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
Porous Borders, Invisible Boundaries
SUNTA and CORI are proud to announce the publication of Porous Borders, Invisible Boundaries? Ethnographic Perspectives on the Vicissitudes of Contemporary Migration. This volume is edited by Jayne...
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...
Brash appointed Associate Editor of City and Society
Julian Brash has been appointed Associate Editor of City and Society. He is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Montclair State University whose research interests include urban development,...

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