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Palestine, Encampments, and Campus Futures

Since the advent of the war on Gaza in October 2023, university students in
the US and beyond have organized a protest movement of campus-wide sit-ins,
occupations, and encampments decrying the Israeli military=E2=80=99s action=
s in
Palestine, as well as institutional complicity. As an online space devoted
to North American ethnography, Home/Field invites individuals involved in
or witness to the protests to submit short-form works =E2=80=93 e.g. essays=
,
fieldnotes, interviews, poems, or multimodal pieces =E2=80=93 reflecting em=
ergent
themes from the university campus, including but not limited to the:

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Institutional, social, and discursive responses to the student protests
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Geographies of solidarity between North America and Palestine, including
Palestinian universities
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Shifts in student understandings of, and demands on, the university
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Relations between the campus and the broader community surrounding or
impacted by universities
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The evolution of mutual aid and mutual defense tactics
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The significance of diaspora, return, or crossings for pro-Palestinian
and anti-Zionist organizing
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The future of campus organizing as the war continues

We welcome submissions until August 1, 2024. Works may be in the range of
300-1000 words =E2=80=93 for anything longer please contact us with a pitch=
. For
inquiries and submissions, feel free to contact us at
homefieldsubmission@gmail.com.

Home/Field (https://www.homefieldanthro.org/) is a space for ethnographers
of North America to contend with pressing issues and explore what
anthropology as a discipline =E2=80=93 methodology, theory, praxis, ethics,=
and
more =E2=80=93 can contribute to the imagination and enactment of a more ju=
st
world.

Editorial Guidelines: As student movements have continued to negotiate or
escalate with their universities and militarized police forces occupy their
campuses, we at Home/Field offer authors the use of pseudonyms for
themselves, names of others, cities, and universities, as well as a nimble
editorial response time.

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Deniz Daser, PhD
External Lecturer
University of St. Gallen (HSG)

Website: denizdaser.ch
Twitter: @dddaser
Recent publications: Public Anthropologist
and Conflic=
t
and Society