Publication of online reviews reflects PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s commitment to providing timely open-access book reviews. The 2015 Online Book Review Issue contains thirteen reviews:
Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013)
Author: Olga Demetriou
Reviewer: Othon Alexandrakis
Information on the Berghahn Books Website
Things Fall Apart? The Political Ecology of Forest Governance in Southern Nigeria (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013)
Author: Pauline von Hellermann
Reviewer: Jeremy M. Campbell
Information on the Berghahn Books Website
Mediating the Global: Expatria’s Forms and Consequences in Kathmandu (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013)
Author: Heather Hindman
Reviewer: Kimberly Coles
Information on the Stanford University Press Website
Elusive Unity: Factionalism and the Limits of Identity Politics in Yucatán, Mexico (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2013)
Author: Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
Reviewer: Juliet S. Erazo
Information on the University Press of Colorado Website
Buying Into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality, and Consumption (New York: NYU Press, 2013)
Author: Keith R. Brown
Reviewer: Josh Fisher
Information on the NYU Press Website
Loyalty Unto Death: Trust and Terror in Revolutionary Macedonia (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013)
Author: Keith Brown
Reviewer: Sami Hermez
Information on the Indiana University Press Website
Maya after War: Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2013)
Author: Jennifer L. Burrell
Reviewer: Shirley Heying
Information on the University of Texas Press Website
A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2013)
Author: Catherine Kingfisher
Reviewer: Tina Lee
Information on the Berghahn Books Website
War in Worcester: Youth and the Apartheid State (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)
Author: Pamela Reynolds
Reviewer: Emily Margaretten
Information on the Fordham University Press Website
Space of Detention: The Making of a Transnational Gang Crisis (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)
Author: Elana Zilberg
Reviewer: Richard Perry
Information on the Duke University Press Website
Reclaiming Basque: Language, Nation, and Cultural Activism (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2012)
Author: Jacqueline Urla
Reviewer: Diane Riskedahl
Information on the University of Nevada Press Website
My Voice Is My Weapon: Music, Nationalism, and the Poetics of Palestinian Resistance (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013)
Author: David A. McDonald
Reviewer: Shayna M. Silverstein
Information on the Duke University Press Website
On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014)
Author: Heath Cabot
Reviewer: Julie Kleinman