Reflecting on/for better worlds

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PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology ReviewEarly View COMMENTARY Reflecting on/for better worlds Amy J. Cohen, Amy J. Cohen Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USASearch for more papers by this authorIlana Gershon, Corresponding Author Ilana Gershon [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-0694 Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Correspondence Ilana Gershon, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. Email: [email protected].Search for more papers by this author Amy J. Cohen, Amy J. Cohen Beasley School of Law, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USASearch for more papers by this authorIlana Gershon, Corresponding Author Ilana Gershon [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0003-0447-0694 Department of Anthropology, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA Correspondence Ilana Gershon, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA. Email: [email protected].Search for more papers by this author First published: 28 September 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/plar.12539Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat REFERENCES Afshary, Mohammad. 2018. “ Prefiguring the Revolution: The Politics of Law and Lawyering in Egypt.” PhD diss., Kent Law School, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, UK. Ashar, Sameer M. 2023a. “Pedagogy of Prefiguration.” Yale Law Journal Forum 132. Ashar, Sameer M.. 2023b. “ Toward Prefigurative Lawyering.” LPE Blog, July 3, 2023, https://lpeproject.org/blog/toward-prefigurative-lawyering/ Beltrán, Héctor. 2023. Coding Work: Hacking across the US/México Techno-Borderlands. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Cohen, Amy J. and Bronwen Morgan. 2023. “Prefigurative Legality.” Law and Social Inquiry 48(3): 1053–1082. Cooper, Davina. 2023a. “Crafting Prefigurative Law in Turbulent Times: Decertifcation, DIY Law Reform, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Prototyping.” Feminist Legal Studies 31: 17–42 Cooper, Davina. 2023b. “ Prefigurative Law Reform: Creating a New Research Methodology for Radical Change.” Criticalegalthinking.com. March 3, 2023. Coutin, Susan and Barbara Yngvesson. 2023. Documenting Impossible Realities: Ethnography, Memory, and the As If. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. Marisol De La Cadena and Mario Blaser, eds. 2018. A World of Many Worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Gershon, Ilana. 2005. “Seeing like a System: Luhmann for Anthropologists.” Anthropological Theory 5(2), 99–116. Gershon, Ilana. 2006. “Reflexivity in Others’ Contexts” Ethnos 71(4). Gershon, Ilana. 2019. “Porous Social Orders.” American Ethnologist 46(4): 404–416. Gibson-Graham, J. K. 2002. “ Beyond Global vs. Local: Economic Politics outside the Binary Frame.” In Geographies of Power: Placing Scale, edited by Andrew Herod and Melissa W. Wright, 25–60. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Graeber, David. 2009. Direct Action: An Ethnography. Oakland, CA: AK Press. Irani, Lilly. 2015. “Hackathons and the Making of Entrepreneurial Citizenship,” Science, Technology, & Human Values 40(5): 799–824. Irwin, Randi. 2019. “Derivative States: Property Rights and Claims Making in a Non Self-Governing Territory.” New School of Social Research Phd. Irwin, Randi. 2020. “Contested Langauge in the Making and Unmaking of Western Sahara's Extractive Economy.” London Review of International Law 8(2): 317–348. Irwin, Randi. 2022. “Terrains of legality and sovereignty: adjudicating the ownership of Western Sahara's phosphate in South Africa.” The Journal of North African Studies 27(6): 1137–1159. Lewis, Jason. 2016. “ Preparations for a Haunting: Notes toward and Indigenous Future Imaginary.” In The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age, eds Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, and Tamar Tembeck. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press 229–249. Machado de Oliveira, Vanessa. 2021. Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. Scott, Dayna N. Fire in the Ring: Settler Law and Indigenous Jurisdiction on the Critical Minerals Frontier (manuscript in progress; solicited by Duke University Press). Urciouli, Bonnie 2022. Neoliberalizing Diversity in Liberal Arts College Life. Oxford: Berghahn. Early ViewOnline Version of Record before inclusion in an issue ReferencesRelatedInformation