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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post‐Dictatorial ChileSimónEscoffier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023)11
Erratum8
Book review editorial: Recent contributions in political and legal anthropology8
Militarized policing in the hinterlands: A Blackwater training ground and the cultural conceptions of security8
New Villages for Old: Collective Action and Conditional Futures after India's Forest Rights Act7
A Vital Frontier: Water Insurgencies in EuropeAndreaMuehlebach (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023).6
Mother Cow, Mother India: A Multispecies Politics of Dairy in IndiaYaminiNarayanan (Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023)6
Issue Information5
Editorial May 20225
“Thinking With” When Peer Reviewing: Introduction to the PoLAR Online Emergent Conversation on Peer Review4
Làkk ag demokaraasi ci Senegaal4
Satirical strikes and deadpanning diplomats: Stiob as geopolitical performance in Russia–US relations4
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
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban NigeriaDaniel E.Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022)3
Coping with Welfare Shame: Responses of Urban Indigenous and Non‐Indigenous Peoples to “Mutual Obligation” Requirements in Australia3
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Beyond lawfare: An analysis of law's temporality through Russian‐doll urbanization from Turkey3
Lives at Borderlands On the Edge: Life Along the Russia‐China Border, Billé, Franck and Caroline Humphrey (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2021)2
Property and the Matter of Belonging2
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, 22
Radicalized Nationalists? Ideological Contestation, the State, and Populist Muslim Belonging in Indonesia2
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in TurkeyKabirTambar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014)2
Letter From the Editor2
Police, Provocation, Politics: Counterinsurgency in IstanbulDenizYonucu (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2022)2
Editorial November 20222
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
Indeterminative critique: Epistemic certitude and the temporality of crisis2
Finding Balance Between Change and Preservation: Gaining Insight Into the Legal Reasoning of Customary Courts in New Caledonia2
Accountability, affect, and the political unconscious: A dialogue1
Erratum1
Governing With Technical Precision: Data, Politics, and Corruption in Mexico City's Secretary of Mobility1
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern OilAndreaWright (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021)1
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese CityDarrenByler (Durham: Duke University Press, 2022)1
Editorial1
For Accountability1
The good thief: A note on revisits in long‐running ethnography1
Affective Activism and Digital Archiving: Relief Work and Migrant Workers during the Covid‐19 Lockdown in India1
“Legalizing Oneself”: Citizenship, Waiting, and Fake Fakeness in Northern Cyprus1
Introducing Directions Section1
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal, Rosalind Fredericks (Durham: Duke University Press, 2018)1
Review of: Dissident Peace: Autonomous Struggles and the State in Colombia1
Patriarchal Authoritarianism Reloaded: Gender Violence, Policy Conflict, and the Resurgence of the Far Right in Spain1
Toward an Indigenous anthropology1
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey1
Issue Information ‐ TOC1
Disaggregating citizenship: Tibetan refugees navigating identity, belonging, and exclusionary state policies in India1
Processual Recognition in Chinese Traffic Disputes1
Landscapes of otherwise: Anthropological critique in want of “better” worlds1
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