The section of the American Anthropological Association committed to critical study of politics and law
The Association for Political and Legal Anthropology (APLA) is pleased award the 2020 APLA Book Prize in Critical Anthropology to Dr. Alpa Shah (London School of Economics) for her book Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas. Dr. Shah’s book provides a riveting account of the Naxalites…
On March 23rd, 2019, the state of Texas banned abortion as the COVID-19 pandemic led to…
“In much of Africa, ‘wife’ is a four-letter word,” writes Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyèwùmí (2000: 1096, emphasis in original). “[Instead] Mother…
Since 2016, the European Union has made efforts to streamline and simplify the administrative procedure for international refugee protection…
ases of abuse and violence against Indonesian migrant domestic workers abroad regularly make headlines nationally and internationally…
Between July 2015 and July 2018, when I did ethnographic fieldwork on the politics of care, hospitality…
Weeks after governments around the world imposed travel restrictions and quarantine orders that removed humans from typically busy markets, roads, and…
On August 5, 2019, the quasi-autonomy of Indian administered Kashmir was removed militarily without consulting the Kashmiri legislature or the people. This move was as illegal (Parthasathy 2019) and deemed…
Historically, the region of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan was governed through “microstates” and tribal councils in different valley domains. For centuries…
A few days before India imposed a curfew and a communication blockade in Kashmir on August 5, 2019,[1] I left the region with a sense of foreboding…
The APLA Board of Directors seeks nominations for the next editor(s) of the Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR). We aim to announce the appointment by February 2021. The new editors…
Although Prime Minister Modi’s revocation of Article 35A and Kashmir’s Special Status on August 5, 2019 has…
What happens when the state of…
On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Union Government of India unilaterally revoked…
On August 5, 2019, the Parliament of India unilaterally rescinded Article 370 of the Indian Constitution granting relative autonomy to the state…
The removal of Article 370 also stripped away Article 35A, that recognized the permanent residents (“state subjects”)…
