In 2017, APLA and PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review partnered to produce short, topical collections of essays on contemporary politics called “Speaking Justice to Power” (SJP). APLA and PoLAR continue to produce SJP series, and are open to proposals for future collections. Write to the web editor through the Contact page to present proposals.

Speaking Justice to Power I: APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Trump Executive Order on Immigration

Speaking Justice to Power II: Emergency for Turkish Democracy, APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Constitutional Referendum

Speaking Justice to Power III: Confinement, Cauterization, and Antipolitics in the Americas

Companion to SJP III:  A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton

Afterword to SJP III: Hidden in Plain Sight, A Journey into Repressive States by Didier Fassin

Speaking Justice to Power IV: Local Pittsburgh Scholars Respond to the Tree of Life Shooting

Speaking Justice to Power V: Gender and the Sexual Politics of Contemporary Patriarchal Ethnonationalist Authoritarianism

Speaking Justice to Power VI: Kashmir

Ebooks

Some of the Speaking Justice to Power series are available as downloadable ebooks.

Speaking Justice to Power I
APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Trump Executive Order on Immigration
SJP I

Speaking Justice to Power II
Emergency for Turkish Democracy
APLA / PoLAR Respond to the Constitutional Referendum
SJP II

Speaking Justice to Power III
Authoritarianism and Confinement in the Americas
SJP III