IPA Submissions & Ethics

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IPA Publication Ethics

This publication ethics statement is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) core practices as well as other internationally accepted guidelines and standards. International Political Anthropology (IPA) publishes contributions based only on their quality, importance, originality, and relevance to its Aims and Scope [embed link to Aim & Scope]. IPA is also committed to ensure that financial or any other gains have no impact or influence on decisions of the Editorial Board. We do not charge author fees or solicit or accept advertising. The relevant duties and expectations of authors, reviewers, and editors of the journal are stated below. Responsibilities of Authors By submitting a manuscript to IPA, the contributor(s) certify that it is their own, original work and that it has neither been published previously nor is currently being considered for publication elsewhere. They also confirm that the sources of any ideas and/or words in the manuscript that are not their own have been properly attributed through appropriate citations and/or quotes. Authors who publish in IPA will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, Version 4.0. Each of the authors will sign a declaration to this effect before publication. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. The author(s) retain copyright on work published by IPA unless specified otherwise. If copyrighted material is used in an article, the necessary permission must be enclosed with the submission in a separate file. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to include any images or artwork for which they do not hold copyright in their articles, or to adapt any such images or artwork for inclusion in their articles. The copyright holder must be made explicitly aware that the image(s) or artwork will be made freely available online as part of the article under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license. By submitting to IPA, the contributor(s) certify that the work is not currently under submission to, or being considered by, any other journal. Submitting the same manuscript concurrently to more than one journal is unacceptable. If discovered, such practices shall result in rejection of a manuscript under consideration. Transparency is vital to academic research and publishing. Conflicts of interest (COI) occur when an author and/or contributor has engaged in an activity which may affect the validity of research by influencing their work for personal gain. Where articles published in the journal are based, in whole or part, on funded research, authors are requested to clearly acknowledge any funding they have received. Authors should also indicate any potential conflicts of interest when submitting articles for publication. The editors may decide not to publish an article when it is believed the competing interests are such that they may have compromised the work, the analyses or interpretations presented. The authors’ names should be listed in the submission in the order agreed by them, and all authors take responsibility for their own contributions. Individuals submitting articles to be considered for publication will only be credited authorship and/or contributorship if they have provided this substantially through research, writing, editing, and approval for publication. Acknowledgements may be noted for those contributors not meeting authorship or contributorship requirements. Ghost authors are not permitted as all authors and/or contributors meeting authorship and/or contributorship requirements should be listed. Authorship and/or contributorship disputes may be referred to the chief editors of the journal for resolution.Please note that we do not accept papers that are generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning Tools, as such tools cannot take responsibility for the submitted work and therefore cannot be considered as authors. Where such tools or technologies are used as part of the design or methodology of a research study, their use should be clearly described in an acknowledgements section. IPA requires authors to follow strict ethical guidelines for research in relation to consent, conduct, confidentiality, and promotion. If the manuscript involves data collection from, or about, living humans, the author must indicate on submission that their research had the approval of the relevant Research Ethics Committee/Institutional Review Board and provide proper documentation regarding the Board’s determination. Where appropriate and reasonable, authors who are reporting on original data are encouraged to archive the data underpinning their paper in a public repository. We understand that it may not be appropriate for all researchers to archive their data in a public repository due to ethical or legal requirements and/or resource implications. Authors are not required to archive or share their data in order to publish with IPA.  Responsibilities of Reviewers Publication of articles in IPA is subject to double-blind peer review by subject matter experts. Reviewers of IPA perform the work for the journal on a purely voluntary basis and without any financial return. All material submitted to the journal will remain confidential while under review. All communications with reviewers are carried out only by the editors. Reviewers are free to decline invitations at their discretion. Further, they should excuse themselves from the assignment if it becomes apparent to them at any stage that they do not possess the required expertise to perform the review, or that they may have a potential conflict of interest in performing the review. Reviewers who have accepted manuscript assignments are expected to submit their reviews within a maximum of three months. Privileged information or ideas obtained by reviewers through the peer review process must be kept confidential and not used for any other purpose, including personal advantage. Every manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers are requested to be objective and refrain from engaging in personal criticism of the author(s). They are encouraged to express their views clearly, explaining and justifying all recommendations made. They are requested to provide detailed and constructive feedback to assist the author(s) in improving their work, even if the manuscript is, in their opinion, not publishable currently. Reviewers should suggest relevant published works which have not been cited by the author(s). They should also point out any instances where proper attribution of sources has not been provided. They should call to the attention of the editors any major resemblances between a manuscript under consideration and other published articles or papers of which they are aware, as well as any concerns they might have in relation to the ethical acceptability of the research reported in the manuscript. Responsibilities of Editors The chief editors have the responsibility for deciding if a submission made to IPA should be published, and in doing so are guided by the journal’s policies as determined by the editorial board and constrained by such legal requirements as shall then be in force regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism. The editors may consult with the other members of the editorial board, as well as with reviewers, in making such decisions. The editors’ decision to accept or reject a paper for publication will be based only on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s relevance to the remit of the journal. The editors will disclose only appropriate and necessary information about a submission under consideration to the author(s), reviewers and potential reviewers. Additionally, the editors will make every effort to ensure the integrity of the blind review process. Complaints and Appeals IPA adheres to the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on how to handle appeals to editorial decisions or complaints about elements of the journal’s content or management. We welcome appeals; however, we require compelling evidence or new information to consider an appeal in response to the editor’s or reviewers’ position. As an author, if you wish to appeal the decision of the editors, please take the following steps: contact the chief editors in writing explaining clearly the reasons you disagree with the decision and specific evidence against comments provided by the editor(s) or reviewer(s), or highlight where you believe errors have been made provide any new information or data that you would like the editors to consider the editors will consider one appeal per article and the decision following an appeal is final but the mere fact of an appeal being made should not affect the final decision. Comments or complaints on issues to do with the journal’s management may be submitted through the chief editors by email. The editors will respond promptly to all complaints and will endeavour to resolve issues in a timely manner. We may also refer such complaints to the journal’s Editorial Board, COPE, or seek independent advice. IPA takes all complaints seriously be they made anonymously or not, and if you do make a complaint, we will treat you with professionalism and courtesy. In return, we would request the same respect for editors and reviewers. Any abuse or harassment of editors or reviewers will not be tolerated, and if this occurs your complaint may no longer be considered. Post-publication discussion and corrections Dissenting views to articles are encouraged to be emailed to the editorial team. After review and acceptance, the editorial may be published in our commentaries section. Corrections, revisions, or retractions will be published as soon as possible and close to the front of the subsequent issue. Allegations of misconduct The editors of IPA take seriously any allegation of academic misconduct, including fabrication, falsification, and plagiarism, or other practices negatively impacting the trustworthiness of our publication. We commit to taking all necessary actions, in accordance with COPE guidelines [embed link to COPE here], to protect the integrity of the scholarly record. If the event that we receive any allegations of academic misconduct, we will inform the author(s) involved that concerns have been raised. The chief editors will initiate an investigation and, if necessary or appropriate, liaise with relevant institutions and research bodies or third parties. If the conclusion of the investigation is that there is evidence of misconduct or inaccuracy of the content published, we will consider issuing a correction, retraction, or expression of concern, as relevant. If any content is retracted, we will do so in a way that preserves the integrity of the academic record and of other affiliated works. This includes maintaining any associated metadata and, if legally possible, the abstract. Journal management International Political Anthropology is a publication of the International Political Anthropology Association in collaboration with the Department of Politics, University of Trieste. The relationship of the editors to both institutions is based on the principle of editorial independence. In all cases, the editors will make decisions on which articles to publish based on quality and suitability for readers rather than for financial or other gain.

IPA Peer Review Process

International Political Anthropology uses a double-blind peer review, which means that the identity of the author is concealed from the reviewers, and vice versa, throughout the review process. The double-blind model aims to ensure the impartiality and integrity of the review process, through ensuring the anonymity of both authors and reviewers. The peer review process for your manuscript at International Political Anthropology includes the following steps: 1. Editorial Assessment Upon submission of your article, the Chief Editors will check that the paper is appropriate for the journal and is sufficiently original and interesting. If not, the paper may be rejected without being reviewed any further. Typically, editorial assessment will take place within one month of an article being submitted. 2. Invitation to Reviewers International Political Anthropology requires two peer reviewers for each research article. The editorial team will send invitations to individuals they believe would be appropriate reviewers. As responses are received, further invitations will be issued, if necessary, until the required number of reviewers is obtained. 3. Review is Conducted Peer reviewers are asked to review the article and submit their report to the editorial team within a maximum of three months. Reviewers can make the following recommendations to the journal: accept without revisions; accept with major revisions; accept with minor revisions; reject the article. In the event that the reviews differ widely, the editorial team may invite an additional reviewer so as to get an extra opinion before making a decision. 4. Decision Letter Once all reviews have been received, the editorial team will send a decision email to the author, including any relevant reviewer comments and recommendations. 5. Major and Minor Revisions If the article is accepted, the paper is sent to production. If the reviewers request minor revisions, the editorial team will work directly with the author to address the reviewers’ recommendations, without submitting the article to the reviewers a second time.  If the reviewers request major revisions, the author will be given three months to submit a revised version of the article addressing the reviewers’ recommendations and concerns. Once resubmitted, the article will be returned to the original reviewers, who can recommend either to accept the article; accept with major revisions; accept with minor revisions; or reject the article. The reviewers will be given two months to read the revised article and give their recommendation. If the article is rejected, the editorial team will include constructive comments from the reviewers to help the author improve the article. Typically, a research article will take six-nine months to complete the peer review process and be sent to production. Preparing your Manuscript for Peer Review To facilitate peer review, authors are requested to include a blinded copy of their manuscript with no author details as part of their submission package. Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the blinded manuscript is correctly prepared for double-blind peer review. Use the third person to refer to work the author has previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. Limit self-references to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ Remove references to funding sources Do not include acknowledgments Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Please read the guidelines below, then email you submission to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. note that manuscripts not conforming to these guidelines may be returned. There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Before submitting your manuscript to International Political Anthropology, please ensure you have read the Aims & Scope of the journal. Only manuscripts of sufficient quality that meet the aims and scope of International Political Anthropology will be reviewed. By submitting a manuscript to IPA, the contributor(s) certify that it is their own, original work and that it has neither been published previously nor is currently being considered for publication elsewhere. Article Types International Political Anthropology publishes both research articles and book reviews. Research articles should be between 7000 and 9000 words, including notes and references, and must be accompanied with a 150-word abstract and 5-10 key words in alphabetical order. Longer manuscripts will be considered only in exceptional circumstances. Book reviews should not be more than 2000 words. Suggestions for commentary pieces and works which fall outside of the parameters set out above are welcome, but please send suggestions in the first instance to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Peer Review Research articles submitted to International Political Anthropology are subject to a double-blind peer-review process. Full details of this process can be found here. Authorship The authors’ names should be listed in the submission in the order agreed by them, and all authors take responsibility for their own contributions. Individuals submitting articles to be considered for publication will only be credited authorship and/or contributorship if they have provided this substantially through research, writing, editing, and approval for publication. Acknowledgements may be noted for those contributors not meeting authorship or contributorship requirements. Please note that we do not accept papers that are generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) or Machine Learning Tools. Where such tools or technologies are used as part of the design or methodology of a research study, their use should be clearly described in an acknowledgements section. Declaration of funding Where articles published in the journal are based, in whole or part, on funded research, authors are requested to clearly acknowledge any funding they have received. Authors should also indicate any potential conflicts of interest when submitting articles for publication. The editors may decide not to publish an article when it is believed the competing interests are such that they may have compromised the work, the analyses or interpretations presented. Copyright and Licencing Authors who publish in IPA will release their articles under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license Version 4.0. Each of the authors will sign a declaration to this effect before publication. This license allows anyone to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given. The author(s) retain copyright on work published by IPA unless specified otherwise. If copyrighted material is used in an article, the necessary permission must be enclosed with the submission in a separate file. Authors are responsible for obtaining written permission to include any images or artwork for which they do not hold copyright in their articles, or to adapt any such images or artwork for inclusion in their articles. The copyright holder must be made explicitly aware that the image(s) or artwork will be made freely available online as part of the article under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license Version 4.0. Preparing your manuscript for submission Manuscripts should be submitted as a Word File and include a cover page giving the full name, address, email, ORCID ID and institutional affiliation of the author(s). Where there are multiple authors of a research article, the corresponding author should be clearly identified on the cover page. The submission should also include the manuscript title, a 150-word abstract and 5-10 key words in alphabetical order.  Manuscripts should be double-spaced and use at least 12pt font.  Manuscripts should include a reference list giving full references for all works used in or referred to in the research article. International Political Anthropology adheres to the Harvard reference style. To facilitate peer review, authors are requested to include an additional, blinded copy of their manuscript with no author details as part of their submission package. Besides the obvious need to remove names and affiliations, there are other steps that need to be taken to ensure the blinded manuscript is correctly prepared for peer review. Use the third person to refer to work the author has previously undertaken, e.g. replace any phrases like “as we have shown before” with “… has been shown before [Anonymous, 2007]”. Limit self-references to papers that are relevant for those reviewing the submitted paper. Cite papers published by the Author in the text as follows:  ‘[Anonymous, 2007]’. For blinding in the reference list:  ‘[Anonymous 2007] Details omitted for double-blind reviewing.’ Remove references to funding sources Do not include acknowledgments Remove any identifying information, including author names, from file names and ensure document properties are also anonymized. Acceptance and publication The editors will keep you informed as to your article’s progress throughout the production process. Proofs will be sent to the corresponding author and should be returned promptly. Authors are reminded to check their proofs carefully to confirm that all author information, including names, affiliations, sequence and contact details are correct, and that Funding and Conflict of Interest statements, if any, are accurate. Authors are free to post final accepted versions of articles published by the journal on third party repositories or social networking sites, clearly indicating them as such and acknowledging in such cases that the article was published in IPA. In the case of published versions, the author should post a link to the journal website rather than the full text of the article. The ensure long-term electronic backup and preservation of materials published in the journal, all articles will be will be preserved by the PKP Preservation Network, of which IPA is a member.

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International Political Anthropology Association IPAA Memorandum & Articles of Association To access the documents on this page as PDF files, click below: Articles of Association Memorandum of the 2023 IPAA Preliminary Meeting Journal International Political Anthropology of the International Political Anthropology Association: publishes innovative interdisciplinary publications features articles on such issues as INTERDISCIPLINARY AND COMPARATIVE SCHOLARSHIP, ADDRESSING PROBLEMATICS AND CONCERNS OF THE CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SCENE THROUGH THE PRISM OF ANTHROPOLOGICALLY BASED APPROACHES. The journal of the International Political Anthropology Association is published and hosted by: Department of Political and Social Sciences (DiSPeS),Università degli Studi di Trieste,Piazzale Europa 1 - 34127,Trieste, Italy. Memorandum of the 2023 IPAA Preliminary Meeting The aim of the Annual Meeting of the International Political Anthropology Association -- as it was to set up in July 2023 in Casa Merizzano, Sant’Anna Pelago, in the Apennines, at the Preliminary Meeting on Paradigm Change -- is to give voice, by setting up a structure, to our worries about the possibility of continuing decent, common-sense policies, as it was established in the past, mainly after the peace of Westphalia. With the participation of Marius Bentza, Agnes Horvath, Egor Novikov, Giuliana Parotto, Camil F. Roman, Richard Sakwa, Arpad Szakolczai, and Harald Wydra, at the preliminary meeting we discussed some perspectives on paradigm changes in politics and society, in order to prepare the first IPAA Annual Meeting in July 2024. The principles of sovereignty and the integrity of political and individual bodies are as crucial as that of staying alive in the contemporary world, including the inviolability of borders and the non-interference into individual households. The democratic rights, as they are now called in the public sphere, were classically considered as decent, common-sense policies, implying the defense of fundamental rights, freedoms and equalities, the separation of powers, and the constitution and parliamentary rights, and these were used to be applied all over the world. The related institutional bodies that were established on such classical foundation have recently become parasitized by media consideration and, to be sure, there is something profoundly disturbing about the recent, widespread media-administrative developments, where reason or utility became instruments of discrimination against decency. We consider that the ethos of Antique humanity stood in the valorization of the concrete, and we understand its legacy as being something concretely given for our well-being. This is what we would like to promote and make it again alive with our IPAA gatherings, for the benefit of all of us against the new, global media instigated trends to barbarize us by administering hate, distancing and suspicion, with the help of the state machinery and propaganda tools, of course using demagogically and propagandistically the discourse of human rights. We encounter contradictory messages that are inundating everyday life, purportedly advocating security, communication, and health and wealth, together with security, but in reality they are only disseminating suspicion, misunderstanding, and misinformation. Instead of security, we have discrimination, and instead of decent normality – after the collapse of Communism in 1989-91 many were hoping for a return to normality – we have awkward, flexible, and bizarre regulations. Our wellbeing is jeopardized, we are scrutinized and persecuted, so we need to clear our directions in the midst of delirious assumptions, hair-raising predictions, even downright lying, and stand a line against the flight of phantasies that leads to quick rundowns and costly failures, together with harsh policy mistakes. Every form of political government is fragile and needs constant cure for its maintenance. This is also the case with our democratic governments. For this reason, we would like to gather all available information about the unruly activates that are weakening well-being, including administrative attacks that undermining the legal power of the constitution, the hypocrite communication service, the irrevocable harms on rights and on the integrity of the person. But not only, as there is a second, and over the second a third power, each mimetising the previous (most paramount being the media); and even more, these powers are growing upon and behind the first one, producing continuous degradation, abusing the institutional strength of the first power and utilizing it for their own sake. Such escalative multiplication of powers finds a fertile ground in a state of emergency, when normativity is suspended, and obscure powers outside the constitution can assert their own agenda. This is also the case with all-embracing organizations, inside as well as outside Europe, but also with other influential cross-border commissions that can hijack concrete and controlled measures. If we look at this through an anthropological perspective, where we consider our share of the planet with milliards of other beings, who would like to find their proper place and fulfill their destiny, then we learn that we should give up our arrogance of occupying every post that remained empty and to learn instead how to share life again with others. Having and keeping consideration and obligation in our affairs means that we not only should learn again how to live with illnesses and accept our destiny in decent death in a society of love and mutual help, without the assistance of techno-medical despotism, where proper health care exists, without the divisive vulgarities of the recent restrictions in sanitation, but enjoying the beauty of every opening new day after the night. The pure delight of living here and now is a mindful process. We should restore proper news and access to fitting information, that give balanced information in order to digest the presence of a threat, which neither appears in reports on fatalities, nor in a focus on intensive cares, and which instead are presented as a collective punishment against citizens, demonstrating a hatred of humanity – just as algorithms, AI and the like. We would like to keep intact the integrity of beings, saved from mind control or any similar type of interference, arriving from technologized biopolitics bodies. It seems to us that the World Wars have not yet been finished, with their intrusive practices of biopolitical experiments on the presumed ignorant, as the information is missing about the risk factor of their undertaking, on human subjects, of governments which definitely are up to no good. Since then, not only the contamination of entire populations became technically possible, but also the limitless experimentation that is conducted in trying to change our customs, habitat, and character. Confronting with such technological threats we are alone, but everybody should be able to claim the best possible life that is given for us, given our natural and anthropological limitations, in agreeable dignity and silent cooperation, without any kind of media-technological tyranny over our well-being. This is what we mean by political anthropology, or the application of anthropological concerns in politics, to avoid the striping of life from its heartful graces. The IPAA Members,21st July, 2023 Casa Merizzano,Sant’Anna Pelago, Apennines International Political Anthropology Association Officers Elected Officers To contact IPAA officers, please email: IPAA (at) politicalanthropology (dot) org and include the relevant officer you’re seeking to reach in the subject line. Honorary President: Richard Sakwa President: Agnes Horvath (2023-25, 2-y term) Vice Presidents: Harald Wydra (2023-25, 2 year term) Camil F. Roman (2023-25, 2-year term) Treasurer: Arpad Szakolczai (2023-25, 2-year term) Board Members at Large: Paul O’Connor (2023-25, 2-year term)Giulianna Parotto (2023-25, 2-year term)Gonzalo Fernandez De Cordoba Martos (2023-25, 2-year term)Richard Sakwa (2023-25, 2-year termBjorn Thomassen (2023-25, 2-year term)Marius Ion Benţa (2023-25, 2-year term)Camil F. Roman (2023-25, 2-year term)Egor Novikov (2023-25, 2-year term)Harald Wydra (2023-25, 2-year term)Arpad Szakolczai (2023-25, 2-year term) Appointed Officers Editors of International Political Anthropology: Bjorn Thomassen (years: 2008 until 2012) Harald Wydra (years: 2008 until 2012) Agnes Horvath (years: 2012-2022) Marius I. Benţa (years: 2022 - --) Paul O’Connor (years: 2022 - --) IPA Online Editor: Marius Ion Benţa Book Review Editors: Egor Novikov (2022 - 2025) Directions Section Editors: Bjorn Thomassen (2023- 2025) Harald Wydra (2023- 2025) Contributing Editor: Richard Sakwa (2023-2025) Youth Representatives: Federica Montagni  (2023-2025) Camil F. Roman (2023-2025) Communications Liaison and Program Coordinator: Giulianna Parotto (2023-2025) Paul O’Connor (2023-2025) Committees Events Committee 2023-2025: Arpad Szakolczai Richard Sakwa Harald Wydra Bjorn Thomassen Graduate Student Paper Prize Committee 2023-2025: Giulianna Parotto Janos Szakolczai Early Career Mentoring Committee 2023-2025: Egor Novikov Camil F. Roman Nominations Committee 2023-2025: Arpad Szakolczai Agnes Horvath Book Prize in Political Anthropology Committee 2023-2025: Richard Sakwa (chair) Bjorn Thomassen

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CfP International Political Anthropology special issue: Decoding the Post-Truth Society

The recent popularity of the term ‘post-truth’ captures something of our problematic relationship to a sense of shared reality in a 21st-century society dominated by digital echo-chambers, fractured politics and contested forms of expertise. Everywhere in contemporary societies we find the symptoms of an epistemological crisis. There is the sheer scale of information and its constant churning, far beyond the capacity of anyone to meaningfully integrate, and the cognitive rewiring and impacts on information processing styles that result. Exacerbating this, there is the dissolution of the frameworks which provided a shared intellectual horizon for most educated people in western societies until the late twentieth century: not merely the ideologies or ‘grand narratives’ of Marxism, socialism or liberal progressivism, but literary canons, shared national histories, and the rudiments of a common Christian heritage. Nor does science any longer provide the certainties which religion or ideology proffered in the past: on the contrary, a profound replication crisis afflicts many fields of scientific research, with findings published in even top peer-reviewed journals proving impossible to replicate by subsequent researchers. Neither can we expect enlightenment from a Habermasian public sphere in which educated citizens engage in rational debate to achieve consensus about the common good. Instead, online culture sees the proliferation of echo chambers’ and ‘filter bubbles’ which generate increasingly separate and radically opposed informational sub-cultures. Finally, there is the generalised scepticism with which much of the population regard the narratives and ‘facts’ offered by political and corporate leaders, journalists, scientists, and ‘experts’ of all kinds. Never have we had access to more information, yet never have we been less certain of anything; never have we had more facilities to engage in commentary and analysis, yet never has there been less real debate.

Paradoxically, therefore, our ‘knowledge society’ is simultaneously a ‘post-truth society’. This can be defined as a situation in which the excess of information over our ability to process it, and a radical distrust of social institutions responsible for filtering and interpreting that information such as the media or politics, leads to an increasing abandonment of the ideal of objective truth, and its replacement by a reliance on emotion and personal narratives. ‘Truth’ is no longer defined by its consonance with a reality which seems to have retreated beyond reach, but as the personal truth of the individual or whatever simply ‘feels right’. For those concerned with influencing public opinion, the corollary is that control of the narrative is more important than any concern with objective reality or ‘facts.’

The winter 2022 edition of International Political Anthropology will be a special issue dedicated to the concept of a ‘post truth society.’ Do we inhabit a post truth society? If so, what does this mean? How and why has the ability of society to establish a shared truth diminished? What are the implications for politics, culture and society? What, if anything, can be done about it?

The journal invites submissions on any aspect of the ‘post-truth’ society, as well as general papers related to the field of political anthropology. Submissions should be emailed to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15th November 2022.

 

Cezanne - Father reading newspaper. Photo: Wikimedia
Paul Cézanne - Father reading his newspaper, 1866. Image: Wikimedia

IPA CALL FOR PAPERS, disease, political anthropology, pandemic, crisis, infectious diseases, anthropology, politics, technology, panopticon, parasites, void

INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 12 (2019) NO. 1

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The Editors

Arpad Szakolczai

Gianfranco Poggi

Tom Boland

Arpad Szakolczai

Arvydas Grisinas

Bert Olivier

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 3 (2010) NO. 1

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Bjørn Thomassen, Agnes Horvath, Harald Wydra

Alessandro Pizzorno (translated by Monica Greco)

Harvie Ferguson

François Foret

Pak Nung Wong

Evicted from Eternity. The Restructuring of Modern Rome  Bjørn Thomassen

The Sociology of Elite Distinction  O W Lewis

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 3 (2010) NO. 2

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Matthias Riedl

John McNamara

Tom Boland

Masks and Persons: Identity Formation in Public  Arpad Szakolczai

“A form created by passion to unite us to ourselves”:  The Masks of Pizzorno and Yeats Margaret Mills Harper

Regression into Technology, or the First Mask  Agnes Horvath

Norbert Elias: Post-philosophical Sociology  James Cuffe

Tarde’s ultimate paradox, or realism confronting erratic understanding  Agnes Horvath

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 2 (2009) NO. 1

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Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, Harald Wydra

Bjørn Thomassen

Peter Burke

Stephen Mennell

Agnes Horvath

Michel Dobry

Harald Wydra

Richard Sakwa

Kieran Keohane

Arpad Szakolczai

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 2 (2009) NO. 2

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John Scanlan

Richard Avramenko

John O’Brien

The Three Cultural Projects of Modernity  Bernhard Giesen

Projects of Modernity, Made in Japan: Can B. Giesen’s Model of the “Three Cultural Projects of Modernity” be Applied to Japan?  Wolfgang Schwentker

Jean-Paul and the Modern Obsession with Breaking Boundaries: Reflections on Giesen’s Three Cultural Projects of Modernity  Arpad Szakolczai

Gandhi and the Concept of the Political  Wolfgang Palaver

Against All Odds: Defending the Philosophic Tradition of Pessimism  Trevor Shelley

The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess  Eugene McNamee and Bjørn Thomassen

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 1 (2008) NO. 1

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Agnes Horvath & Bjørn Thomassen

Martin Riesebrodt

Kieran Keohane

Arpad Szakolczai

Tom Boland

Michael Urban

Harald Wydra

Reasons for and Limits of the Secularization of the State Gianfranco Poggi

Making Capitalism without Capitalists: Revisited  Ivan Szelenyi

Anthropology beyond Evolutionism: On Prehistoric Cave Art Arpad Szakolczai

Towards a New Anthropological Paradigm, or The Challenge of Mimetic Theory  Harald Wydra

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 1 (2008) NO. 2

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John von Heyking

Arpad Szakolczai

Nicola Perugini

Anni Kangas

What Kind of Political Anthropology? Turning Iconoclasm into Golden Age  Agnes Horvath

What Kind of Political Anthropology?  Bjørn Thomassen

What Kind of Political Anthropology? An external insider view  Arpad Szakolczai

Making Time: On the Anthropology of the Contemporary  John O’Brien

Political Hypocrisy or Anti-hypocrisy?  Tom Boland

Phenomenological Sociology: Experience and Insight in Modern Society  John McNamara

The Anthropology of Ireland  Eugene McNamee

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 4 (2011) NO. 2

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Harald Wydra

Justin Patch

Rosario Forlenza

Philosophical Anthropology for the Human Sciences: a MacIntyrean Approach  Peter McMylor

On the Origin of Words Arpad Szakolczai

In-Betweenness: The Extraordinary as the Ground of Social Reality  Harald Wydra

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INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY VOL. 4 (2011) NO. 1

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Agnes Horvath, Bjørn Thomassen, Harald Wydra

Gabriel Tarde

Arpad Szakolczai and Bjørn Thomassen

Pierre-Yves Baudot

After Socialist Criminology: Sovereignty and Criminal Justice in China and Beyond Pak Nung Wong

Historical Anthropology and Politics of Identity among Chinese Mestizos of Manila James Cuffe

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