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  • Emergent Conversations

    Pakistani Politicians as Hindu Gods: The Visual Excesses of a Religious National Imaginary

  • Forum, News

    PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2022: Political And Legal Anthropology Under Review, An Invitation To Re-Think Our Parameters

  • Current Issue, Issues

    Current PoLAR Issue November 2022

  • Book Reviews

    Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology

  • Virtual Editions

    Virtual Edition on Bureaucracy and Tactics

  • Forum

    New Directions for the Ethnographic Study of Bureaucracies: Tactics, Affects, and Ethics

  • Forum

    Revisiting “Transparency Short-Circuited”: A Conversation with Andrea Ballestero

  • Forum

    Tactics Contra Bureaucracies:  A Conversation with Kregg Hetherington

  • Forum

    Living Bureaucracies, Temporality, Complicity, Diversity: A Conversation with Colin Hoag

  • Forum

    Revisiting “Bureaucratizing Sensitivity”:  A Conversation with Julia Kowalski

  • Forum

    Bordering in Crisis, the Exception and Lived Realities

  • Forum

    Inevitable Tacticians: Jewish Conversion Teachers in the Face of Institutional Awkwardness

  • Forum

    State Sensorium: Rethinking the Role of Senses and Affects in Street-Level Bureaucrats’ Discretion

  • Forum

    The Awakening of a Bureaucratic Rube: Cultivating Strategic Compliance

  • Emergent Conversations

    The Aesthetic Politics of Far Right Movements

  • Emergent Conversations

    Introduction: The Aesthetic Politics of Far Right Movements

  • Emergent Conversations

    Christian Nationalism Goes Organic: Populist Politics and the Aesthetics of the Built Environment in Hungary

  • Emergent Conversations

    Legal Aesthetics Among American Sovereign Citizens

  • Emergent Conversations

    “They’re Spinning in Their Graves!”: Art Ordering History in the Tea Party Movement

  • Uncategorized

    Call for Papers: PoLAR First Article Mentoring Workshop

  • Directions

    Introducing Directions Section

  • Directions

    PoLAR Directions Digital Roundtable Discussion on Peer Review: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing

  • Emergent Conversations

    Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment

  • Directions, Emergent Conversations

    Introduction: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing

  • Emergent Conversations

    A Book Publisher’s View on Peer Review

  • Emergent Conversations

    Shifting Parameters, Adjusted Skills: Peer Reviewing When Funding Is at Stake

  • Emergent Conversations

    From ArXiv to Bakhtin, Bringing Dialogue to Peer Review

  • Emergent Conversations

    Disjointed Dialogues: The Perverse Practices of Peer Reviewing

  • Directions, Emergent Conversations

    Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process

  • Emergent Conversations

    Peer Review and The Production of Sanctimony: A Denunciation

  • Directions, Emergent Conversations

    For Accountability

  • Emergent Conversations

    Reviewer 2 Has Raised Concerns: Peer Review and Editing in the Academy

  • Directions, Emergent Conversations

    Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment

  • Emergent Conversations

    How to Complain Against Unfair Peer Review?

  • Emergent Conversations

    From Gatekeepers to Caretakers. The Often-Overlooked Role of Editors’ Care Work in Peer-Reviewed Publishing

  • Issues

    May 2022

  • Forum, News

    PoLAR Supports ABA Statement Concerning the Massacre of Black People in Buffalo, New York

  • Forum, News

    PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2021: Setting Political and Legal Anthropology Ablaze with “Thick Solidarity”

  • Forum, News

    An Interview with Catherine Besteman, 2022 Public Anthropologist Award Recipient

  • Emergent Conversations

    Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power

  • Issues

    November 2021

  • Emergent Conversations

    Reflective Conversation: Revisiting and Revitalizing Ethnographies of Legislatures

  • Emergent Conversations

    ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime

  • Emergent Conversations

    Political Action and Generations

  • Forum

    India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

  • Emergent Conversations

    Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

  • Forum

    Festschrift for Carol Greenhouse

  • News

    Digital Politics: Opportunities and Perils of a Technological Future

  • Emergent Conversations

    Fake News and Anthropology: A Conversation on Technology, Trust, and Publics in an Age of Mass Disinformation

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  • The Aesthetic Politics of Far Right Movements
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Reflective Conversation: Revisiting and Revitalizing Ethnographies of Legislatures
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Political Action and Generations
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Bureaucracy, Justice, and The State in a Post-Accord Colombia: Emergent Conversation 11
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Fake News and Anthropology: A Conversation on Technology, Trust, and Publics in an Age of Mass Disinformation
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • Fake News and Anthropology: A Conversation on Technology, Trust, and Publics in an Age of Mass Disinformation Part I
    Emergent Conversations, Forum

    Fake News and Anthropology: A Conversation on Technology, Trust, and Publics in an Age of Mass Disinformation Part I

    Emergent Conversation 9 A discussion with Andrew Graan, Adam Hodges, Meg Stalcup moderated by Mei-chun Lee This Emergent Conversation is part of…

  • Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent
    Emergent Conversations

    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…

  • 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…

Book Reviews
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil

Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil. By Andrea Wright. (Stanford University Press, 2021) Reviewed by Neha…

  • Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
    Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
  • Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires
    Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires
  • Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
    Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
  • Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City
    Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City
  • Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology
    Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology
Virtual Editions
Virtual Edition on Bureaucracy and Tactics

Virtual Edition on Bureaucracy and Tactics

New Directions for the Ethnographic Study of Bureaucracies: Tactics, Affects, and Ethics Compiled, Commissioned, and Edited by Monika Lemke This…

  • Virtual Edition on Digital Politics
    Virtual Edition on Digital Politics
  • 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
Issues
Current PoLAR Issue November 2022

Current PoLAR Issue November 2022

Volume 45, Issue 2  Editorial November 2022 For this, the second issue of Political and Legal Anthropology Review under our editorial tenure,…

  • May 2022
  • November 2021
  • May 2021
  • November 2020
  • May 2020
Directions
Introducing Directions Section

Introducing Directions Section

By Caroline Parker, Deniz Yonucu, and Jennifer Curtis Destiny Compass, stock photo. The Photo Matrix / Getty Images. As the…

  • PoLAR Directions Digital Roundtable Discussion on Peer Review: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing
  • Introduction: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing
  • Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process
  • For Accountability
  • Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment
Forum
PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2022:  Political And Legal Anthropology Under Review, An Invitation To Re-Think Our Parameters

PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2022: Political And Legal Anthropology Under Review, An Invitation To Re-Think Our Parameters

On November 10, 2022, PoLAR Co-Editors-in-Chief Georgina Ramsay and Sindiso Mnisi presented a roundtable at the AAA Annual Meeting. You…

  • New Directions for the Ethnographic Study of Bureaucracies: Tactics, Affects, and Ethics
  • Revisiting “Transparency Short-Circuited”: A Conversation with Andrea Ballestero
  • Tactics Contra Bureaucracies:  A Conversation with Kregg Hetherington
  • Living Bureaucracies, Temporality, Complicity, Diversity: A Conversation with Colin Hoag
  • Revisiting “Bureaucratizing Sensitivity”:  A Conversation with Julia Kowalski
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