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
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.
Volume 34, Issue 1 – April 2022
Current Issue
City & Society
City & Society welcomes manuscripts concerned with city life, urban scapes, and translocal processes. Interdisciplinarity is encouraged with anthropology and cultural studies as epistemological and methodological guides. City & Society is also open to ethnographically based pieces of humanistic, historical, dialogical, narrative, poetic and visual orientation.

Maurice Rafael Magaña Awarded 2021 Leeds Prize
This year’s Anthony Leeds Prize was awarded to Maurice Rafael Magaña for his latest book, Cartographies of Youth Resistance: Hip-Hop, Punk, and Urban Autonomy in Mexico.
NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
2022 Student Paper Prize Competition
2022 CUAA Graduate Student Paper Prize Competition The Critical Urban Anthropology Association (CUAA) is pleased to announce its graduate student paper prize competition. We are seeking papers that...
Spring Speaker Series 2022
Spring Speaker Series This spring, the Public Space Research Working Group is hosting a series of speakers in March, April, and May. March’s speaker is confirmed, and the latter two will be...
CFP: Teaching the City Workshop
Teaching the City Digital Workshop on April 8, 2022 How do we teach about the city? What sits at the core of our educational and pedagogical explorations of urban spaces and socialities within...

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