Review: Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
Counihan, Carole, and Susanne Hojlund eds. Chefs, Restaurants and Culinary Sustainability. University of Arkansas Press, 2024. 392 pp. ISBN 9781682262658 Krishnendu Ray (NYU) How does one w…
The latest volume of the Routledge Handbook of Architecture, Urban Space and Politics edited by Nikolina Bobic and Farzaneh Haghighi explores the socio-political nature of architecture and urban…
Didier Eribon‘s memoir, The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman was prompted by the occasion of his mother being moved into a nursing home when…
In The Great Betrayal, Fawaz Gerges examines the reasons for consistent political instability in the Middle East since the early 20th century. Examining Western intervention, domestic authoritarian ru…
Development Challenges in Pakistan by Jamil Nasir explores why Pakistan struggles with sustaining economic growth compared to nations in Southeast Asia. Combining economic, political and sociological …
By David Sutton A number of scholars in Anthropology and related disciplines have posed the question “What is the Future of Food?” in our times of polycrisis and…
Guthman, Julie. The Problem with Solutions: Why Silicon Valley Can’t Hack the Future of Food. University of California Press. 272 pp. ISBN 9780520402676 Amanda Kaminsky (University of C…
Bridging the Gap by Catherine Hua Xiang is aimed at anyone doing business in or with China and examines the complexities of intercultural communication with Chinese people. Covering…
A Life of Worry: Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety by Allen Tran (University of California Press: 2023) In A Life of Worry, Allen L. Tran…
Alva Gotby‘s Feeling at Home explores the complex interplay of practical and emotional concerns that a home involves, which are often flattened in debates around housing justice. Showing…
Digital Media Use in Early Childhood by Lelia Green, Leslie Haddon, Sonia Livingstone, Brian O’Neill, Kylie J. Stevenson and Donell Halloway examines how children under six interact with…
Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China by Christof Lammer (Berghahn 2024), 272 pages, ISBN 978-1-80539-651-2 Ellen Oxfeld (Middlebury College) Several …
Hemangini Gupta‘s Experimental Times explores the gendered dynamics of startup capitalism in Bangalore, offering a rich ethnographic study of labour, urban space, and entrepreneurship. Tanushree…
Markus Holdo’s Participatory Spaces Under Urban Capitalism examines how citizens engage with and leverage power through participatory institutions in capitalist societies. The book is meticulously res…
The Precariat in Western China by Xueyang Ma examines the experiences of workers in precarious employment in Ya’an, a city in Sichuan province, Western China. Drawing on interviews…
Claire Mercer‘s The Suburban Frontier examines African suburbanisation and the emergence of middle-class culture through a case study of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Drawing on ethnographic data col…
Ark of Taste Kenya (2nd Edition). Michele F. Fontefrancesco, Dauro Zocchi and Charles Barstow eds. 2024 Vicolo de Pavone Editore, Italy. 292 pages. Jon Holtzman (Western Michigan University)…
Access to Justice, Digitalization and Vulnerability by Naomi Creutzfeldt, Arabella Kyprianides, Ben Bradford and Jonathan Jackson examines individuals’ experience of seeking justice in housing a…
How much of our identity is shaped by genetics, and how much by society? In Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins, Shoumita Dasgupta examines how genetic science can…
How does perspective shape the choices we make? In Decisionscape, Elspeth Kirkman explores how applying artistic principles – distance, viewpoint, composition and framing – to decision-making can help…
Shenila Khoja-Moolji‘s The Impossibility of Muslim Boyhood considers the ways in which Muslim boys face gendered and racialised discrimination in the US and India, including in school settings….
Terese Gagnon, ed. Embodying Biodiversity: Sensory Conservation as Refuge and Sovereignty. 274 pp. University of Arizona Press. 2024. ISBN: 9780816553983 Christian Keeve (PhD Candidate, Geogr…
Narrating the Many Autisms: Identity, Agency, Mattering by Anna Stenning (Routledge: 2024) Over the past few decades, narrative has become an increasingly popular medium for autistic people to…
Susan Greenhalgh. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pages. Christy Spackman (Arizona State University) I recently returned from a tri…