Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru
Asylum and Extraction in the Republic of Nauru by Julia Morris (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023) Review by Ali Bhagat,…
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Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins: Citizenship and Patronage Politics in Post-Dictatorial Chile by Simón Escoffier (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023). Review by…
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana
Knowing Women: Same-Sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana by Serena Owusua Dankwa. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022) Reviewed by…
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India
Cultivating Democracy: Politics and Citizenship in Agrarian India, by Mukulika Banerjee. (Oxford University Press, 2022) Reviewed by Bart Klem, Gothenburg…
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine
Everyday War: The Conflict Over Donbas, Ukraine by Greta Lynn Uehling. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2023). Reviewed by…
Review Essay: An Anarchist Present in Lowland Southeast Asia?
Reviewed in this essay: Outsourcing the Polity: Non-State Welfare, Inequality, and Resistance in Myanmar. Gerard McCarthy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press,…
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India
Nullius: The Anthropology of Ownership, Sovereignty, and the Law in India by Kriti Kapila (Chicago: HAU Press, 2022) Reviewed by…
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria
They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria by Daniel E. Agbiboa (Oxford: Oxford University…
Review Essay: Divorce, Democracy, and State Making
Reviewed in this essay: Divorce and Democracy: A History of Personal law in Post-Independence India by Saumya Saxena (Cambridge: Cambridge…
Ethics or The Right Thing? Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance
Ethics or The Right Thing? Corruption and Care in the Age of Good Governance by Sylvia Tidey (Chicago: HAU books,…