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…
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Call for Papers: PoLAR First Article Mentoring Workshop
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review invites submissions for its newly launched first article mentoring workshop, in which scholars who have…
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking
Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria’s Campaign to End Human Trafficking by Stacey Vanderhurst. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022) Review by Vivian Chenxue Lu, Fordham University …
Garbage Citizenship
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Rosalind Fredericks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Reviewed by, James…
Migrants at the Gare du Nord
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris, by Julie Kleinman (Oakland: University of California Press,…
Beyond Debt
Beyond Debt: Islamic Experiments in Global Finance, by Daromir Rudnyckyj (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019). Reviewed by Johan…
Anticipating Adoption: Mariner’s “Contingent Kinship”
Contingent Kinship: The Flows and Futures of Adoption in the United States, by Kathryn A. Mariner (Berkeley: University of California…
Staying on the Land in Pakistan
by Mel Gurr, Lahore University of Management Sciences The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan,…
Digital Slavery?
by Rachelle Jereza, Binghamton University (SUNY) Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition, Jack Linchuan Qiu (Champaign, IL: University of…
Liberal Exceptionalism in Qatar’s Education City
by Sami Hermez, Northwestern University in Qatar Teach for Arabia: American Universities, Liberalism, and Transnational Qatar, by Neha Vora (Stanford:…
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