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    ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime

  • Emergent Conversations

    Urban Sovereignty in the Age of Pandemics: Illicit Actors and the Crisis of Governance

  • Emergent Conversations

    Controlling Movement and Territory: Gangs and the State on Honduras’ Urban Margins

  • Emergent Conversations

    The Politics of Urban Sand in Rio de Janeiro

  • Emergent Conversations

    Clandestine Connections: Water as the Center of Dispute

  • Current Issue, Issues

    Current PoLAR Issue November 2020

  • Emergent Conversations

    Political Action and Generations Part III: Emergent Conversation 11

  • Emergent Conversations

    Political Action and Generations Part II: Emergent Conversation 11

  • Emergent Conversations

    Political Action and Generations Part I: Emergent Conversation 11

  • Interviews, News, Uncategorized

    Anna Weichselbraun on Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors: PoLAR Author Interview

  • Emergent Conversations

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

  • 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

  • Forum, News

    Remembering Sally Engle Merry

  • 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

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  • Political Action and Generations
    Emergent Conversations

    Political Action and Generations

    Emergent Conversation 11 As mass demonstrations mobilized against racial injustice in the U.S. and globally, Nataša Garić-Humphrey, Andrew Gilbert, Azra…

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

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

    Edited by Erin K. McFee The fourth anniversary of the signing of the Havana Peace Accord (November 24, 2016) provides…

  • Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism
    Emergent Conversations

    Special Series: Reparations for Slavery and Colonialism

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

  • 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 Conversations: Part 9 A Discussion with Andrew Graan, Adam Hodges, Meg Stalcup This Emergent Conversation is part of a PoLAR…

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

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

    Emergent Conversations: Part 9 A Discussion with Andrew Graan, Adam Hodges, Meg Stalcup This Emergent Conversation is part of a PoLAR…

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

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

    Emergent Conversations: Part 9 A Discussion with Andrew Graan, Adam Hodges, Meg Stalcup This Emergent Conversation is part of a PoLAR…

  • 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…

Book Reviews
Precarious Hope

Precarious Hope

Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey, by Ayşe Parla (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019). Reviewed…

  • Beware the Emerald City
    Beware the Emerald City
  • Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
    Crowd Politics in Bangladesh
  • Becoming Liberal in Latvia
    Becoming Liberal in Latvia
  • Pluriversal Politics, Redux
    Pluriversal Politics, Redux
  • Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong
    Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong
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 November 2020

Current PoLAR Issue November 2020

Volume 43, Issue 2 Editorial November 2020: Extricating Justice from Law Since our last issue (May 2020), cries of “No…

  • Current PoLAR Issue May 2020
    Current PoLAR Issue May 2020
  • November 2019
    November 2019
  • May 2019
    May 2019
  • November 2018
    November 2018
  • September 2018
    September 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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