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...
Notes from the Section Leadership: ASAP sessions at the IUAES in Dubrovnik (May 2016) The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Paul Stubbs, David Haines, and Cris Shore April 4, 2017 The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) contributed three...
The Anthropology of Policy Emerges The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Judi Pajo and Theodore Powers July 24, 2017 The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) promotes the anthropological study of policy, including makings, workings, contexts,...
Policy Matters - A Preview of ASAP Panels at the 2017 AAA Meeting The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Theodore Powers November 1, 2017 A Preview of ASAP Panels at the 2017 AAA Meeting The 2017 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in...
Notes from the Section Leadership (2018) The Association for the Anthropology of Policy David Haines and Cris Shore March 9, 2018 It has been just four years since the Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) was founded and we have sustained the energy...
Situating Policy in an Unsettled World at the 2018 Annual Meeting The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Theodore Powers November 5, 2018 The 2018 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association will soon convene in San José, California....
Notes from the Section Leadership (2019) The Association for the Anthropology of Policy Carol MacClennan and Paul Stubbs March 6, 2019 ASAP in review and prospect The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) was formed in 2014. At the last count, we have...
ASAP at the 2019 AAA/CASCA Annual Meeting Association for the Anthropology of Policy Theodore Powers November 1, 2019 The Association for the Anthropology of Policy (ASAP) is sponsoring four panels and two section events at the Annual Meeting in Vancouver this...