JOURNAL: PoLAR

 

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VOLUME 36, ISSUE 1

Editors’ Introduction
John Conley and Justin B. Richland

ARTICLES

“It Wasn’t Written for Me”: Law, Debt, and Therapeutic Contracts in Greek Psychiatry
Elizabeth Anne Davis

Professional Discourses on Single Parenthood in International Adoptions in Spain
David Poveda, María Isabel Jociles, and Ana María Rivas

Discourse, Organization, and the Welfare State in the Former East Berlin
Kenneth McGill

Past Loss as Future? The Politics of Temporality and the “Nonreligious” by a Japanese NGO in Burma/Myanmar
Chika Watanabe

The Object of Activism: Documents and Daily Life in Namibian NGOs
Sabine Höhn

A Tale of Two Courts: How Organizational Ethnography Can Shed New Light on Legal Pluralism
Ido Shahar

Being Part of the Parade – “Going Native” in the United Nations Security Council
Niels Nagelhus Schia

Navigational Tools for Central African Roadblocks
Louisa Lombard

BOOK REVIEWS

The Elusive Promise of Indigenous Development: Rights, Culture, Strategy by Karen Engle
Robert Albro

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Linda Coco

Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial by Richard Price
Karen Ann Faulk

Imagining the Post-Apartheid State: An Ethnographic Account of Namibia by John T. Friedman

Mattia Fumanti

Post-Soviet Social: Neoliberalism, Social Modernity, Biopolitics by Stephen J. Collier
Gabriella Körling

Healing the Body Politic: El Salvador’s Popular Struggle for Health Rights from Civil War to Neoliberal Peace by Sandy Smith-Nonini
Jessica Mulligan

Carbon Democracy: Political Power in The Age Of Oil by Timothy Mitchell
Stephen Reyna

The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Nepal: Democracy in the Margins by Susan Hangen
Sara Shneiderman

Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets by Annalise Riles
W. Mark C. Weidemaier and G. Mitu Gulati

REVIEW ESSAY: PURSUITS OF FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY IN WEST PAPUA

Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua by Danilyn Rutherford and Freedom in Entangled Words: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power by Eben Kirksey
Judith Bovensiepen

REVIEW ESSAY: NEW ETHNOGRAPHIES OF INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE

Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court of Sierra Leone by Tim Kelsall, Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law by Ronald Neizen, and Localizing Transitional Justice: Interventions and Priorities after Mass Violence edited by Rosalind Shaw and Lars Waldorf with Pierre Hazan
Haley Duschinski