Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
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Review Essay: Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture
by David Pier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Reviewed in this essay: Honeyman, Catherine A. 2016. The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth,…
Review Essay: Pharmocracy, bureaucracy, advocacy: Three studies of global health
Pharmocracy, bureaucracy, advocacy: Three studies of global health In 2016, UN member states ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, including a…
We Were Adivasis: Aspiration in an Indian Scheduled Tribe
We Were Adivasis takes readers into the daily lives and aspirations of the Dhanka of Rajasthan—a community that challenges anthropological imaginations. Since the 1950s, the Dhanka have…
We Are the State! Barrio Activism in Venezuela’s Bolivarian Revolution
Cristobal Valencia has managed to write a rich and entertaining ethnography about the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela while only sparsely mentioning Hugo…
Migrant Encounters: Intimate Labor, The State, and Mobility Across Asia
For more than three decades, Asia’s uneven development, intensifying globalization, and changing demography have dramatically increased demands for reproductive labor in the private…
Languages of Governance in Conflict: Negotiating Democracy in Tokelau
The Pacific has consistently been a rich site for exploring political systems, conflict, and emerging forms of leadership and governance….
Review Essay: Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics
In today’s era of finance-dominated accumulation, global governance, and increasing economic precarity, Arjun Appadurai claims the ‘spirit of uncertainty’ has reawakened. Ulrich Beck (1992) once ascribed this…
Everyday Illegal: When Policies Undermine Immigrant Families
Living in the United States without legal status has always been problematic. In recent years, however, intensified forms of enforcement…
Addicted.pregnant.poor
In addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight (2015) provides an ethnographic portrait of extremely marginalized, drug-using, and pregnant women living in the daily-rent hotels (referred to as “single room occupancy” housing, or SROs) of…
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