Review Essay: After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East “Social movements are a messy affair” (p….
After the Arab Spring: Four Anthropologies of Political Space in the Middle East “Social movements are a messy affair” (p….
Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (2015)…
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Katherine Hirschfeld’s Gangster States: Organized Crime, Kleptocracy and Political Collapse (2015) aims high. Inspired by noir fiction books, like James…
We’re in an ongoing cultural moment for discussing the sexual abuse of power. Whether the Church, Hollywood, or Congress; Roy…
After four years of negotiations, at the end of November 2016 the Colombian Congress finally ratified a peace agreement with…
The Politics of Memorialization and War The politics of memorialization is a topic that anthropologists (political, legal, or otherwise) are…
Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans 2015 has proven to be an exciting time for political anthropology of former…
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud (2015) is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well…