For more than three decades, Asia’s uneven development, intensifying globalization, and changing demography have dramatically increased demands for reproductive labor in the private…
In addicted.pregnant.poor, Kelly Ray Knight (2015) provides an ethnographic portrait of extremely marginalized, drug-using, and pregnant women living in the daily-rent hotels (referred to as “single room occupancy” housing, or SROs) of…
When I Wear My Alligator Boots: Narco-Culture in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands is an ethnography of the drug industry’s asymmetrical distribution…
Sexual violence has recently received considerable media attention, featuring stories of campus rape in the U.S., and sexual assault in…
A growing number of international relations scholars recognise the shortcomings in the traditional assumptions about the Westphalian political system; assumptions…
Susan Slyomovics, an anthropologist and specialist in Middle Eastern and North African societies, has written a book that is part…
The Reappeared presents a short but insightful study of the experiences of those who survived political imprisonment and torture…
At the lived edges of political maps, who has the right to impersonate the state, uphold its law and…
The title of this book suggests a narrow study, likely of interest largely to professionals working in this field….
As the title of Marcio Goldman’s newly translated monograph How Democracy Works: An Ethnographic Theory of Politics suggests, this book…
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