Critical Urban Anthropology Association
OUR MISSION
CUAA particularly focuses on the interrelationships of urban, national, and transnational
processes as they affect and are affected by the everyday social and cultural lives of people living, acting,
and struggling in particular places, anthropology’s traditional area of concern.
ABOUT
The Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA), formerly SUNTA, a section of the American Anthropological Association, concerns itself with theories, problems, processes, and institutions of urban, national and transnational life. Urban life and problems in the modern world are interrelated with national and transnational institutions (especially globalizing capitalism), processes, and forces. Likewise, nations and transnational institutions most express themselves and are expressed by people living in the global hierarchy of contemporary cities. CUAA, therefore, particularly focuses on the interrelationships of urban, national, and transnational processes as they affect and are affected by the everyday social and cultural lives of people living, acting, and struggling in particular places, anthropology’s traditional area of concern.
CUAA’s members, a number of whom reside outside the U.S.A., include academic, practitioner/applied, and student anthropologists. Members’ expertise covers most nations (including the U.S.A.) of the world and their cities. In addition to conducting original research many CUAA members consult and work in or with private and public agencies dealing with social problems, development, and policy formation.
CUAA also publishes a journal, City & Society, which attempts to foster debate and conceptual development in urban, national, and transnational anthropology, particularly in their interrelationships. IT seek to promote communication related disciplines of interest to members of CUAA and to develop theory from a comparative perspective. If you are interested in learning more or submitting a manuscript, please visit their website.

Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi Awarded 2024 Leeds Prize
This year’s Anthony Leeds Prize was awarded to Malini Ranganathan, David L. Pike, and Sapana Doshi for Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City.
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
CUAA Call for Nominations 2024
CUAA has several open positions available. We are currently accepting nominations for the following positions: President-Elect Treasurer Secretary 2nd Councilor Student Councilor Please email Ruth...
2023 Anthony Leeds Prize for Deniz Yonucu’s “Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul”
The Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA) is pleased to award the 2023 Anthony Leeds Prize to Deniz Yonucu for her book, Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in Istanbul...
Statement of Solidarity
The Critical Urban Anthropological Association (CUAA) strongly supports the following boycott resolution. As a section whose members have expertise on the pernicious and long-lasting effects of...

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