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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Migrants at the Gare du Nord
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris, by Julie Kleinman (Oakland: University of California Press,…
The Kurds: A Stateless People, Turkey’s Enemies, or the Colonized Other?
Deniz Duruiz Reflecting on the U.S. troop withdrawal from northern Syria, which facilitated a Turkish incursion into the area and…
Beyond Debt
Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance, by Daromir Rudnyckyj (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019). Reviewed by Johan…
Anticipating Adoption: Mariner’s “Contingent Kinship”
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States, by Kathryn A. Mariner (Berkeley: University of California…
Staying on the Land in Pakistan
by Mel Gurr, Lahore University of Management Sciences The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan,…
Digital Slavery?
by Rachelle Jereza, Binghamton University (SUNY) Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition, Jack Linchuan Qiu (Champaign, IL: University of…
Liberal Exceptionalism in Qatar’s Education City
by Sami Hermez, Northwestern University in Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar, by Neha Vora (Stanford:…
November 2016
The November 2016 issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Volume 39, Issue 2) is now available. It features 10 original…
