PoLAR AAA Roundtable 2021: Setting Political and Legal Anthropology Ablaze with “Thick Solidarity”
On November 18, 2021, new PoLAR Co-Editors-in-Chief Georgina Ramsay and Sindiso Mnisi presented a roundtable at the AAA Annual Meeting…
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An Interview with Catherine Besteman, 2022 Public Anthropologist Award Recipient
Catherine Besteman is Francis F. Bartlett and Ruth K. Bartlett Professor of Anthropology at Colby College, as well as President Emeritus…
Remembering Gwendolyn Gordon
Gwendolyn Gordon, Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at the University of Pennsylvania, passed away in December 2021….
Decentering the Discourse on Love Jihad: The Multi-edged Sword of the Hindu Right
By Anshu Saluja In the midst of an unprecedented global health crisis, the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus in…
Tobias Kelly on Freedom of Conscience: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR Associate Editor Jennifer Curtis conducted an interview with Tobias Kelly, whose article “Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain”…
Anna Weichselbraun on Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors: PoLAR Author Interview
PoLAR editorial board member Andrea Ballesteros conducted an interview with Anna Weichselbraun, whose article “From Accountants to Detectives: How Nuclear…
Remembering Sally Engle Merry
Sally Engle Merry, an innovative and foundational contributor to so many areas in legal anthropology, died on September 8, 2020….
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)
This PoLAR Online series, India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), is edited by Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja. The controversial Citizenship…
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA): Citizenship and Belonging in India
By Syantani Chatterjee and Natasha Raheja The controversial Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was signed into law by the Hindu nationalist…
Unwelcome Guests and Hostages: Minority Claims on the State
By Ghazal Asif and Natasha Raheja India’s controversial Hindu nationalist Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) expedites Indian citizenship for Pakistani Hindus…
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