What Are You Plotting? A Coup. A Riot. The Carceral Life of Vulnerability
Emergent Conversation 26 This essay is part of the series Making Vulnerability Work PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 26 By Omer Aijazi…
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Vulnerability Affects
Emergent Conversation 26 This essay is part of the series Making Vulnerability Work PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 26 By A.J. Faas…
The Emotional Politics of Disaster Ethnography
Emergent Conversation 26 This essay is part of the series Making Vulnerability Work PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation 26 By Crystal A….
PoLAR Scholarship Liaison Opportunity
Update, January 19, 2025 We have filled the scholarship liaison roles until the end of the term. We will repost…
New PoLAR Genre: In Other Words
ROLLING SUBMISSIONS Have you recently published a book in the areas of legal or political anthropology? If your book has…
Introducing PoLAR’s 2025-26 Digital Editorial Fellows
In 2012, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review launched the Digital Editorial Fellows (def) Program for graduate students interested in enhancing their knowledge…
If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Lessons on Power from Uganda to the U.S.
By Brooke S. Bocast Author of If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Educated Womanhood in the New East Africa. Oxford: Oxford…
Current PoLAR Issue November 2025
Volume 48, Issue 2 Letter from the Editor May 2025 Welcome, friends. It continues to be both a challenging time…
First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South
Emergent Conversation 25 Commissioned and Edited by Sana Malik Woman wearing saree and a Covid-protective mask and lighting fire crackers…
Introduction to First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South
Emergent Conversation 25 Introduction to the series First Responders: Crises, Indeterminacies, and (Joyful) Determination in the Global South By Sana…