PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Papers
(The TQCC of PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review is 1. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Wild Legalities: Animals and Settler Colonialism in Palestine/Israel8
“We Don't Have the Right Words!”: Idiomatic Violence, Embodied Inequalities, and Uneven Translations in Indian Law Enforcement8
Making Populations for Deportation: Bureaucratic Knowledge Practices Inside a European Deportation Unit7
When All That Is Solid Does Not Melt into Air: Labor, Politics and Materiality in a Bosnian Detergent Factory7
Everyday Authoritarianism: Class and Coercion on Housing Estates in Neoliberal Britain6
“To Speak the Law”: Contested Jurisdictions, Legal Legibility, and Sovereignty in Guatemala6
On Cynicism and Citizenship: The Place of Negative Affects in US Antihighway Activism6
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States5
Precarious Citizens: Iraqi Jews and the Politics of Belonging4
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan4
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana3
“Rotten Row is Rotten to the Core”: The Material and Sensory Politics of Harare's Magistrates’ Courts after 20003
Collective Complaint: Immigrant Women Caregivers’ Community, Performance, and the Limits of Labor Law in New York City3
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain3
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations3
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee2
Dispirited Away: The Peer Review Process2
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo2
Chill Pills Panic: Legal Constructions of Play, Race, and the Policing of Care in California's Administrative Courts2
Between the Roll of Paper and the Role of Paper: Governmental Documentation as a Mechanism for Complying Incompliantly2
“Countering Documents with Documents”: The Politics of Independent Environmental Auditing in Mexico2
Cultivating Justice beyond Law2
Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India2
Justice, Conscience, and War in Imperial Britain2
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
Falling into the Gaps, Together: On Peer Review as Intellectual Accompaniment2
“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”2
The (State) University of Haiti: Toward a Place‐Based Understanding of Kriz1
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes1
Anthropologies of the U.S. Criminal Justice System1
Interstitial Precarity: The Romance and Tragedy of the Transnational Child Welfare System1
Nonimmigrant Others: Belonging, Precarity and Imperial Citizenship for Chuukese Migrants in Guam1
Ethnographies of Justice: Doing Some Justice to “Justice and Law”1
Signing documents: Accountability politics and racialized suspicion in Africa's development audits1
Eating Wild: Hosting the Food Heritage of Palestine1
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda1
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey1
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia1
Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility1
For Accountability1
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan1
Conceiving Parents, Consolidating the State: Emphasis and Erasure in the Governance of Marginal Parenthoods in Brazil1
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia1
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology1
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia1
Racism and policing beyond North America1
Suspicious Citizenship, Bureaucratic Coordination, and the Deportation of Cambodian American Refugees1
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review1
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients1
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras1
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
Criminalization through Complicity: (Not) Reporting Crime in Mexico City1
Editorial November 2020: Extricating Justice from Law1
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