PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Papers
(The median citation count of PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post‐Dictatorial ChileSimónEscoffier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)10
Erratum8
Militarized policing in the hinterlands: A Blackwater training ground and the cultural conceptions of security6
Book review editorial: Recent contributions in political and legal anthropology5
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in IndiaYaminiNarayanan (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023)4
Editorial May 20224
New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act4
Legal Occupations4
The Politics of the Humanitarian Gift Economy: Tamil Fishers and the 2004 Tsunami3
Issue Information3
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).3
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Between a Knife and the Law: Bureau‐Legal Engagement With Migrant Workers in Russia and Tajikistan2
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia2
Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision MakingDanielSkinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)2
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review2
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey2
Editorial November 20222
Finding Balance Between Change and Preservation: Gaining Insight Into the Legal Reasoning of Customary Courts in New Caledonia2
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)2
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, 2
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia2
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban NigeriaDaniel E.Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)2
Radicalized Nationalists? Ideological Contestation, the State, and Populist Muslim Belonging in Indonesia2
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)2
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations2
Làkk ag demokaraasi ci Senegaal2
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)1
Letter From the Editor1
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, 21
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey1
Erratum1
For Accountability1
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue1
Property and the Matter of Belonging1
Issue Information ‐ TOC1
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 property1
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India1
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabirTambar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)1
Indeterminative critique: Epistemic certitude and the temporality of crisis1
The good thief: A note on revisits in long‐running ethnography1
Toward an Indigenous anthropology1
Governing With Technical Precision: Data, Politics, and Corruption in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility1
The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place‐Based Understanding of Kriz0
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States0
Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal PoliticsMark FathiMassoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
Editorial0
Writing opacity: Going beyond pseudonyms with spirit portraiture0
Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*0
“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico0
Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice0
Making Populations for Deportation: Bureaucratic Knowledge Practices Inside a European Deportation Unit0
Localizing the state: Stateness among refugee–led community‐based organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya0
An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause0
The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas0
Discourse Shifts Surrounding Fengshui: An Ethnographic Study of Disputes Over a Heritage Building in Southern Fujian0
Putting the Body Into Justice0
Titlatehtemozceh huan titlayoltilizceh ica tomacehualtlahtol huan tomacehualtlallamicca: ¿queniuhqui titequitizceh?0
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Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana0
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology0
When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality0
Rising Threats in the US It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US0
Language and democracy in Senegal0
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut0
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World‐Making0
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops0
Cartographies of Clothing: On the Aesthetics and Practices of Property in Borderlands0
Editorial0
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras0
Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre0
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds0
Reflecting on/for better worlds0
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health, Sara L. M. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico0
Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees0
Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil0
Ecuador Mama Llaktapi Wamprakunapak Muskuykuna, Ayllullaktakuna, Kaya Mincha Runakunapash0
Ethics or The Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good GovernanceSylviaTidey (Chicago: HAU books, 2022)0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)0
Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System0
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020)0
Directions: Concluding reflections on indigenous scholarship and linguistic imperialism0
Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity0
Introducing Directions Section0
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaMareikeWinchell (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)0
Knowing Women: Same‐Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial GhanaSerena OwusuaDankwa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)0
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo0
Aspiring for Abstraction: The Promise of Law Amid Political Dispossession in Majoritarian India0
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy, Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)0
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan0
Linguistic dimensions of the crimmigration regime: Language ideological working conditions in US Immigration Court0
Change and Continuity in China0
Umthetho Wethu Ngumthetho Sisekelo, Futhi Unamalungelo*0
Rats claiming rights? More‐than‐human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
From Patients to Pniev: Entrepreneurial Awakenings, Organizational Rebirth, and Social Enterprise in Cambodia0
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020)0
A scandalous presence in the courtroom: Indigenous immigrant interpreters and the politics of language ideologies in US courts0
Issue Information0
Beyond pseudonyms: Ethics and politics of ethnographic representation0
The Price of Suffering? Monetary Compensation Claims for the Danish State's Postcolonial Child Displacement in Greenland0
Translating Gender Sensitivity: Feminist Activism, Human Rights, and the Police in Post‐Revolution Tunisia0
Signing documents: Accountability politics and racialized suspicion in Africa's development audits0
From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity0
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan0
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing EuropeApostolosAndrikopoulos (The University of Chicago Press, 2023)0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos AiresJuanManuel del Nido (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in IndiaKritiKapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022)0
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020)0
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Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist Laura Nader (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2020)0
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, Evren Savcı (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)0
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Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian IndiaMukulikaBanerjee (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
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Editorial0
Prefigurative Neoliberalism: A Provisional Analysis of the Global Sovereign Citizen Movement0
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients0
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia0
The Politics of Global Health0
An Anarchist Present in Lowland Southeast Asia? Outsourcing the Polity: Non‐State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in MyanmarGerardMcCarthy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023)Rethinking Commun0
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Stacey Vanderhurst (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)0
After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology0
Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India0
Recognition in liminality: Migrant schooling, bureaucracy, and the surname “Without‐A‐Surname”0
Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers0
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey0
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes0
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication0
Multiple Energy Landscapes Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy0
Racism and policing beyond North America0
Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World Edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonMayaMikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India0
“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami0
Naming the Secret Agent: Law, Suspicion, and Moral Autopsy After Communism0
Copresent jurisdictions: Spirits, theopolitics, and the rise of Akan spirituality in the United States0
Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly0
Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South0
Looking for trouble: (Infra‐)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy0
Editorial0
(Non)governing machine: Seized activism and NGOization as forms of governance in Indonesia0
What If You Had a Revolution and No One Came? Isolation, Intersubjectivity, and Agency in China's 2011 Jasmine Revolution0
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda0
Landscape Testimonies: Gulf Capital, “Deficient Deserts,” and Property‐Making in Central Sudan0
Entangled Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting without Recognition in India and Vietnam0
Digital Turban‐Head: Racial Learning and Policing Muslims in Northwest China0
Indigenous youth aspiration, community, and Kichwa futures in Ecuador0
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment0
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin0
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and RestorationHolly JeanBuck (London: Verso, 2019)0
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
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Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion0
Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India”0
Conceiving Parents, Consolidating the State: Emphasis and Erasure in the Governance of Marginal Parenthoods in Brazil0
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Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Intimacy, Violence, and Partings Intimate Disconnections: Divorce and the Romance of Independence in Contemporary JapanAllisonAlexy (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2020)Unexpecte0
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in JordanMirjamTwigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022)0
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, UkraineGreta LynnUehling (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023)0
How will we work to conduct research and revitalization with our Indigenous language and culture?0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Editorial–Fall 20230
Ancestral Rights, Ancestral Land: Reparations and Collective Property in the Plantation's Wake0
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Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
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Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational GovernanceMatthew C.Canfield (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process0
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World Edited by SuneHaugbolle and MarkLeVine (Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2023)0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
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“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”0
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