Focaal

Aims & Scope

Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology is a peer-reviewed journal advocating an approach that rests in the simultaneity of ethnography, processual analysis, local insights, and global vision.

It is at the heart of debates on the ongoing conjunction of anthropology and history, as well as the incorporation of local research settings in the wider spatial networks of coercion, imagination, and exchange that are often glossed as "globalization" or "empire." Seeking contributions on all world regions, Focaal is unique among anthropology journals for consistently rejecting the old separations between "at home" and "abroad," "center" and "periphery." The journal therefore strives for the resurrection of an "anthropology at large" that can accommodate issues of the global south, postsocialism, mobility, metropolitan experience, capitalist power, and popular resistance into integrated perspectives.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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• Author instructions
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• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Preservation url
• Apc url
• License

APC Details

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Living with/in and without neo-liberalism

  Citation: 155

  Authors: John

• Nonrecording the “European refugee crisis” in Greece

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Katerina

• Conspiracy theories and their truth trajectories

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Mathijs, Rhys

• Introduction

  Citation: 57

  Authors: Simone, Gisa

• Detachment as a corporate ethic

  Citation: 56

  Authors: Jamie

• The Greek economic crisis as trope

  Citation: 54

  Authors: Daniel M.

• Social security and care after socialism

  Citation: 48

  Authors: Rosie, Tatjana

• Transformative cities

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Ida, Stéphane

• Immaterial and industrial labor

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Sylvia

• Conjunctures, crises, and cultures

  Citation: 41

  Authors: John