EASA2026 Anthropology: Possibilities in a Polarised World

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Poznanie: Foraging at the Edge of the City

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Visualising polarisation in Poznań: An anthropological photography lab

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Seeds of Sound and Song: How to Arrive at Ethnographic Poetry and Lyrics [CAN Network]

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Dialogic Fragments of the Contemporary: Building a Critical Glossary across Anthropology and Art [ANTART]

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Zine-Making as Anthropological Method and Speculative Praxis: Between Vernacularization, Situated Knowledges and Co-Created Futures

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Drawing the line: Ethno-Graphic encounters in times of conflict and polarisation

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Spirituality as Methodology: Creating Tarot Cards to Render Crisis Through Archetypal Imagery

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Imagining heterotopias for a polarised world: a practical, arts-based workshop

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Critique by Building: Founding as an Anthropological Method of and for Possibility

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Pluriversal anthropologies versus polarization: The practical potential of anthropological education [Decolonial Anthropology Network]

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Confronting The Elephant in the Classroom: An Idea Lab for Teaching Anthropology in the Era of GenAI

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Activist Research as Caring / Solidarity Infrastructure: Reclaiming Anthropology’s Interventions in a Polarised World

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Threads of Knowledge: Material Encounters in a Polarised World

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Anthropology, Dates, Design

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Moving on: A workshop on trauma-informed research for supervisors

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Queer Entropy: Rethinking Disorder, Temporality, and Partial Polarisation

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Questioning Fascism

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Household Finance Lab: bureaucratic governance, coercion and capital accumulation in an economically polarised world

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Patchwork ethnography: a methodological guide

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Political forests – polarised forests: forest anthropology in Europe and the global north

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Imagining inclusive worlds from a fragmented position: How can collaboration, equity, and inclusion be pursued from within a fragmented disciplinary landscape?

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Polarised bodies: utopias, aesthetics, health and the global politics of body modifications

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Performing Possibilities in a Polarized World: Anthropological Perspectives on Artistic Practices

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Infrastructural polarizations: Everyday negotiations of exclusions, risks, and values [Anthropology of Economy (AOE)]

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Interrogating power and society: The anthropology of policy in a time of authoritarianism

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Educational aspirations, inequalities and the making of polarised futures

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Productive mistrust? Between critical and destructive forms of sociality

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Beyond polarised urban spaces: epistemologies, imaginaries and practices at stake

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Everyday violence and the moral economies of care

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Fieldwork in the archives: Archival silences, contested sources, and polarised histories [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]

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Ambiguous connectivities: Remote work, mobility, and belonging

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Co-Creating Justice: Gender-Transformative Methodologies and the Politics of Care

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The Ethics of Circularity

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'Anti-Policy' in an Increasingly Polarised World: Constructive Governance or Governing through Chaos?

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Polarizations in Anthropology: Debates, Deadlocks, and Historical Lessons [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]

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Practicing Blue Anthropology: Depolarizing Currents of Relations

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Anthropology of Artificial Intelligence and Oppression

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Mobilities under War Anxiety: Conditional Privilege and Polarised Imaginaries [Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)]

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Reclaiming Cooperation: Power and Possibility in a Polarised World

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Revisits and reappraisals

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Entangled Undergrounds: Rethinking the Urban from Below

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Dreaming and hoping: labouring for a ‘good life’ and dealing with im/mobility in an unequal world [Anthropology and Mobility (AnthroMob)]

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Gender and polarisation in pop and youth cultures: Influencers, communities and other political 'bits and pieces'

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The geopolitics of ideologies: post-soviet polarities and the collapse of the liberal (dis)order in the South Caucasus

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How Shit Becomes Real: Revisiting Bricolage as a Craft of the Present

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Remote work and (im)mobility: practices, relations and everyday politics [Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB)]

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Fieldwork in fractured worlds: Rethinking research possibilities in human-environment relationships

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Family Mobilities and Everyday Life in Wartime: Shifting Borders, Kinship, and Care [ANTHROMOB]

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Polarisation in the Anthropocene: Emerging Multispecies Conflicts under Populist and Authoritarian Regimes

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Emerging Green Frontiers: European uplands between green extractivism and non-extractive conservation

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Methodologies of Care: Navigating Polarization in Medical, Memory, and Mobility Fieldwork

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Anthropologies beyond the metropolis: disciplinary dynamics in a multipolarized world

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Rethinking justice during and after mass political violence: ethnographic and comparative perspectives

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Emotions on the move: migration, emotions and belonging [Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB)]

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Anthropology of the Devil: Negotiating with Evil in a Polarized World

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Family secrets and silences – can anthropology help with healing and dialogue across polarization?

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Space in a Polarised World: Explorations of Displacement, Resistance, and Governance in the Global City

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Exploring the Originality and Legacy of Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Charting New Frontiers in Anthropology

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Reading the Silences: Court Documents, Partial Information, and Creative Legal Ethnographies of Political Violence

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The Returns of Migration: Aspirations of Education and Social Obligations in a Polarised World

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Confronting the Discomfort in the Field

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The social life of remote work: Gender and social relations at/as work

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The Transhuman condition? Rethinking intelligence, sentience, and personhood in the age of AI

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Redefining "good work" in the age of platform, AI, and digitally mediated labour

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Failure as polarising principle: Hegemonic expectations, politics of belonging and individual agency

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Futures of manual labour [Anthropology Across Ruralities][Anthropology of Labour]

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Death and dying under military occupation: the enactment and contestation of a polarizing doctrine

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What might come to matter between conceptual and imagistic ways of knowing: Anthropologists engaging the lyric essay

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Moral Economies of Racial Reckoning: Liberalism, Empire, and the Politics of Responsibility

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Creating meaningful connections and lives in a polarised world: lessons from digital and everyday feminisms in Asia

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Bodies and health in a changing climate

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Entangled Ruins: Polarised Temporalities and the Afterlives of Decay

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Dilemmas of categorisation for bureaucrats and anthropologists in a polarised world

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Citizen science and eco-ethnography: methodological possibilities in a polarising world

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Drought: Thinking through life in a drying world

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Decolonisation through law: Discourse, practices and possibilities for justice and liberation across polarising worlds. Keywords: Decolonisation; law; state; justice; political polarisation

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Experiments with Trace: Towards Radical Possibilities

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Polarized Destinies: Land, Value, and Justice in the Renewable Energy Transition

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Polarized Politics of (Un)Belonging in Rural Places: Thinking Cosmopolitanism and Nativism from the Places that Don’t Matter [ACRU]

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Peripheries at the Centre (Again)

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Healthcare in a polarised world: Chronicity and fracture through perspectives from the Global South

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History in person: Living with history in the ethnographic present

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Speaking of silence: Negotiating speech in a polarized world

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Ethnographic and qualitative approaches to care poverty and care inequalities

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Abolitionist perspectives on criminalization and carcerality [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]

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Consumed belongings: staging heritage claims [Network for an Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH)]

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The potential of art: Toward an entangled anthropology for the 21st century [Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART)]

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Beyond Polarity: Rethinking Ontology and Method through Extraordinary Experience

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When Anonymity is No Longer Enough! “Fictionalization” as a New Way of Writing Ethnography in the Age of Digital Surveillance

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Infrastructures of Division, Infrastructures of Hope: Media and Polarisation in Africa

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Studio Anthropology

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Beyond informality: popular economies in a polarized world

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Projectocracy and the Projectariat: Ethnographies of Project-Based Futures

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No Neutral Ground: Anthropological Engagements in Times of Armed Conflict

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Pilgrimage Cosmopolitics: Gods, Technologies, and the Environment

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Seeing in Conflict: Visual Methods and Polarisation as Productive Tension

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Aesthetics of Circulation: Logistics, Relationality and Conflict

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Digital Financialisation, Governance and Subjectivities: Exploring Possibilities Beyond Polarisation

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Beyond Bans and Binaries: Strategies of Resistance and Destigmatization in Abortion Activism

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Ecologies of expertise: living with change in polarised environments

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Immunitarian politics: rethinking the contours of self and other, exclusion and community

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Beyond Polarised Histories of Anthropologies: Female Ethnographers and Folklorists between the Mid-19th and Early 20th Centuries [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]

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Despots and the Infrastructural State: Comparative Ethnographies for a Decolonial Counterstrategy

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Heritage at the Edge: Polarisation, Belonging, and Neo-Nationalist Nostalgia

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Teaching and Learning Anthropology in a Polarising World [Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN)]

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Ageing at crossroads: Polarisation and possibilities of caring and ageing well paradigms in Central and Eastern Europe

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The Everyday Geopolitics of Infrastructure

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“From the Ground Up”: thinking through sediments, materials, and deeper times

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Splitting the Chronotope: Space–Time Coordinates of Polarisation in/of Anthropology [EASA Network for an Anthropology of History and Heritage (NAoHH) and Future Anthropologies Network (FAN)]

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Bringing Perspectives Together: Multimodal Ethnography in a Polarised World [Multimodal Ethnography]

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Sensing Violence: Infrastructures, Ecologies, and the Human Condition

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The agency of religious buildings in Europe

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Embodied Difference and the Ecologies of Interaction: Language, Disability, and Neurodivergence in a Polarised World

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Polarised by time: technologies and temporalities of reproductive health and rights

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Infrastructuring a Climate-Changed World

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Swirling Thresholds: Disability and Chronicity Within and Beyond Experiential, Biomedical and Political Categories

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I have a dream: ethnographies of dreaming within and beyond a polarised world

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Solidarity despite everything

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Cripping Ethnography: Anti-Ableist Approaches to Anthropological Knowledge Production

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Feminism and Digital Anthropologies

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Everyday Infrastructures in a Polarised World: Anthropological Perspectives and Possibilities

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Dementia, difference, critique: thinking with the other in dementia socialities

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Migrating Activism from the Global South to the Global North: Trajectories and New Engagements

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War as a Framework of Legitimacy: The Entwinement of Conflict and Migration Control

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Gods in/of the Machine: Technologies of Metahuman Presence and Communication

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Sport, Capitalism, and Desire

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Securitizing Forests: Ecologies and Politics of Security in the Climate Age

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Welfare from below: enacting social protection across social and political spectrums

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Encoding Biodiversity: Between Techno-imperialisms and Nativism, Data Extraction from Ridges to Deeps across Europe and the Pacific [ACRU]

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Technologies in/as Conflict: Living In-Between Technological Utopias and Material Realities

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Living with Rivers: Ecologies, Politics, and the Making of Fluvial Worlds

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Making bodies, making masculinities

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Into the ordinariness of citizenship. A political anthropology perspective on the art of crafting survival possibilities through (de)polarising practices

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Moral investments and ethical African capitalism: reconfiguring capitalism from the south?

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Affective Governance: Analysing Atmospheres in Political and Legal Anthropology [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]

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Beyond goddesses and patriarchy: negotiating gender in contemporary spiritual milieus

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Grief and the Contestation of Necropolitics: State Power and Resistance in Everyday Experiences of Death and Dying

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Institutional Whiteness: Ethnographies of State Practices across Europe [Anthropologies of the State (AnthroState)]

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Learning from the ‘Prophets of Doom’: On Prepping in Polarized, Dystopian Worlds

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For a Darker Anthropology: Redefining the Epistemological and Moral Commitment of a Community of Practice

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A Polarizing Panel? (Drafting an Escape Plan)

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Genocidal Durations: Unweaving Worlds and the (Im)Possibilities of Antigenocidal Reweaving

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Transformations of Consciousness in a Polarised World: Ethnographic Enquiries into Psychedelics

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Fighting for the Truth? Skepticism and Certainty, Doubt and Belief in a Polarized World

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Everyday maintenance of energy infrastructure in a polarized world

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Embodied Digitalities: Polarised Imaginaries of Bodies, Emotions, and (Dis-)Connections

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Political islands – on the potential of a non-continental perspective

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Politicising Labour and Health in the Contemporary

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Regeneration: Kin Relations, More-than-Human Worlds, and Practices of Change

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Embodied Imaginations after the Post-

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“Medical pluralism” under scrutiny: the polarisation of care in therapeutic pathways

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Indigenous Food Sovereignty Movements as an alternate ecosystem: A Resistance to Polarisation and Authoritarian Control

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Racialization and casteification: Encountering labor in contemporary capitalism [Anthropology of Labor (AoL)]

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Narrativising marginality - persevering with identity politics in a polarised world.

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Beyond the Decolonial Turn: Examining Academic Collaboration from the Perspective of the Global South

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Holding Conflict, Making Care: Lived Experience in Polarised Mental Health Worlds

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Desiring Queerness, Disabilities, and Race: Differential Integrations in a Polarizing World

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Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies

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Politics of Just Transitions: Navigating Contested Governance and Socio-Ecological Transformations

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Open Science in a Polarised World – Opportunities and Challenges for Anthropology

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Understanding emotional polarisation in contemporary culture and politics: what can a psychological anthropology contribute?

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Beyond sea-blindness? Ocean knowledge between technological oversight and multiple harms

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Rematerializing populism: Objects, infrastructures, and ecologies of the political

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Fragile Ground: Ecological and Existential Erosions in a Changing World

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Outsourcing: (un)limited delegation of (in)tangible work in an increasingly polarized world?

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Hot Encounters: An Anthropology of Thermoception

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Care and Violence: Rethinking Articulations in Theory and Practice

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Urgency in a polarised world

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Commoning Life in a Polarised World: Multispecies Perspectives on Conservation, Subsistence, and Repair

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Opacity and Energy Knowledge: Getting to Just, Sustainable Energy Policy in a Polarising World [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]

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Theories and methodologies to subvert racializing processes [Anthropology of Race and Ethnicity Network]

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Looking at how artworks are made: a gateway to subjective processes – reimagining participant observation [Anthropology and the Arts (ANTART)]

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Intervening In Polarised Futures [Future Anthropologies Network]

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Theatre From The Field: Exploring anthropology through performance [Creative Anthropologies Network (CAN)]

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Ethnology and anthropology: A polysemous relationship, polarizations and overlaps [History of Anthropology Network (HOAN)]

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The Work of Resistance: Possibilities for Labour in Polarising Worlds [Anthropology of Labour (AoL)]

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Towards a moral economy of commitment and stakes [Anthropology of Economy Network (AoE)]

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Rethinking Contemporary Spiritualities through Social Movements [Contemporary 'Spiritual' Practices Network (CSP)]

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Feminist and queer ethnographies of labour, institutions, and everyday struggles [Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality (NAGS)]

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Moving Beyond Polarities in (Im)mobilities Research [ANTHROMOB]

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Disruptive movements. On the ambivalence of polarisation in contexts of activism [Anthropology and Social Movements (ANTHROSOC)]

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Unmaking and Remaking ‘Language’: Ontological Challenges to Language Pedagogy, Revitalization, and Archiving [EASA Linguistic Anthropology Network (ELAN)]

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Aspirations and the digital: strategies, contestations, and fractures in contemporary social worlds [European Network for Digital Anthropology (ENDA)]

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Right-Wing Nationalism, Affective Polarisation and Queer Sexual Education under Attack [European Network for Queer Anthropology (ENQA)]

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Towards an anthropology of complicity: resistance, collaboration and the everyday labour of social transformation [Anthropologies of the State (AnthroState)]

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Epistemic inequalities and global perspectives of medical anthropology’s interrogation of AI in healthcare [Medical Anthroplogy (MAE)]

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Circular care: experiencing infinity/eternity in the small gestures of life [Muslim Worlds Network (MWN)]

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The politics of emotion in conflict, violence and collective struggle [Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security (APeCS)]

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Digital affordances in a polarising world [Media Anthropology (MediaNet)]

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Moving Beyond the Ivory Tower: Experiences for a Public Anthropology of Food [FoodNet]

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Theorizing Fascism through Ethnography: Anthropological approaches to fascism in a Polarised World [Anthropology of Fascisms (AnthroFA)]

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Pilgrimage through Conflict(s): Laterality, Movements and Scales [Pilgrimage Studies Network / PILNET]

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Beyond Enclosures and Disclosures: Possibilities for Invisible and Uncertain Sites and Subjects for Novel Ethnographic Aging Trajectories [Age and Generations Network]

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The (il)licit Sea [Anthropology of the Seas (ANTHSEAS)]

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Post-Work Societies and Futures [Applied Anthropology Network (AAN)]

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Disfigured Ecologies, Between Parameters and Para-matters [Collaboratory for Ethnographic Experimentation (#Colleex)]

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New Mediterranean masculinities: rethinking honor in the time of the manosphere [Mediterraneanist/MedNet]

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Mountain territorial (re)claims. Engaging with indigeneity and autochthony in a polarized world [SIEF] [ACRU]

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Transnational perspectives on carceral technologies: power, resistance, and the politics of control [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]

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Indeterminate property [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]

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Watching the police: ethnographies of counter-seeing [Anthropology of Surveillance Network (ANSUR)]

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Responding to a polarised world? Tradition and neotraditionalism in today’s Africa [Africanists Network]

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Disengage! Multimodal approaches beyond (op)positions. [Multimodal Ethnography (Multimodal)]

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants? Intergenerational Critique and Epistemological Vigilance in Medical Anthropology [MAYS network panel]

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Irritation and human sociality [European Network for Psychological Anthropology (ENPA)]

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Anthropology at the ends of worlds: Disturbing world and worldings [Disaster and Crisis Anthropology Network (DiCAN)]

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Production of anthropological knowledge in a polarised world in Europe and beyond: contemporary challenges and risks. [Europeanist Network (EuroNet)]

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Ruralities as frontiers of possibilities [Anthropology across ruralities (ACRU) ]

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Polarized Digital Images: On Computer Vision in Visual Anthropology [VANEASA]

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After empathy: multispecies perspectives in political ecology [Humans and Other Living Beings (HOLB)]

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Matters of Risk: Infrastructures and Technologies of (In) Security and Polarization [Anthropology of Peace, Conflict and Security (ApeCS)]

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Reproduction in Times of Crisis

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Polarisation in feminist (queer) theory: reflections on epistemological conundrums

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Climate policy and action in cities: recalibrations of a polarised issue

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In the Ruins of Value: Anthropology, Capitalism, and the Politics of Worthlessness

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Spirituality in a divided world: rethinking healing, difference, and coexistence

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Displacement as a form of life: Migration, authoritarianism, and solidarity [Anthropology of Confinement (ConfinementNet)]

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Asia not as a Method: Rethinking the Cold War relatedness from Asia

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Struggles for decriminalising and demedicalising abortion in contemporary Europe: the Polish Abortion Dream Team

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Critique in "crisis": constructing new grounds for inquiry across postsocialism and postliberalism

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Look away now! When Violence Becomes the Field

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Ethnographies of Joy: Snippets from a Definitionless Dictionary [Anthropology of Law, Rights and Governance (LAWNET)]

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Disruptive mobilities: Unsettling law, space, and identities through movement

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Tree vs. tree vs. human: Tree struggles at the age of polarisations

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Structuring Affects in Black and White: On Care and its Others

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Family Business: Doing fieldwork with children and/or partners

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Ecofeminist ethnographies of "green" energy projects: destabilising colonial structures in energy transitions

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Polarised bodies. Fatigue, care, and the affective politics of survival

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Is there a place for computation in anthropology? Building a methodological foundation for computational anthropology

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Building a less polarized world through anthropological education and new audiences, using international and local networks [Teaching Anthropology Network (TAN)]

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How we do is what we do

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Longing Otherwise: the Politics and Poetics of Desire in a Fractured World

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Disappearance and its others – speculation, opacity and the negative in anthropology

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Triangulation and Polarization: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Fieldwork - [Network for Contemporary Anthropological Theory (NCAT)]

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Between Green Extractivism and Fossil Fascism: The Role of Critical Anthropology [Energy Anthropology Network (EAN)]

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Making Things Public: collaborations and possibilities [Network for an Anthropology of History & Heritage (NAoHH)]

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The polarised planet: navigating the activist-sceptic divide in an age of environmental extremes

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