CALL FOR PAPERS – THE URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY JOURNAL 25 (2025)
[Re]Inventing the City: Policies and Utopiasâ
Urban studies continue to evolve, highlighting an increasingly sophisticated and multidimensional approach to daily life within a dynamic environment marked by ongoing reconfiguration. The study of the modern city transcends traditional sociological observations, transforming into a vast field of interdisciplinary inquiry where urban anthropology broadens its analytical horizons. This field explores how utopias and policies deeply influence the organization of urban spaces, architecture, cohabitation relations, and the social structures within contemporary cities. Given the rapid diversification and complex stratification of urban landscapes, urban anthropology has solidified its role as an essential domain for observing and reflecting on how utopian ideas and power structures currently shape urban life.
For the next edition of the Journal of Urban Anthropology, a specialized publication of the Bucharest Municipal Museum, we invite contributions that venture beyond the conventional observation of urban social structures, offering a thorough analysis of the complex mechanisms through which utopias and policies shape urban space. We seek submissions from researchers and practitioners in fields such as anthropology, ethnology, sociology, history, architecture, and urban planning, interested in examining how urban policies and projected utopias over time have shaped or continue to shape the life of contemporary cities, whether in Bucharest or other urban centers.â
Proposed submissions may include case studies based on fieldwork, theoretical analyses, or methodological reflections, encouraging original contributions and fresh perspectives on the topic, as well as additions or revisions to prior works. We welcome articles, studies, and reviews that analyze the social, cultural, economic, and artistic dynamics of urban spaces from an ethno-anthropological perspective, reflecting on the diversity and complexity of urban coexistence and on strategies by which the city rediscovers and renews its identity.â
We eagerly anticipate your contributions, which will help create an in-depth and engaging thematic issue of the Journal of Urban Anthropology.
Submitted texts must adhere to the journal’s editorial guidelines (see: https://rev-antropologieurbana.ro). Publication acceptance involves a peer review process during which authors will receive reviewers’ comments and are expected to respond within the specified timeframe.
Note: Authors are responsible for the accuracy of the information presented and for upholding professional ethics, especially in terms of data confidentiality and the anonymization of interview subjects, where applicable.
Submission Procedure:
Please send your article by April 30, 2025, to: antropologie@muzeulbucurestiului.ro.
It must have a maximum length of 25 pages
We look forward to receiving your contributions to create a captivating and relevant thematic issue together.
With best regards,
The Editorial Team of the Journal of Urban Anthropology
Why an Urban Anthropology Journal?
Urban anthropology occupies a sequence of general anthropology and concerns about the human groups or individuals living in urban areas. Urbanization is an anthropological process which produces a continuous change in the developing of our species.
Urban anthropology includes all changes made by moving from rural to urban and follows the noble human adventure further the urbanization, industrialization, post industrialization to the information society, whicg is in its beginnings. And it will register, in time, mutations, however small changes in the human condition.
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