PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Virtual Issue: NGOs
This virtual issue provides a companion to the 2010 Symposium Issue on NGOs, bringing together nine articles previously published on the topic in PoLAR.

On-line Book Reviews
PoLAR introduces a new open access on-line only Book Review Section!

The Past in Pieces: Belonging in the New Cyprus. Bryant, Rebecca (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010)
Pipyrou Stavroula

Cosmopolitan Anxieties: Turkish Challenges to Citizenship and Belonging in Germany. Ruth Mandel (Durham:Duke University Press, 2008)
Heide Castaneda

Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War. Carole McGranahan (Durham: Duke University Press, 2010)
Michael Harkin

Counter Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust. Pierre Rosanvallon. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Jason Hopper

Spillover sections contain original material that is connected to the topics discussed in issues of PoLAR. In its on-line sections, the journal connects established scholars with the new generation of political and legal anthropologists. Younger scholars who submit articles and are published in PoLAR enter into direct conversations with leaders in their fields.

Examples include:

Bureaucracy: Ethnography of the State in Everyday Life
Check out PoLAR's newest symposium on bureaucracy, in which Colin Hoag, a new PoLAR author, provides a closing commentary. Hoag's article, The Magic of the Populace: An Ethnography of Illegibility in the South African Immigration Bureaucracy, appeared in the May 2010 issue.

Anthropological Research on NGOs
Read new PoLAR author Jennifer Curtis's interview of James Ferguson and Akhil Gupta, known for their influential work on on the contradictory effects of seemingly altruistic efforts to help countries in the "developing world." Curtis's article on NGOs in Ireland appeared in our November issue.

The New Anthropology of Crime
PoLAR author Ben Penglase published his article, States of Insecurity: Everyday Emergencies, Public Secrets, and Drug Trafficker Power in a Brazilian Favela in our May 2009 issue of PoLAR. Penglase then formulated questions which were answered by pioneers in the new anthropology of crime -- Stephanie Kane, Phil Parnell, and Jean Comaroff.

Read JEAN COMAROFF ON TODAY'S "ANTHROPOLOGY OF CRIME" and part of Penglase's interview with STEPHANIE KANE and PHIL PARNELL.

... the conversation continues with Kane's delineation of five important points and Parnell's discussion of danger in anthropological fieldwork.

**SEND YOUR WORK TO PoLAR and join the conversation!**