Since its creation in 2004, the WCAA has developed multiple activities addressed to its growing membership and to a wider audience. However, 20 years later, we still face the challenges of deepening our knowledge of the sixty WCAA member associations and, thus, encouraging and strengthening dialogues as well as joint activities and actions among this wide and diverse membership. With that in mind, this task-force aims to contribute to a better understanding of the WCAA’s diverse membership, through the promotion of diverse activities and exchanges about a) these associations´ specific histories and experiences particularly in regard to how they have addressed (or not) past and present pressing socio-political issues and the ways in which they plan their futures in their specific environments; b) the anthropology or anthropologies their members and anthropologists in their countries or regions have practiced; c) the specificities of their (national) anthropologies practices, including issues of colonialism (if it is the case) d) their historical experiences of/with transnational networks that could have contributed to the development of theoretical-methodological paradigms and their social action, primary challenges, pressures, transformations and achievements
Besides generating information that may lead to a collection of WCAA member-associations´ histories, this task-force intends to stimulate joint activities (including joint publications) and social solidarities that could help us to understand and face the pressing socio-economic pressures of our times.