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…
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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,…
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia
After Servitude: Elusive Property and the Ethics of Kinship in Bolivia, by Mareike Winchell (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2022)…
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires
Taxis vs. Uber: Courts, Markets, and Technology in Buenos Aires (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2021) Reviewed by Kathryn Henne, The…
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City
Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City by Darren Byler (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022). Reviewed…
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi
The Globally Familiar: Digital Hip Hop, Masculinity, and Urban Space in Delhi by Dattatreyan, Ethiraj Gabriel. (Durhan, NC: Duke University…
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking by Stacey Vanderhurst. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022) Review by Vivian Chenxue Lu, Fordham University …
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, by Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021)
Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics Under Neoliberal Islam, by Evren Savcı (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021) Reviewed by: Oğuz…
Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil
Precarious Democracy: Ethnographies of Hope, Despair, and Resistance in Brazil. Edited by Benjamin Junge, Sean T. Michell, Alvaro Jarrín, and…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 