International Political Anthropology

A peer-reviewed journal edited by The International Political Anthropology Association, Department of Political and Social Sciences (DiSPeS), Università degli Studi di Trieste.

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IPASS 2022 (CANCELLED)

International Political Anthropology Summer School 2022

Unfortunately, this event had to be cancelled due to the current international context.

POSTPONED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS

THE POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY SUMMER SCHOOL IN ITALY 2020

Political Alchemy – creative destruction

Max Weber 2020

Dedicated to Max Weber

(1864-1920)

Platonic Symposia

The IPA hosts annual symposia on a variety of topics from the Platonic Dialogues

November the 7th, every year in Florence Italy

Arpad Szakolczai: Post-Truth Society: A Political Anthropology of Trickster Logic

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Lee Trepanier (ed.): Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID

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Walking into the Void: A Historical Sociology and Political Anthropology of Walking

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Isabella Clough Marinaro: Inhabiting Liminal Spaces: Informalities in Governance, Housing, and Economic Activity in Contemporary Italy

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From Anthropology to Social Theory: Rethinking the Social Sciences

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Agnes Horvath -- Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded

Agnes Horvath -- Political Alchemy: Technology Unbounded

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Paul O'Connor and Marius Ion Benţa (eds.): The Technologisation of the Social: A Political Anthropology of the Digital Machine

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Franziska Hoppen: Liminality and the Philosophy of Presence: A New Direction in Political Theory

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Agnes Horvath and Arpad Szakolczai: The Political Sociology and Anthropology of Evil: Tricksterology

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Modern Leaders: Between Charisma and Trickery (by Routledge)

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Divinization and Technology: The Political Anthropology of Subversion

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Handbook of Political Anthropology (Elgar Handbooks in Political Science) Hardcover

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Tom Boland: The Spectacle of Critique: From Philosophy to Cacophony

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The Political Anthropology of Ethnic and Religious Minorities

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Experiencing Multiple Realities: Alfred Schutz’s Sociology of the Finite Provinces of Meaning

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