Wild Policy
Wild Policy: Indigeneity and the Unruly Logic of Intervention, by Tess Lea (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2020). Reviewed by Claire…
Posts Tagged 'Policy'
After (Reading) Geoengineering
After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration, by Holly Jean Buck (London: Verso, 2019) Reviewed by Sam Mulopulos Shortly after…
Review Essay: Rote Entrepreneurialism and Fraud in Neoliberal Rwanda and Uganda: Two Studies of Policy and Culture
by David Pier, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Reviewed in this essay: Honeyman, Catherine A. 2016. The Orderly Entrepreneur: Youth,…
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…
Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology, and Surveillance
Many years ago, while conducting research in a small coastal community, I was walking the docks. A bird caught my…
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…
Culture in Conflict: Irregular Warfare, Culture Policy and the Marine Corps
In 2006, Paula Holmes-Eber agreed to teach Anthropology at Marine Corps University (MCU), not as a military instructor, but…
A Policy Travelogue: Tracing Welfare Reform in Aotearoa/New Zealand and Canada
Kingfisher’s book is a theoretically productive account of how welfare reform policies develop and travel from New Zealand to Alberta,…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 