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The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is writing to share a few announcements.

SCA Contributing Editors Program: Call for Applications

The Society for Cultural Anthropology is now accepting applications to its Contributing Editors program, now in its twelfth year. The program provides a path for graduate students to get involved in the society's intellectual and social life while offering distinctive opportunities for mentoring and skill-building. The deadline to apply is December 21, 2020. For more information, please visit https://culanth.org/about/about-the-society/announcements/sca-contributing-editors-program-call-for-applications.

SCA 2020 Student-Faculty Workshops: Call for Applications

The Society for Cultural Anthropology is pleased to announce its thirteenth annual series of student-faculty workshops. These hands-on, small group workshops are a wonderful opportunity for current students to meet other students and work directly with leading scholars on a particular topic or theme. The deadline to apply is November 25, 2020. For more information, please visit: https://culanth.org/about/about-the-society/announcements/sca-2020-student-faculty-workshops-call-for-applications.

Decolonial Approaches to Speculative Genres

Facilitator: Priya Chandrasekaran (Hamilton College) and Dorinne Kondo (University of Southern California)
Date: Thursday, December 3, 7-9pm US Eastern (December 4, 9-11am JST)

Citation Practices

Facilitators: Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke University) and Brendane Tynes (Columbia University)
Date: Wednesday, December 9, 12-2pm US Eastern

Repair

Facilitators: Todd Meyers (McGill University ) and Lisa Stevenson (McGill University)
Date: Thursday, December 10, 12-2pm US Eastern

Anthropology and Its Publics

Facilitators: Jason Pine (SUNY Purchase) and Brian Goldstone (Duke University)
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 3-4:45pm US Eastern

Ethnographic Excess

Facilitators: Daniella Gandolfo (Wesleyan University) and Todd Ram?n Ochoa (UNC Chapel Hill)
Date: Thursday, December 17, 1-3pm US Eastern?

Cultural Anthropology, Volume 35, Issue 4

November's issue of Cultural Anthropology?(vol. 35, no. 4) is open access and free for all to read at https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/issue/view/103.

"'Jurisprudential Massage': Legal Fictions, Radical Citizenship, and the Epistemics of Dissent in Post-socialist China," by Andrea E. Pia

"Animate Earth, Settler Ruins: Mound Landscapes and Decolonial Futures in the Native South," by Leigh Bloch

"Time at Its Margins: Cattle Smuggling across the India-Bangladesh Border," by Malini Sur

"Underlayers of Citizenship:?Queer Objects, Intimate Exposures, and the Rescue Rush in Kenya," by George Paul Meiu

"Birthing from Within: Nature, Technology, and Self-Making in Silicon Valley Childbearing," Andrea Ford

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Anne Allison

President, Society for Cultural Anthropology

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Dear SCA community,

Editors'' Forum series on Covid-19

In order to provide a forum for early observations and reflections on the Covid-19 pandemic as it unfolds, the editors of Cultural Anthropology-Christopher Nelson, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss-have edited a collection on the global pandemic on the SCA''s website Fieldsights. Read the series here: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/editors-forum/covid-19.

Publication of the May 2020 issue of Cultural Anthropology

We are happy to announce the publication of May''s issue of Cultural Anthropology?(vol. 35, no. 2). The issue is open access and free for all to read at https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/issue/view/101.

Colloquy

"Critical Security and Anthropology from the Middle East," by?Giulia El Dardiry and Sami Hermez

"Security against the State in Revolutionary Yemen," by?Ross Porter

"Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands," by?Kali Rubaii

"Nested (In)Securities: Commodity and Currency Circuits in an Iran under Sanctions," by?Emrah Yilrdiz

"The Long Turning: A Palestinian Refugee in Belgium," by?Diana Allan

"The Spy Who Came In from the South," by?Darryl Li

Articles

"The Work of Disaster: Building Back Otherwise in Post-Earthquake Nepal," by?Aidan Seale-Feldman

"Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War," by?Kristin V. Monroe

"Biopolitical Paternalism and its Maternal Supplements: Kinship Correlates of Community Mental Health Governance in China," by?Zhiying Ma

"Structures of Resentment: On Feeling-and Being-Left Behind by Health Care Reform," by?Jessica M. Mulligan and Emily K. Brunson

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The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is writing to share a few announcements.

Gregory Bateson Book Prize

Deciding to honor the ethic of shared leadership and collective praxis that underpins many contemporary Black and Indigenous social movements, and to emphasize scholarship that moves our field forward collectively, the jury awarded the prize this year to three winners (and to recognize two additional books as a runner-up and honorable mention).

2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prize Winners:

Savannah Shange for Progressive Dystopia: Abolition, Antiblackness, and Schooling in San Francisco (Duke University Press)

Miyarrka Media for Phone and Spear: A Yuta Anthropology (Goldsmiths Press)

Alan Klima for Ethnography #9 (Duke University Press)

Runner-Up:

Deborah A. Thomas for Political?Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair (Duke University Press)

Honorable Mention:

Jason Pine for The Alchemy of Meth: A Decomposition (University of Minnesota Press)

Jury:

The 2020 Gregory Bateson Book Prize Jury is comprised of Mayanthi Fernando (chair, University of California, Santa Cruz), Radhika Govindarajan (University of Washington), and Eva Hayward (University of Arizona).

Cultural Horizons Prize

The Society for Cultural Anthropology (SCA) is happy to announce that the 2020 winner of the annual Cultural Horizons Prize is Bo Kyeong Seo (Yonsei University) for her article, "Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand."

This year''s jury of doctoral students (Thomas Thornton, Johns Hopkins University; Mary Pena, University of Michigan; Deniz Coral, University of Minnesota) write:

Upending contemporary media discourses of populism as a stain on liberal democracy, Bo Kyeong Seo's article, "Populist Becoming: The Red Shirt Movement and Political Affliction in Thailand," provides an incisive account of the more ambivalent relationship between populism and democracy articulated within the Red Shirt movement in Thailand. Instead of taking the people as a given, monolithic category constituted by a faceless crowd, Seo grounds her ethnography in a "microhistory" that reminds us of the chasm between political rhetoric and lived reality by showing us in plush style how political subjectivities are not just determined by populist orders but also constituted within them. Seo compellingly links a singular life with the shifting contours of a political milieu, illuminating how ways of being are forged and lived out in the spacetime of mass mobilization. While the government and bureaucratic elite continuously attempt to de-humanize the Red Shirts, Seo shows that everyday routines, such as preparing or distributing food, become an affective political action of being with people and caring for others as fellow humans. Such ordinary actions, Seo demonstrates, materialize people's political-democratic demands on the ground.

At a time of growing political discontent in the midst of a global health crisis and mass movement for racial justice, one of the strongest points of Seo's article lies in how her ethnography of a "singularity" shows forms of solidarity, mutuality, and care that emerge to enact a radical vision of being-in-relation or togetherness. Ultimately, Seo presents us with ethnography that manifests care through its narration, as it opens space for populism to emerge from everyday generosity and struggle.

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Society for Cultural Anthropology Business Meeting

We invite you all to join us for our annual business meeting where we will fete the winners of both the Gregory Bateson Book Prize and the Cultural Horizons Prize: November 20th at noon Eastern Time. For the zoom ID invite, please write Anne Allison at aaa@duke.edu.

Decameron Relived

Decameron Relived is a series of ten fictional stories in the new Editors'' Forum section Fictions on the SCA website, Fieldsights. Inspired by Giovanni Boccaccio's classic set during the outbreak of the Black Death, ten anthropologists have penned fictional stories to offer "entertainment and solace, but also to provoke a different kind of existential reflection" during the current pandemic, writes series editor Iza Kavedzija.

Cultural Anthropology

We are happy to announce the publication of the most recent issue of Cultural Anthropology?(vol. 35, no. 3), published in August 2020. The issue is open access and free for all to read at https://journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca/issue/view/102. November''s issue will be published later this month.

"Exhuming Dead Persons: Forensic Science and the Making of Post-fascist Publics in Spain," by Jonah S. Rubin

"Immigrant Sensibilities in Tech Worlds: Sensing Hate, Capturing Dissensus," by Sareeta Amrute

"The City Otherwise: The Deferred Emergency of Occupation in Inner-City Johannesburg," by Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon

"Making Kin from Gold: Dowry, Gender, and Indian Labor Migration to the Gulf," by Andrea Wright

"The Right to the Remainder: Gleaning in the Fuel Economies of East Africa''s Northern Corridor," by Amiel Bize

Anne Allison

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