November 2024
Volume 47, Issue 1 Editorial November 2025 When we stepped into our role as co-editors in November of 2021, we…
All posts by Jennifer Curtis
Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro
Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR’s Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol…
2024 Letter from the APLA President
Dear APLA members and friends, Writing to you on the eve of a hugely consequential election, I want to take…
The Politics of Crisis
Emergent Conversation 22 Edited by Katy Lindquist The first two decades of the twenty-first century have been marked by a…
Introduction: The Politics of Crisis
By Katy Lindquist Emergent Conversation 22 This essay is part of the series The Politics of Crisis, PoLAR Online Emergent…
Zeroing in on a “Global Learning Crisis” and a “New Vision” for Education
By Elizabeth Cooper Emergent Conversation 22 This essay is part of the series The Politics of Crisis, PoLAR Online Emergent…
Crisis Actors
By Cameron Hu Emergent Conversation 22 This essay is part of the series The Politics of Crisis, PoLAR Online Emergent…
The Time of “Somehow” in Urban Uganda
By Katy Lindquist Emergent Conversation 22 This essay is part of the series The Politics of Crisis, PoLAR Online Emergent…
Naming Crisis: Verticality, Collapse, and Extraction in High-Rise Nairobi
By Constance Smith Emergent Conversation 22 This essay is part of the series The Politics of Crisis, PoLAR Online Emergent…
Cultural Rights are Human Rights: Decolonizing Museums through Repatriation and Source Community Partnerships
Emergent Conversation 21 Edited by Kulasumb Kalinoe This series addresses the legal and political anthropology of cultural rights as human…