Review Essay: The Politics of Global Health
In 1968, Monsignor Ivan Illich delivered a memorable speech, titled “To Hell With Good Intentions,” challenging American volunteers to Latin…
Posts Tagged 'governance'
Review Essay: Managing Uncertainty: The Linguistic Transformation of Markets, Governance, and Politics
In today’s era of finance-dominated accumulation, global governance, and increasing economic precarity, Arjun Appadurai claims the ‘spirit of uncertainty’ has reawakened. Ulrich Beck (1992) once ascribed this…
Zero Hunger: Political Culture and Antipoverty Policy in Northeast Brazil
In the last decade, many scholars have produced innovative studies of antipoverty policies, and the literature now includes extensive analyses…
The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Mozambique achieved independence from Portuguese colonial rule in 1975 and became a socialist state. Its FRELIMO rulers imposed a ban…
Governing Indigenous Territories: Enacting Sovereignty in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Juliet Erazo’s fascinating ethnography focuses on the ways that indigenous governance in Latin America has shifted over the past decades…
Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey
Olga Demetriou offers a fascinating examination of borders and border politics in Western Thrace, a politically significant and historically…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 