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Looking for trouble: (Infra-)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Giacomo Pozzi
This paper reflects ethnographically on law enforcement against squatting in Milan. To this end, it examines labor practices, moral economies, and everyday narratives of those who work with the institutional mandate of tackling squatting in public housing. I propose to grasp these processes considering two specific political and legal configurations that traverse the arena under investigation: the
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Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Sofie Verclyte, Tine Destrooper
Human rights can be seen as a means to improve people's lived realities. Yet the language and practice of human rights are not always moored in these realities. What happens to the meaning of human rights when these are expressed in (partly non-verbal) ways that are deeply rooted in lived—embodied, material, and cultural—realities, and how does that practice transform ideas about rights? In this article
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Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian-doll urbanization from Turkey PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Cansu Civelek
This article opens a discussion about how temporalities in spatial and legal spheres are interlinked and shape both policymaking and governance mechanisms and resistance practices. Taking a case study from Eskişehir, Turkey, the research examines several urban renewal attempts of a municipality on the same urban lands over two decades that used different laws and policy tools in each case while all
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From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-10-08 Emily Channell-Justice
A 2016 fire at a landfill near the western city of L'viv instigated a political crisis around the issue of waste management in Ukraine. The ensuing debates among the L'viv city government, the national government, and local stakeholders show how waste management becomes a mechanism through which to interrogate questions of state-citizen relations and what it means to be part of Europe. This article
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“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision-making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Christin Achermann, Lisa Marie Borrelli, Luca Pfirter
Focusing on the intersections between bureaucracies of welfare and migration control, this article interrogates how decisions about the future stay of non-citizens receiving social assistance are made in a relational interplay of different offices and actors in Switzerland. We investigate how relational decision-making is fundamental in crafting legitimate decisions about the exclusion of “poor others
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After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Carol J. Greenhouse
The majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization declares its ruling to be an optimum result of separating law from politics. “After Dobbs” examines that claim's provocations for anthropologists interested in the ethnography of politics and law. I begin with the court's paradoxical rendering of United States democracy—an algorithm of electoral power that is eliciting unanticipated forms
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Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Shikha Silliman Bhattacharjee
This paper introduces the term zones of compounded informality to demarcate locations wherein regulatory exclusions in distinct domains interact to escalate the impact of exclusions for people who live and work in these areas. Based upon a study of India's Delhi, National Capital Region (Delhi-NCR), I explain how the interaction of flexible planning and employment in particular locales produce zones
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An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Ridhima Sharma
IT BEGINS IN THE MIDDLE It was late September last year. I was a few weeks into a graduate seminar that had quickly turned into one of my favorites. Anthropology of the Otherwise taught by Dr Naisargi Dave at the University of Toronto over the Fall of 2022. Drawing on the concept of “otherwise worlds” by Elizabeth Povinelli (2012), the seminar explored what is not there yet, and what might be1, the
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An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same-sex sexuality in Indonesia PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Febi R. Ramadhan
This paper examines legal efforts to criminalize same-sex sexualities between consenting adults by conservative Muslim movements in Indonesia, epitomized by the Constitutional Court of Indonesia's 2016 Judicial Review on the Indonesian Penal Code, continuous resistance to the Sexual Violence Law, and the current Indonesian Penal Code. Based on my ethnography of the Judicial Review's court transcript
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Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India” PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-08-23
Collins, Michael. 2021. “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India.” Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR) 44 (1): 28–44. In the first paragraph on page 29, the following sentence included incorrect information: “Today, India plays host to some of the world's costliest campaigns” (Kapur and Vaishnaz 2018), with some analysts pegging the 2019 Indian general
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Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-06-01 Abigail Nieves Delgado
In 2013, the Official Journal of the Federation of Mexico listed the key challenges facing Mexico's judicial institutions: a lack of public trust due to widespread corruption and systematic failure to prosecute and convict criminals (DOF, 2014). A plan to address these issues ensued. Written by the National Conference on the Administration and Enforcement of Justice, this plan consisted of institutional
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The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Susan Bibler Coutin, Véronique Fortin
This article builds on anthropological research on bureaucratic inscription as a power-laden process to explore the craft of document translation in contexts of immigration legal advocacy. In a legal climate characterized by suspicion and resource scarcity, immigrants who seek to regularize their status in the United States face steep evidentiary challenges, including the requirement that all documentation
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Rats claiming rights? More-than-human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-25 Herre de Bondt, Mandy de Wilde, Rivke Jaffe
The anthropology of citizenship has sought to understand citizenship beyond formal-legal definitions, including a focus on how those who are legally without citizenship rights also engage in everyday acts of political claims-making. While this emphasis on the enactment of citizenship has expanded our understanding of who counts as a political being, it has also been obviously human centered. Might
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Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Risa Cromer, Sophie Bjork-James
While abortion foes in the United States rhetorically promote “life,” discursive invocations of death are foundational to antiabortion advocacy. Pro-life strategists have made gains mandating the mourning of aborted fetuses through fetal burial bills, which require abortion providers to cremate or bury fetal tissue from abortion procedures. Fetal burial bills are inextricably tied to biopolitical regimes
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Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-14 John Borneman, Richard Ashby Wilson
This dialogue between John Borneman and Richard Ashby Wilson examines several of the key questions for law and politics that have come to the fore since the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Borneman's contributions over the last three decades, in which he elaborates the concepts of accountability, care, and affect, both authors then engage with how these issues emerge in their own research in different
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“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Nelli Sargsyan
The ongoing feminist struggle in post-Soviet Armenia to imagine a world without patriarchal social arrangements, militarization, and capitalism is multidirectional, involving intimate relations at home, with fellow leftists, and in public political life. Instead of divesting from afforded systemic privileges, both material and representational, leftist men often extend patriarchal power relations to
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“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Agathe Mora
What makes property restitution “successful” in postwar Kosovo? How are multiple, overlapping, and conflicting property regimes folded into the process of postwar transition? And what can the implementation of rule of law illuminate about international interventionism? Daily practices at the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA, the administrative, quasi-judicial institution that the United Nations tasked with
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About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 Andrea Flores
This article examines how time creates immigrant il/legality. It centers on a young, undocumented immigrant who was stopped by police following a traffic violation and held in custody pending potential deportation. However, he was ultimately released due to previously filed legal claims. Through the case, I demonstrate how he, his lawyer, the police, and his everyday contacts advance or attempt to
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Racism and policing beyond North America PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2023-05-04 Deniz Yonucu, Caroline Mary Parker
In this issue's “Directions” section, we initiate a discussion on racism and policing in places beyond North America. Part of our motivation for doing so stems from a common experience we share—as antiracist educators and as anthropologists of policing and the carceral state—in our classrooms and even among our peers. This is the misplaced notion that police racism is somehow a uniquely “American”
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Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-26 Julie Hemment
This article examines humor as geopolitical performance in the context of Russia–US political communication. Humor has featured prominently in the mass-mediated performances of Russian state actors since 2012. Public officials such as Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov have engaged in ambiguous play and satirical borrowings via the circulation of memes and other political theatrics. “Russiagate”—the scandal
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“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Thijs Jeursen
In the context of police violence and the proliferation of cameras, a growing body of anthropological scholarship has sought to understand the role of photography and its relationship to everyday policing. While scholarly attention has been given to how cameras can intensify a racialized visuality of crime and justify violent policing practices, this article discusses how police officers themselves
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Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Fatima Tassadiq
This article examines land acquisition for the construction of a metro train line in Lahore, Pakistan, to argue that the role and temporality of bureaucratic documentary practices are key to enabling urban informality and associated regimes of substantive citizenship. I examine the changing role of bureaucratic documents along the axes of (a) state and citizens, as documents are transferred between
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Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid-19 Lockdown in India PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Tarangini Sriraman
This article traces what I term the affective activism of volunteers, civil society organizations, and lorry drivers engaged in relief work to assist stranded migrant workers wanting to travel home during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic and national lockdown in India. I define affective activism as an archival practice that is driven by relief figures’ affects of fear, anger, and aspirations—in
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Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Ritsuko Kurita
This article examines how Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in cities navigate welfare and the mutual obligation regime in Australia. Since the introduction of the mutual obligation requirements (MORs) and the accompanying “Work for the Dole” program, initially for Indigenous and later for non-Indigenous welfare beneficiaries, welfare recipients from both groups are perceived as morally deficient
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Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Lydia Boyd
Over the last two decades, courts have emerged as increasingly important fields of struggle in the fight for maternal health rights. While the success of litigation has been celebrated as a sign of the strength of rights-based platforms as advocacy tools, critics of this approach have highlighted how these cases may do little to permanently address the systemic inequality that drives poor maternal
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The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 William Girard
Throughout the Americas, in countries such as Honduras, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, and the United States, right-wing governments allied with conservative Christians have increasingly pursued violent and antidemocratic means to acquire and maintain political power. Understanding the success of these regimes requires clarity about the ways that “church” and “state” both fuse and diverge. Based on extensive
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Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post-Coup Honduras PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-06 Jordan Levy
This article examines how teachers in post-coup Honduras reluctantly complied with legislation with which they disagreed. New laws passed after the June 2009 military coup decentralized and privatized government funding by requiring that teachers solicit money for school infrastructure projects from municipal governments and private companies instead of from the Ministry of Education. This article
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Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Katy Gardner
Building on Andrea Pia's notion of the ethical fix, this article shows how emotional fixes are used to bring emotions into balance at a feminist nongovernmental organization (NGO) in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Promoting a noninterventionist stance in which its advisers do not directly tell their clients what to do, the NGO provides legal advice and counseling to women facing problems in their marriages. Emotional
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Erratum PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-08-09
In the article by Raúl Márquez Porras (2020), the title of the book review has been corrected as there was a word that got deleted from the title during typesetting and it was corrected from When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality To When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality Porras, R.M. (2022),
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Erratum PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-08-09
In the Book Review by Marc Edelman (2021), the title of the book reviewed was accidentally included as part of the Book Review's title in the full-text version of the article, the PDF was not affected. We have corrected the title in the full-text version of the article from: ‘Rising Threats in the US It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US’ To ‘Rising Threats in
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Multiple Energy Landscapes Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Giorgio Brocco
Over the last decades, global media debates and political discussions around climate change, environmental pollution and fossil fuel extraction have arisen vehemently. Anthropological attention to energy has therefore grown more explicit, thanks to studies conducted by a crop of scholars reflecting on various political, economic, and social issues related to the use and commercialization of hydrocarbon
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Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Çağrı Yoltar
The honorific term gazi has a significant place in right-wing politics in Turkey as a key symbol of Turkish nationalism and Islamism. Historically a title associated with Muslim warriors and Ottoman and Turkish sovereigns, it has gained a renewed visibility in everyday life and politics since the 1990s, when the Turkish state began to bestow this title on disabled veterans returning from the counterinsurgency
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YYYYYYYYYYYY PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Marc Edelman
The Trump presidency in the United States and the consolidation of strongman regimes in Turkey, Russia, India, Hungary, Brazil, and elsewhere sparked new concern about authoritarianism among scholars, including anthropologists. The Society for Cultural Anthropology recently ran a blog series on “American Fascism,” Anthropology Now devoted an issue to the current U.S. conjuncture, and this reviewer
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The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Mark Fathi Massoud
How do police get witnesses and criminal defendants to tell the truth? And in what ways do the truth-seeking activities of law enforcement create and remake the identity of the state? These questions lie at the heart of Jinee Lokaneeta's fine book, The Truth Machines. For anthropologists of law and politics, the book offers a lens into the ways that nations try to prevent the torture of citizens, paradoxically
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Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Owen McNamara
In Routine Crisis, Sarah Muir explores the prevailing sentiment within the Argentine middle-class that not only have things gone wrong with their country, but that they will never be put right again. The book tracks the “radical negativity” of the middle-class in the wake of the country's millennial economic crisis. This crisis entailed an economic collapse, the largest sovereign debt default in world
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The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Jesse Jonkman
On April 20, 2008, Paraguay elected rural bishop Fernando Lugo as its president, ending the reign of the Colorado party that had ruled the country since 1947. The election spurred a political shift to the left and considerably transformed the relationship that the national soy industry had forged with the state bureaucracy in previous decades. Progressives, intellectuals, and activists became employed
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Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Tuan Hoang
Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese Buddhists who resettled in the Gulf South have gathered for worship in rented apartments, mobile homes, converted garages, vacant offices, fishing camps, even vacant lots. They have also raised funds to build a number of temples, especially during the 2000s, in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. In the process, Vietnamese refugees and immigrants
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Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Thomas Bierschenk
One indication of the quality of a scholarly study is surely the extent to which it passes the test of time. Babül's study of how universal human rights discourses are translated into local contexts in European Union training courses for Turkish government officials passes this test with flying colors. Even five years after its publication, this book is well worth reading. Babül shows how human rights
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When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Raúl Márquez Porras
Alicia Ely Yamin offers a journey through a half a century of struggle for the recognition and expansion of human rights in their social, economic and cultural dimensions, focusing on the right to health and, more specifically, on the sexual and reproductive health rights of women. This chronological journey examines laws and regulations, decision-making forums and legal cases that have been milestones
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Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-05-01 Marta Cabezas
The virulent opposition to gender violence policy championed by the Spanish Far Right Party Vox since it gained political representation in December 2018 has been remarkable. This opposition has turned gender violence into a language of political struggle at a time of intense feminist mobilization and feminist influence in government. What does this ideological battle over gender violence reveal about
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New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Anand Vaidya
In 2011 some two hundred villagers in North India set upon lower-caste neighbors who had hoped to escape landlessness and caste-based exclusion by claiming nearby lands available to them under India's landmark 2006 Forest Rights Act. After their homes were destroyed and their fields razed, the low-caste villagers—who had once hoped for change—traded their new lives for old ones, and contemplated futures
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Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Madeleine Reeves
In 2008, just as I was finishing my PhD, I came across an editorial by Stuart Elden, a political geographer who at the time was the editor of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The editorial, on what he called the “exchange economy of peer review” was part plea, part rebuke (Elden 2008). The plea was for scholars to commit to reviewing more manuscripts, in Society and Space and generally
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“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Čarna Brković
Beyond the Courtroom Model of Intellectual Exchange in Peer Review Imagine a person writing a peer review. Perhaps you will picture a skeptical individual crushing scholarship just because they can. This is at least the popular image that circulates in social media groups such as “Reviewer 2 must be stopped!”: an angry person who inflicts pain because they do not (want to) understand an author's argumentation
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Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Valentina Pellegrino
In 2009, through Court Order 004, the Colombian Constitutional Court declared that thirty-four separate groups of Indigenous peoples were at risk of extermination due to armed conflict, and it ordered the government to protect them. In 2013, the court then ordered the government to prove its compliance with Order 004. The government did so through a complex documentation process. The production of
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Introducing Directions Section PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Caroline M. Parker, Deniz Yonucu, Jennifer Curtis
As the incoming Directions Editors, Caroline Parker and Deniz Yonucu, along with PoLAR Online Editor, Jennifer Curtis, we are excited to introduce this Spring edition's Directions section: “‘Thinking With’ When Peer Reviewing.” Directions provides a critical forum for honest and open reflection among scholars about the issues that matter most to us in anthropology. As scholars, we are acutely aware
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Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Dada Docot
In 2015, I submitted a manuscript to a Tier 1 journal in anthropology with a single-blind peer review process which means that the author is known to the readers, but not the other way around. I received feedback from two reviewers. Reviewer 1 appreciated the “unconventional style” of my paper which began with an invitation to watch a short film. They wrote, “The author is a good writer, she makes
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Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Robin Valenzuela
This article examines a memorandum of understanding (MOU) between Chicago's Mexican Consulate and the Illinois Department of Child and Family Services (DCFS), which obliges DCFS to provide prompt consular notification after assuming protective custody of a Mexican or Mexican American minor. Developed in 2001, this bilateral agreement also enables consular officials to gain access to child welfare cases
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The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place-Based Understanding of Kriz PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Darlène Dubuisson
This article examines the historical, structural, and embodied aspects of the 2016–2018 crisis at the Université d’État d'Haïti (State University of Haiti, UEH) to contextualize and disrupt a conventional notion of “Haitian perpetual crisis.” The article first discusses various approaches to the ongoing crises in Haiti. It specifically highlights Beckett's conceptualization of kriz (embodied crisis)
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Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Éva‐Rozália Hölzle
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Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Sara L. M. Davis
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Esclavos y tierras entre posesión y títulos La construcción social del derecho de propiedad en Brasil (siglo XIX) [Slaves and lands from possession to title‐owning. The social construction of property laws in Brazil (19th century)] Mariana Armond Dias Paes (Frankfurt am Main: Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, 2021) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 João Figueiredo
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Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World Edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Vlad Schüler‐Costa
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Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Whitney Russell
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For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Neymat Chadha
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Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Georgina Ramsay
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Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist Laura Nader (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Roberto J. González
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Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Valerio Colosio
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The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health , Sara L. M. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020) PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-07 Julie Billaud
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The Politics of the Humanitarian Gift Economy: Tamil Fishers and the 2004 Tsunami PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Raja Swamy
When recipients of humanitarian aid deployed their own calculus in determining the uses of the aid, nongovernmental (NGOs) and state officials read these actions as evidence of moral deficiency. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in the aftermath of the tsunami of 2004 in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu's Nagapattinam District, this article examines such actions in terms of the contradictions they
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Entangled Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting without Recognition in India and Vietnam PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (IF 1.286) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Aron Marie, Michele Friedner
Disabled people have achieved more legal recognition from nation-states and societies because of advocacy and institutional efforts such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This is a starting, not an end, point: How does legal recognition trickle down (or not) or become distributed to those who work with disabled people? This article examines this question by