Review Essay: Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans
Post-socialism 2.0: New Ethnographies of Contemporary Balkans 2015 has proven to be an exciting time for political anthropology of former…
Posts Tagged 'politics'
Julie Billaud’s Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan
Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan by Julie Billaud (2015) is a breeze of fresh air. Reading this well…
Gerald Sider’s Race Becomes Tomorrow: North Carolina and the Shadow of Civil Rights
Race Becomes Tomorrow, Gerald Sider’s exploration of racial formations across time and space, probes the nature of history, time, and…
Book Review: Where Are All Our Sheep? Kyrgyzstan, a Global Political Arena
Boris Petric’s short and accessible book identifies local and global dynamics that have shaped the Kyrgyz Republic since its independence…
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…
Book Review: Violence and Vengeance: Religious Conflict and its Aftermath in Eastern Indonesia
Violence broke out in the Moluccas Islands of eastern Indonesia during the anxious aftermath of Suharto’s New Order regime…
Political and Legal Transformations of an Indonesian Polity: The Nagari from Colonisation to Decentralisation
Franz von Benda-Beckmann and Keebet von Benda-Beckmann are well known for their anthropological studies of social workings of law, legal…
This Side of Silence: Human Rights, Torture, and the Recognition of Cruelty
Tobias Kelly’s critical, historically informed, and carefully researched book on the evolving concept of torture is an exciting and useful…
The Reckoning of Pluralism: Political Belonging and the Demands of History in Turkey
In the space of only a couple of months in 2014, two deaths once again recalled the tenuous and paradoxical…
Omens of Adversity: Tragedy, Time, Memory, Justice
David Scott’s thoughtful study of the collective memory of the Grenada Revolution and its demise in 1983 complements and develops…