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Emergent Conversations Series

First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South
Emergent Conversations Essays

Introduction to First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South
Emergent Conversations Essays

The Certainty of Legal Labor: Meliorist Legalism and Endurant Hope in Hindu Nationalist India
Emergent Conversations Essays

Bonds of Kinship and Women’s Lives Inside Sheikhupura District Jail
Emergent Conversations Essays

Pivots as Praxis in Unsettled Times
Emergent Conversations Essays

Mothers in the Middle: Exploring Female Friendships in Urban Pakistan
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The US Prison System will Burn to Ash
Emergent Conversations Series

Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival
Emergent Conversations Essays

Introduction to Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival
Emergent Conversations Essays

Colonization of Kurdistan: A Basic Geographical, Historical, and Theoretical Framework
Emergent Conversations Essays

Continuities of Exclusion: Anti-Kurdish Ideologies from Ba’athist Regimes to Syrian Islamist Opposition
Emergent Conversations Essays

Some Anthropological Reflections on Iraqi Kurdish Political Parties
Emergent Conversations Essays

Jin, Jiyan, Azadî: Anti-Colonial Trajectory of a Revolutionary Feminist Slogan
Emergent Conversations Essays

Embodied Counter-Narratives: Newroz, Subaltern Subjectivity, and the Politics of Cultural Visibility in Iranian Kurdistan
Emergent Conversations Essays

“Neither War nor Peace”: The Kurds on the Brink of Burning Their Weapons
Emergent Conversations Essays

Owning the Narrative and Re-signifying Freedom: Society-Building and the Emancipatory Politics of Kurdish Mobilization
Emergent Conversations Essays

The Stateless and the State-like: PKK, FARC, and the Projection of Power
Emergent Conversations Essays

Contemporary Extractivisms in Northern Kurdistan
Emergent Conversations Essays

Repressive Alignments: Germany and the Transnational Politics of Anti-Kurdish Lawfare
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Reworking Citizenship Race, Gender, and Kinship in South Africa
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Kurdistan(s): Repression, Resistance, and the Fight for Survival
Emergent Conversation 24 Commissioned and Edited by Adnan Çelik & Deniz Yonucu This series brings together contributions from across the…
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Sustainable Urban Mobility in India
Emergent Conversation 23 Edited by Shivani This emergent conversation explores the politics and possibilities of walking and cycling in Indian…
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The Politics of Crisis
Emergent Conversation 22 Edited by Katy Lindquist The first two decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by a…
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Cultural Rights are Human Rights: Decolonizing Museums through Repatriation and Source Community Partnerships
Emergent Conversation 21 Edited by Kulasumb Kalinoe This series addresses the legal and political anthropology of cultural rights as human…
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The Politics of Inflation
Emergent Conversation 20 Moderated and Edited by Charles Dolph Inflation is back. Its reemergence in the United States and Europe…
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Racism and Policing in Global Perspective
Emergent Conversation 19 Edited by Deniz Yonucu and Caroline Mary Parker In this Emergent Conversation, we initiate a discussion on racism…
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Remnants of Empire
Emergent Conversation 18 Edited by Abdulla Majeed This series calls upon scholars to reflect on the location of empire and…
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The Aesthetic Politics of Far Right Movements
Emergent Conversation 17 Edited by Kyle Craig A person holds a banner referring to the Qanon conspiracy theory during a…
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Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment
Emergent Conversation 16 Edited by Čarna Brković and Jennifer Curtis A couple of climbers reaching the top of a mountain…
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Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power
Emergent Conversation 15 Edited by Nikola García The Argentine Colectivo Situaciones (2002) and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben (2014) define a…
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Reflective Conversation: Revisiting and Revitalizing Ethnographies of Legislatures
Emergent Conversation 14 Edited by Neil Nory Kaplan-Kelly Legislators (bottom in blue shirts) from Taiwans main opposition Kuomintang (KMT) display…
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ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime
Emergent Conversation 13 Edited by Frank Müller and Julienne Weegels The research network ILLICITIES explores the ways in which heterogeneous…
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Political Action and Generations
Emergent Conversation 12 A discussion with Nataša Garić-Humphrey, Andrew Gilbert, Azra Hromadžić, and Larisa Kurtović Moderated by Jennifer Curtis As…
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Bureaucracy, Justice, and The State in a Post-Accord Colombia: Emergent Conversation 11
Edited by Erin K. McFee Women who left the FARC guerrilla in Colombia demonstrate to remember their husbands and loved…
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Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism
Emergent Conversation 10 This PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation, On Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, engages anthropological and socio-legal scholars to…
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Fake News and Anthropology: A Conversation on Technology, Trust, and Publics in an Age of Mass Disinformation
Emergent Conversation 9 A Discussion with Andrew Graan, Adam Hodges, Meg Stalcup Moderated by Mei-chun Lee This Emergent Conversation is part…
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Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent
Emergent Conversation 8 A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton Moderated by Jennifer Curtis and Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot…
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Understanding Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime
Emergent Conversations: Part 7 PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s seventh emergent conversation brings together different perspectives on the topic of…
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The Future of Anthropology of Law
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s sixth emergent conversation focuses on the futures of legal anthropology, recognizing the plurality of approaches…
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Reflections on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s fifth emergent conversation reflects on the recent U.S. presidential election, presenting a variety of perspectives…
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Perspectives on the Academic Boycott Vote
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s fourth emergent conversation features a variety of perspectives regarding the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) vote on a possible boycott…
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Being Like a State
In 2015, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review introduced a new feature, Emergent Conversations. Although not yet in the journal, the concerns addressed…
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Reflecting on Silence and Anthropology
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review‘s second installment of the Emergent Conversations series is Reflecting on Silence and Anthropology, which summarizes an…
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Among the Anonymous Dead
In 2015, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review introduced a new feature, Emergent Conversations. For years, PoLAR has featured spillover conversations that capture discussions sparked by articles…
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