Women Becoming Health Workers in India
For the Public Good: Women, Health, and Equity in Rural India, by Patricia Antoniello (Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2020) Reviewed…
Posts Tagged 'development'
Connecting Mexico
Connected: How a Mexican Village Built its Own Cell Phone Network, by Roberto J. Gonzalez (Berkeley: University of California Press,…
Wild Policy
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logic of Intervention, by Tess Lea (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Claire…
Pluriversal Politics, Redux
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible, by Arturo Escobar (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Alexandra Cotofana, Zayed…
An Ethnography of Hunger
An Ethnography of Hunger: Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun, by Kristin D. Phillips (Indiana University Press,…
Review Essay: On Roadways and Other Infrastructures
Rebecca Warne Peters, SUNY Oswego Reviewed in this essay: The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and…
Populism Unriddled
People’s Car: Industrial India and the Riddles of Populism, by Sarasij Majumder (New York: Fordham University Press, 2019) reviewed by…
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…
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…
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
As more and more scholars are interested in information and communications technologies’ (ICT) roles in global development, theory has sluggishly…
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