This series explores policy through anthropological methodologies to better understand how policies work as instruments of political intervention and social change. What new kinds of actors, subjects, and social spaces do policies create, and how are they used to manage populations? Can policy analysis shed light on wider transformations of governance and power? How can ethnography capture critical dimensions of policymaking, and the cultural worlds of policymakers themselves? For more on the series, click below.
Graduate Student Mentoring Each year at the annual AAA conference, ASAP holds a graduate student mentoring workshop. These workshops have taken various forms through the years, ranging from networking activities to organized mentoring groups. If you have suggestions...