When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands is an ethnography of the drug industry’s asymmetrical distribution…
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The Violence of Care: Rape Victims, Forensic Nurses, and Sexual Assault Intervention
Sexual violence has recently received considerable media attention, featuring stories of campus rape in the U.S., and sexual assault in…
Review Essay: Performing Accountability and Corporate Social Responsibility
In 2015, as a capstone to a ten-year program of corporate shaming, a global coalition of activists awarded its Public Eye “lifetime achievement award.” The “honor” for most egregious environmental…
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Suzanne Simon has written a valuable and engaging study of the North America Free Trade Agreement and the efficacy of…
Protests, Land Rights, and Riots: Postcolonial Struggles in Australia in the 1980s
In his book, Barry Morris addresses the transformed landscape for aboriginal politics from the 1970s through the onset and entrenchment of neoliberalism in…
Of Medicines and Markets: Intellectual Property and Human Rights in the Free Trade Era
What do human rights mean in an era when corporations enjoy rights as people? As U.S. courts grant a widening…
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
As more and more scholars are interested in information and communications technologies’ (ICT) roles in global development, theory has sluggishly…
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Simpson explores the politics of refusal as the political alternative to recognition, the much sought after presumed good of multicultural…
Human Rights as War By Other Means
When studying those who employ the language of human rights, many scholars often initially assume that these are groups seeking…
Energy, Governance and Security in Thailand and Myanmar (Burma): A Critical Approach to Environmental Politics in the South.
Expanding multinational programs (such as the Belmont Forum) with funds to examine energy provisioning ensure that a recent spate of…
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