Current PoLAR Issue May 2019
Volume 42, Issue 1 Editors’ Introduction: May 2019 For over two decades, Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) has provided a forum…
All posts by Jennifer Curtis
New APLA / PoLAR Ebook: Authoritarianism and Confinement in the Americas
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review and the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology are pleased to present a new…
Kali Rubaii on Sectarianism in Iraq: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR editor Jessica Greenberg and associate editor Jennifer Curtis conducted an interview with Kali Rubaii, whose article “Tripartheid: How Sectarianism…
Tragedy and Resilience in Brazil’s Carnival 2019
By Thais Pavez and Camila Góes Unlike Europe and the rest of Latin America, Brazil’s Carnival developed uniformly and throughout…
Power to the People: Between Death and Insurrection in Nicaragua
Friends and relatives of late high school student Alvaro Conrado, the first underage demonstrator killed during anti-government protests on April…
Crisis in Venezuela
IMAGE AND CAPTION BY GETTY. Portraits depicting late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (L) and Cuban late leader Fidel Castro (R)…
On Digital Populism in Brazil
By Letícia Cesarino In October 2018, Brazilians relived the shock many experienced in the US two years earlier, when Donald…
Brazil Is Burning!
A fire burns at the National Museum of Brazil on September 2, 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The museum,…
The FMLN’s Electoral Implosion in El Salvador: A Fiasco Foretold?
Supporters of the Great National Alliance (GANA) celebrate their candidate Nayib Bukele’s victory in the presidential elections in San Salvador…
The Politics of Spite: Confinement and the Return of Political Terror to Southern Chile
Chilean artists pay tribute to 24-year-old Mapuche leader Camilo Catrillanca who was shot dead in a police operation in Araucania…
