Book Review: Navigating Austerity: Currents of Debt Along a South Asian River
In Navigating Austerity, Laura Bear applies an ethnographic approach to understand how social relations and ethics are impacted by the…
Book Reviews
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories
Book Review: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Trajectories The colonial and postcolonial writings about Afghanistan are marked by the…
Review Essay: Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture
Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s…
Review Essay: Pharmocracy, bureaucracy, advocacy: Three studies of global health
Pharmocracy, bureaucracy, advocacy: Three studies of global health In 2016, UN member states ratified the Sustainable Development Goals, including a…
Review Essay: On Knowing Addiction
On Knowing Addiction In June 2018, artists placed a 700-pound sculpture of a massive spoon used for cooking heroin outside…
Review Essay: Law and Migrant Labor in the 20th Century: Ghost Workers and Global Capitalism
Large-scale movements of workers, production lines, commodities, and centers of power have been integral to capitalist development since its earliest…
Review Essay: On the State of the Shari’a
“What has all this Law to do with real life?,” asked the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (d. 1936) as…
Book Review: Alicia Peters’ Responding to Human Trafficking: Sex, Gender and Culture in the Law
Alicia Peters’ comprehensive study, Responding to Human Trafficking, makes a strong argument for a victim-centered approach to law-making and law…
Review Essay: Change and Continuity in China
The grand narrative social scientists tell of twenty-first century China is one of rapid, drastic change. While sociocultural anthropologists have…
Review Essay: Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk
Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk As an epistemology and as a language of argumentation, political economy…
