Beware the Emerald City
The Sustainability Myth: Environmental Gentrification and the Politics of Justice, by Melissa Checker (New York: NYU Press, 2020). Reviewed by…
Posts Tagged 'urban anthropology'
Migrants at the Gare du Nord
Adventure Capital: Migration and the Making of an African Hub in Paris, by Julie Kleinman (Oakland: University of California Press,…
Planning for War in Beirut
For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut’s Frontiers, by Hiba Bou Akar (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018). Reviewed by…
On Morality: Homelessness, Sociality, and the Promises We Break
Review Essay by Jessica Cooper, University of Edinburgh The Space of Boredom: Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order, by Bruce…
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…
Review Essay: Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk
Bordering (and) the Political Economies of (talking about) Risk As an epistemology and as a language of argumentation, political economy…
PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 