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In October 2020, Jeff Maskovsky, the then‐President of the then‐named Society for Urban, National, and Transnational/Global Anthropology (SUNTA) proposed renaming the section in light of developments in the subfield in the 20‐plus years since the last renaming of the section, which had previously been known as the Society for Urban Anthropology (SUA). From its founding, SUA had taken into account the role of power and inequality in shaping cities and city life; the adoption of the name “SUNTA” reflected a growing awareness of the importance of moving beyond socio‐spatial categories like “city,” “urbanized area,” “village,” “local,” etc. to more fluid and sophisticated notions of scale and spatialization. Jeff noted that this project had been successful to the point where virtually all urban anthropologists now considered the ways in which broad relations, processes, and forces emerged from, linked, and shaped the urban places in which we did research: we were all transnational/global anthropologists now. He proposed it was time to take into account other theoretical and political developments and engagements, most importantly the fact that so many urban anthropologists were now involved in work that self‐consciously aimed to analyze various urbanized inequalities using the tools of feminist, anticapitalist, antiracist, decolonial,
City & Society – Wiley
Published: Apr 1, 2022
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