Reckoning with Police Violence
The Torture Letters: Reckoning with Police Violence, by Laurence Ralph (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020). Reviewed by James Perez,…
Posts Tagged 'violence'
Killing your Neighbors
Killing Your Neighbors: Friendship and Violence in Northern Kenya and Beyond, by Jon D. Holtzman (Oakland: University of California Press,…
History and Culture of Policing on Taiwan
Sentiment, Reason, and Law: Policing in the Republic of China on Taiwan, by Jeffrey T. Martin (Ithaca: Cornell University Press,…
Review Essay: On Roadways and Other Infrastructures
Rebecca Warne Peters, SUNY Oswego Reviewed in this essay: The Promise of Infrastructure, edited by Nikhil Anand, Akhil Gupta, and…
Book Review: Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil
Graham Denyer Willis’s The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil (2015)…
Review Essay: Consent in the Era of #MeToo
We’re in an ongoing cultural moment for discussing the sexual abuse of power. Whether the Church, Hollywood, or Congress; Roy…
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…
The Reappeared: Argentine Former Political Prisoners
The Reappeared presents a short but insightful study of the experiences of those who survived political imprisonment and torture…
Skin for Skin: Death and Life for Inuit and Innu
Gerald M. Sider has written a book about the historical violence suffered by the Innu and Inuit in Labrador. It…
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…
