Review Essay: Lives at Borderlands
By Éva Rozália Hölzle, Bielefeld University Reviewed in this Essay: On the Edge: Life Along the Russia-China Border, Billé, Franck…
Posts Tagged 'borders'
Borders and Bordered Ways of Seeing
Militarized Global Apartheid, by Catherine L. Besteman (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Georgina Ramsay, University of Delaware…
Border Emergencies
Threshold: Emergency Responders on the US-Mexico Border, by Ieva Jusionyte (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018). Reviewed by Rafael Wainer,…
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…
Islands of Sovereignty
by Greg Beckett, Western University Islands of Sovereignty: Haitian Migration and the Borders of Empire, by Jeffrey S. Kahn (Chicago:…
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…
Sustaining the Borderlands in the Age of NAFTA: Development, Politics and Participation on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Suzanne Simon has written a valuable and engaging study of the North America Free Trade Agreement and the efficacy of…
Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States
Simpson explores the politics of refusal as the political alternative to recognition, the much sought after presumed good of multicultural…
Border Work: Spatial Lives of the State in Rural Central Asia
At the lived edges of political maps, who has the right to impersonate the state, uphold its law and…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 