International Political Anthropology

International Political Anthropology is a peer-reviewed academic journal registered and published in Ficino and in the worldCat Press. It was born in Florence in November 2007 to promote interaction between international relations scholars and disciplines such as Anthropology, Sociology, and Philosophy. For the discipline itself, see International Political Anthropology (IPA). The editors-in-chief are Agnes Horvath,Harald Wydra and Bjorn Thomassen.
Interest
The Journal International Political Anthropology interested in studying concrete singularities and promotes innovative thinking for the analysis of concrete,and living human integrities in the field of politics .
Fields Study
It is a journal in the broader field of politics, but anchored in different strands of anthropological traditions. By anthropology it refers to the discipline of anthropology, but in a classical and also open-ended sense of relating it to the role played by experiences and practices; and it also explicitly makes reference to philosophical anthropology and epistemology. The Journal covers ethnographic accounts that lead to novel reflections on politics in a comparative setting, publishing works that address questions of the present through the prism of anthropologically inspired approaches - be they methodological, conceptual or philosophical.
Issues
The ten issues published so far have featured articles, reflection pieces and book reviews that test the limits of the mainstream social sciences that take for granted a conceptual framework anchored in the self-understanding of the Enlightenment and modernity. The pool of theorists that have contributed important analytical insights to political anthropology incorporate figures such as Mauss, Rene Girard, Victor Turner, van Gennep, or Bateson; approaches that, perhaps paradoxically, through incorporating non-modern and non-European perspectives in their analysis of crises (liminality) also end up returning to some of the central ideas of Plato, who also lived through a major period of dissolution of order.
Goals
The Internatioal Political Anthropolgy (IPA) journal follows no specific ideological or theoretical line. It is rather committed to connecting different strands of thought, including for e.g. the growing field of comparative civilizational analysis, in particular the axial age debate - debates that crucially serve to contextualize Europe as one of several large-scale civilizations. The journal has published works by historians, International Relations scholars, political scientists, political philosophers, social theorists, empirical sociologists and anthropologists. Its genuine aim is to open up, build onto and enhance some cutting-edge debates that are currently emerging in between disciplines and subject areas.
Achievements
The IPA journal has been in operation for the last five years. It also supported annual Summer Schools, various conferences and symposia, and is now setting up ‘Flying University’ events, which have already helped to develop a significant international network of scholars, with the support of the University College Cork.

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