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    India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)

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    India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India

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    Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State

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    The Darjeeling plains: Citizenship as Minority Disenfranchisement in a Border District

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    The Usual Suspects

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    Collective Willfulness: Refashioning Empowered Girlhood

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    Between Faith and Panic

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    CAA and NRC Stoke the Wrong Problems in Meghalaya

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    Hauntings of a Deadname: Proof, Ephemera, and Queer/Trans Citizenship

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    The New Visibility and Grotesque Impunity of Communalist Police Violence in #NoCAA and COVID India

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    Frames of Solidarity: Finding Kashmir in Anti-CAA Protests

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    Mizo Indigenous Resistance Against CAA

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    Protesting in Ahmedabad: Between Resistance and Restrictions

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    Borderland Citizenship

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    A State of Fear, Confusion and Hope: CAA and Bengali Dalit Refugees in India

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    The Anti-Dalit, Anti-Adivasi Features of the 2020 Indian Citizenship Amendment Act

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    Climate Reparations: An Internationalist Approach for the Twenty-First Century

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    Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

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    Introduction: On Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

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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
Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong

Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong

Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River, by Andrew Alan Johnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). reviewed by…

  • 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
  • Reckoning with Police Violence
    Reckoning with Police Violence
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…

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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
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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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Editorial Introduction: On the Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism

Business as Usual in the DR Congo: Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Global Complicity

Business as Usual in the DR Congo: Patriarchy, Authoritarianism, and Global Complicity

Waiting for LGBTQI+ Asylum Seekers in Germany: A Form of State Control and Resistance

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