Introducing our new editor! With a passion for high quality urban ethnographic research, mentorship for junior scholars & forging new connections, Kristin is dedicated to expanding our reach and curating a conversation through the journal that is eclectic, vibrant, and fruitful.

Calling practicing anthropologists, planners, artists, and activists. Do you conduct research or do original work in urban contexts? The journal is open to works of humanistic, historical, dialogical, narrative, poetic and visual orientation. Submit your work for consideration!

Introducing the new associate editor! With a deep commitment to exploring increasingly urban contexts of anthropology & humanity, Andrew sees the relationships that anthropologists have to urban contexts and rethinking anthropology as a whole as more vital than ever.

What does it mean to "make sense of the world?" How does this impact our interactions with other humans and our non human counterparts? Go deeper in your understanding of enskilment, the theme for our newest edition @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/154874…

"...expanding representation has the potential to create new lines of theoretical inquiry and we want to encourage and cultivate a diverse theoretical exchange in the journal." Submit your original work for consideration @ bit.ly/cityandsociety…

#NewIssue! We explore the various intersections of city life and social imaginations in examining the question of who has "the right to the city?" What role do urban presents & histories play in conjuring potential futures and nostalgic pasts? Available @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/154874…

#NewEdition Samantha Maurer Fox examines how citizens of the East German town of Eisenhüttenstadt navigate hidden realities & unmet promises to highlight how stories of migration can be of "digestion" and acceptance rather than exclusion and fear. Read now anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#NewEdition Caroline Humphrey interrogates the collective imaginary in place making. "People become aware of the city as a...patchwork of overlapping & contested images...a variegated whole that is squeezed or slanted according to one's own perspective" anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#NewEdition Examining the horror of the Detroit water crisis, Thomas Abowd "illustrates how...[through] the neoliberalization of racial capitalism by...various authorities" Black and Brown lives are sacrificed in service of the wealthy and elite few. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#NewEdition Cansu Civelek queries "modernization" in Eskişehir, Turkey. As metanarratives of "ideal cities" are formed he argues "issues and neighborhoods dominated by poverty and inequality cannot find a place within this glamorous Western city image" anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#NewEdition Tensions exist between the language of rights & the practices of subtle or embodied claims to rights. Here, Christopher Sheklian discusses the ways Armenians in Turkey use their Christian faith as a subtle claim to their "rights to the city." anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

Check out the latest edition of City & Society now available online through anthrosource! Volume 36, Issue 3 can be found @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/154874…

In this edition, we feature invited reflection from Stefano Portelli, Caroline M. Parker, Michael Farquhar and commentary from Deniz Yonucu on her book Police, Provocation, Politics which won the 2023 Anthony Leeds Prize in Urban Anthropology. Dive in @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

Samuel Shearer's article “This place is fake:” green capitalism & the production of scarcity in Kigali, Rwanda" challenges the assumed sustainability of "green" construction by exposing the structural violence often behind such projects. Read today @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

Through the lens of China's "Zero Covid" policy during the height of pandemic lockdowns, Xuyi Zhao interrogates the role of the state and shequ (community orgs) in creating future oriented relationships to power, control and collective safety. Read now @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#BookForum Stefano Portelli hails Yonucu's book as "a masterpiece of militant ethnography, one that provides evidence for a radically counter-hegemonic interpretation of institutions, deliberately positioned on the side of those who challenge them" Read @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#BookForum "Yonucu...provides a critical perspective on similar dynamics [of policing] worldwide, where state, police, military, crime, & gang activities intersect in ways that defy conventional categorization" Read Caroline Parker's commentary @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#BookForum Michael Farquhar argues that "part of the value in Yonucu's approach derives precisely from her commitment to analyzing the significance of martyrdom without automatic recourse to religion." Interest Piqued? Read his commentary now @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

#NewEdition #BookForum Jeffrey T. Martin's provides an excellent comparitive analysis furthering the conversation in Yonucu's book between the work of Rancière and Brodeur on policing, power, and counterinsurgency. Check it out now @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…

"For anthropologists dedicated to learning from...the oppressed, centering the voices of those who are policed...reveals the practical realities of policing [&] allows us to learn from the resistance that has emerged in response" Read Yonucu's commentary @ anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ci…