Sensing Distant Powers along the Mekong
Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River, by Andrew Alan Johnson (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). reviewed by…
Book Reviews
Resource Politics and Entangled Lives in Extraction Zones
Review Essay by Tanya Matthan, University of California, Los Angeles Reviewed in this essay: Fractivism: Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds,…
The Pursuit of a Decent Meal
Food in Cuba: The Pursuit of a Decent Meal, by Hanna Garth (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Maggie…
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The Everyday Life of Activism [review essay]
by Salman Hussain, York University, Toronto Reviewed in this essay: Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and…
Domestication as Narrative and Politics
Domestication Gone Wild: Politics and Practices of Multispecies Relations, edited by Heather Anne Swanson, Marianne Elisabeth Lien, and Gro B….
Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, by Laurence Ralph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). Reviewed by James Perez,…
On Mexican Transnational Families
by Gail Mummert, El Colegio de Michoacán Reviewed in this essay: Mexicans in Alaska: An Ethnography of Mobility, Place, and…
Contraband Corridor
Contraband Corridor: Making a Living at the Mexico-Guatemala Border, by Rebecca Berke Galemba (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by…
Planning for War in Beirut
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers, by Hiba Bou Akar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by…
The Blood and Guts in Modern Institutions
Global Forensic Cultures: Making Fact and Justice in the Modern Era, edited by Ian Burney and Christopher Hamlin. (Baltimore: Johns…
