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When Blood Has Spilled: Gender, Honor, and Compensation in Iranian Criminal Sanctioning

By Arzoo Osanloo

This article explores the gender implications of retributive punishment in Iran’s criminal justice system with specific attention to the Islamic mandate of forgiveness. Iranian penal codes allow victims’ families to forgive an offender through forbearance of their right of retribution.… Continue reading →

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Unmaking the State in “Occupied” Haiti

By Chelsey L. Kivland

The democratic transition in Haiti (1986–present) has been forged alongside the proliferation of global governance interventions, from a series of UN peacekeeping missions to countless NGOs. Much of this activity has been pursued in the name of building state capacity.… Continue reading →

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Transparency Short-Circuited: Laughter and Numbers in Costa Rican Water Politics

By Andrea Ballestero S.

Between 2006 and 2009, a group of Costa Rican NGOs, a Spanish aid agency, and local residents were entangled in the pursuit of transparency as a means to allocate funding for their “human right to water” project initiatives. Designed as… Continue reading →

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The Tengiz Oil Enclave: Labor, Business, and The State

By Saulesh Yessenova

This study focuses on Tengiz, a multinational oil project situated on the northeastern coast of the Caspian Sea in Kazakhstan, operated by Chevron since 1993. The first large international business partnership in the post-Soviet space, TengizChevroil was celebrated as a… Continue reading →

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Issue 35(2) available now

By Kate Henne

PoLAR‘s latest issue, Volume 35, Issue 2, is available online. It is accessible through this site or directly from the Wiley Online Library. The issue features a special symposium on Transparency, which Andrea Ballestero S. introduces in Transparency in Triads. An open-access… Continue reading →

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“Pure Fabrication”: Information Policy, Media Rights, and the Postcolonial Public

By Niklas Hultin

This article interprets the debate over freedom of speech and the regulation of the media in The Gambia as a debate over the calibration of the public sphere and its subject. Rather than accepting the framing of the debate as… Continue reading →

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Comparative “Research”: A Modest Proposal concerning the Object of Ethics Regulation

By Rena Lederman

Complementing the broader project of treating human subjects research regulation (including “informed consent”) as an ethnographic object, this article scrutinizes the category research: that about which research subjects may (in some way) be informed, to which they may (or may… Continue reading →

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Resettling Musqueam Park

By Jennifer A. Hamilton

Musqueam Park, an affluent residential subdivision located on an Indian reserve in Vancouver, British Columbia, became the site of an intense five-year struggle when the Musqueam Indian Band tried to collect higher land rents from its nonindigenous tenants. In late… Continue reading →

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