Review: Embodying Biodiversity
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…
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…
Andrea Pia’s Cutting the Mass Line examines water supply and increasing scarcity induced by the climate crisis in a rural area of Yunnan, Southwest China. Combining a rich…
Vu Hong Lien. Rice and Baguette: A History of Food in Vietnam. Reaktion Press. London: 2016 ISBN: 9781780236575. pp.252. Richard Zimmer Sonoma State University In her Introduction,&nb…
Are governments doing enough to address today’s widening inequalities, or are they pandering to the wealth elite? Max Steuer‘s Dangerous Guesswork in Economic Policy and Sarah Kerr‘…
Nicola Twilley. Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet, and Ourselves. Penguin. NY. 2024, pp. 387 ISBN: 9780735223288. Richard Zimmer. Sonoma State University The…
Eli Revelle Yano Wilson. 2024. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer. University of California Press. 264 pp. ISBN: 9780520401563. Yingkun Hou (Southeast Missouri Stat…
In Jewish Odesa, Marina Sapritsky-Nahum explores Jewish identity in Odesa over the course of Soviet history, Ukrainian nation-building and global Jewish revivals. Combining oral histories, anthropolo…
In Policing Patients, Elizabeth Chiarello examines the role of prescription drug monitoring programmes (PDMPs) in the opioid crisis in the US, arguing that they transform healthcare into patient…
Motherhood on Ice: The Mating Gap and Why Women Freeze Their Eggs by Marcia C. Inhorn (NYU Press, 2023) Since 2012, when egg freezing by vitrification (flash-freezing) emerged from…
Ross Perlin‘s Language City explores the global crisis of endangered languages by focusing on the extraordinary linguistic diversity of New York City. Weaving history and linguistics with human…
Marriage Material by Abigail Ocobock explores the transformative impact of same-sex couples on the institution of marriage in 21st-century America. Drawing on interviews and survey data, Ocobock effe…
Laura López-Sanders‘ The Manufacturing of Job Displacement is an ethnographic study examining how racial capitalism shapes labour inequality in a company based in South Carolina, US. Though lim…
Depletion by Shirin Rai considers the hidden costs of care work, exposing its unequal gendered and racialised distribution across society. Presenting depletion as an innovative way to conceptualise…
The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World brings together a selection of writings spanning two decades by the renowned anthropologist and anarchist David Graeber. According to Danny Dorling’s revie…
In Palestinian Refugee Women from Syria to Jordan, Afaf Jabiri considers the discrimination and violence experienced by Palestinian women displaced from Syria to refugee camps in Jordan. Based on four…
In Born to Rule, Sam Friedman and Aaron Reeves examine how Britain’s elite continues to reproduce itself through entrenched structures of privilege, despite the appearance of increased meritocra…
. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can…
Crystal Wilkinson‘s Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts illuminates the lives and culinary culture of Black Appalachians over five generations through a blend of family recipes, memoir and regiona…
Burnout. The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat, by Hannah Proctor (Verso, 2024) Hannah Proctor’s Burnout is not about how tiredness arises from the daily grind. Instead, “burnout” is…
In A Vital Frontier, Andrea Muehlebach considers how the neoliberal financialisation of water as a public utility has sparked citizen-led resistance across Europe. Sharing ethnographic insights into a…
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …
Shahu Patole. 2024. Dalit Kitchens of Marathwada. Anna He Apoorna Brahma. Translated by Bhushan Korgaonkar. Gurugram, Haryana: Harper Collins India, Paperback, 386 pages, ISBN-13: 978-9356295834 …