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  • Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent Part III
    Emergent Conversations, Forum

    Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent Part III

    Emergent Conversations: Part 8 A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton Part III This summer, APLA President…

  • Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent Part II
    Emergent Conversations, Forum

    Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent Part II

    Emergent Conversations: Part 8 A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton Part II This summer, APLA President…

  • Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent
    Emergent Conversations, Forum, Interviews

    Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent

    Emergent Conversations: Part 8 A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton Part I This summer, APLA President…

  • Understanding Australia’s Offshore Detention Regime
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • The Future of Anthropology of Law
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Reflections on the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Perspectives on the Academic Boycott Vote
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Being Like a State
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

Book Reviews
On Morality: Homelessness, Sociality, and the Promises We Break

On Morality: Homelessness, Sociality, and the Promises We Break

Review Essay by Jessica Cooper, University of Edinburgh The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order, by Bruce…

  • A Future History of Water in all manner of devices
    A Future History of Water in all manner of devices
  • Populism Unriddled
    Populism Unriddled
  • Worth (much) more than a thousand words
    Worth (much) more than a thousand words
  • No More Haiti
    No More Haiti
  • The Social Process of Activist Media in Mexico
    The Social Process of Activist Media in Mexico
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Virtual Edition on Environmental Justice

Virtual Edition on Environmental Justice

PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is pleased to announce the release of a new virtual edition on the topic…

  • Virtual Edition on Immigration
    Virtual Edition on Immigration
  • Virtual Edition on Human Rights and Anthropology
    Virtual Edition on Human Rights and Anthropology
  • Virtual Edition on the Promise and Pathos of Law
    Virtual Edition on the Promise and Pathos of Law
  • Virtual Edition on Law and Inequalities
    Virtual Edition on Law and Inequalities
  • Virtual Edition on Transparency
    Virtual Edition on Transparency
Issues
Current PoLAR Issue May 2019

Current PoLAR Issue May 2019

Volume 42, Issue 1 Editors’ Introduction: May 2019 For over two decades, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) has provided a forum…

  • November 2018
    November 2018
  • September 2018
    September 2018
  • May 2018
    May 2018
  • November 2017
    November 2017
  • May 2017
    May 2017
Forum
Gender Parity and the Politics of Representation in Senegal

Gender Parity and the Politics of Representation in Senegal

By Emily Riley Emily Riley’s article, “Politics of Terànga: Gender, Hospitality, and Power in Senegal” appears in the May 2019…

  • Utopia / Dystopia and Contamination: Conferencing in the Wake of the “Refugee Crisis”
  • The Sea as Paradigm
  • Sea Reflections: How is it to be connected through water and sea?
  • ‘The ‘Terrible Paradox’ of EUtopia: A View from the Aegean Islands
  • Between Utopia and Capitalism: Launching FLOATS, Venturing Beyond Terracentrism
Teaching Tools
  • The Role of Anthropology in Public Debates on Climate Transformations
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    The Role of Anthropology in Public Debates on Climate Transformations

  • Brenneis on Translating Value and Emergent Academic Futures
    Video

    Brenneis on Translating Value and Emergent Academic Futures

  • Darian-Smith on Transnational Law in Context
    Video

    Darian-Smith on Transnational Law in Context

  • Merry on Firming Up Soft Power
    Video

    Merry on Firming Up Soft Power

  • Fassin on Humanitarian Reason
    Video

    Fassin on Humanitarian Reason

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