I’ve compiled a list of panels and individual papers on security and policing-related issues at the upcoming AAA meetings.  You can see them below.

I’d like to give a special shout-out to the panel THE END/S OF POLICING: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON POLICE POWER (Fri., 8:00-9:45 AM in rm 406) organized by the newest anthropolitician, William Garriott of James Madison University, also featuring myself, Michelle Stewart, Thom Chivens, Eva Harmon and Mindie Lazarus-Black of Temple University.  It should be good times.

Other than that, the following look interesting (panels are in bold):

Wed, 12/2

• 12-1:45 pm, STATE SECURITY SCIENCES
  • 12pm, Limor Darash, “UNFOLDING THE STATE: STATE FORMS OF ACTION IN PREPAREDNESS FOR BIOLOGICAL EVENTS“
• 12:30pm, Christen Smith “VIOLENCE, THE BLACK BODY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF MULTICULTURALISM AND THE STATE IN BRAZIL “
• 2:45pm, Lisa Meierotto, “CONSERVING CABEZA PRIETA: MIGRATION AND HOMELAND SECURITY IN A NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE“
• 8:15pm, Sameena Mulla “PUTREFACTION AND PRESERVATION: TECHNOLOGIES OF CARE AND THE SEXUALLY VIOLATED SUBJECT“
• 8:15pm, Andrea Morrell, “BRINGING THE PRISON HOME: GENDERED CAREWORK AND THE SOCIAL REPRODUCTION OF CONFINEMENT“
• 8:30pm, Jong Bum Kwon, “ARRESTED FOR LOITERING: POLICE ORDER AND THE AMBIGUITIES OF SPATIAL-POLITICAL POSITIONING IN ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH OF POLITICAL PROTEST“

Thurs, 12/3

• 8:15am, Jack Murphy ““SARKO, UP YOURS!”: INTERROGATING THE ASYMMETRICAL APPEAL OF NICOLAS SARKOZY DURING THE FALL 2005 RIOTS IN FRANCE”
• 9:00am, Vida Bajc, “THE SECURITY STATE AND THE LIMITS OF CITIZENSHIP“
• 2:45pm, Alana Smith “CITIZEN/TERRORIST: SECURITY PROBLEMS OF THE BIOPOLITICAL STATE“

Friday, 12/4

• 8:00-9:45am,  THE END/S OF POLICING: ETHNOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVES ON POLICE POWER (see above)
  • 8am, Thomas Chivens, “SECURITY’S DISPLACE AT ETHNOGRAPHY’S END/S“
  • 8:15am, Michelle Stewart, “POLICING AND CARE: “PROLIFIC OFFENDER MANAGEMENT” IN CANADA“
  • 8:30am, William Garriott, “POLICE SCANNERS AND THE POETICS OF COUNTER-SURVEILLANCE“
  • 8:45am, Eva Harmon, “POLICING WITH IRELAND’S NEW MINORITY COMMUNITIES“
  • 9:00am, Kevin Karpiak, “POLICE/STATE: WHAT FRENCH POLICE REFORM CAN TELL US ABOUT CONTEMPORARY RE-FIGURATIONS OF STATE AND SOCIETY“
  • 9:15am, Mindie Lazarus-Black (discussant)
• 10:15am-12pm, TOWARD A MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY AGAINST MILITARISM
  • Charles Briggs, “IS MILITARISM WORSE FOR YOUR HEALTH THAN CAPITALISM? BIOSECURITY AND THE CIRCULATION OF KNOWLEDGE”
• 12:15-1:30pm, CA PUBLIC ADVISORY BOARD SESSION 1: THEMATIZING SECURITY (see the previous posts as well)
• 1:45-5:30pm, MAKING DAILY LIFE DEADLY: THE MILITARIZATION OF EVERYDAY LIFE, NORTH AND SOUTH
  • 2:00pm Phillipe Bourgois, “THE U.S. WAR ON DRUGS: JUST ANOTHER NIGHT IN A NORTH PHILADELPHIA JAIL“
  • 2:15pm Didier Fassin, “THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE POLICE: THE EVERYNIGHT SECURITIZING OF THE FRENCH BANLIEUE“
  • 2:30, Loic Wacquant, “MEAN STATE: THE MILITARIZATION OF MARGINALITY IN THE BLACK AMERICAN GHETTO AND THE BRAZILIAN FAVELA“
  • 3:30 Nancy Scheper-Hughes, “AFTER THE DEATH SQUADS IN NEOLIBERAL BRAZIL: FACE TO FACE WITH ABIDORAL QUEIROZ“
  • 3:45pm Beatriz Manzz, “THE RESURGENCE OF DEATH SQUADS IN POST-WAR GUATEMALA“
  • 4:00pm Roger Lancaster, “SEX PANIC AND THE PUNITIVE STATE: HOW FEAR UNDERMINES DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA“
  • 4:15 Hugh Gusterson, “TRUTH DETECTION AT LARGE“
• 2:45pm, Aleksandra Milicevic “INTERROGATED INTERVIEWER: WHAT DID I LEARN FROM SECRET POLICE?”
• 4-5:45pm, SECURITY: THEORY, PRACTICE, CONTRADICTION
  • 4:15pm, Robert Albro, “THE CULTURE DOCTRINE: MILITARY CULTURE AND THE MILITARY’S CULTURE CONCEPT“
  • 4:30pm, Laura McNamara, ““IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL IN ADVANCE:” COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE, PREDICTION, AND POLICYMAKING“
  • 4:45pm, Asaf Harel, “MIRACULOUS SECURITIES: THE CASE OF JEWISH SETTLERS IN THE GAZA STRIP“
  • 5:00pm, Stephen Collier, “THE SECURITY OF VITAL SYSTEMS“
• 5:00pm, Heather Hindman, “MEDIATING SECURITY POLICY IN KATHMANDU“

Saturday, 12/5

• 9am, Hager El Hadidi, “URBAN RENEWAL AS ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM AND POLICE SURVEILLANCE: THE TRANSFORMATION OF SACRED SPACE EXPERIENCE IN CAIRO“
• 10:15am-12pm, THE PARADOX OF SECURITY IN WAR AND PEACE

Sunday, 12/6

• 8-9:45am, MIGRATION, SECURITY AND BELONGING IN NEOLIBERAL EUROPE
• 8-9:45am, PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND THE SECURITY SECTOR: A DIALOGUE WITH THE LARGER ANTHROPOLOGICAL COMMUNITY
• 10:15am-12pm THE POWER, INTIMACY AND ENVY OF POLICE-MILITARY RELATIONS WITHIN THE SOUTHEAST ASIAN STATE
  • 10:15am, Jacqueline Baker, “THE VULGARITY OF PERSUASIVE RULE: POWER AND LONGING IN THE REORGANISATION OF THE COERCIVE APPARATUS OF THE INDONESIAN STATE“
  • 10:30am, Vicki (Bu) Wilson, “REGULATORY RITUALISM IN REFORM OF THE SECURITY SECTOR IN TIMOR-LESTE“
  • 10:45am, Eric Haanstad, “THE INTIMATE RIVALRY OF GREEN AND BLUE: THAI AND CAMBODIAN STATE SECURITY FORCES IN COMPARATIVE CONFLICT“
  • 11:00am, Aries Arugay, “ASYMMETRICAL COLLABORATION OR LOPSIDED COMPETITION? MILITARY-POLICE RELATIONS IN PHILIPPINE COUNTERINSURGENCY CAMPAIGNS“
• 10:45am, Maria Sierra, “GUERRERO’S COMMUNITY POLICE: INDIGENOUS WOMEN CONFRONTING GENDER OPPRESSION AND DISPUTING RIGHTS WITHIN THE MOVEMENT FOR COMMUNITY JUSTICE“
• 11:15am, Elana Zilberg, “NEOLIBERAL SECURITYSCAPES: TRANSNATIONAL MASCULINITIES AND VIOLENCE BETWEEN THE US AND EL SALVADOR“

As always, if you’re giving a paper or are on a panel that you think should be included in this list, just let me know in the comments section and I’ll add you…