PoLAR-Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Article	Citations
Book review editorial: Recent contributions in political and legal anthropology	11
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post‐Dictatorial ChileSimónEscoffier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)	11
Erratum	10
Militarized policing in the hinterlands: A Blackwater training ground and the cultural conceptions of security	9
Rage as a Method: Beyond Hope in the Field	7
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in IndiaYaminiNarayanan (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023)	7
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).	6
Issue Information	5
Introduction: Authoritarianism and the Remaking of Anthropological Research	5
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations	5
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia	4
Làkk ag demokaraasi ci Senegaal	4
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,	4
“Don't be our daddy”: Feminist labor on the political left in Armenia	3
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban NigeriaDaniel E.Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)	3
Finding Balance Between Change and Preservation: Gaining Insight Into the Legal Reasoning of Customary Courts in New Caledonia	3
Affective Possibility: Identity Documents, Checkpoints, Violence and the Law	3
Editorial November 2022	3
Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey	3
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabirTambar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)	2
Indeterminative critique: Epistemic certitude and the temporality of crisis	2
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	2
The good thief: A note on revisits in long‐running ethnography	2
Between a Knife and the Law: Bureau‐Legal Engagement With Migrant Workers in Russia and Tajikistan	2
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)	2

Toxic Entanglements: Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru	2
Issue Information ‐ TOC	2
Navigating the (Dis)Appearing: River Islands, Emerging Kinships, and the Labors of Collaborative Fieldwork	2
Radicalized Nationalists? Ideological Contestation, the State, and Populist Muslim Belonging in Indonesia	2
Letter From the Editor	2
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)	2
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue	2
Property and the Matter of Belonging	2
Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India	1
Review of: Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia	1
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Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)	1
Citizenship for the Future: Building Sahrawi Citizenship and Making Territory From Exile	1
Governing With Technical Precision: Data, Politics, and Corruption in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility	1
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)	1
Editorial	1
Questioning Migrants: Ethnic Nationalism at the Limits of Pakistan	1
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	1
Erratum	1
Issue Information	1
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)	1
“They Speak Our Language!”: A Kinship Anthropology of Policing and Oversight in Kenya	1
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds	1
Reaching the Margins Through the Centre: Navigating State Gateways in Authoritarian Fieldwork	1
Toward an Indigenous anthropology	1
“Legalizing Oneself”: Citizenship, Waiting, and Fake Fakeness in Northern Cyprus	1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India	1
Cartographies of Clothing: On the Aesthetics and Practices of Property in Borderlands	0
Localizing the state: Stateness among refugee–led community‐based organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya	0
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020)	0
Next Year I'll Have a Red Passport: Documents and Migrant Racialization in Russia	0
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Principled Experiments in Just Being: From Police Oversight to Community Intersight	0
A Region among States: Law and Non‐Sovereignty in the Caribbean	0
Performing “Professionalism” in Grassroots Refugee Support: How Logics of Capital Enable Anti‐Migrant Hostility	0
Correction to “Localizing the State: Stateness Among Refugee–Led Community‐Based Organizations in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya”	0
Discounting Life: Necropolitical Law, Culture, and the Long War on Terror	0
Beyond pseudonyms: Ethics and politics of ethnographic representation	0
Book Review Editorial: Emerging Themes in Legal and Political Anthropology	0
How will we work to conduct research and revitalization with our Indigenous language and culture?	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
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian IndiaMukulikaBanerjee (Oxford University Press, 2022)	0
Prefigurative Neoliberalism: A Provisional Analysis of the Global Sovereign Citizen Movement	0
Stitching a rights narrative: How Syrian women in Shatila use embroidery to express ideas about social justice	0
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Copresent jurisdictions: Spirits, theopolitics, and the rise of Akan spirituality in the United States	0
Recognition in liminality: Migrant schooling, bureaucracy, and the surname “Without‐A‐Surname”	0
Aspiring for Abstraction: The Promise of Law Amid Political Dispossession in Majoritarian India	0
Ecuador Mama Llaktapi Wamprakunapak Muskuykuna, Ayllullaktakuna, Kaya Mincha Runakunapash	0
Heart (break) as a Witness: Fieldwork in the Times of Hindu Majoritarianism	0

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The Resonance of Church and State: “Churchstate” Geopolitics, the 2009 Honduran Coup, and the Antidemocratic Turn in the Americas	0
Putting the Body Into Justice	0
Trials of trustworthiness between Ethiopian lawyers and Chinese clients	0
Writing opacity: Going beyond pseudonyms with spirit portraiture	0
Teraanga Republic: Women's Authority and Politics in Senegal	0
Rats claiming rights? More‐than‐human acts of denizenship in Amsterdam	0
Our law is constitutional law, and it has rights*	0
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“For just decisions we need you!”: Relational decision‐making and the bureaucratic exclusion of “poor others”	0
Racism and policing beyond North America	0
What If You Had a Revolution and No One Came? Isolation, Intersubjectivity, and Agency in China's 2011 Jasmine Revolution	0
NGOing and Its Imagined Afterlives: Activist Critiques After the August 2020 Beirut Port Explosion	0
Shari'a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal PoliticsMark FathiMassoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)	0
“Cover Your Ass”: Individual Accountability, Visual Documentation, and Everyday Policing in Miami	0
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Between Knowing and Writing: Ethics of Declining Use in Conflict Environments	0
Editorial	0
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Youth in Egypt: Identity, Participation, and Opportunity	0
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Living Right: Far‐Right Youth Activists in Contemporary Europe	0
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Other Visions of the Economy: NGOs and Transformations of Islamic Charity in North India	0
Forging New Paths to Solidarity: Organizing in Haiti and Beyond Since the 2018 PetroChallenge	0
Ethics or The Right Thing?: Corruption and Care in the Age of Good GovernanceSylviaTidey (Chicago: HAU books, 2022)	0
Producing dispossessed and humanitarian subjects: Land acquisition and compensation policies in Lahore, Pakistan	0
Letter from the Editor	0
Argonauts of West Africa: Unauthorized Migration and Kinship Dynamics in a Changing EuropeApostolosAndrikopoulos (The University of Chicago Press, 2023)	0
Policing in Cryptoracial Societies: The Case of Mexico	0
“Everything I Have Seen There, That I Know …”: Witnessing the Colombian armed conflict through refugees’ narratives of implication	0
Death as the Gateway to “Humanity”: The Humanitarian Paradox of Humanity After Life	0
After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology	0
Mobilizing Documents: Identification, Bureaucracy, and Policing in Transnational Mobility	0
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts since 2000, Susanne Verheul (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021)	0
Signing documents: Accountability politics and racialized suspicion in Africa's development audits	0
Indigenous youth aspiration, community, and Kichwa futures in Ecuador	0
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Audio‐Visibility in a Guinean Trial: Sexual Justice and the Procès 28 Septembre	0
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Erratum to “Behind the Ballot: Democracy, Chicanery, and Electoral Technique in Modern India”	0
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking, Stacey Vanderhurst (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022)	0
The Life of Shari'a: A Comparative Anthropology of Law	0
Directions: Concluding reflections on indigenous scholarship and linguistic imperialism	0
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy, Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2020)	0
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Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, UkraineGreta LynnUehling (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023)	0
The Price of Suffering? Monetary Compensation Claims for the Danish State's Postcolonial Child Displacement in Greenland	0
Editorial	0
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in BoliviaMareikeWinchell (Oakland: University of California Press, 2022)	0
NGO Afterlives	0
(Non)governing machine: Seized activism and NGOization as forms of governance in Indonesia	0
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Linguistic dimensions of the crimmigration regime: Language ideological working conditions in US Immigration Court	0
Of New Sociability: Ethnographic Experience From a South Asian Jail Study	0
Looking for trouble: (Infra‐)law enforcement, penal populism, and professional habitus against squatting in Italy	0
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in JordanMirjamTwigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022)	0
A scandalous presence in the courtroom: Indigenous immigrant interpreters and the politics of language ideologies in US courts	0
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, Evren Savcı (Durham: Duke University Press, 2021)	0
Cool Yourself and Be Strong: Emotional Fixes in the Work of Bangladeshi Marriage Advisers	0
How Social Policy Is (Not) Created: An Ethnography of Social Work in A Serbian Town	0
Naming the Secret Agent: Law, Suspicion, and Moral Autopsy After Communism	0
Language and democracy in Senegal	0
Titlatehtemozceh huan titlayoltilizceh ica tomacehualtlahtol huan tomacehualtlallamicca: ¿queniuhqui titequitizceh?	0
The craft of translation: documentary practices within immigration advocacy in the United States	0
Altered States: The Remaking of the Political in the Arab World Edited by SuneHaugbolle and MarkLeVine (Abingdon and New York:Routledge, 2023)	0
Canadian Sharia: A Semi‐Autonomous Social Field	0
Translating Gender Sensitivity: Feminist Activism, Human Rights, and the Police in Post‐Revolution Tunisia	0
An ontological struggle: Islamic political theology and the criminalization of same‐sex sexuality in Indonesia	0
Landscape Testimonies: Gulf Capital, “Deficient Deserts,” and Property‐Making in Central Sudan	0
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos AiresJuanManuel del Nido (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)	0
Beyond retributive and restorative justice: In search of mercy with Jordan's Bedouin	0
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Discourse Shifts Surrounding Fengshui: An Ethnographic Study of Disputes Over a Heritage Building in Southern Fujian	0
Reflecting on/for better worlds	0
From garbage wars to green city: Defining Ukraine's European identity	0
Knowing Women: Same‐Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial GhanaSerena OwusuaDankwa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022)	0
Correction to “Youth in Egypt: Identity, Participation, and Opportunity By Nadine Sika, New York: New York University Press, 2023. 224 pp.”	0
Ask and They Will Listen: Economic Justice, Political Agency, and a Right to Health in Uganda	0
An otherwise classroom and a diagnosis, or, the preciousness of a pause	0

Spirit Owners, Ethno‐Racial Critique, and Indigenous Land Struggle in Brazil	0
Letter From the Editor	0
Editorial–Fall 2023	0
About time: Temporal control and illegality in Nashville, Tennessee	0
Ancestral Rights, Ancestral Land: Reparations and Collective Property in the Plantation's Wake	0
Deploying fetal death: “Fetal burial” laws and the necropolitics of reproduction in Indiana	0
Justice in the Balance: Democracy, Rule of Law, and the European Court of Human Rights	0
Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in LebanonMayaMikdashi (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)	0
Umthetho Wethu Ngumthetho Sisekelo, Futhi Unamalungelo*	0
Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational GovernanceMatthew C.Canfield (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022)	0
“Property rights are human rights”: Bureaucratization and the logics of rule of law interventionism in postwar Kosovo	0
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in IndiaKritiKapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022)	0
Dangerous Field: Ethnography of the Right	0
Assemblages of (In)Security: Political Islam, Operation Luxor, and the Rise of Soft Authoritarian Security Governance in Austria	0
Stateless and Vulnerable: Race, Policing, and Citizenship in Pakistan	0
Codifying Gaya , Cultivating Hunters: Indigenous Hunting Self‐Governance and Self‐Discipline in Taiwan	0
Tactical Democracy: Brexit and Voting in Northern Ireland	0
Zones of compounded informality: Migrants in the megacity	0
Reluctant State Agents: Schoolteachers and Governing Authorities in Post‐Coup Honduras	0
From Patients to Pniev : Entrepreneurial Awakenings, Organizational Rebirth, and Social Enterprise in Cambodia	0
Belonging's Belongings: Sunni Waqfs and the Limits of Community in Beirut	0
Digital Turban‐Head: Racial Learning and Policing Muslims in Northwest China	0