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PoLAR: The Political
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Editor: Professor
Elizabeth Mertz,
University of Wisconsin
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issue.
Book Review Editor:
Professor Katherine Bowie, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Managing Editor: April Faith-Slaker,
Northwestern University
Associate Editor, Online Content: Kimberley
Coles, University of
Redlands
Copy Editor: Lila Stromer
Senior Editorial Associate:
Frances Tung
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PoLAR
is devoted to the anthropology of law and
politics, most broadly conceived. It publishes work that is
distinguished by its innovative definition of problems, ethnographic
orientation or theoretical outlook. We welcome submissions of
manuscripts between 4,000 and 8,000 words in length (including notes
and references).
Abstracting
and Indexing:
PoLAR
is indexed in Anthropology Index, Communications Abstracts, Index to
Periodical Articles related to Law, International Bibliography of the
Social Sciences. PoLAR is also under consideration for
indexing by Oxford University Press's Refugee Survey Quarterly, Sage's
Criminal Justice Abstracts, Sage's Urban Studies Abstracts. PoLAR
is now available in full text on Westlaw and Hein OnLine, two of the
most important legal data bases.
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Contents
Past
and Upcoming Symposia:
- "Critical Perspectives on Human
Rights and Multiculturalism in Neoliberal Latin America" co-edited with
Maria Teresa Sierra and Shannon Speed, Spring 2005
- "Anthropology and Human Rights
Administrations: Expert Observation and Representation After the Fact"
co-edited with Iris Jean-Klein, Fall 2005
- "Environment, Globalization,
and Sovereignty" co-edited with Kate Sullivan, Spring 2006
- "Papering Ethics,
Documenting Consent: the New Bureaucracies of Virtue" co-edited with
Marie-Andrée Jacob, Fall 2007
- "Ethnographic Fictions"
co-edited with Susan Coutin and Barbara Yngvesson, Spring 2008.
Full content of all issues can now be found on:
Information for Contributors:
While manuscripts should not exceed 8,000 words in length (including
notes and references), book reviews should be from 800-1,500 words.
Prospective authors may submit manuscripts in one of two ways. You can
either submit electronically via a Word or (RTF) document to
Polar@law.wisc.edu or send four hard copies to the editorial offices of
PoLAR. Manuscripts submitted to PoLAR must not be under consideration
by another journal or have been previously published. Type authorship,
institutional affiliation, complete address, phone number, fax, and
e-mail; only the title should appear on the manuscript. Submissions of
manuscripts should also include an abstract and at least five keywords.
Consult style guide. Please notify
the PoLAR editorial office by email if you intend to send a hard-copy
submission rather than an electronic submission, and then send four
copies to:
Professor Elizabeth Mertz
Editor, PoLAR
Political and Legal Anthropology Review
American Bar Foundation
750 North Lake Shore Drive
Chicago IL 60611
Information for
Publishers:
PoLAR welcomes book review copies. Publishers may send a review copy
to:
Professor Katherine Bowie
Department of Anthropology
5240 W. H. Sewell Social Science Building
1180 Observatory Dr.
University of Wisconsin
Madison, WI 53706
| Madelaine Adelman, ASU |
Jonathan
Xavier Inda, UC Santa Barbara |
Victoria Bernal, UC Irvine
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Anastasia
Karakasidou, Wellesley
College |
| Michelle Bigenho, Hampshire
College |
Mindie Lazarus-Black, U. of
Illinois-Chicago |
| John Borneman, Princeton
University |
Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, Stanford
University |
| John Bowen, Washington U. in St.
Louis |
Bill
Maurer, UC Irvine |
| Kimberley Coles, University of
Redlands |
Sally Merry, New York University |
Jean Comaroff, U Chicago
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Hiro
Miyazaki, Cornell University |
Susan
Bibler Coutin, UC Irvine
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Richard Perry, San Jose State U. |
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Eve Darian-Smith, U Mass Amherst |
Charles Piot, Duke University |
| Jim
Ferguson, Stanford University |
Alain Pottage, London School of
Economics |
Daniel Goldstein, Rutgers
University
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Adam Reed, University of St.
Andrews |
Mark
Goodale, George Mason
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Justin B. Richland, UC Irvine |
Carol Greenhouse, Princeton
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Paula
Sabloff, U. Penn |
| Arjun
Guneratne, Macalester College |
Vilma Santiago-Irizarry, Cornell
University |
| Doug Holmes, SUNY Binghamton |
Sari Wastell, University of
London, Goldsmith |
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Barbara Yngvesson, Hampshire
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