Disputing Poverty Capital, Reproducing Urban Inequalities: Auto Insurance, Militias, and Car Theft in Brazil
By Deborah Fromm and Luana Motta This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime In Brazil,…
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Legalized Extortion: The Exercise of the State’s Fiscal Capacity over Informal Street Vendors at Lima’s Gamarra Market, Peru
By Francesco Ginocchio This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime In the city of Lima,…
Repressing the City: Israel’s Less-Than-Lethal Weapons and the Criminalization of Citizens and Dissent
By Erella Grassiani This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime It has unfortunately become a…
The Frontier City, Or: What Defines the Urban Condition in Contested Border Areas?
By Markus Hochmüller This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime On 15 June 2021, a…
Far-Right Messianism and Urban-Religious Reassembling in Brazil
By Jan Simon Hutta This essay is part of Emergent Conversation 13, ILLICITIES: City-Making and Organized Crime “… isn’t it that…
Current PoLAR Issue May 2021
By Jessica R. Greenberg and Jessica Winegar Volume 44, Issue 1 Editorial May 2020: Pandemic Journal Editing and Refusing a…
Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future
By Sarah Besky, Ilana Gershon, Alex Nading, Christopher Nelson, Katie Nelson, Heather Paxson, and Brad Weiss The American Anthropological Association (AAA) publishing contract with Wiley comes to…
Decentering the Discourse on Love Jihad: The Multi-edged Sword of the Hindu Right
By Anshu Saluja In the midst of an unprecedented global health crisis, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in…
Tobias Kelly on Freedom of Conscience: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR Associate Editor Jennifer Curtis conducted an interview with Tobias Kelly, whose article “Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain”…
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…
