The network was founded in 2018 to bring together anthropologists who work on issues related to the state and to increase debates about the state within EASA and within anthropology as a discipline.
The EASA network on Anthropology of the State brings together anthropologists whose work examines various forms of state practices and the state, facilitates sharing of information and discussion among them, and helps to push conceptual and theoretical anthropological work on the state. The network creates a space of thinking beyond now classical anthropological approaches to the state.
To join our meetings to discuss the latest work on the anthropologies of the state, please register to our mailing list (button on the right sidebar) or email one of the convenors.
Network conference: October 2025
We look back warmly towards our latest meeting in Amsterdam, where we held our largest network event so far: over 130 papers that engaged with pressing questions, offering empirically grounded and theoretically informed reflections on the broad topic of shifting states. Read more about it here.