By Emily Riley
During this summer’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on multiple occasions delegates chanted “Lock her up!”…
Author: Jennifer Curtis
Jennifer Curtis is a Visiting Researcher at Washington University in St. Louis.
Campus Policing: A New Arena of Ethnographic Inquiry
By Sophia Balakian What does an anthropological engagement with policing look like? What can ethnography contribute to urgent practical issues in contemporary policing?…
#BREXIT, Trump, and Public Anthropology
In the days after the Brexit referendum, a friend in California confided that every morning he searched the internet for articles explaining why the Brexit outcome did not mean Donald Trump…
Anthropology, Brexit and Xenophobia in Europe
By Felix Stein. The decision of people in Britain to leave the European Union has come as a surprise, even a shock to most of my friends and colleagues who work in academia here in England…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Critical Police Studies I
These panels bring together scholars in the emerging subfield of “critical police studies.” CPS scholars use qualitative methods and draw on a range of data sources to critically examine the dynamics of race and class in law enforcement…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Critical Police Studies II
The widespread protests that followed the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014 and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, Maryland in 2015 capture the controversial nature of policing in racially marginalized communities…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: From Questions of Belonging to Questions of Excess
Law and society scholarship illuminates how law can inform and react to social change that takes shape through social movements and in everyday life…
#LSANOLA2016 Preview: Languages and Practices of Legality
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists. APLA is featuring a preview of the panels and papers…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part III
Papers in Part III, presented here, explore the subjective dimensions of law and politics in situations where the contours of legality are contested…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part II
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
New Issue: Political and Legal Anthropology Review
The May 2016 issue of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review (Volume 39, Issue 1) is now available. It features a symposium on Climate Change Transformations and 6 original articles…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Ethnographic Explorations of Illegalities, Penality, and Risk/Security Part I
These three linked sessions present detailed ethnographic examinations of the legal governance of crime, punishment, risk and security…
#LSANOLA16 Preview: Following the Law
The Ethnography Collaborative Research Network within the Law and Society Association is sponsoring several panels and events of interest to anthropologists…
New in PoLAR: Perspectives on AAA’s Israel Boycott Vote
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review’s fourth emergent conversation features a variety of perspectives regarding the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) vote on a possible boycott … More
APLA Announces 2016 Graduate Student Paper Prize
APLA (Association for Political and Legal Anthropology) is pleased to announce that the 2016 Student Paper Prize is open for submissions. The APLA Board invites individuals who are students in a graduate degree-granting program to send stand-alone papers centering on political and/or legal institutions and processes…
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
PoLAR co-editor Heath Cabot interviews Julie Billaud about her monograph, Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan, and the issues it raises for political anthropology. The book is an ethnographic exploration of gender politics, humanitarianism and legal reform in “postwar reconstruction” Afghanistan.
Association for Political and Legal Anthropology 