ROLLING SUBMISSIONS
Have you recently published a book in the areas of legal or political anthropology?
If your book has a copyright date of 2020 or later, it’s eligible to be featured in PoLAR Online’s new publication genre In Other Words!
In Other Words provides a way for legal and political anthropologists to share their work with a broader audience. In a period of considerable legal and political upheaval, the insights we have to offer as anthropologists are valuable—but only insofar as they reach outside our immediate intellectual community. The twin goals of this new feature are to promote new scholarship and to make our scholarship accessible to a non-specialist and, ideally, non-academic audience. Imagine how you would explain your book and its key insights to your mother, neighbor, or college friend—and then write it down, because that is what In Other Words should feel like.
Simple prose. Anthropological insights.
Submission to In Other Words for the issues published in 2026 meet the following criteria:
- They are written by the book’s author;
- They describe and explain a book in legal or political anthropology with a publication date of 2020 (or later);
- They use simple, non-technical language;
- They are written for an intended audience that does not share the author’s geographic or topical commitments, or even their anthropological training;
- They are between 500–750 words all-inclusive;
- They are free of notes or citations except to page numbers within the book.
Submissions to In Other Words are not subject to the usual peer review process. Instead, they will be desk reviewed for clarity and concision only. It usually only takes 3-14 days to finalize an IOW submission.
In Other Words will be published via PoLAR Online (https://polarjournal.org) in order to encourage the widest possible reach. One IOW is published each month in the order in which they are finalized.
Questions / Submissions: dda.polar@gmail.com