Review Essay: Anthropologies of the U.S. Criminal Justice System
Review Essay: Anthropologies of the U.S. Criminal Justice System 6.8 million people in the United States— roughly 1 in 36…
Book Reviews
Review Essay: Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wives, Hide Your Beds: Marriage, law, and changing social norms in the United States
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wives, Hide Your Beds: Marriage, law, and changing social norms in the United States As…
Review Essay: Papers, Performance, and Making Immigration Matter
Review Essay: Papers, Performance, and Making Immigration Matter When does immigration matter? When does it not? Amidst rapidly changing geographies…
Review Essay: Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics
Review Essay: Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics In today’s era of finance-dominated accumulation, global governance,…
Book Review: Tina Lee’s Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System
Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City’s Child Welfare System Tina Lee (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University…
Book Review: Holmes’ Economy of Words
Holmes, Douglas R. Economy of Words: Communicative Imperatives in Central Banks. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014. 280 pgs; $30.00….
The Politics of the Baby Bump: A Conversation between Liz Chiarello and Renée Cramer
Building upon the journal’s interview and book review features, PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review is introducing author interviews, which bring…
Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
What do human rights mean in an era when corporations enjoy rights as people? As U.S. courts grant a widening…
Networked Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
As more and more scholars are interested in information and communications technologies’ (ICT) roles in global development, theory has sluggishly…
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Simpson explores the politics of refusal as the political alternative to recognition, the much sought after presumed good of multicultural…
