PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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 anthropology6
New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act5
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).4
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in IndiaYaminiNarayanan (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023)4
Editorial May 20224
Legal Occupations4
Issue Information3
The Politics of the Humanitarian Gift Economy: Tamil Fishers and the 2004 Tsunami3
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations3
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review3
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
Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision MakingDanielSkinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)2
Finding Balance Between Change and Preservation: Gaining Insight Into the Legal Reasoning of Customary Courts in New Caledonia2
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)2
Làkk ag demokaraasi ci Senegaal2
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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
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia2
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey2
Editorial November 20222
Between a Knife and the Law: Bureau‐Legal Engagement With Migrant Workers in Russia and Tajikistan2
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)2
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue1
Letter From the Editor1
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
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey1
Introducing Directions Section1
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
Erratum1
Governing With Technical Precision: Data, Politics, and Corruption in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India1
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)1
Property and the Matter of Belonging1
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
Toward an Indigenous anthropology1
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain1
For Accountability1
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, UkraineGreta LynnUehling (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023)0
Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaMareikeWinchell (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Ancestral Rights, Ancestral Land: Reparations and Collective Property in the Plantation's Wake0
The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place‐Based Understanding of Kriz0
How will we work to conduct research and revitalization with our Indigenous language and culture?0
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy, Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)0
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee0
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational GovernanceMatthew C.Canfield (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
Digital Turban‐Head: Racial Learning and Policing Muslims in Northwest China0
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process0
Rats claiming rights? More‐than‐human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam0
The Politics of Global Health0
Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice0
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia0
Beyond pseudonyms: Ethics and politics of ethnographic representation0
Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India0
Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos AiresJuanManuel del Nido (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
Editorial0
Ethics or The Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good GovernanceSylviaTidey (Chicago: HAU books, 2022)0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal PoliticsMark FathiMassoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
Language and democracy in Senegal0
From Patients to Pniev: Entrepreneurial Awakenings, Organizational Rebirth, and Social Enterprise in Cambodia0
Umthetho Wethu Ngumthetho Sisekelo, Futhi Unamalungelo*0
Copresent jurisdictions: Spirits, theopolitics, and the rise of Akan spirituality in the United States0
When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality0
Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist Laura Nader (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2020)0
Titlatehtemozceh huan titlayoltilizceh ica tomacehualtlahtol huan tomacehualtlallamicca: ¿queniuhqui titequitizceh?0
Issue Information0
Indigenous youth aspiration, community, and Kichwa futures in Ecuador0
Putting the Body Into Justice0
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology0
From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity0
Landscape Testimonies: Gulf Capital, “Deficient Deserts,” and Property‐Making in Central Sudan0
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020)0
Rising Threats in the US It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US0
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion0
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
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An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause0
Recognition in liminality: Migrant schooling, bureaucracy, and the surname “Without‐A‐Surname”0
Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India”0
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health, Sara L. M. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World Edited by SuneHaugbolle and MarkLeVine (Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2023)0
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication0
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
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients0
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo0
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonMayaMikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
Editorial0
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Stacey Vanderhurst (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)0
Looking for trouble: (Infra‐)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy0
Correction to “Localizing the State: Stateness Among Refugee–Led Community‐Based Organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya”0
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda0
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
Localizing the state: Stateness among refugee–led community‐based organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya0
Directions: Concluding reflections on indigenous scholarship and linguistic imperialism0
Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”0
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and RestorationHolly JeanBuck (London: Verso, 2019)0
Linguistic dimensions of the crimmigration regime: Language ideological working conditions in US Immigration Court0
Aspiring for Abstraction: The Promise of Law Amid Political Dispossession in Majoritarian India0
The Price of Suffering? Monetary Compensation Claims for the Danish State's Postcolonial Child Displacement in Greenland0
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan0
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Making Populations for Deportation: Bureaucratic Knowledge Practices Inside a European Deportation Unit0
Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly0
Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre0
Issue Information ‐ TOC0
Entangled Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting without Recognition in India and Vietnam0
What If You Had a Revolution and No One Came? Isolation, Intersubjectivity, and Agency in China's 2011 Jasmine Revolution0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, Evren Savcı (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)0
Writing opacity: Going beyond pseudonyms with spirit portraiture0
Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil0
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing EuropeApostolosAndrikopoulos (The University of Chicago Press, 2023)0
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment0
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana0
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in JordanMirjamTwigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022)0
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in IndiaKritiKapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022)0
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Signing documents: Accountability politics and racialized suspicion in Africa's development audits0
Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World Edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops0
Cartographies of Clothing: On the Aesthetics and Practices of Property in Borderlands0
Reflecting on/for better worlds0
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Editorial0
The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India0
Naming the Secret Agent: Law, Suspicion, and Moral Autopsy After Communism0
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Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine0
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds0
Ecuador Mama Llaktapi Wamprakunapak Muskuykuna, Ayllullaktakuna, Kaya Mincha Runakunapash0
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian IndiaMukulikaBanerjee (Oxford University Press, 2022)0
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World‐Making0
“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico0
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes0
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After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology0
Discourse Shifts Surrounding Fengshui: An Ethnographic Study of Disputes Over a Heritage Building in Southern Fujian0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)0
Multiple Energy Landscapes Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy0
Editorial–Fall 20230
Racism and policing beyond North America0
Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees0
Knowing Women: Same‐Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial GhanaSerena OwusuaDankwa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)0
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“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami0
Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*0
Change and Continuity in China0
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020)0
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Editorial0
The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas0
A scandalous presence in the courtroom: Indigenous immigrant interpreters and the politics of language ideologies in US courts0
(Non)governing machine: Seized activism and NGOization as forms of governance in Indonesia0
Translating Gender Sensitivity: Feminist Activism, Human Rights, and the Police in Post‐Revolution Tunisia0
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Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey0
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras0
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin0
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut0
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan0
Prefigurative Neoliberalism: A Provisional Analysis of the Global Sovereign Citizen Movement0
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The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States0
Conceiving Parents, Consolidating the State: Emphasis and Erasure in the Governance of Marginal Parenthoods in Brazil0
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