Wild Policy
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logic of Intervention, by Tess Lea (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Claire…
Posts Tagged 'development'
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…
Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India
Jeffrey Witsoe’s Democracy against Development brings ethnographic and theoretical attention to the dynamics of postcolonial democracy in India. The book…
