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  • 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

  • Current Issue, Issues

    Current PoLAR Issue 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

  • Emergent Conversations

    Introduction to Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power

  • Emergent Conversations

    Revisiting the Concept of Revolution

  • Emergent Conversations

    For the Children Lost and Yet to Come: Restitution and the Indigenous Genocide

  • Emergent Conversations

    Sustaining “Ungovernability”: Housing and Evictions during Covid-19 in Durban, South Africa

  • Emergent Conversations

    The Destituent Assembly in Santiago de Chile’s Dignity Plaza

  • Emergent Conversations

    Building Urban Autonomy: The Construction of a Communal Form of Life in Mexico City’s Peripheries

  • Emergent Conversations

    The Ungovernability of Anarchist and Liberationist Political Imaginations

  • Forum, News

    Remembering Gwendolyn Gordon

  • Issues

    November 2021

  • Emergent Conversations

    Reflective Conversation: Revisiting and Revitalizing Ethnographies of Legislatures

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  • Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment
    Emergent Conversations

    Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment

    Emergent Conversation 16 Edited by Čarna Brković and Jennifer Curtis Imagine a person writing a peer review. Perhaps you will…

  • 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 This year marks the tenth anniversary of PoLAR‘s  publication of Ilana Gershon’s…

  • 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 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

    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…

  • 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
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking

Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking

Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking by Stacey Vanderhurst.  (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022) Review by Vivian Chenxue Lu, Fordham University  …

  • Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy
    Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy
  • Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, by Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021)
    Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, by Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021)
  • Garbage Citizenship
    Garbage Citizenship
  • Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
    Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
  • When Misfortune Becomes Justice
    When Misfortune Becomes Justice
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 2022

Current PoLAR Issue May 2022

Volume 45, Issue 1 Editorial May 2022 At this writing, it has been nearly a month since Russia invaded Ukraine…

  • November 2021
  • May 2021
  • November 2020
  • May 2020
  • November 2019
Directions
Introducing Directions Section

Introducing Directions Section

By Caroline Parker, Deniz Yonucu, and Jennifer Curtis As the incoming Directions Editors, Caroline Parker and Deniz Yonucu, along with PoLAR Online…

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

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

The PoLAR Editorial Collective supports the Association of Black Anthropologists Statement Concerning the Massacre of Black People in Buffalo, New…

  • PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2021: Setting Political and Legal Anthropology Ablaze with “Thick Solidarity”
  • An Interview with Catherine Besteman, 2022 Public Anthropologist Award Recipient
  • Remembering Gwendolyn Gordon
  • Decentering the Discourse on Love Jihad: The Multi-edged Sword of the Hindu Right
  • Tobias Kelly on Freedom of Conscience: PoLAR Author Interview
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