A New Collective for the Anthropology of Work Review

The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to announce the selection of Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal. The three will work closely with outgoing editor Tarini Bedi over the course of 2025, before assuming full responsibility for the journal as of January 1, 2026.

Based in the United Kingdom and France, the incoming collective have studied a wide range of types of work and workers, including smallholders and migrant farmworkers, industrial workers, voluntary and affective labor, and high-tech professionals. Their research sites and networks extend across Europe, Oceania, and South Asia, and they have held service roles at other anthropological publications including ANUAC, Critique of Anthropology, and Focaalblog.

“We are genuinely excited to engage with the scholarship and the scholars who publish in AWR,” said Folz, Bonnano, and Smith in a statement. “We are also committed to building on the opportunities the journal provides to early-career and marginalized scholars.”

The Anthropology of Work Review is an international forum for multidisciplinary research on work and labor in the broadest sense. Its mission is to facilitate ethnographically informed discussions of work politics and practices, including struggles over the absence of work, as well as to promote dialogue around a plurality of emerging theoretical, epistemological, and methodological approaches. The journal invites submissions that concern all aspects of human and nonhuman labor, from inquiries into its structure and organization to novel propositions for rethinking its implications and emerging forms. It welcomes perspectives that challenge hegemonies of work, linked as they are to historical and contemporary forms of patriarchy, racism, fascism, and colonialism.