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Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. By Elif Babül. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.

Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. By Elif Babül. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.

March 22, 2022·0 comments

Reviewed by, Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz One indication of the quality of a scholarly study is surely the extent…

Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South. Allison J. Truitt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South. Allison J. Truitt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.

March 8, 2022·0 comments

Reviewed by Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese Buddhists who resettled in the Gulf…

The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. Joseph Masco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. Joseph Masco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.

February 21, 2022·0 comments

Reviewed by Sandra Calkins, Freie Universität Berlin. While I was reading Joseph Masco’s disturbing book The Future of Fallout, news…

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Volume 45, Issue 2 Editorial November 2022 For this, the second issue of Political and Legal Anthropology Review under our editorial tenure,…

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By Caroline Parker, Deniz Yonucu, and Jennifer Curtis Destiny Compass, stock photo. The Photo Matrix / Getty Images. As the…

PoLAR Directions Digital Roundtable Discussion on Peer Review: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing
Introduction: “Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process
For Accountability
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment

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2023-24 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…

PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2022: Political And Legal Anthropology Under Review, An Invitation To Re-Think Our Parameters
New Directions for the Ethnographic Study of Bureaucracies: Tactics, Affects, and Ethics
Revisiting “Transparency Short-Circuited”: A Conversation with Andrea Ballestero
Tactics Contra Bureaucracies: A Conversation with Kregg Hetherington
Living Bureaucracies, Temporality, Complicity, Diversity: A Conversation with Colin Hoag

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