2023
DOI: 10.1111/plar.12535
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After Dobbs: Reflections on political and legal anthropology

Carol J. Greenhouse

Abstract: The majority in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization declares its ruling to be an optimum result of separating law from politics. "After Dobbs" examines that claim's provocations for anthropologists interested in the ethnography of politics and law. I begin with the court's paradoxical rendering of United States democracy-an algorithm of electoral power that is eliciting unanticipated forms of agency extending well beyond partisan party politics. As such, those new forms are especially instructive, and… Show more

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