Publication of online reviews reflects PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s commitment to providing timely open-access book reviews. The 2014 Online Book Review Issue contains nineteen reviews:
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
Author: James C. Scott
Reviewer: Paul McDowell
Information on the Princeton University Press Website
Laws and Societies in Global Contexts: Contemporary Approaches (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
Author: Eve Darian-Smith
Reviewer: Tobias Kelly
Information on the Cambridge University Press Website
Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013)
Authors: Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson
Reviewer: Jeffrey Kahn
Information on the Duke University Press Website
Zooland: The Institution of Captivity (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012)
Author: Irus Braverman
Reviewer: Eve Darian-Smith
Information on the Stanford University Press Website
Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2014)
Author: Alex Golub
Reviewer: Catherine Coumans
Information on the Duke University Press Website
Food, Farms, & Solidarity: French Farmers Challenge Industrial Agriculture and Genetically Modified Crops (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013)
Author: Chaia Heller
Reviewer: Amy Cohen
Information on the Duke University Press Website
Environmental Winds: Making the Global in Southwest China (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)
Author: Michael J. Hathaway
Reviewer: Marcos Mendoza
Information on the University of California Press Website
Questioning Secularism: Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
Author: Hussein Ali Agrama
Reviewer: Samuli Schielke
Information on the University of Chicago Press Website
Human Rights and African Airways: Mediating Equality on the Chichewa Radio (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2011)
Author: Harri Englund
Reviewer: Laura Kunreuther
Information on the Indiana University Press Website
Does Everyone Want Democracy? Insights from Mongolia (Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press, 2013)
Author: Paula L.W. Sabloff
Reviewer: Thomas Grisaffi
Information on the Left Coast Press Website
Humanitarian Business (New York: Polity Press, 2013)
Author: Thomas C. Weiss
Reviewer: Elizabeth Dunn
Information on the Polity Press Website
Killing with Kindness: Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012)
Author: Mark Schuller
Reviewer: Laurie Kroshus Medina
Information on the Rutgers University Press Website
Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without Borders (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)
Author: Peter Redfield
Reviewer: Katherine Borland
Information on the University of California Press Website
The Market and Temple Fairs of Rural China: Red Five (London: Routledge, 2013)
Author: Gene Cooper
Reviewer: DJ W. Hatfield
Information on Routledge Website
Rifle Reports: A Story of Indonesian Independence (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)
Author: Mary Margaret Steedly
Reviewer: Danilyn Rutherford
Information on the University of California Press Website
Pogrom in Gujarat: Hindu Nationalism and Anti-Muslim Violence in India (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
Author: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Reviewer: Carolyn Heitmeyer
Information on Princeton University Press Website
Peacebuilding in Practice: Local Experience in Two Bosnian Towns (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013)
Author: Adam Moore
Reviewer: Catherine E. Bolten
Information on the Cornell University Press Website
Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012)
Author: Anna Fournier
Reviewer: Jessica Greenberg
Information on the University of Pennsylvania Press Website
Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
Author: Gabriella Coleman
Reviewer: Nathan Ensmenger
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