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
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NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Proposal to Change SUNTA’s Name
A conversation is taking place regarding changing our section’s name from the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) to Critical Urban Anthropology Association...
City & Society launches www.cityandsociety.org
City & Society is proud to announce the launch of its website www.cityandsociety.org. We want to thank Alexander Lee for designing the website and creating its content. Also, keep an eye out for...
SUNTA’s Statement on the Trump Administration’s Treatment of Migrants
As a professional society comprised of experts on mobility and migration, the Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) supports in the strongest possible terms the...