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    Anna Weichselbraun on Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors: PoLAR Author Interview

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    Bureaucracy, Justice, and The State in a Post-Accord Colombia: Emergent Conversation 10

  • Emergent Conversations

    Introduction to Bureaucracy, Justice, and The State in a Post-Accord Colombia

  • Emergent Conversations

    Inventories, Insurgent Wealth and Settling Accounts in Post-Agreement Colombia

  • Emergent Conversations

    Victims, Revolutionaries, or Heroic Mothers? The Debate of Reproductive Politics in the FARC

  • Emergent Conversations

    Small Victories: Urban Politics, After War

  • Emergent Conversations

    Attendance Sheets and Bureaucracies of Victimhood in Colombia

  • Emergent Conversations

    “Making a Presence”: Reconciliation and the State in Colombia

  • Emergent Conversations

    Failure, Politics, and Regional Development: What Developmentalism and Infrastructure Reveal about Present “Post-Conflict” Programs

  • Emergent Conversations

    Truth and Sensibility:  Epistemic Repair in Victim Narratives in Colombia

  • Emergent Conversations

    From Reproductive Labor to Reproductive Violence: Colombia’s Special Jurisdiction for Peace and Its Window of Opportunity

  • Emergent Conversations

    The Law of Humanity Has a Canon: Translating Racialized World Order into “Colorblind” Law

  • Emergent Conversations

    Criminal Repair in the Jamaican Lotto Scam

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    Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows

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    PoLAR Call for Editor(s)-in-Chief

  • Forum, News

    Remembering Sally Engle Merry

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    India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

  • Emergent Conversations

    Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

  • Current Issue, Issues

    Current PoLAR Issue May 2020

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    Festschrift for Carol Greenhouse

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    Digital Politics: Opportunities and Perils of a Technological Future

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  • Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism
    Emergent Conversations

    Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

    This PoLAR Online series, On Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism, engages anthropological and socio-legal scholars to understand the challenges that…

  • 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…

  • Reflecting on Silence and Anthropology
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Among the Anonymous Dead
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

Book Reviews
Pluriversal Politics, Redux

Pluriversal Politics, Redux

Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible, by Arturo Escobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Alexandra Cotofana, Zayed…

  • Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong
    Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong
  • Resource Politics and Entangled Lives in Extraction Zones
    Resource Politics and Entangled Lives in Extraction Zones
  • The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
    The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
  • The Everyday Life of Activism [review essay]
    The Everyday Life of Activism [review essay]
  • Domestication as Narrative and Politics
    Domestication as Narrative and Politics
Virtual Editions
Virtual Edition on Digital Politics

Virtual Edition on Digital Politics

This virtual edition focuses on digital politics. Curated by PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Mei-chun Lee, the virtual edition begins with…

  • Virtual Edition on Environmental Justice
    Virtual Edition on Environmental Justice
  • 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
Issues
Current PoLAR Issue May 2020

Current PoLAR Issue May 2020

Volume 43, Issue 1 Editors’ Introduction: May 2020 In this editorial we take a step back to think about an…

  • November 2019
    November 2019
  • May 2019
    May 2019
  • November 2018
    November 2018
  • September 2018
    September 2018
  • May 2018
    May 2018
Forum
Remembering Sally Engle Merry

Remembering Sally Engle Merry

Sally Engle Merry, an innovative and foundational contributor to so many areas in legal anthropology, died on September 8, 2020….

  • India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
  • India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India
  • Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State
  • The Darjeeling plains: Citizenship as Minority Disenfranchisement in a Border District
  • The Usual Suspects
Teaching Tools
  • The Role of Anthropology in Public Debates on Climate Transformations
    Video

    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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