Review Essay. Labor Unions and the Making of Class in a (Supposedly) Post-Class World
By Brandon Hunter-Pazzara, Princeton University Books reviewed in this essay: Peter Ikeler, Hard Sell: Work and Resistance in Retail Chains…
Book Reviews
Review Essay. American Environmentalism: History, Ethics, and Some Ways Out of the Mess We Have Made
by Jessica O’Reilly Indiana University, Bloomington Reviewed in this essay: Dorceta Taylor, The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power,…
Review Essay. The Paradox of Citizenship: On Transnational Belonging, Documents, and Rights
by Sue-Je Lee Gage, Ithaca College Recently, two friends shared the news that they had passed their US citizenship tests…
Review Essay: The Politics of Global Health
In 1968, Monsignor Ivan Illich delivered a memorable speech, titled “To Hell With Good Intentions,” challenging American volunteers to Latin…
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 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…
