Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy
A.J. Yumi Lee and Karen R. Miller. 2024. Prehistories of the War on Terror: A Critical Genealogy. Philadelphia: University of […] The post Prehistories of the War on…
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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury. 2024. Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian Nakba. Redwood City: Stanford University Press. […] The post Colonizing Palestine: The Zionis…
Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the age of empires
Sidney Xu Lu. 2025. Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires. Oakland: University of California […] The post Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japan…
Thesis review: Acting Locally – Vegetable Gardening In Southern Illinois
Home gardener Calvin harvests mustard greens for friends from church. Photo by Aimee L. Trojnar. PhD thesis by Aimee L. Trojnar, Department of Anthropology, Southern Illinois University, 2024.…
Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope among Iraqi Refugees in Jordan
Mediated Lives is a careful, deeply reflexive, and ethnographically rich study of Iraqi urban refugees living through legal, social, and […] The post Mediated Lives: Waiting and Hope…
Lessons from Tahrir for activists and their allies
Reflections on Rusha Latif’s Tahrir’s Youth: Leaders of a Leaderless Revolution (American University in Cairo Press, 2022). After more than […] The post Lessons from Tahrir for activists…
Trouble at the (academic paper) mill
Article numbers and rejections are ‘up’. I tried to explain what I see as the current trend in journal-editor-land and wrote this to reassure a colleague that ‘its…
Call for reviewers: Books on settler colonialism, borders and empire
As we wrap up our series on Mobilities and Migration, we are excited to launch our new book review series […] The post Call for reviewers: Books on…
The Materialities of Human Mobility as a Social Milieu
William Walter, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani’s Viapolitics: Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion stands as a uniquely articulated […] The post The Materialities of Human Mobili…
‘Code’ by Bernard Geoghegan: A Roundtable
Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan Code: From Information Theory to French Theory Duke University Press, 2023 272 pages, 47 illustrations, notes, bibliography, index Editors’ Introducti…
Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response
I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were discussing the future of the exiled former opposition…
Afterlives of Revolution: Nathalie Peutz’s comments
In the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island of Socotra, I took a short break from…
Afterlives of revolution: Nikkie Wiegink’s comments
“The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front that fought against Portuguese colon…
Afterlives of Revolution: Fatemeh Sadeghi’s comments
The Dhufar Revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was an attempt to depose the British-backed Sultan and implement social ideals based on egalitarianism. But the revolution was suppressed by the…
‘Haunting Biology’ by Emma Kowal
Emma Kowal Haunting Biology: Science and Indigeneity in Australia Duke University Press, 2023 264 pages, 27 illustrations, appendices, notes, references, index This book is like a …
‘The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy’ by Robert P. Jones
Robert P. Jones The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy and the Path to a Shared American Future Simon and Schuster, 2023 387 pages, notes, bibliography, index, and appendix…
Review: Food, Media, Senses
Food – Media – Senses: Interdisciplinary Approaches. Christina Bartz, Jens Ruchatz, and Eva Wattolik (editors). Transcript, 2023. 330 pps. ISBN: 978-3-8376-6479-9 Emily Contois (University of …
Thesis Review: Bittersweet – Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland
Jane preparing a cake with her son at home, Scotland (photo: Imogen Bevan) Bittersweet: Living with sugar and kin in contemporary Scotland. Imogen Bevan. PhD in Social Anthropology,…
The Kobane Generation
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East Syria. For the next…
The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on everyday life in what…
Border Porosities: Movement of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans
Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet, in her new book Border Porosities: Movement of…
White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route
Rexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts racial exclusion in the Balkans in conversation with…
Second call for reviewers for our Mobilities and Migration series!
As you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities and Migration. Several compelling new books remain available…
‘The Passion of Private White’ by Don Watson
Don Watson The Passion of Private White Scribner, 2022 336 pages, 24 plates I found reading this book both a humbling and a deeply moving experience. It is…