PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review

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“We Don't Have the Right Words!”: Idiomatic Violence, Embodied Inequalities, and Uneven Translations in Indian Law Enforcement	8
Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel	8
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory	7
Making Populations for Deportation: Bureaucratic Knowledge Practices Inside a European Deportation Unit	7
On Cynicism and Citizenship: The Place of Negative Affects in US Antihighway Activism	6
Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain	6
“To Speak the Law”: Contested Jurisdictions, Legal Legibility, and Sovereignty in Guatemala	6
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States	5
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan	4
Precarious Citizens: Iraqi Jews and the Politics of Belonging	4
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations	3
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana	3
“Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core”: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates’ Courts after 2000	3
Collective Complaint: Immigrant Women Caregivers’ Community, Performance, and the Limits of Labor Law in New York City	3
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain	3
“You Have a Lot to Answer For”: Human Rights, Matriliny, and the Mediation of Family Conflicts at the Department of Social Welfare in Ghana	2
Entangled Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting without Recognition in India and Vietnam	2
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment	2
“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”	2
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee	2
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process	2
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo	2
Chill Pills Panic: Legal Constructions of Play, Race, and the Policing of Care in California's Administrative Courts	2
Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly	2
“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico	2

Cultivating Justice beyond Law	2
Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India	2
Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain	2
Pandemic Journal Editing and Refusing a Return to Normal	2
Racism and policing beyond North America	1
Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees	1
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review	1
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients	1
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras	1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India	1
The Case of Piruani: Contested Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Indigeneity in Highland Bolivia	1
Criminalization through Complicity: (Not) Reporting Crime in Mexico City	1
Editorial November 2020: Extricating Justice from Law	1
The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place‐Based Understanding of Kriz	1
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes	1
Anthropologies of the U.S. Criminal Justice System	1
Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System	1
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam	1
Ethnographies of Justice: Doing Some Justice to “Justice and Law”	1
Signing documents: Accountability politics and racialized suspicion in Africa's development audits	1
Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine	1
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda	1
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey	1
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia	1
Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility	1
For Accountability	1
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan	1
Conceiving Parents, Consolidating the State: Emphasis and Erasure in the Governance of Marginal Parenthoods in Brazil	1
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia	1
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology	1
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia	1
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The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
Erratum	0
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World Edited by SuneHaugbolle and MarkLeVine (Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2023)	0
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's FrontiersHiba BouAkar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018)	0
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East	0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)	0
When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality	0
Divorce, Democracy, and State Making. Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal law in Post‐Independence IndiaSaumyaSaxena (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)Marriage Unbound: State Law,	0
Multiple Energy Landscapes Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy	0
On the State of the Shari'a	0
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue	0
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in IndiaKritiKapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022)	0
Queering Legal Pluralism?	0
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Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil, Edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Michell, Alvaro Jarrín, and Lucia Cantero, (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2	0
Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist Laura Nader (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2020)	0
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin	0
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	0

Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in ParisJulieKleinman (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)	0
Indeterminative critique: Epistemic certitude and the temporality of crisis	0
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)	0
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy, Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)	0
The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas	0
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion	0
The Politics of Global Health	0
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey	0
The good thief: A note on revisits in long‐running ethnography	0
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in JordanMirjamTwigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022)	0
Digital Turban‐Head: Racial Learning and Policing Muslims in Northwest China	0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)	0
Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India”	0
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds	0
The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India	0
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).	0
Editorial	0
Editorial November 2022	0
Introducing Directions Section	0
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsHeather AnneSwanson, Marianne ElisabethLien, and Gro B.Ween, Eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)	0
Intimacy, Violence, and Partings Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary JapanAllisonAlexy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020)Unexpecte	0
Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice	0
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication	0
Consent in the Era of #MeToo	0
Copresent jurisdictions: Spirits, theopolitics, and the rise of Akan spirituality in the United States	0
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police ViolenceLaurenceRalph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)	0
Reflecting on/for better worlds	0
Beyond pseudonyms: Ethics and politics of ethnographic representation	0
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Stacey Vanderhurst (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)	0
Book review editorial: Recent contributions in political and legal anthropology	0
Writing Planetary Ethnographies	0
The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of JusticeMelissaChecker (New York: NYU Press, 2020)	0
Looking for trouble: (Infra‐)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy	0
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New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act	0
Ethics or The Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good GovernanceSylviaTidey (Chicago: HAU books, 2022)	0
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaMareikeWinchell (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)	0
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The Everyday Life of Activism	0
Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics	0
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity	0
Pharmocracy, Bureaucracy, Advocacy: Three Studies of Global Health	0
Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in TurkeyAyşeParla (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019)	0
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The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health, Sara L. M. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)	0
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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)	0
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing RiverAndrew AlanJohnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in LatviaDaceDzenovska (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018)	0
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
Recognition in liminality: Migrant schooling, bureaucracy, and the surname “Without‐A‐Surname”	0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, Evren Savcı (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)	0
Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South	0
Post‐socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans	0
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World‐Making	0
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Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal PoliticsMark FathiMassoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)	0
Rats claiming rights? More‐than‐human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam	0
Golden Boys, Bros, and Barbecues: Gendered Occidentalism and the Shaping of US Policy in the Middle East	0
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban NigeriaDaniel E.Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)	0
Editorial May 2022	0
The Politics of the Humanitarian Gift Economy: Tamil Fishers and the 2004 Tsunami	0
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Complicated Webs: Experiential Risk in the Vietnamese Coffee Industry	0
Papers, Performance, and Making Immigration Matter	0
Change and Continuity in China	0
Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk	0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonMayaMikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)	0
Editorial–Fall 2023	0
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, UkraineGreta LynnUehling (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023)	0
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wives, Hide Your Beds: Marriage, Law, and Changing Social Norms in the United States	0
Knowing Women: Same‐Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial GhanaSerena OwusuaDankwa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)	0
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Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in BangladeshNusrat SabinaChowdhury (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019)	0
Editorial	0
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020)	0

Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers	0
On Knowing Addiction	0
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logic of InterventionTessLea (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)	0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)	0
Giving Life to the Death Penalty	0
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabirTambar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)	0
Rising Threats in the US It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US	0
An Anarchist Present in Lowland Southeast Asia? Outsourcing the Polity: Non‐State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in MyanmarGerardMcCarthy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023)Rethinking Commun	0
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey	0
Localizing the state: Stateness among refugee–led community‐based organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	0
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico	0
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational GovernanceMatthew C.Canfield (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)	0
Resource Politics and Entangled Lives in Extraction Zones	0
Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision MakingDanielSkinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)	0
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)	0
From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity	0
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing EuropeApostolosAndrikopoulos (The University of Chicago Press, 2023)	0
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US‐Mexico Border Ieva Jusionyte (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018)	0
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“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami	0
Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism	0
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020)	0
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After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and RestorationHolly JeanBuck (London: Verso, 2019)	0
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)	0
Writing opacity: Going beyond pseudonyms with spirit portraiture	0
A scandalous presence in the courtroom: Indigenous immigrant interpreters and the politics of language ideologies in US courts	0
Editorial	0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos AiresJuanManuel del Nido (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)	0
Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture	0
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian IndiaMukulikaBanerjee (Oxford University Press, 2022)	0
An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause	0
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Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in IndiaYaminiNarayanan (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023)	0
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020)	0
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops	0
Place‐Making and Multiple Belongings in Mexican Transnational Families	0
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Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints	0
Linguistic dimensions of the crimmigration regime: Language ideological working conditions in US Immigration Court	0
Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity	0
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Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico‐Guatemala BorderRebecca BerkeGalemba (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018)	0
After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology	0
(Non)governing machine: Seized activism and NGOization as forms of governance in Indonesia	0
Legal Occupations	0
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post‐Dictatorial ChileSimónEscoffier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)	0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal Hanna Garth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)	0
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the PossibleArturoEscobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)	0