everyday existence is structured by sanctions, financialization, and chronic instability.
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Wesam Adel Hassan's commentary, 'Speculative lives under broken economies', is now available in AE 53.1 Early View.
Call for Late Breaking Sessions @ the AES Spring Conference in Victoria, BC!
Late-breaking sessions address urgent global, political, environmental, and disciplinary developments shaping anthropological research and practice today.
Read more here:
americanethnologist.org/news/call-fo...
New collection out now!
"An Aesthetics for the End," edited by Naveeda Khan, is the first collection in our newly created series on Pedagogy.
Read the essays here! #ethnography #anthrosky
americanethnologist.org/online-conte...
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InΓ©s Escobar GonzΓ‘lez's 'When property becomes rent' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. The piece is part of the 'Property and Other Fictions' Forum.
Access here:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Cheryl Mattingly's 'Surprise and the singular plural: A critical phenomenology of disability worlds' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
π’π’π’ New Interview Alert π’π’π’
From the Cold War to the manosphere:
Toxic masculinities, women's rights, and today's gender warsβAE interviews Greg Downey and Kristen R. Ghodsee
Find it in AE 53.1 Early View:
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Last 2 days to submit papers to the AES Spring Conference!
πππNew Book Reviewπππ
Andrea Muehlebach reviews // "Justice in the balance: Democracy, rule of law, and the European Court of Human Rights" // By Jessica Greenberg, Stanford University Press, 2025
Find it here in AE 53.1 Early View:
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...