PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Sections

Journal of the Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

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Current PoLAR Issue November 2025

Volume 48, Issue 2 Letter from the Editor May 2025 Welcome, friends. It continues to be both a challenging time…

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In Other Words

New PoLAR Genre: In Other Words

ROLLING SUBMISSIONS Have you recently published a book in the areas of legal or political anthropology? If your book has…

If Books Fail, Try Beauty: Lessons on Power from Uganda to the U.S.
The US Prison System will Burn to Ash
The Complex Marriage between Law and Computers in the Brazilian Justice System
Rethinking What Models Are, How They Spread, and What They Do
Of Referendums and Rationality

Forum

PoLAR Scholarship Liaison Opportunity

Update, January 19, 2025 We have filled the scholarship liaison roles until the end of the term. We will repost…

Announcing New PoLAR Editorial Leadership
Speaking Justice to Power 2025: Immigration and Border Politics
2024 Letter from the APLA President
All IU Faculty, Staff, and Students Are “Safe,” But Some Are Safer Than Others
2024-25 Call for PoLAR Digital Editorial Fellows

Directions

Policing the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro

Directions Digital November 2024 In this video, PoLAR’s Directions Section co-editor Deniz Yonucu is joined by anthropologists Beatrice Jauregui, Erol…

Beyond Pseudonyms: Ethics and Politics of Ethnographic Representation
Writing Opacity: Going Beyond Pseudonyms with Spirit Portraiture
The Good Thief: A Note on Revisits in Long-Running Ethnography
Deploying Fetal Death: ‘Fetal Burial’ Laws and the Necropolitics of Reproduction in Indiana
Landscapes of Otherwise: Anthropological Critique in Want of “Better” Worlds