Vietnam – Brazil
Comparative. Who’d have thought to do this one – but, its done, and there’s an intriguing and generous review – of J. Warren’s Cultures of Development: Vietnam, Brazil,…
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Robinsonades: we are all a bit Robbo now.
Several Robinsinades are coming soon. But folks seem a bit confused about which Daniel Defoe to get into right now. As the world splutters towards total collapse, I…
Alison Kenner’s Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change by Susanna Trnka
Breathtaking: Asthma Care in a Time of Climate Change Alison Kenner University of Minnesota Press, 2018. 236 pages. Asthma is thought to affect an estimated 339 million people…
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes and Gender in Modern India by Lisa Grabinsky
Sugar and Tension: Diabetes in Modern India Lesley Jo Weaver Rutgers University Press, 2019. 202 pages. Sugar and Tension is a must-read for anyone interested in how social…
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Naomi Zucker
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life. Ruha Benjamin, Ed. Duke University Press, 2019. 416 pages. “How might we craft a just…
Book Forum: Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay by Andrés Romero
Introduction Daniel Renfrew’s Life Without Lead: Contamination, Crisis, and Hope in Uruguay (2018) is a masterful undertaking on the anthropology of disaster and its everydayness. An ethnograp…
A Year of Trans Childhood by Paula Martin
Trans Kids: Being Gendered in the Twenty-First Century Tey Meadow University of California Press, 2018. 320 pages. The Trans Generation: How Trans Kids (and Their Parents) …
Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga’s The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production by Rosie Sims
The Mobile Workshop: The Tsetse Fly and African Knowledge Production. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga MIT Press, 2018. 412 pages. Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga’s latest book, The…
On reproductive work and family, again by Cinzia Greco
Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family Sophie Lewis Verso, 2019. 224 pages. In the first segment of the 1963 Oscar-winning anthology film Ieri, Oggi e Domani, Sophia Loren…
contradictions of capital
How come sometimes a book is 80 quid on Amazon then three days later is 3 quid? Anyway, at last they caught up with the new one from…
Sundarbans, Climate, Tigers, Law.
Liquidity of the Sundarbans: If the Tigers and Cyclones Don’t Get You, the Law Will This forms the first part of a new research concentration for me, and…
Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition.
via Global South Asia On Screen: India only edition. Available from Aakar Books Here. Rest of the world here (bloomsbury paperback in November) https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4826-8949 Just becaus…
Cóc Linh Tuệ Giác
Cỏc Linh Tuệ Giác = something like the image of the Holy Toad in culture and history. Going to read this cultural history next and was super proud…
Mother of Pearl
Moving from detective fiction in Thailand to commercial reproduction makes sense when its Angela Savage. This is my next non-work read: Some review snippets lifted from Angela’s blog:…
The Anthropologists Who Undid Sex, Race, and Gender
Anthropologist Margaret Mead—a museum curator, a professor, a popular commentator, and an author, among other roles—was perhaps the most famous student of Franz Boas. Bettmann /Getty Images …
Rohan Deb Roy’s Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Townsend Middleton
Malarial Subjects: Empire, Medicine and Nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909. (Open Access). Rohan Deb Roy Cambridge University Press, 2017. 332 pages. Malaria has long garnered no sho…
Centering the Experience of Hepatitis C Infection and Treatment through Graphic Ethnography in The Virus by Kelly Szott
The Virus Aleksandra Bartoszko and Marcin Ponomarew Project Supported by Foreningen for Human Narkotikapolitikk (FHN) and Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution – Noncommercia…
Global Digital Cultures
Very keen to read this: Global Digital Cultures: Perspectives from South Asia – 2019 By Aswin Punathambekar and Sriram Mohan Digital media histories are part of a global network, and…
Decolonizing Extinction: An Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation By Juno Salazar Parreñas, The Ohio State University 288pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag spoke with…
The Human Body on the Verge of Collapse by Ketil Slagstad
The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe: Brittleness, Integration, Science, and the Great War Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers University of Chicago Press, 2018. 416 pages. 1.…
Jennifer Reich’s Calling the Shots Why Parents Reject Vaccines by Travis Chi Wing Lau
Calling the Shots: Why Parents Reject Vaccines Jennifer Reich NYU Press, 2016. 336 pages. A timely intervention into recent anti-vaccination controversies, Jennifer Reich’s Call…
SpW summer break & summer readings!
It’s the end of another academic year and time for a break. We would like to thank all the writers of this last year: we appreciate your contributions!…
The limits of medical heroism: reflections on Getting to Zero by Alice Street
Getting to Zero: A Doctor and a Diplomat on the Ebola Frontline By Sinead Walsh and Oliver Johnson Zed Books, 2018. 352 pages. It is midnight and my…
Book Forum: Saida Hodžić’s The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life After NGOs by Erin V. Moore
Saida Hodžić’s The Twilight of Cutting: African Activism and Life after NGOs (University of California Press, 2017) illuminates the myriad state and non-state actors collaborating on campaigns ag…