Ankulegi’s publication priorities, aligned with a series of thematic areas, are enriched and updated every year through the addition of new themes, selected for Ankulegi´s Annual Conference in tune with the association members´ interests and preferences.
learning communities
A learning community is a collaborative space where knowledge is shared and co-created. Dialogue and writing are key tools for exploring together and fostering processes of discovery and mutual learning. With this theme we want to encourage the participation of anthropology students [and related disciplines] in our digital space and promote the publication of their first essays, reflections, class exercises, degree thesis or master’s thesis. At the same time, we want to invite teachers to accompany these processes and also to share their class materials or dynamics, their notes or pedagogical reflections. In short, we seek to experiment in the creation of a digital tool at the service of teaching and learning anthropology, open to all kinds of interactive proposals.
borders
The classic definition of ‘border’ refers to a territorial limit (sometimes natural, such as seas and mountains, and sometimes constructed, such as walls and fences) aimed at defending national sovereignty. This classic definition has been overwhelmed by historical, anthropological, and political approaches, which have expanded and exploded the very category of border and its study. What does the border defend? How does it extend beyond its geographical limits? This topic is linked to the XXVI Ankulegi Anthropology Conference 2024: ‘Borders, Crossings, and [Mis]Encounters.’
environmental anthropology
The theme for Ankulegi´s 2022 Conference, this thematic refers to environmental or ecological issues, understood from a broad viewpoint: from conservation and environmental governance, to interspecies relationships, climate change, the Anthropocene and cognate concepts, cosmopolitics, ontologies, or political ecology,
anthropology as professional practice
From the beginning of its activities, Ankulegi has promoted a wide debate around: the possibilities and limits of Applied Anthropology; the impulse towards professional practice within the discipline; and the working conditions and limits of creative freedom of those anthropologists employed inside and outside academia. Several of Ankulegi´s annual conferences have been organized around those issues (IV Annual Conference, 2000; VI Annual Conference, 2002; XXIII Annual Conference, 2021). We seek contributions from those who want to share their working experiences or projects in Applied Anthropology, or who want to reflect about anthropological practice in different working environments. We would also like to hear from those who want to denounce situations of precariousness, or discuss the lack of recognition of the Social Sciences within the knowledge industry.
feminisms
Within this thematic, we invite contributions: written or produced from a gender or feminist perspective (which includes all kinds of feminisms); which enrich the debate and/or facilitate learning about feminist epistemologies and methodologies; and which help to create networks and foster alliances for change in gender systems.
basque countries
Within this thematic we seek submissions referring to the different Basque territories, Basque diasporas, Basque ecosystems, and ways of life; and which deal with issues around Basque culture, language, politics and anthropology from a critical and reflective point of view.
ankulegi
Under this thematic we welcome all kinds of texts, written communications, reflective essays and news about the history and activities of Ankulegi, Basque Anthropological Association. Ankulegi was founded in 1994, and was heavily involved in the constitution both of FAAEE (Federation of Spanish Anthropological Associations) and ASAEE (Spanish Anthropological Association).
