Prof. Shubhra Gururani and Dr Karl Schmid have edited a special edition of Anthropologica in honour of York Professor Emeritus Malcolm Blincow. The panel, entitled “Ethnographies of the Political” honour his enduring contribution to critical pedagogy and scholarship and, most significantly, for inspiring a new generation of Canadian anthropologists. It brings together articles by Malcolm’s former students that capture his keen interest and intervention in the anthropological studies of power and politics. Motivated by Malcolm and drawing from ethnographic research in Asia, Africa and Latin America, the articles individually and collectively represent a serious engagement with the question of politics at different locales and scale.
