Volume 33, No. 1Portraits of Queerness. Methodological and Ethical Challenges of Narrating Queer Lives
Issue description
How to narrate queer lives without reproducing the epistemic violence of abstraction This special feature addresses several tensions between portraying, as necessarily reductive process of description and representation, and Queerness, as performance of self-represen ... See the full issue
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The Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology is the peer-reviewed journal of the Swiss Anthropological Association and publishes ethnographically and theoretically grounded contributions on current issues and debates. As a tri-lingual journal, it strengthens the dialogue between different theoretical strands and scholarly traditions in social anthropology.
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2025-12-15
Call for Special Issue (spring/summer 2027)
The Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology invites proposals for a Special Issue.
The Special Issue consists of 4 to 6 articles and an introduction in English, French or German. Proposals that include articles in more than one of the journal’s publication languages are encouraged, as are proposals that incorporate an audio-visual contribution.
You are invited to submit your Special Issue proposal by February 15 2026 to the following email address: info@journal-sa.ch
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2025-08-22
Books for review
SJSCA - the Swiss Journal of Sociocultural Anthropology reviews recent publications that make important theoretical or empirical contributions to anthropology. We have a particular focus on publications originating in the Swiss academic context. Are you interested in writing a book review? Get in touch with our book review editor.