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Special Issue Call for Papers

“Getting Through”: Anthropologies of Crisis, Resistance, and Resilience

From the COVID pandemic to the opioid epidemic, from Hurricane Katrina to Hurricane Helene, from wildfires to droughts to oil spills, mass shootings, secularization, misinformation and polarization, crises have proliferated during the last quarter century. How have communities “gotten through,” and how are they doing so now? In these times of pervasive uncertainty and structural violence, how are people evaluating claims to truth and negotiating relationships between perceived interests of the individual and of the polity? How have they mobilized such strategies as resistance, resilience, care work, and networking to sustain themselves while in the throes of intertwined economic, political, social, educational, environmental, cultural, and public-health crises? This special issue of Southern Anthropologist welcomes submissions on themes of upheaval, disaster, emergency, determination, compassion, and hope – of “getting through.”

Southern Anthropologist (ISSN: 1554-4133) is the peer-reviewed journal of the Southern Anthropological Society (SAS), a four-field organization of anthropologists founded in 1966. The journal seeks to broaden knowledge of all subdisciplines in anthropology, including in their applied and engaged forms. The editors take a wide view of anthropology in and of the South. The journal highlights the scholarship and practice of anthropologists working on dynamics within the South, as well as those who are based in the South and conduct research elsewhere.

Southern Anthropologist is published electronically through eGrove at the University of Mississippi. It is wholly open access, with no charge to authors or readers. The peer-review process is double anonymized. The journal follows Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition.

Southern Anthropologist editors invite research articles and reports, as well as proposals for creatively formatted submissions.

1. Research article (5,000 – 8,000 words)
2. Report on research, practice, or teaching anthropology (3,000 – 4,000 words)
3. Creative formats: please contact the editor to discuss creative possibilities for publication including, for example:
• photo essays
• interviews, profiles, auto-ethnography
• reflection on applied work, community engagement, collaboration
• reviews or commentary on books, films, exhibits, events

southernanthropologistjournal@gmail.com

Accepted manuscripts will be published on a rolling basis. Submissions received by September 15 will receive full consideration for inclusion in the special issue.