What does politics mean in contemporary anthropology? Counter to propositions that argue that neoliberalism has produced a “post-political” condition, we argue the notion of a post-political world was never empirically accurate. Instead, using the ethnographic method, our contributors show ongoing and diverse forms of political practices and contestations in the contemporary moment. We reconsider politics at a conceptual level, defining politics as practices of world-making that proceed through the formulation of constellations of critique, disagreement, difference, and conflict. We build this definition through a discussion of contemporary theories of the post-political and agonistic politics, and by tracing a history of political anthropology. Finally, we consider politics as both a practice and a goal. The authors in this collection show that new political anthropologies are particularly attuned to questions of commoning/uncommoning, spaces of articulation and disarticulation, and struggles to live “otherwise.” We argue that a return to these questions with a robust and specific engagement with politics is necessary for anthropology and increasingly urgent given the global conjuncture.

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简介：回归政治

政治在当代人类学中意味着什么？与主张新自由主义产生“后政治”条件的主张相反，我们认为后政治世界的概念从经验上讲从来都不是准确的。取而代之的是，使用人种志方法，我们的撰稿人展示了当代当下不断发展和多样化的政治实践和竞赛形式。我们从概念上重新考虑政治，将政治定义为通过形成批判，分歧，分歧和冲突而进行的世界实践。我们通过讨论后政治和激动政治的当代理论，并追溯政治人类学的历史，来建立这个定义。最后，我们认为政治既是实践又是目标。该合集的作者表明，新的政治人类学特别适合于共通/不共通，表达和分离的空间以及为“另类”而生活的问题。我们认为，对于人类学而言，必须通过与政治的有力而具体的接触来返回这些问题，而鉴于全球形势的紧迫性，这一问题日益迫切。