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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Making the Indebted Citizen: An Inquiry into State Benevolence in Turkey14
Through the Looking Glass: Televised Politics in Contemporary Populist Italy9
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory7
Playing with Antagonists: The Politics of Humor in Israeli‐Palestinian Market Encounters7
Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel6
Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain5
“To Speak the Law”: Contested Jurisdictions, Legal Legibility, and Sovereignty in Guatemala5
Making Populations for Deportation: Bureaucratic Knowledge Practices Inside a European Deportation Unit5
On Cynicism and Citizenship: The Place of Negative Affects in US Antihighway Activism4
Precarious Citizens: Iraqi Jews and the Politics of Belonging4
From Accountants to Detectives: How Nuclear Safeguards Inspectors Make Knowledge at the International Atomic Energy Agency4
“We Don't Have the Right Words!”: Idiomatic Violence, Embodied Inequalities, and Uneven Translations in Indian Law Enforcement4
Property without Prosperity: Subjective Valuation, Financial Citizenship, and Negotiating Moral Personhood among Manufactured Homeowners3
Collective Complaint: Immigrant Women Caregivers’ Community, Performance, and the Limits of Labor Law in New York City3
“Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core”: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates’ Courts after 20003
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process2
The Symbolic Power of the State: Inheritance Disputes and Litigants’ Judicial Trajectories in Cotonou2
Negotiating “True” Politics: Intergenerational Dynamics During Social Uprising in Sarajevo, Bosnia‐Herzegovina2
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana2
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States2
Free the Data from the Birdcage: Opening Up Data and Crowdsourcing Activism in Taiwan2
Pandemic Journal Editing and Refusing a Return to Normal2
“You Have a Lot to Answer For”: Human Rights, Matriliny, and the Mediation of Family Conflicts at the Department of Social Welfare in Ghana2
Entangled Interdependence: Sign Language Interpreting without Recognition in India and Vietnam2
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain2
Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly2
The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place‐Based Understanding of Kriz1
Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees1
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment1
Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India1
The Case of Piruani: Contested Justice, Legal Pluralism, and Indigeneity in Highland Bolivia1
The Politics of Memorialization and War1
Criminalization through Complicity: (Not) Reporting Crime in Mexico City1
Cultivating Justice beyond Law1
Anthropologies of the U.S. Criminal Justice System1
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review1
Chill Pills Panic: Legal Constructions of Play, Race, and the Policing of Care in California's Administrative Courts1
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan1
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee1
“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico1
Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine1
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia1
Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility1
Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System1
For Accountability1
Conceiving Parents, Consolidating the State: Emphasis and Erasure in the Governance of Marginal Parenthoods in Brazil1
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan1
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology1
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda1
On Knowing Addiction0
Editorial November 20220
Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire Jeffrey S. Kahn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
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Catching a Case: Inequality and Fear in New York City's Child Welfare System Tina Lee (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2016)0
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Giving Life to the Death Penalty0
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabirTambar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)0
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, 20
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey0
Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020)0
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey0
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds0
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
The Politics of Global Health0
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World‐Making0
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
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Medical Necessity: Health Care Access and the Politics of Decision MakingDanielSkinner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)0
After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology0
Papers, Performance, and Making Immigration Matter0
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The Government of Beans: Regulating Life in the Age of Monocrops0
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South Prathama Banerjee (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Border Brokers: Children of Mexican Immigrants Navigating U.S. Society, Laws, and Politics Christina M. Getrich (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2019)0
Challenging the State of Exception: New Ethnographies of International Migration and its Constraints0
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia0
The Politics of the Humanitarian Gift Economy: Tamil Fishers and the 2004 Tsunami0
The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan Mubbashir Rizvi (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2019)0
Hunting Game: Raiding Politics in the Central African Republic, Louisa Lombard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US‐Mexico Border Ieva Jusionyte (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018)0
When Misfortune Becomes: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality0
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)0
There is No More Haiti: Between Life and Death in Port‐au‐Prince Greg Beckett (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)0
Change and Continuity in China0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, Evren Savcı (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)0
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing RiverAndrew AlanJohnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Paradoxes of the Popular: Crowd Politics in BangladeshNusrat SabinaChowdhury (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019)0
Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance Daromir Rudnyckyj (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico‐Guatemala BorderRebecca BerkeGalemba (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018)0
Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wives, Hide Your Beds: Marriage, Law, and Changing Social Norms in the United States0
Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion0
Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China Kimberly Chong. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
Laura Nader: Letters to and from an Anthropologist Laura Nader (Ithaca and New York: Cornell University Press, 2020)0
Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles Susanna Rosenbaum (Durham: Duke University Press, 2017)0
Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk0
Digital Turban‐Head: Racial Learning and Policing Muslims in Northwest China0
Illegal Encounters: The Effect of Detention and Deportation on Young PeopleDeborah A. Boehm and Susan J. Terrio, eds. (New York: NYU Press, 2019)0
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan Jeffrey T. Martin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019)0
Changing the Subject of Sati0
Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics0
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logic of InterventionTessLea (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)0
Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Maggie Dickinson (Oakland: University of California Press, 2020)0
Resource Politics and Entangled Lives in Extraction Zones0
The Social Life of Security Today: Cross‐Disciplinary Lessons and Lacunae in Anthropology and Critical Security Studies0
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue0
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes0
Pharmocracy, Bureaucracy, Advocacy: Three Studies 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
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War is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon Sami Hermez (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017)0
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World Edited by SuneHaugbolle and MarkLeVine (Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2023)0
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational GovernanceMatthew C.Canfield (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism0
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Stacey Vanderhurst (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)0
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East0
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)0
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Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity0
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)0
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations0
Multiple Energy Landscapes Ethnographies of Power: A Political Anthropology of Energy0
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban NigeriaDaniel E.Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)0
Editorial–Fall 20230
Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India0
Editors’ Introduction0
The Truth Machines: Policing, Violence, and Scientific Interrogations in India0
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in JordanMirjamTwigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022)0
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Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India”0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos AiresJuanManuel del Nido (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)0
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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 property0
Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine Sophia Stamatopoulou‐Robbins (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)0
Rising Threats in the US It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US0
An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun Kristin D. Phillips (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019)0
El Duelo Revelado: La Vida Social de las Fotografías Familiares de las Víctimas del Franquismo Jorge Moreno‐Andrés (Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2018)0
The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas0
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in ParisJulieKleinman (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019)0
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's FrontiersHiba BouAkar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018)0
On Morality: Homelessness, Sociality, and the Promises We Break0
Indeterminative critique: Epistemic certitude and the temporality of crisis0
Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity0
An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause0
“Bypass the UN”: Diplomatic Practices and Change in Multilateral Settings0
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the PossibleArturoEscobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Adultery Redefined: Changing Decisions of Equity in Customary Law as “Living Law” in Botswana0
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police ViolenceLaurenceRalph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)0
Place‐Making and Multiple Belongings in Mexican Transnational Families0
Golden Boys, Bros, and Barbecues: Gendered Occidentalism and the Shaping of US Policy in the Middle East0
Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South0
Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism Katherine Lemons (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019)0
The Uncounted: Politics of Data in Global Health, Sara L. M. Davis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020)0
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal Hanna Garth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020)0
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Rats claiming rights? More‐than‐human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam0
The River Is in Us: Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community Elizabeth Hoover (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017)0
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia0
The Everyday Life of Activism0
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After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaMareikeWinchell (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)0
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and RestorationHolly JeanBuck (London: Verso, 2019)0
Demanding Images: Democracy, Mediation, and the Image‐Event in Indonesia Karen Strassler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)0
Writing Planetary Ethnographies0
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020)0
Complicated Webs: Experiential Risk in the Vietnamese Coffee Industry0
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).0
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam0
Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi Dwaipayan Banerjee (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2020)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
Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture0
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients0
Identity, Development, and the Politics of the Past: An Ethnography of Continuity and Change in a Coastal Ecuadorian Community Daniel Bauer (Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado, 2018)0
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Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in IndiaKritiKapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022)0
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy, Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)0
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020)0
New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act0
Ethics or The Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good GovernanceSylviaTidey (Chicago: HAU books, 2022)0
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From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity0
Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability and Political Violence in Turkey0
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Erratum0
On the State of the Shari'a0
Reflecting on/for better worlds0
Post‐socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans0
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Editorial May 20220
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal PoliticsMark FathiMassoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)0
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women's Activism in Kashmir Ather Zia (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2019)0
Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice0
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
Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty: Land, Sex, and the Colonial Politics of State Nationalism J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
Life by Algorithms: How Roboprocesses Are Remaking Our World Edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019)0
Precarious Hope: Migration and the Limits of Belonging in TurkeyAyşeParla (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019)0
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Racism and policing beyond North America0
Deported Americans: Life After Deportation to Mexico Beth C. Caldwell (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019)0
People's Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism Sarasij Majumder (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019)0
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras0
Editorial November 2020: Extricating Justice from Law0
On Roadways and Other Infrastructures0
A Future History of Water Andrea Ballestero (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019)0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonMayaMikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)0
Consent in the Era of #MeToo0
“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”0
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Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology Matthew J. Wolf‐Meyer (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019)0
Looking for trouble: (Infra‐)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy0
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Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies RelationsHeather AnneSwanson, Marianne ElisabethLien, and Gro B.Ween, Eds. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)0
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Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond Jon D. Holtzman (Oakland: University of California Press, 2016)0
“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami0
Politics in the Name of Humanity, Revisited0
Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers0
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo0
The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of JusticeMelissaChecker (New York: NYU Press, 2020)0
School of Europeanness: Tolerance and Other Lessons in Political Liberalism in LatviaDaceDzenovska (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2018)0
Ethnographies of Justice: Doing Some Justice to “Justice and Law”0
Infrastructure, Environment and Life in the AnthropoceneKregg Hetherington, editor. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2019)0
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico0
Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact and Justice in the Modern EraIan Burney and Christopher Hamlin, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019)0
Queering Legal Pluralism?0
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