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Ethnographic Explainers

Short anthropological essays on contemporary politics

Turkey, Syria, and the Kurds

What Can Acronyms Tell Us? Media Coverage and the Limits of Proxy War Analysis in Northeast Syria

Firat Bozcali

The Kurds: A Stateless People, Turkey’s Enemies, or the Colonized Other?

Deniz Duruiz

Turkey’s Incursion into Northeast Syria: Authoritarianism Within and Beyond Borders

Çağrı Yoltar

 

Contemporary Latin American Politics

The Politics of Spite: Confinement and the Return of Political Terror to Southern Chile

Magnus Course and Fabian Painemilla Ancan

Brazil Is Burning!

Rafael do Nascimento Cesar

The FMLN’s Electoral Implosion in El Salvador: A Fiasco Foretold?

Ralph Sprenkels

On Digital Populism in Brazil

Letícia Cesarino

Tragedy and Resilience in Brazil’s Carnival 2019

Thais Pavez and Camila Góes

Crisis in Venezuela

Naomi Schiller

Power to the People:
Between Death and Insurrection in Nicaragua

Julienne Weegels

 

Politics in South Asia

Dilution as Political Vitality:
Hate Crime Legislation and Right-Wing Populism in India

Pinky Hota

 

Issues
Current PoLAR Issue November 2025

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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  • May 2025
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In Other Words
Reimagining the State in an Outlawed Gold Frontier

Reimagining the State in an Outlawed Gold Frontier

by Jesse Jonkman Author of Underground Politics: Gold Mining and State-Making in Colombia. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press (2025)….

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  • Resisting Militarism through Constitution-Making: The Fight for Civilian Rule in Burma/Myanmar
  • New PoLAR Genre: In Other Words
  • 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
Forum
PoLAR Scholarship Liaison Opportunity

PoLAR Scholarship Liaison Opportunity

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

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  • 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

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…

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  • 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

APLA: Association for Political and Legal Anthropology

Panel Collaboration Hub: AAA Annual Meeting 2026 CFPs

Panel Collaboration Hub: AAA Annual Meeting 2026 CFPs

AAA Recap – New Orleans 2025

AAA Recap – New Orleans 2025

Congratulations to the 2025 APLA prize winners!

Congratulations to the 2025 APLA prize winners!

Speaking Justice to Power 2025

Speaking Justice to Power 2025
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