Garbage Citizenship
Garbage Citizenship: Vital Infrastructures of Labor in Dakar, Senegal. Rosalind Fredericks. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. Reviewed by, James…
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Remembering Sally Merry: Jennifer Telesca
For those of us who as former dissertators had the fortune and pleasure of working with Sally Merry, the celebration…
Remembering Sally Merry: Vibhuti Ramachandran
In Gratitude and Grief I remember the day I first met Sally at the meet-and-greet for new graduate students at…
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:…
Authority, Confinement, Solidarity, and Dissent
Emergent Conversation 8 A Discussion with Catherine Besteman, Karina Biondi, and Orisanmi Burton Moderated by Jennifer Curtis and Nadja Eisenberg-Guyot…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 