All IU Faculty, Staff, and Students Are “Safe,” But Some Are Safer Than Others
The Discursive Stylings of an Authoritarian Campus Administration By Jessica Storey-Nagy This essay contains the views of an AAA member,…
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Deploying Fetal Death: ‘Fetal Burial’ Laws and the Necropolitics of Reproduction in Indiana
This video features a conversation on the article “Deploying Fetal Death: ‘Fetal Burial’ Laws and the Necropolitics of Reproduction in…
2024-25 Call for PoLAR 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…
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer
The essays in this forum celebrate Jonathan Spencer’s many contributions to anthropology, and were originally presented at a workshop held…
Jonathan Spencer, Sri Lanka, and Political Anthropology
Introduction Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer Tobias Kelly The essays in this forum celebrate Jonathan Spencer’s many contributions to anthropology, and…
A Tribute to Jonathan Spencer
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer Harini Amarasuriya Thank you so much, Toby, for inviting me to be part of this event….
What is the Political?
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer Mukulika Banerjee My thanks to Toby and Jonathan for this invitation that allows us to pause…
What of the Political Imagination? Jonathan Spencer’s Contribution to a Field
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer John Borneman I’m very honored to participate in Jonathan Spencer’s “Retirement Event.” My own “retirement event,”…
Peace, Polarization and the Anthropology of Politics in Colombia and Beyond
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer Gwen Burnyeat I started my PhD in University College London on 4 October 2016, two days…
The Frisson of the Political: Re-Reading Jonathan Spencer’s work on Politics and Violence
Festschrift for Jonathan Spencer Moyukh Chatterjee I Whether it is a riot, election rally, political protest, or more concretely whether…