Palestine, Encampments, and Campus Futures (CFP)
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
Geographies of solidarity between North America and Palestine, including Palestinian universities
Shifts in student understandings of, and demands on, the university
Relations between the campus and the broader community surrounding or impacted by universities
The evolution of mutual aid and mutual defense tactics
The significance of diaspora, return, or crossings for pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist organizing
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.
--=20 Deniz Daser, PhD External Lecturer University of St. Gallen (HSG)
Website: denizdaser.ch Twitter: @dddaser Recent publications: Public Anthropologist and Conflic= t and Society
