The Awakening of a Bureaucratic Rube: Cultivating Strategic Compliance
By Erica Weiss Virtual Edition 2022 Bureaucracy and Tactics In my article “Best Practices for Besting the Bureaucracy: Avoiding…
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PoLAR Supports ABA Statement Concerning the Massacre of Black People in Buffalo, New York
BUFFALO, NY – MAY 14: Buffalo Police on scene at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14, 2022 in Buffalo,…
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…
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 A Hindu woman holds a placard as she takes part in a rally against “love jihad,” 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 Merry: Jennifer Telesca
For those of us who as former dissertators had the fortune and pleasure of working with Sally Merry, the celebration…
Remembering Sally Merry: Vibhuti Ramachandran
In Gratitude and Grief I remember the day I first met Sally at the meet-and-greet for new graduate students at…
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