Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil
Between Dreams and Ghosts: Indian Migration and Middle Eastern Oil. By Andrea Wright. (Stanford University Press, 2021) Reviewed by Neha…
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Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan by Mirjam Twigt (Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2022). Reviewed by Zainab…
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics
Shari’a, Inshallah: Finding God in Somali Legal Politics by Mark Fathi Massoud (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Reviewed by…
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…
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…
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