“Welcome to the world of the polycrisis,” intones a historian in the pages of a global business newspaper. Pandemic, insurrection, rebellion, climate catastrophes, and financial instability are now global defining conditions that both have no singular origin and compromise our ability to live a good life. Or maybe it’s just the end of the liberal capitalist global order – the end of the “end of history.” Ethnographers within Marxist, feminist, and anticolonial genealogies, however, might take issue with the idea that “polycrisis” is unique to this moment, whether because it exceptionalizes cycles of speculation and collapse, dismisses the disorganization of social life under capitalism, centers North Atlantic hegemons, or frames liberal capitalism’s precarious and violent existence as a normative ideal. Whether examining the politics of mass mediated moral panics or the intimate spaces of frontline resistance, ethnographers should not relinquish our ability to theorize crisis in relation to communities. Nor should we obscure the politics of defining or locating crisis in relation to modernity, liberalism, or coloniality.

Home/Field welcomes proposals for submissions – including works in progress – that engage with the following topics across North American contexts:

• The political, temporal, and “affect-generating” (Masco 2017) work of crisis: How is “crisis” leveraged as a tool of governance or social mobilization, and to what political effect (see Whyte 2020)?
• Ethnographic engagements with crisis: How do ethnographers of North America navigate, document, and/or contest various iterations of “crisis” on the ground?
• “Crisis actors” and moral panics that attempt to police the polycrisis
• Crises of disciplinary anthropology: Amid calls to “let it burn” (Jobson 2020) and forge an anthropological praxis committed to anti-racism and material transformation (Welcome 2020), what are the stakes of doing anthropology today? How do anthropologists grapple with calls to reckon with, abolish, and decolonize institutionalized anthropology of North America?
• Audiovisual submissions that visualize, evoke, or aesthetically represent  “crisis” from a specific entry point
• The interface of crisis with the category of community. What kinds of communities are invoked by claims of crisis? What communities form in relation to crises?

Send us a brief pitch (max 300 words) that outlines your proposal and argument, a short bio, as well as any questions, to homefieldsubmission@gmail.com by March 10. The editorial collective will send out decisions within one week of receiving pitches. Final submissions will be double editor reviewed. Text-based submissions should be 1,500-2,500 words. Photo, video, or graphic submissions should include a written introduction (500 words max).