On a New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists, and how does…
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Political Spatio-temporalities: A Conversation with David Nugent
Othon Alexandrakis [OA], editor of the volume, Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice, shares some…
The Crucial Question: An Interview with John Borneman
Othon Alexandrakis [OA], editor of the volume, Impulse to Act: A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice, shares some…
Punishment through the Looking Glass
A review of Didier Fassin’s Tanner Lectures, ‘The Will to Punish’ by Sara Leon Spesny The full audio of the…
Conversations on Climate Transformations
Issue 39(1) of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review includes a symposium on Climate Transformations that showcases research by Jerome Whitington, Gökçe Günel, and David…
The Relevance of Personhood in Citizens United and Hobby Lobby
by Leo Coleman A series of recent, controversial U.S. Supreme Court decisions has addressed, in various ways, the relations which a…
Risk Management and the Business of Financial (Non-)Disclosure in Myanmar
by Ken MacLean I recently returned from a six-week research trip to Burma/Myanmar. During interviews, nearly everyone I spoke with repeatedly…
Interview with Susan Bibler Coutin and Sally Engle Merry
As part of the virtual edition on Law and Inequalities, Digital Editorial Fellow Sean Mallin [SM] interviewed Susan Bibler Coutin [SBC]…
Navigational Tools for Central African Roadblocks
by Louisa Lombard For the most part, I passed through roadblocks with little difficulty. Perhaps the barrier worker would give…
Auditing Mi Familia Progresa: Transparency and Citizenship in Guatemala
by Rachel Dotson Shortly after taking office in 2008, President Álvaro Colom, of the center-left party UNE, announced the initiation of…
