All posts by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

About Matthew Wolf-Meyer

Matthew Wolf-Meyer is an anthropologist and historian of science and medicine in the United States. He is author of The Slumbering Masses: Sleep, Medicine & Modern American Life (UMN Press, 2012), Theory for the World to Come: Speculative Fiction and Apocalyptic Anthropology (UMN Press, 2019), and Unraveling: Remaking Personhood in a Neurodiverse Age (UMN Press, 2020). He blogs at matthewwolfmeyer.com and somatosphere.net. View all posts by Matthew Wolf-Meyer →

Book Reviews

Review Essay: After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East

May 28, 2018·0 comments

After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East “Social movements are a messy affair” (p….

Book Reviews

Book Review: Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil

May 21, 2018·0 comments

Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (2015)…

Book Reviews

Review Essay: New Perspectives on Energy

May 14, 2018·0 comments

New Perspectives on Energy “In one version of this dictionary, wood – fuel – would be the only entry,” Karen…

Book Reviews

Book Review: Catherine Besteman’s Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine

May 7, 2018·0 comments

Catherine Besteman’s Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (2016) arrived just when the European Union was on the…

Book Reviews

Book Review: Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse

April 30, 2018·0 comments

Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…