Review Essay: Lives at Borderlands
By Éva Rozália Hölzle, Bielefeld University Reviewed in this Essay: On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border, Billé, Franck…
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Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Power Politics and the Courts Since 2000
Performing Power in Zimbabwe: Politics, Law, and the Courts Since 2000. by Susanne Verheul (Cambridge University Press: New York 2021)…
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy
Sonic Ethnography: Identity, Heritage and Creative Research Practice in Basilicata, Southern Italy. Lorenzo Ferrarini and Nicola Scaldaferri (Manchester: Manchester University…
Garbage Citizenship
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Rosalind Fredericks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Reviewed by, James…
When Misfortune Becomes Justice
When Misfortune Becomes Justice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality. By Alicia Ely Yamin. Stanford, Stanford University…
Bureaucratic Intimacies: Translating Human Rights in Turkey. By Elif Babül. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017.
Reviewed by, Thomas Bierschenk, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz One indication of the quality of a scholarly study is surely the extent…
Pure Land in the Making: Vietnamese Buddhism in the US Gulf South. Allison J. Truitt. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021.
Reviewed by Tuan Hoang, Pepperdine University Since the fall of Saigon in 1975, Vietnamese Buddhists who resettled in the Gulf…
The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making. Joseph Masco. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2019.
Reviewed by Sandra Calkins, Freie Universität Berlin. While I was reading Joseph Masco’s disturbing book The Future of Fallout, news…
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