The journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA), PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is devoted to the anthropology of law and politics, most broadly conceived. This innovative interdisciplinary publication features articles on such issues as nationalism, citizenship, political and legal processes, the state, civil society, colonialism, postcolonial public spheres, multiculturalism, and media politics. It publishes work that is distinguished by its critical definition of problems, ethnographic orientation, or theoretical outlook. We welcome submissions of manuscripts between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length. Contact us at scuster.polar@gmail.com.
Editorial Collective
Jessica R. Greenberg, University of Illinois
Georgina Ramsey, University of Delaware
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Boston
Jessica Winegar, Northwestern University
Associate Editor
Jennifer Curtis, University of Edinburgh
Book Reviews Editor
Leo Coleman, Hunter College, CUNY
Managing Editor
Stephanie Custer
Copy Editor
Lila Stromer
Information for Contributors: Manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words in length, book reviews should be from 800-1,000 words, and contributions to the Directions section should be between 900 and 4,000 words in length. All word counts should include notes and references. Manuscripts submitted to PoLAR must not be under consideration by another journal or have been previously published. Prospective authors may submit manuscripts via https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/polar. All formatting should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition. Our author guidelines provide specific examples using this style. You may also download our author guidelines: Author Guidelines updated August 2020. Our guidelines for reviewers are available here: PoLAR Reviewer Guidelines.
Information for Publishers: PoLAR welcomes book review copies. A current list of books available to review is available, as are our guidelines for reviewers. Publishers may send a review copy to:
Leo Coleman
Department of Anthropology
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065
All PoLAR Online content is commissioned by the PoLAR editorial team. Questions and proposals for Emergent Conversations, Virtual Editions, and Ethnographic Explainers may be sent to the PoLAR editors:
Jessica Greenberg: jessicagpolar@gmail.com
Jessica Winegar: jwinegar.polar@gmail.com
Jennifer Curtis: jennifer.curtis@ed.ac.uk
Editorial Board
Wale Adebanwi, University of Oxford
Vanessa Agard-Jones, Columbia University
Elif Babul, Holyoke College
Andrea Ballestero, Rice University
Pratiksha Baxi, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Karina Biondi, State University of Maranhão
Yarimar Bonilla, Hunter College, CUNY
Erica Bornstein, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Carna Brkovic, University of Goettingen
Matei Candea, Cambridge University
Matthew Canfield, Drake University
Michael Cepek, University of Texas at San Antonio
Kamari Clarke, Carleton University
Leo Coleman, Hunter College, CUNY
Robin Conley Riner, Marshall University
Rosemary Coombe, York University
Susan Coutin, University of California – Irvine
Dace Dzenovska, University of Oxford
Didier Fassin, Institute for Advanced Study
Gregory Feldman, Windsor University
Ilana Gershon, Indiana University
Kelly Gillespie, University of the Western Cape
Mark Goodale, University of Lausanne
Radhika Govindrajan, University of Washington
Sarah Green, University of Helsinki
Ghassan Hage, University of Melbourne
Rema Hammami, Columbia University
Faye Harrison, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Douglas Holmes, Binghamton University
Yukiko Koga, Hunter College, CUNY
Darryl Li, University of Chicago
Leticia Barrera Lopez, National Research Council – Argentina
Sally Engle Merry, New York University
Elizabeth Mertz, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Ronald Niezen, McGill University
Kevin O’Neill, University of Toronto
Arzoo Osanloo, University of Washington
Petra Rethmann, McMaster University
Isaias Rojas-Perez, Rutgers University
Shalini Randeria, The Graduate Institute Geneva
Hanan Sabea, The American University in Cairo
Maria Sapignoli, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Naomi Schiller, Brooklyn College, CUNY
Mark Schuller, Northern Illinois University
Audra Simpson, Columbia University
Kate Sullivan, California State University – Los Angeles
Miia Halme-Toumisaari, University of Helsinki
Sindiso Mnisi Weeks, University of Massachusetts Boston
Marina Welker, Cornell University
Olaf Zenker, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
Li Zhang, University of California – Davis
Ordering Information
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is available by subscription. Rates are available here. Institutions may contact PoLAR’s editorial offices to request a review copy. To subscribe, institutions may contact Wiley-Blackwell. Members of the APLA Section of the American Anthropological Association receive the PoLAR as part of their membership. For further information on membership in the American Anthropological Association (AAA), please visit the Member Services page on the AAA website.
• Visit: http://www.wiley.com/bw/subs.asp?ref=1081-6976
• Call: 1-800-835-677
• Email a request to: cs-journals@wiley.com
