Social and cultural anthropology Books

Book SynopsisThe contributors to Paper Trails examine migrants' relationship to the state through requirements to obtain identification documents in order to get legal status.Trade Review“The rich collection of case studies in Paper Trails reminds us that states have increasingly refined their surveillance techniques. A must-read for anyone interested in how the issuing of the identifications and documents that pervade our everyday lives give states power over the populations—both citizens and immigrants—they govern.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *“Offering a unique way to think about the materiality of immigrant life and the ways that papers shape migrants' identities, experiences, rights, and sense of belonging, this volume tells a compelling story about the need to center documents in the study of international migration.” -- Leisy J. Abrego, coeditor of * We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States *“Documents, or ‘papers,’ both reflect and help construct a global reality of heightened border policing and profound socioeconomic inequality. By powerfully illuminating the work that documents do in producing the state and people of unequal status, and the tactics people employ to contest citizenship-related forms of exclusion, Paper Trails provides valuable tools for those engaged in the struggle to realize a more just world.” -- Joseph Nevins, author of * Dying to Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid *“Paper Trails is a substantial and well-edited collection of research. It is an interesting, theoretically engaging and empirically rich book. It is undoubtedly an important contribution to migration studies and social sciences in general.” -- Shahram Khosravi * Ethnic and Racial Studies *“A group of preeminent scholars of immigration have produced a stellar collection of essays. . . . [Paper Trails] is an invaluable addition to our understanding of how the everyday processes of documentation operate in systems of state governance. . . . It deserves a wide readership.” -- Susan J. Terrio * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Paper Trails is an important contribution for students and researchers in migration studies, as well as practitioners in the field.” -- Sandra King-Savic * Refuge *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Paper Trails: Migrants, Bureaucratic Inscription, and Legal Recognition / Sarah B. Horton 1 Part I. Foundations: Controlling Space and Time 27 1. The "People Out of Place": State Limits on Free Mobility and the Making of Im(migrants) / Nandita Sharma 31 2. And About Time Too . . .: Migration, Documentation, and Temporalities / Bridget Anderson 53 3. Documenting Membership: The Divergent Politics of Migrant Driver's Licenses in New Mexico and Arizona / Doris Marie Provine and Monica W. Varsanyi 74 Part II. Documents as Security, Documents as Visibility 103 4. Documented as Unauthorized / Deborah A. Boehm 109 5. Opportunities and Double Binds: Legal Craft in an Era of Uncertainty / Susan Bibler Coutin 130 6. Document Overseers, Enhanced Enforcement, and Racialized Local Contexts: Experiences of Latino Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona / Cecilia Menjívar 153 Part III. Resistance and Refusals 179 7. Knowing Your Rights in Trump's America: Paper Trails of Community Empowerment / Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz 185 8. Strategies of Documentation among Kichwa Transnational Migrants / Juan Thomas Ordóñez 208 Conclusion: Documents as Power / Josiah Heyman 229 Contributors 249 Index 253

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Vanessa Díaz traces the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary Hollywood and American celebrity culture.Trade Review“Manufacturing Celebrity presents fascinating ethnographic details and piercing social analysis on the production of ‘celebrity’ through sophisticated discussions of Latinx paparazzi, red carpet photographers, and women reporters exploited by the cultural dynamics of tabloid and mainstream news-making. This insightful book will be valuable to communication scholars, feminists, critical race scholars, media anthropologists, and general audiences interested in the representation and production of celebrity culture. Vanessa Díaz writes with a confident and a distinctive scholarly voice.” -- John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania“Vanessa Díaz pulls back the curtain on Hollywood and the people who photograph and write about the movie stars of today and tomorrow. Manufacturing Celebrity is a must-read for anyone desiring keenly observed insights into the struggles of immigrants and women trying to catch some of the stardust in Hollywood's dream factory. Their stories reveal a Hollywood undergoing change that is often resisted as it grapples with the contemporary demographic reality of the United States.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *"This book is a useful resource for entertainment industry practitioners (publicists, reporters, photographers) and media professionals interested in enhancing their understanding of key dynamics that (re)create the modern entertainment industry. Manufacturing Celebrity is also a must read for scholars and students studying communication, media studies, critical cultural studies, public relations, anthropology, sociology, and labor relations." -- W. Alvarez * Choice *“Manufacturing Celebrity is a compelling and revelatory study of the structural hierarchies and labor practices that produce celebrity media.... This book underscores how the ever-evolving boundaries between entertainment and news should not be overlooked.” -- Joanna Arcieri * American Journalism *“Díaz offers a vivid and engaging account of the complex and nuanced lived experiences and social struggles of both paparazzi and celebrity reporters.... Manufacturing Celebrity is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Latinx labor, feminist and gender studies, race studies, and cultural studies of production.” -- Luis E. Rivera-Figueroa * Media Industries *“Manufacturing Celebrity . . . is, most fundamentally, a valuable examination of the role of the worker within the celebrity media production industry. . . . Díaz draws on her unique former career background as a celebrity reporter, which allows her to offer unprecedented insight into the inner workings of the industry.” -- Emily Rauber Rodriguez * Celebrity Studies *“Díaz’s book provides rich ethnographic details into the working lives and conditions of those who manufacture celebrity status through their labor. . . . [Manufacturing Celebrity] will be of significant interest to scholars of race, gender, and labor, as Díaz demonstrates that celebrity media can teach us how hierarchies of labor are reproduced in a neoliberal economy.” -- Gehad Abaza * Exertions *“A stunning critical ethnography of the celebrity-industrial complex. . . . Manufacturing Celebrity is for everyone.” -- Chelsey R. Carter * American Anthropologist *"Díaz’s writing style throughout Manufacturing Celebrity is clear, powerful and compelling. Both thorough and accessible, Díaz is successful in grabbing the attention of both students and scholars of media as well as of the casual reader. Díaz writes a comprehensive and detailed account of the lives of those who are sidelined in the process of manufacturing celebrity and integrates theory without sacrificing the human perspective." -- Jonathan Pye * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Precarious Work of Celebrity Media Production 1 I. Pappin' Ain't Easy 1. Shooteando: The Real Paparazzi of Los Angeles 33 2. Latinos Selling Celebrity: Economies and Ethics of Paparazzi Work 76 3. To Live and Die in L.A.: Life, Death, and Labor in the Hollywood-Industrial Complex 95 II. Reporting on the Stars 4. Red Carpet Rituals: Positionality and Power in a Serveilled Space 125 5. Where Reporting Happens: Precarious Spaces and the Exploitation of Women Reporters 150 III. Crafting the Media and the Sociocultural Consequences 6. Body Teams, Baby Bumps, Beauty Standards 181 7. "Brad and Angelina: And Now . . . Brangelina!": The Cultural Economy of (White) Heterosexual Love 218 Conclusion. Reconsidering News and Gossip in the Trump Era 242 Appendix: Interview Sources 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 271 Index 301

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Book SynopsisNoah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.Trade Review“Genetic Afterlives is a prescient examination of the Lemba community in southern Africa, a group that has long fought for public recognition of their claims to Jewishness over and against the identities imposed upon them as the price of admission into the political landscape of contemporary South Africa and beyond. Using careful ethnographic and archival research, Noah Tamarkin crafts an expansive portrait of the sparks that fly when contested oral histories, state-sanctioned social policies, and cutting-edge genetic research are held in critical and productive tension. This is a significant contribution to Jewish studies, African studies, anthropology, and science studies all at the same time. A very powerful read!” -- John L. Jackson Jr., author of * Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem *“In this major contribution to critical global Indigenous studies, Noah Tamarkin takes up a unique case study at the intersection of race, nation, and indigeneity while also explaining complex genome science and theoretical insights in accessible language that will resonate with diverse audiences.” -- Kim TallBear, author of * Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science *"Tamarkin's book will be of great interest to those interested in contemporary expressions of Jewish identity, in the ethnic dynamics of South Africa, in the ramifications of genetic testing, and, especially, in the ultimate 'ownership' of DNA." -- Ira Robinson * Nova Religio *"Tamarkin pushes us to continue to find new ways to ask how DNA gains power in the world today. Hopefully, others will use it as an opportunity to take Africa seriously as a space from which to think through genetic ancestry." -- Victoria M. Massie * Transforming Anthropology *"This book is recommended reading for anthropologists and scholars in STS, African studies, or Jewish studies. It would also likely appeal to curious laypeople as it revolves around the meaning of belonging in the religious, ethnic, state, family, and biological-genetic contexts. By dealing with the ways human beings create and express this belonging and affiliation, Genetic Afterlives calls on the reader to reconsider several accepted Western conventions." -- Nurit Kirsh * Isis *"Genetic Afterlives is an instructive, interesting, and important addition to the humanities. It sheds light on a group of people that most laypersons are not familiar with, and provides detailed descriptions of the social, scientific, and cultural implications that face not just the Lemba, but all persons interested in DNA data research." -- Kimberley Burns * African Studies Quarterly *"[A] fascinating exploration of why and how the Lemba of South Africa became interested in and engaged with genetic studies of Jewishness. . . . [A] masterful ethnographic exploration of the way scale and context matter in the production of genetic meaning." -- Kimberly A. Arkin * Anthropological Quarterly *"This highly nuanced and important book contributes to many debates: as well as Black Jewish Studies, it challenges our understanding of identity more generally, showing that ingrained western notions of religion are more supple in other places. Tamarkin’s book also contributes to the study of African religions, apartheid studies, and to South African history. Perhaps most importantly, however, it contributes to contemporary debates on the nature of Judaism and Jewishness by arguing that such cannot be defined simply according to any single criteria." -- Michael T. Miller * Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Citizenship after DNA 1 1. Producing Lemba Archives, Becoming Genetic Jews 29 2. Genetic Diaspora 57 3. Postapartheid Citizenship and the Limits of Genetic Evidence 88 4. Ancestry, Ancestors, and Contested Kinship after DNA 120 5. Locating Lemba Heritage, Imagining Indigenous Futures 153 Epilogue. Afterlives of Research Subjects 187 Notes 197 References 223

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic fieldwork, her experience reporting for People magazine, and dozens of interviews with photographers, journalists, publicists, magazine editors, and celebrities, Vanessa Díaz traces the complex power dynamics of the reporting and paparazzi work that fuel contemporary Hollywood and American celebrity culture.Trade Review“Manufacturing Celebrity presents fascinating ethnographic details and piercing social analysis on the production of ‘celebrity’ through sophisticated discussions of Latinx paparazzi, red carpet photographers, and women reporters exploited by the cultural dynamics of tabloid and mainstream news-making. This insightful book will be valuable to communication scholars, feminists, critical race scholars, media anthropologists, and general audiences interested in the representation and production of celebrity culture. Vanessa Díaz writes with a confident and a distinctive scholarly voice.” -- John L. Jackson, Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication and Richard Perry University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania“Vanessa Díaz pulls back the curtain on Hollywood and the people who photograph and write about the movie stars of today and tomorrow. Manufacturing Celebrity is a must-read for anyone desiring keenly observed insights into the struggles of immigrants and women trying to catch some of the stardust in Hollywood's dream factory. Their stories reveal a Hollywood undergoing change that is often resisted as it grapples with the contemporary demographic reality of the United States.” -- Leo R. Chavez, author of * The Latino Threat: Constructing Immigrants, Citizens, and the Nation *"This book is a useful resource for entertainment industry practitioners (publicists, reporters, photographers) and media professionals interested in enhancing their understanding of key dynamics that (re)create the modern entertainment industry. Manufacturing Celebrity is also a must read for scholars and students studying communication, media studies, critical cultural studies, public relations, anthropology, sociology, and labor relations." -- W. Alvarez * Choice *“Manufacturing Celebrity is a compelling and revelatory study of the structural hierarchies and labor practices that produce celebrity media.... This book underscores how the ever-evolving boundaries between entertainment and news should not be overlooked.” -- Joanna Arcieri * American Journalism *“Díaz offers a vivid and engaging account of the complex and nuanced lived experiences and social struggles of both paparazzi and celebrity reporters.... Manufacturing Celebrity is a valuable resource for scholars interested in Latinx labor, feminist and gender studies, race studies, and cultural studies of production.” -- Luis E. Rivera-Figueroa * Media Industries *“Manufacturing Celebrity . . . is, most fundamentally, a valuable examination of the role of the worker within the celebrity media production industry. . . . Díaz draws on her unique former career background as a celebrity reporter, which allows her to offer unprecedented insight into the inner workings of the industry.” -- Emily Rauber Rodriguez * Celebrity Studies *“Díaz’s book provides rich ethnographic details into the working lives and conditions of those who manufacture celebrity status through their labor. . . . [Manufacturing Celebrity] will be of significant interest to scholars of race, gender, and labor, as Díaz demonstrates that celebrity media can teach us how hierarchies of labor are reproduced in a neoliberal economy.” -- Gehad Abaza * Exertions *“A stunning critical ethnography of the celebrity-industrial complex. . . . Manufacturing Celebrity is for everyone.” -- Chelsey R. Carter * American Anthropologist *"Díaz’s writing style throughout Manufacturing Celebrity is clear, powerful and compelling. Both thorough and accessible, Díaz is successful in grabbing the attention of both students and scholars of media as well as of the casual reader. Díaz writes a comprehensive and detailed account of the lives of those who are sidelined in the process of manufacturing celebrity and integrates theory without sacrificing the human perspective." -- Jonathan Pye * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. The Precarious Work of Celebrity Media Production 1 I. Pappin' Ain't Easy 1. Shooteando: The Real Paparazzi of Los Angeles 33 2. Latinos Selling Celebrity: Economies and Ethics of Paparazzi Work 76 3. To Live and Die in L.A.: Life, Death, and Labor in the Hollywood-Industrial Complex 95 II. Reporting on the Stars 4. Red Carpet Rituals: Positionality and Power in a Serveilled Space 125 5. Where Reporting Happens: Precarious Spaces and the Exploitation of Women Reporters 150 III. Crafting the Media and the Sociocultural Consequences 6. Body Teams, Baby Bumps, Beauty Standards 181 7. "Brad and Angelina: And Now . . . Brangelina!": The Cultural Economy of (White) Heterosexual Love 218 Conclusion. Reconsidering News and Gossip in the Trump Era 242 Appendix: Interview Sources 251 Notes 255 Bibliography 271 Index 301

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Book SynopsisNoah Tamarkin illustrates how Lemba people in South Africa give their own meanings to the results of DNA tests that substantiated their ancestral connections to Jews and employ them to manage competing claims of Jewish ethnic and religious identity, African indigeneity, and South African citizenship.Trade Review“Genetic Afterlives is a prescient examination of the Lemba community in southern Africa, a group that has long fought for public recognition of their claims to Jewishness over and against the identities imposed upon them as the price of admission into the political landscape of contemporary South Africa and beyond. Using careful ethnographic and archival research, Noah Tamarkin crafts an expansive portrait of the sparks that fly when contested oral histories, state-sanctioned social policies, and cutting-edge genetic research are held in critical and productive tension. This is a significant contribution to Jewish studies, African studies, anthropology, and science studies all at the same time. A very powerful read!” -- John L. Jackson Jr., author of * Thin Description: Ethnography and the African Hebrew Israelites of Jerusalem *“In this major contribution to critical global Indigenous studies, Noah Tamarkin takes up a unique case study at the intersection of race, nation, and indigeneity while also explaining complex genome science and theoretical insights in accessible language that will resonate with diverse audiences.” -- Kim TallBear, author of * Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science *"Tamarkin's book will be of great interest to those interested in contemporary expressions of Jewish identity, in the ethnic dynamics of South Africa, in the ramifications of genetic testing, and, especially, in the ultimate 'ownership' of DNA." -- Ira Robinson * Nova Religio *"Tamarkin pushes us to continue to find new ways to ask how DNA gains power in the world today. Hopefully, others will use it as an opportunity to take Africa seriously as a space from which to think through genetic ancestry." -- Victoria M. Massie * Transforming Anthropology *"This book is recommended reading for anthropologists and scholars in STS, African studies, or Jewish studies. It would also likely appeal to curious laypeople as it revolves around the meaning of belonging in the religious, ethnic, state, family, and biological-genetic contexts. By dealing with the ways human beings create and express this belonging and affiliation, Genetic Afterlives calls on the reader to reconsider several accepted Western conventions." -- Nurit Kirsh * Isis *"Genetic Afterlives is an instructive, interesting, and important addition to the humanities. It sheds light on a group of people that most laypersons are not familiar with, and provides detailed descriptions of the social, scientific, and cultural implications that face not just the Lemba, but all persons interested in DNA data research." -- Kimberley Burns * African Studies Quarterly *"[A] fascinating exploration of why and how the Lemba of South Africa became interested in and engaged with genetic studies of Jewishness. . . . [A] masterful ethnographic exploration of the way scale and context matter in the production of genetic meaning." -- Kimberly A. Arkin * Anthropological Quarterly *"This highly nuanced and important book contributes to many debates: as well as Black Jewish Studies, it challenges our understanding of identity more generally, showing that ingrained western notions of religion are more supple in other places. Tamarkin’s book also contributes to the study of African religions, apartheid studies, and to South African history. Perhaps most importantly, however, it contributes to contemporary debates on the nature of Judaism and Jewishness by arguing that such cannot be defined simply according to any single criteria." -- Michael T. Miller * Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Diaspora, Indigeneity, and Citizenship after DNA 1 1. Producing Lemba Archives, Becoming Genetic Jews 29 2. Genetic Diaspora 57 3. Postapartheid Citizenship and the Limits of Genetic Evidence 88 4. Ancestry, Ancestors, and Contested Kinship after DNA 120 5. Locating Lemba Heritage, Imagining Indigenous Futures 153 Epilogue. Afterlives of Research Subjects 187 Notes 197 References 223

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Book SynopsisIn Chemical Heroes Andrew Bickford analyzes the US military''s attempts to design performance enhancement technologies and create pharmacological 'supersoldiers' capable of withstanding extreme trauma. Bickford traces the deep history of efforts to biologically fortify and extend the health and lethal power of soldiers from the Cold War era into the twenty-first century, from early adoptions of mandatory immunizations to bio-protective gear, to the development and spread of new performance enhancing drugs during the global War on Terrorism. In his examination of government efforts to alter soldiers'' bodies through new technologies, Bickford invites us to contemplate what constitutes heroism when armor becomes built in, wired in, and even edited into the molecular being of an American soldier. Lurking in the background and dark recesses of all US military enhancement research, Bickford demonstrates, is the desire to preserve US military and imperial power.Trade Review“In exploring projects fantastical and frightening in their forms of intervention and enhancement, Andrew Bickford offers important insights into not only the US military's efforts to fortify the bodies and minds of its service members but also what it means to go to war on a twenty-first-century global battlefield.” -- Sarah Wagner, author of * What Remains: Bringing America’s Missing Home from the Vietnam War *“Andrew Bickford presents a mind-blowing array of technological and pharmacological innovations that promise to deliver the next stage of human warriors while raising the possibility that many of these innovations may unleash new nightmares. Drawing out the themes of utopian promises and dystopian realities, Chemical Heroes makes a significant theoretical contribution to anthropology and critical studies of the military that should be broadly read, discussed, and taught by anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, psychologists, and others working in peace and conflict studies.” -- David H. Price, author of * Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology *“Chemical Heroes describes decades of efforts by the US military to go beyond armoring soldiers from external attack by remaking soldiers’ bodies in ways that let them remain in combat for ever-longer periods of time.... Chemical Heroes lets readers see into the military’s fantasy world.” -- Richard Lachmann * Social Forces *"[Chemical Heroes] is a significant contribution to military studies in anthropology, sociology, and political science, supplemented with tables, diagrams, illustrations, and direct quotations from military documents and research." -- G. B. Osborne * Choice *“Chemical Heroes breaks new ground by exploring military innovation as a site of anxious preemption and dead­ly play, highlighting its contradictions, tensions, and nervous state in the robust tradition of anthropological work on militarization and US empire. The book provides a set of tools that will be valuable to students and scholars alike.” -- Jocelyn Lim Chua * Anthropological Quarterly *“Those interested in a detailed history of the development of military biomedical interventions will be quite pleased. . . . Scholars of peace and conflict studies, biomedicine, technology, and labor will be well served by Bickford’s detailed work.” -- Jesse Wozniak * Contemporary Sociology *“Vivid accounts, along with the author’s lucid, unpretentious, and conversational style and wonderful photo illustrations, will make it appealing to undergraduate and graduate students alike. . . . [Chemical Heroes] will be required reading for anyone interested in the militarization of American life.” -- Roberto J. González * Current Anthropology *“Chemical Heroes is an important and deeply researched archive of information regarding the U.S. military’s vision for the future. . . . The book is simultaneously technical and readable and will contribute to critical military studies, science and technology studies, as well as the anthropology of the body.” -- Christopher Webb * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *Table of ContentsTerms and Abbreviations ix Acknowledgments xiii Prologue: Supersoldier Bob Writes Home xvii Introduction: Chemical Heroes 1 Part I. Thematic Framings 1. "Innovation at the Speed of Change": War, Anticipation, Imagination 37 2. The Superman Solution: The New Man, Superheroes, and the Supersoldier 56 3. Government (T)Issue: Military Medicine, Performance Enhancement, and the Biology of the Soldier 75 Part II. Early Imaginaries of the US Supersolder 4. "Science Will Modernize Him": The Soldier of the Futurearmy 103 5. "A Biological Armor for the Soldier": Idiophylaxis and the Self-Armoring Soldier 111 Part III. Imagining the Modern US Supersoldier 6. "The Force Is With You": An Army of One to the Future Force Warrior 147 7. Molecular Militarization: War, Drugs, and the Structures of Unfeeling 180 8. "Kill-Proofing the Soldier": Inner Armor, Environmental Threats, and the World as Battlefield 216 9. "Catastrophic Success": Back to the Futurarmy 239 10. Natural Cowards, Chemical Heroes 245 Works Cited 259 Index 285

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Book SynopsisDrawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox confronts the challenges climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics.Trade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropologi­cal approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305

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Book SynopsisRosemary-Claire Collard investigates the multibillion-dollar global exotic pet trade economy and the largely hidden processes through which exotic pets are produced and traded as lively capital.Trade Review“This is an immensely important book for anybody concerned with capitalist natures and traffics in the nonhuman. Combining scrupulous fieldwork with stunning theorizations of ‘lively capital’, Collard adapts Marxist and feminist thought to the double task of analyzing and contesting a global trade in exotic pets. By following how wild-caught species get made into thinglike forms of capital, this book spurs a profound rethinking of commodified and noncommodified life, fetishism, enclosure, and social-ecological reproduction.” -- Nicole Shukin, author of * Animal Capital: Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times *“Animal Traffic brings the spaces and circuits of the exotic pet trade to life, casting light on an important aspect of defaunation in the tropics and an underappreciated way that animals are being commodified. Rosemary-Claire Collard presents rich ethnographic accounts of key sites of the exotic pet trade and weaves these together with a compelling discussion of the values, practices, and complications involved in reducing wild animals to ‘lively capital’ as well as the great barriers to decommodifying animals after their lives have been wrested from them. This is a moving and beautifully written book and a major contribution to the fields of critical animal studies, political ecology, and biodiversity conservation.” -- Tony Weis, author of * The Ecological Hoofprint: The Global Burden of Industrial Livestock *“Animal Traffic is a unique contribution to the existing robust studies about the legal and illegal wildlife trade. The uniqueness stems from Collard’s theoretical framework as well as her fieldwork.” -- Tanya Wyatt * Oryx *“There are so many things to say and think about in relation to this book, which is a testament to the richness of Collard’s research and the brilliance of her analysis.... We are left ... with a call to action to radically transform not only our theories but also our relationships with animals under and outside of capitalism....” -- Kathryn Gillespie * Antipode *“[Animal Traffic] is a timely book that poses provocative questions for conservation practice and regulation, while also proposing intermediate strategies and contributing empirical and conceptual resources. It will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students in social sciences and conservation.” -- Sophie Haines * Conservation and Society *“In bringing together an analysis of the capitalist commodity chain of the exotic pet trade through her concept of animal fetishism, [Collard] builds bridges between economists and animal studies researchers and opens plenty of doors for future work in both areas. . . . I believe this book will be an essential read for all human–animal and commodity researchers from this point forward.” -- Julie Urbanik * AAG Review of Books *“[Animal Traffic] will inspire reflection and questions. Importantly, in a very moving way, Collard brings into the light and theorizes well an entire world of suffering that is laden with human callousness, money, and violence—a world of which many have been for too long unaware.” -- Connie L. Johnston * Geographical Review *“Although Collard deals in complex theory, she writes with a clarity and sensitivity that is accessible to readers across disciplines . . . including Marxist theory, human geography, feminist political economy, and animal studies.” -- Rachel Matthews * Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy *Table of ContentsA Note on the Cover Art Acknowledgments Introduction 1. An Act of Severing 2. Noah's Ark on the Auction Block 3. Crafting the Unencounterable Animal 4. Wild Life Politics Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisSaiba Varma explores spaces of military and humanitarian care in Indian-controlled Kashmirthe world's most militarized placeto examine the psychic, ontological, and political entanglements between medicine and violence.Trade Review“The Occupied Clinic situates psychiatry as humanitarian state strategy in Kashmir. Saiba Varma offers us a beautifully crafted ethnography, providing political insight without objectifying the recipients of care as victims or sufferers. She articulates the place of mental health and the nuances and difficulties of everyday psychiatric practice in a state of exception that has come to be normalized over decades of military occupation. The need for such an analysis, at once poignant and nonpolemical, cannot be overstated.” -- Kaushik Sunder Rajan, author of * Pharmocracy: Value, Politics and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine *“The Occupied Clinic is a chilling, thought provoking, and beautifully written work that is likely to garner a great deal of attention for its arguments and intellectual generosity. Saiba Varma's astute and incisive portrayal of life, survival, and care in conditions of occupation is original and valuable.” -- Sarah Pinto, author of * The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis *"The Occupied Clinic could hardly be any timelier.… A thought-provoking and rigorously crafted ethnography that advances the growing discussions of care and its paradoxes in anthropology.… A must-read for scholars interested in the transdisciplinary discussions of clinical, governmental, nongovernmental, and communitarian modes of care." -- Tankut Atuk * Anthropology Book Forum *"Packed with many narratives and experiences, Varma's book is deeply disturbing and incisive. It turns many assumptions, inferences and even the concept of care as a redemptive practice, on its head or inside out. It needs to be debated and discussed far more thoroughly for its content." -- Freny Manecksha * Indian Journal of Medical Ethics *"The book is a deeply moving work from a committed medical anthropologist. It will be of great help to anyone who wants to understand the cost of living in a highly and densely militarized zone of the world." -- Khalid Bashir Gura * Kashmir Life *"A book crafted with professional care. . . . Even as Varma displaces the meanings of lazily deployed words like Care, Siege, Disturbed Area, Disappeared, Shock, Disbelief, Gratitude and Duty by imbuing them with varied local senses, she comes into her own while she dwells on the vernacular used by her informants. She labours to translate the meanings of dense words they invoke and theorises on some of them at length. At times I liked the train of her thought so much that I wished for more." -- Gowhar Fazili * The Wire *"Varma’s rich ethnographic insights demonstrate how militarism and care are not distinct but rather closely bounded. . . . Clinicians, undergraduate students, and anyone curious about the fraught translation between biomedical psychiatry and local contexts of suffering will greatly appreciate Varma's dexterous and generous ethnography. Varma’s beautiful writing, interspersed with vibrant images and artwork and haunting poetry, will be greatly appreciated. . . ." -- David Ansari * Anthropology and Humanism *"Weaving together ethnographic narratives with poetry, the book offers a compelling analysis that at once contributes to conversations in medical anthropology, feminist studies of care, and the anthropology of humanitarianism and violence." -- Victoria Sheldon * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsMap viii Note on Transliteration ix Acknowledgments xi Letter to No One xv Introduction. Care 1 1. Siege 32 2. A Disturbed Area 67 Interlude. The Disappeared 101 3. Shock 114 4. Debrief 144 5. Gratitude 167 Notes 201 Bibliography 253 Index 273

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Book SynopsisBret Gustafson examines the centrality of natural gas and oil to the making of modern Bolivia and the contradictory convergence of fossil-fueled capitalism, Indigenous politics, and revolutionary nationalism.Trade Review“Fossil capitalism, and the calamitous consequences of our dependence on coal and petroleum, is central to any understanding of life in the Anthropocene. Bret Gustafson offers up an original and compelling take on the oft-told tale of oil wealth, petroviolence, and the so-called curse of oil dependency by reinterpreting the colonial and postcolonial history of Bolivia through the country's relation to natural gas, what he calls the gaseous state. Gustafson draws together the temporalities, spaces, and excesses of a world built through the exploitation of gas and in so doing takes the reader on an exhilarating ride through US imperialism, the Bolivian state, Indigenous territoriality, the hard-edged world of pipelines, wellheads, violent corporate capital, and of course the rise and fall of Evo Morales. A book for our time.” -- Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley“Bolivia in the Age of Gas is without a doubt the definitive account of the Bolivian petrostate and its subjects. It makes important contributions to anthropology, to Latin American studies, and to the emergent interdisciplinary literature in energy humanities. It is also a true pleasure to read, the rare scholarly page-turner that conveys critical analytical insights in terms and ethnographic moments that will captivate readers of all backgrounds.” -- Dominic Boyer, author of * Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene *“Bret Gustafson’s Bolivia in the Age of Gas is an ambitious and exquisitely detailed historical ethnography of Bolivia and its complicated relation with gas (and oil).... Gustafson exudes an enviable clarity even as he insists on nuance, complexity and contradiction.” -- Maria Elena Garcia * ReVista *“Gustafson’s Bolivia in the Age of Gas examines the historical and contemporary cultural politics of Bolivia’s complex and often troubled relationship with natural gas.... Fundamental questions surface at the end of [Gustafson’s book] that chart new directions for political analyses of Latin American social movements....” -- Nicole Fabricant * NACLA Report on the Americas *"[Bolivia in the Age of Gas] provide[s] important insight into Bolivia and Ecuador, and into fossil-fuel capitalism writ large." -- Kim Fortun & James Adams * Public Books *"While [Bret Gustafson] assumes a degree of familiarity with Bolivian geography and political history, his writing is gripping, and the book will be fruitful for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses." -- C. Lurtz * Choice *"Gustafson’s book is historically expansive, beginning with the Chaco War of 1932–1935 and concluding with the 2020 ouster of Evo Morales, but it remains anchored and oriented by the ethnographer’s attention to the quotidian. The result is a compelling analysis of petropower in Bolivia shaped as much by the commanding heights of the global fossil empire and the military-industrial complex as by the gendered and colonial violence of everyday life on the gas frontier." -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Latin American Research Review *"Gustafson’s book is historically expansive, beginning with the Chaco War of 1932–1935 and concluding with the 2020 ouster of Evo Morales, but it remains anchored and oriented by the ethnographer’s attention to the quotidian. The result is a compelling analysis of petropower in Bolivia shaped as much by the commanding heights of the global fossil empire and the military-industrial complex as by the gendered and colonial violence of everyday life on the gas frontier." -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Latin American Research Review *“[Bolivia in the Age of Gas] is an important book, worthy of sustained and considered attention. From here forward, it will be required reading for all competent scholars wrestling with the various components of extractive capitalism in contemporary Bolivia from a variety of social science disciplines.” -- Jeffery R.Webber * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Note on Labels and Language xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Gaseous State 1 Part One. Time 1. Heroes of Chaco 27 2. Imperial Maneuvers 50 3. Las nalgas of YPFB 69 Part Two. Space 4. Gas Lock-In 97 5. Bulls and Beauty Queens 125 6. Just a Few Lashes 152 Part Three. Excess 7. Requiem for the Dead 179 8. Gas Work 202 9. Quarrel over the Excess 223 Postscript. Bolivia 2020 247 Notes 255 References 271 Index 293

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Book SynopsisJoanne Rappaport examines the work of a group of Colombian social scientists led by Orlando Fals Borda, who in the 1970s developed a model of “participatory action research” in which they embedded themselves into local communities to use their research in the service of social and political organizing.Trade Review“All of us who attempt to practice politically engaged research have stood on the shoulders of Orlando Fals Borda. With the publication of Cowards Don't Make History we finally understand why: Joanne Rappaport's meticulous research reveals the profoundly creative and original alchemy that resulted when virtuoso academics collaborated with equally talented grassroots intellectuals in shared political struggles and knowledge production. Rappaport enables us to honor Fals Borda's life work, not as infallible model or method, but as stern inspiration for the unfinished tasks of twenty-first-century social science, still in search of the courage fully to confront the somber urgencies of the present.” -- Charles R. Hale, coeditor of * Otros Saberes: Collaborative Research on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Cultural Politics *“The essential, definitive reference for this crucial stage of Orlando Fals Borda's thought, politics, and collaborative research, Cowards Don't Make History reaches beyond Latin America to all who are concerned with the social construction of knowledge and the politics and sociology of knowledge. This stimulating, innovative, and rigorous book is a model for exploratory, interactive research.” -- Catherine C. LeGrand, coeditor of * Close Encounters of Empire: Writing the Cultural History of US-Latin American Relations *"This book is for the specialist but will find wide appeal across the social sciences; sociologists will read the book, as well as anthropologists, historians and folks interested in graphic novels/comics as sources.… Rappaport's work forces researchers and scholars outside of Colombia to think more critically about scholarship and activism." -- Michael J. LaRosa * ReVista *"Cowards Don’t Make History is an informative read for anthropologists of education. Engaged and activist researchers will appreciate the archival examination of a seminal researcher operating in a contentious political context. . . . Critical teacher educators will welcome the book as a tool for deconstructing the ethical, cultural, and political nature of education. Finally, researchers who are curious about the politics of socially constructed knowledge will find this book both compelling and thought provoking." -- Kyle Kopsick * Anthropology and Education Quarterly *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Cast of Characters xi Preface xvii Introduction 1 1. The Fundación del Caribe in Córdoba 29 2. Archives and Repertoires 46 3. Participation 66 4. Critical Recovery 94 5. Systematic Devolution 130 6. Engagement and Reflection 169 7. Fals Borda's Legacy 197 Notes 233 References Cited 243 Index

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Book SynopsisScientists have identified southern China as a likely epicenter for viral pandemics, a place where new viruses emerge out of intensively farmed landscapes and human--animal interactions. In Virulent Zones, Lyle Fearnley documents the global plans to stop the next influenza pandemic at its source, accompanying virologists and veterinarians as they track lethal viruses to China''s largest freshwater lake, Poyang Lake. Revealing how scientific research and expert agency operate outside the laboratory, he shows that the search for origins is less a linear process of discovery than a constant displacement toward new questions about cause and context. As scientists strive to understand the environments from which the influenza virus emerges, the unexpected scale of duck farming systems and unusual practices such as breeding wild geese unsettle research objects, push scientific inquiry in new directions, and throw expert authority into question. Drawing on fieldwork with global health Trade Review“Readers will come away with a newly visceral understanding of the phrase One Health, as they journey with scientists and epidemiologists through the bodies and ecologies of animal viruses in China. This is a book that rearranges one's sense of scale and time, with a slow and massive build to the sharpness of crisis and the paradoxical enormous scale of the microscopic at play in every scene.” -- Hannah Landecker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles“Virulent Zones tells an intricate story about ways the sciences interlace with geopolitics, with profound impacts on public health at many scales. Lyle Fearnley also provides new perspective on how the sciences advance, both geographically and conceptually, through displacement rather than discovery. This important book will be of critical interest to anthropologists and historians of science, scientists, and those working to build transnational scientific and governance capacity.” -- Kim Fortun, author of * Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones offers a gripping anthropological account of the search for the origins of influenza pandemics in China…. Virulent Zones is an outstanding scholarly work as it unmasks the mechanism of virus hunting and disease control in China at a time of marketization and globalization. It allows for an alternative understanding of the interplay of science and everyday life. It is highly recommended reading not only for anthropologists but also for anyone interested in public health in contemporary China.” -- Qiliang He * East Asian Science, Technology and Society *"[A] compelling argument for the move away from older microevolutionary theories of pathogenesis, based on competition of hosts and parasites, toward a more systemic and rigorous reckoning—a dynamic configuration—of how environments and animal populations (human and nonhuman) connect up to promote viral innovation. . . . We can read [it] with profit to learn more about our current predicament, to see how historical perceptions and responses are repeated or modified as we come to terms with the pandemic that confronts us today." -- Warwick Anderson * Public Books *“Virulent Zones reads like a detective novel uncanny in its timeliness to collective conditions today, as it follows the travails of scientists across continents, trying to locate the origins of viral pandemics.” -- Emily Ng * Somatosphere *“Virulent Zones would make an excellent addition to any course covering topics in global health, medical anthropology, the production of scientific knowledge, networks, and expertise, or the history of medicine and public health.... Those who want to know more about pandemic planning and viral surveillance in the wake of COVID-19 will also find this an invaluable resource.” -- Theresa MacPhail * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *“Virulent Zones shows how science and geopolitics intersect and how this has an important impact on global health. As such, it is a key text for medical anthropologists and sociologists, historians of science, STS researchers, and those working in global health.” -- Giulia De Togni * New Genetics and Society *“Lyle Fearnley’s Virulent Zones . . . is a timely and reflexive ethnographic account of global focus on China as the ‘epicenter’ of new zoonotic diseases. . . . This book kicks off an important and enthusiastic discussion about global health and China.” -- Shao-hua Liu * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Virulent Zones is an impressively timely book. . . . [Some remaining] questions indicate the rich potential of the ideas articulated so lucidly by Fearnley in this excellent book.” -- Mary Augusta Brazelton * Journal of Asian Studies *“Virulent Zones is an excellent, informative book that serves as a welcome and valuable addition to the growing literature on the anthropology of epidemics. . . . It also serves as an important contribution to the anthropology of science, human-animal interactions, the environment, agriculture, and China.” -- Katherine A. Mason * Anthropological Quarterly *“[Fearnley’s] analysis goes beyond a classic medical anthropology approach; he navigates between different areas and topics of social studies (sciences, expertise, international relations, rurality, etc.) to forge alliances between different fields of knowledge, and to work across the classic divisions. This is crucial to address the complexity of emerging diseases.” -- Muriel Figuié * Review Of Agriculatural Food And Environmental Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Part I. Ecology 1. The Origins of Pandemics 27 2. Pathogenic Reservoirs 48 Part II. Landscape 3. Livestock Revolutions 65 4. Wild-Goose Chase 97 Part III. Territory 5. Affinity and Access 125 6. Office Vets and Duck Doctors 156 Conclusion. Vanishing Points 191 Notes 213 Bibliography 249 Index 271

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Book SynopsisChristina Schwenkel analyzes the collaboration between East German and Vietnamese architects and urban planners as they attempted to transform the bombed-out industrial city of Vinh into a model socialist city.Trade Review“A triumph of interdisciplinary and transnational scholarship! Following a compelling new case of international ‘high-socialist’ architecture, Christina Schwenkel bridges the histories of and scholarship on Eastern European and Asian socialisms. The oft-maligned but poorly understood city of Vinh proves to be an unexpected center of international solidarity and a riveting example of human resilience. Its story offers a significant perspective on Vietnamese history, socialist internationalism, postwar reconstruction, post-socialism, neoliberal redevelopment, and urban history.” -- Erik Harms, author of * Luxury and Rubble: Civility and Dispossession in the New Saigon *“In this extraordinary book, the anthropological and architectural histories of the city of Vinh emerge between the hour zero when B-52s fly over Vinh and the ebbing of obsolescence. Christina Schwenkel addresses urban space and design in an enlightening and unsettling manner, evoking and explaining the ‘building of socialism’ as both a Vietnamese and an East German phenomenon in its postcolonial and postmodern contexts.” -- Rudolf Mrázek, Professor Emeritus of History, University of Michigan“Schwenkel explores the main built legacy of this alliance [between Vietnam and East Germany], the Quang Trung housing estate in Vinh.... The story she has to tell, and the research she has undertaken in several years living on the estate...[is] informative, surprising, and often very moving.” -- Owen Hatherley * Jacobin Magazine *“A model of transnational urban research, Building Socialism uncovers the history of Vinh’s role as a global planning hub, while also attending to the afterlife of socialist modernism for those residing in the city today." -- Katherine Zubovich * The Metropole *"Building Socialism is . . . an indispensable addition to our understanding of urban Asia." -- Abidin Kusno * Journal of Asian Studies *"The book offers a novel and broader understanding of the urban development projects in postwar Vietnam with its social and political trajectories aided by an impressive collection of archival material. . . . Altogether, Christina Schwenkel’s work is a refreshing and groundbreaking addition not only to the study of the global history of the GDR but, first and foremost, to the study of Vietnam’s building of socialism." -- Katrin Bahr * German Studies Review *"Exemplary scholarship. . . . The book's theoretical reflections challenge some calcified notions in current scholarship and intelligentsia, and show the incredibly similar housing experiences and cultural-imperialist tendencies of both capitalism and socialism." -- Esra Ackan * Berlin Journal *"Building Socialism is a remarkably illuminating transnational and interdisciplinary study of socialist nation building, examined through the lenses of internationalism, urban planning and architecture, and an ethnography of a mass housing estate. . . . The author very much succeeds in presenting a cohesive, theoretically rich work of in-depth investigation." -- Hazel Hahn * H-Urban *"Building Socialism is a captivating, imaginative, and significant contribution in anthropology, Vietnamese history, urban history, and history of urban planning. It is suitable for assigning in both graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses." -- Hazel Hahn * H-Urban, H-Net Reviews *"This engaging book ties together the legacies of the Vietnam War, East German urbanism, and contemporary neoliberal development to produce a narrative that is greater than the sum of its parts, shedding much-needed light on the complexity of modernism’s social and material durabilities." -- Samantha Maurer Fox * Anthropological Review *"Though somewhat theoretical, this book is ultimately accessible to a broad readership. It will be of most interest to scholars and students of urban planning, urban anthropology, and urban studies. Highly recommended. Lower division undergraduates through faculty; professionals" -- M. E. Pfeifer * Choice *"The book’s strength is that it expands our understanding of the multiplicity of urbanisms. . . . Building Socialism is an achievement that warrants the attention of every scholar interested in the urbanism of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, well beyond Vietnam." -- Takanari Fujita * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsList of Figures, Plates, and Tables vii Abbreviations xi A Note on Translation and Transliteration xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction 1 Part I. Ruination 1. Annihilation 25 Interlude. Urban Fragments 1 43 2. Evacuation 45 Interlude. Urban Fragments 76 3. Solidarity 78 Part 2. Reconstruction 4. Spirited Internationalism 105 Interlude. Urban Fragments 3 129 5. Rational Planning 131 Interlude. Urban Fragments 4 159 6. Utopian Housing 161 Part 3. Obsolescence 7. Indiscipline 211 8. Decay 232 9. Renovation 260 10. Revaluation 293 Conclusion. On the Future of Utopias Past 316 Notes 323 References 357 Index

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Book SynopsisFor six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name, Stovall uses the project as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighbors—which touch on everything from economics, aesthetics, and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroit''s history—bring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges, Stovall enacts an innovative form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone.Trade Review“For [Maya] Stovall, how we know is the operative question. Through such a simple act, dancing on the sidewalk before these business establishments, she sparks so much one-on-one engagement that has led to long-term dialogues. It is through her performances that she is able to bring into relief what affects the lives of her community: the economic, racial, historic, political, social forces that shape the area's inhabitants and the built environment that surrounds them.” -- Christopher Y. Lew, from the foreword“Maya Stovall's wildly ambitious, experimental, poetic, and multimodal ethnographic engagement reimagines what the ethnographic encounter entails and demands while asking us to reconsider the very nature of scholarly research in urban America.” -- John L. Jackson Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania“An important contribution to the conversation on performance ethnography and the ethics of representing racialized bodies in urban space, Liquor Store Theatre is a singular type of immersion across ethnography, historiography, geography, and art.” -- Aimee Meredith Cox, author of * Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship *"The interest many will find here is the unexpectedness and complexity of the lives she reveals. Residents share memories and discuss neighborhood changes, talk about their experiences with family and work, housing, shopping, education, transportation, and their understanding of the forces that have shaped their lives. These are individuals, not subjects, and Stovall offers the particularities that good storytelling requires. Once we are able to see them as individuals, the residents of McDougall-Hunt are hard to ignore." -- Andrea Kirsh * Artblog *"Stovall is an anthropologist by training, and this becomes abundantly clear in the first few pages of Liquor Store Theatre, which is meticulously researched and scintillatingly told. . . . The publication of Liquor Store Theatre therefore becomes a space to unpack the true depth of the project, as well as a site for exploring Stovall’s larger research methodology." -- Alice Bucknell * Pin-Up Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword / Christopher Y. Lew xiii Prologue 1 Introduction 25 1. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2014) 47 2. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2014) 58 3. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2014) 70 4. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015) 76 5. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015) 87 6. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015) 99 7. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2016) 107 8. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2016) 120 9. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 5 (2016) 133 10. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 6 (2016) 156 11. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 7 (2016) 165 12. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017) 178 13. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2017) 187 14. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2017) 202 15. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017) 211 16. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2017) 217 17. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 6 (2017) 224 18. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 7 (2017) 233 19. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2018) 247 Acknowledgments 263 Notes 265 Bibliography 287 Index 299

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Book SynopsisMimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region, showing how vulnerability to ecological collapse and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics.Trade Review“An accomplished and brilliant scholar, Mimi Sheller writes with imagination and insight, a deep theoretical sophistication, and an eye toward the configuration of new epistemic visions and approaches grounded in Caribbean realities. I can't think of any other analysis of the contemporary Haitian and Caribbean context quite like this important book.” -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *“In this timely and timeless book, Mimi Sheller offers a long overdue critical historical analysis of the contemporary state of infrastructure and climate change in the Caribbean at a time when its environmental vulnerabilities and dependencies could not be more apparent. Island Futures is an outstanding and groundbreaking book set to provoke and sustain dialogues across disciplines and beyond.” -- Gina Athena Ulysse, author of * Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, and the World *"I wish all researchers of the Caribbean, but especially those recently drawn to the region seeking to find quick answers to their research questions, could read Island Futures. In it they will find an excellent model to emulate how to ethically engage with a culture, place, and people without reproducing the coloniality of climate change. In addition, the book is recommended for journal and book editors who after reading how ethical research in the Caribbean can be conducted should be able to articulate similar ethical demands to their authors." -- Joaquín Villanueva * Journal of Latin American Geography *"The significance of Island Futures lies in the way the structure of each chapter, and the structure of the book as a whole, gradually reveal the uneven economies of racialized desire. . . . [Sheller] takes readers to the edge of an ethical aporia where our own decisions on how to engage with opacity and difference in White supremacist societies contribute to or foreclose alternative future-making projects." -- Kevin Grove * AAG Review of Books *"Island Futures is a work with a rich content, reflections and imaginaries on just recoveries from disaster colonialism and climate colonialism, and alternatives to development in the Anthropocene. . . . This book will be of great interest to Caribbean studies and disaster studies scholars, and to anyone interested in broadening their notions of what development is and what it should look like. Individual chapter could be useful as main or complementary readings in modules at the graduate or late bachelor levels." -- Gibrán Cruz-Martínez * Alternautas *"Island Futures is a fascinating, important book, one whose urgency and honesty will challenge a wide range of readers, including scholars in several disciplines and students well versed in Haitian and Caribbean studies." -- John Patrick Walsh * Journal of Haitian Studies *"Island Futures is a vital provocation and contribution toward visions of sustainable and just futures. Sitting in productive dialogue with scholarly work in disaster and mobility studies, this timely book resonates with myriad disciplinary strands, such as Caribbean philosophy and human geographies. As a valuable addition to decolonizing literatures, this book is a 'must-read.'" -- Shiva S. Mohan * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsPreface: An Autobiography of My Mother ix Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction: Im/Mobile Disaster 1 1. Kinopolitical Power 29 2. Water Power 48 3. Aerial Power 65 4. Digital Power 83 6. Sexual Power 129 Conclusion: Surviving the Anthropocene 144 Afterword: This Is Not a Requiem 159 Notes 173 Bibliography 193 Index 217

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Book SynopsisEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan examines how the young men of Delhi's hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.Trade Review“A rich narrative of urban transformation told from the perspectives of young men on the margins of Delhi. This lucid ethnography illuminates how hip hop and digital media entangle cultural worlds and redefine classed masculinity. A riveting read with cross-disciplinary appeal, The Globally Familiar opens new perspectives about urbanity from below.” -- Radha S. Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has produced a wonderfully rich, nuanced narrative of Delhi's hip hop scene. Engaging with young men from India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Nepal, The Globally Familiar is not only brilliantly and elegantly theorized but methodologically innovative and sophisticated. Combining the tradition of ‘hiphopography’ with digital production and participation, Dattatreyan's narrative not only bristles with insights about youth cultural production vis-à-vis race, masculinity, capitalism, and the global but also pushes global hip hop studies to the next level by demonstrating the power of sustained commitment to both the culture and those who produce it. The Globally Familiar is a rare gem.” -- H. Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles“The Globally Familiar convincingly argues that migrant working class young men’s performance of hip hop’s sonic, visual and kinemic aesthetics enables them to reimagine and remake the self and the city.... The book makes a stunning contribution to the burgeoning research on digital cultures, globalization, South Asian urban neighbourhoods and masculinity.” -- Anjali Gera Roy * Popular Music *“I am thrilled to learn from and teach this ethnography. With The Globally Familiar, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has blown up the stage of the normative anthropological and cultural studies understanding of popular culture, India, urban aesthetics, subaltern life, global connections, and hip-hop.” -- Stanley Thangaraj * Current Anthropology *“The Delhi that emerges from Dattatreyan’s richly textured writing is like a contact zone or a borderland; a contested, unequal, but not unimaginable or unimaginative urban space.... A concept like the globally familiar allows for a complex understanding of how globalization transforms our cities from below.” -- Jaspal Naveel Singh * AAG Review of Books *“In The Globally Familiar, Gabriel Dattatreyan presents an intimate, complex, and ultimately hopeful ethnography of the hip hop scene in Delhi, India, capturing how hip hop’s meaning comes to be contested in its global circulation and uptake by young men in Delhi.” -- Amanda Weidman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality of cultural activity in India outside of the elite.” -- Sara Hakeem Grewal * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Friendship and Romance 21 2. The Materially Familiar 49 3. Labor and Work 79 4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107 5. Urban Development 135 6. Race and Place 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241

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Book SynopsisKajri Jain examines how the monumental statues erected in India following its economic reforms in the 1990s became a favored religious and political form with which to assert cultural, political, religious, and caste power.Trade Review“Instead of lamenting the lack of a progressive secular spirit, Kajri Jain offers a rich, complex, and thoroughly fascinating account of how religiosity itself is being transformed in contemporary India into a public arena of democratic politics. Combining capitalist ambition with electoral competition, the proliferation of religious statuary brings together sacred texts, technology, automobility, and numerology into a new political aesthetic of monumentalism and spectacle. Jain argues persuasively that aesthetics is constitutive of politics, often in unexpected ways.” -- Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University“Kajri Jain's extraordinary book on monumental statuary cuts across art history and visual culture. Gods and leaders are together framed within what she startlingly calls ‘the aesthetics of democracy.’ Here aesthetics as a redistributive principle generates her premise of emergence: counter-positioning of the oppressed majority, their appropriation of image, material structures, and publics within India's severely stratified society increasingly subject to fascistic Hindutva. The rise of right-wing regimes worldwide will position Jain's brilliant discourse within complex contestations on what is the aesthetics of democracy today.” -- Geeta Kapur, author of * When Was Modernism: Essays on Contemporary Cultural Practice in India *“Gods in the Time of Democracy is a complex and challenging attempt at reframing the discussion around monumental iconography in India and its diaspora.... The book is a valuable contribution to contemporary art history and religious studies.” -- Manasvin Rajagopalan * Reading Religion *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Emergence 1 1. Statues and Sculptors 29 2. Democracy 81 3. Iconopraxis 120 4. Cars and Land 181 5. Scale 220 Notes 259 Bibliography 307 Index 323

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Book SynopsisIn Militarized Global Apartheid Catherine Besteman offers a sweeping theorization of the ways in which countries from the global north are reproducing South Africa''s apartheid system on a worldwide scale to control the mobility and labor of people from the global south. Exploring the different manifestations of global apartheid, Besteman traces how militarization and securitization reconfigure older forms of white supremacy and deploy them in new contexts to maintain this racialized global order. Whether using the language of security, military intervention, surveillance technologies, or detention centers and other forms of incarceration, these projects reinforce and consolidate the global north''s political and economic interests at the expense of the poor, migrants, refugees, Indigenous populations, and people of color. By drawing out how this new form of apartheid functions and pointing to areas of resistance, Besteman opens up new space to theorize potential sources of libeTrade Review“In Militarized Global Apartheid, Catherine Besteman brings together two worlds that are as separate as possible yet shape each other in a dynamic they cannot quite escape. Even though inevitably the powerful have killer instruments that those without power lack, Besteman finds the many ways in which they also mark each other. She emphasizes the extent to which Western modes of production and labor force management generally did not bring a better world to the workers of Africa. This is a must-read book!” -- Saskia Sassen, author of * Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy *“Catherine Besteman's wonderfully capacious framework for understanding the myriad lines of division and modes of domination that compose the contemporary global order is both intellectually satisfying and politically urgent.” -- Michael Hardt, coauthor of * Assembly * "Militarized Global Apartheid isn’t light reading—good reading, yes; important reading, surely; light reading—no. . . . What Besteman adds to this conversation about capital’s exploitative power is a piecemeal categorization of the varied techniques the Global North uses to exploit the Global South." -- Joseph Hurtgen * Ancillary Review of Books *“Militarized Global Apartheid does more than just describe the system and strategies that are in place to gate the North from the South.... [It] is not simply a description of violent border regimes, it is a challenge for all of us to reflect on our own relationship to them.” -- Georgina Ramsay * PoLAR *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Argument 1 1. Belonging 21 2. Plunder 40 3. Containment 61 4. Labor 83 5. Militarization 101 6. Futures 126 Acknowledgments 137 Notes 139 References 157 Index 187

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Book SynopsisMarina Peterson traces entanglements of environmental noise, atmosphere, sense, and matter that cohere in and through encounters with airport noise at Los Angeles International Airport since the 1960s, showing how noise is central to how we know, feel, and think atmospherically.Trade Review“An exemplary experiment in compositional thinking and writing, Atmospheric Noise buzzes with conceptual and methodological inventiveness. Through the style in which it deftly traces the uneven emergence and refraction of urban noise across archives, concepts, bodies, regulations, and experience, Marina Peterson's book brilliantly performs its own argument about the importance of an ethos of informed listening. Atmospheric Noise should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in understanding and writing about the atmospheric conditions of worlds.” -- Derek P. McCormack, author of * Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment *“Writing in and through the movements of people, butterflies, planes, and homes; the shifts in environmental discourse; and varied human-nonhuman entanglements, Marina Peterson brings us a story and a book that will resonate across fields for years to come. Original, compelling, and evocative.” -- Nicole Starosielski, author of * The Undersea Network *"Peterson’s prose is always lyric, tidal almost, but she sacrifices neither scholarly rigor nor theoretical ferocity in her pursuit of how sound gets us into questions, spaces, activities, constructions, and the politics of infrastructure. Atmospheric Noise is the story of a city remade (parts indeed sacrificed) around an airport, flight paths, and racket. It’s also the story of instrumentation, calibration, and how we both measure and experience what we claim to know. It’s a shining example of what, with care, ethnography can be." -- Gretchen Bakke * Public Books *"Peterson conceptualizes the act of listening as an intervention into the atmosphere, which originates these categories and definitions, while sound itself remains immaterial and unquantifiable. Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals." * Choice *"Atmospheric Noise is an engaging and timely piece of scholarship. At its most successful, the work draws jarring, cacophonous resonances between the science and engineering of acoustics, urban political economy, governmentality, the metaphysics of sound, and the social construction of ecology and environment. It amplifies the possibilities of social science inquiry in its call for attunement to noise, to sound, to an atmospheric sensibility as method." -- Andrew Merrill * Public *"Atmospheric Noise is a rich and complex interrogation of urban noise, and there is much to engage readers interested in sonic philosophy, auditory culture, and histories of acoustics. . . . Atmospheric Noise offers an original account of how the sounds of Los Angeles airport came to shape lives, neighbourhoods, and the urban environment." -- Marie Thompson * Yearbook for Traditional Music *"This study offers researchers in fields including music, sound studies, urban planning, and American studies a model for the possible contributions of new materialism’s methodological assumptions. In doing so it invites readers and researchers to be sensitive to new attunements demanded by the changing (post)human onto-epistemologies supporting our own entanglements with the sonic in music and other regimes of tonality." -- Andrew J. Kluth * Journal of the Society for American Music *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Aerial Attunements 19 2. Noise Annoys 45 3. Environmental Imaginaries 77 4. Murmurs: Experiments in Glitching 105 5. Vibrating Matter 129 6. Indefinite Urbanism 155 Notes 185 References 207 Index 231

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Book SynopsisExperimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, showing how to use drawn images as a way to analyze data, or working with smartphones, sound recordings, and social media as analytic devices, the contributors explore the deliberate processes for pursuing experimental thinking through ethnography. Practical and broad in theoretical scope, Experimenting with Ethnography is an indispensable companion for all ethnographers.Trade Review“This innovative book about ethnography as knowledge provokes in all the right ways. Packed with concrete and creative suggestions for doing, writing, and teaching ethnography well beyond anthropology, Experimenting with Ethnography offers thoughtful inspiration for anyone seeking to sharpen their analytical skills.” -- Carole McGranahan, editor of * Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment *“Along with much else, analysis is at risk today, as it is equated with actionable findings, tempting us to bracket everything that's confusing. What to do? Let this stunning gathering of anthropologists surprise, puzzle, and enlighten you: their work opens up an altogether different mode of analysis, one that expands the range of incompatibilities that can be held together in thought, a critical competence for anyone committed to knowing and acting in and with, not merely of and on, our world.” -- Noortje Marres, author of * Digital Sociology: The Reinvention of Social Research *"Invaluable. Any qualitative researchers, not just ethnographers, would benefit from the practical, hands-on protocols, as well as the imaginative and diverse projects the authors reference. No other book I have come across offers more stimulating and practical guidance on undertaking analysis of ethnographic material." -- Emily Zimbrick-Rogers * Practical Theology *"I was continually inspired as I read through this collection of essays and heartened by the willingness of the authors to reveal the inner workings of how ethnographic analysis may unfold. I highly recommend Experimenting with Ethnography to anyone who already has a hunch that ethnographic analysis is not an endpoint but rather a stop along the way." -- Christine Hegel * Anthropos *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Analysis as Experimental Practice / Andrea Ballestero and Brit Ross Winthereik 1 Part I. Bodily Practices and Relocations 1. Tactile Analytics: Touching as a Collective Act / Patricia Alvarez Astacio 15 2. The Ethnographic Hunch / Sarah Pink 30 3. The Para-Site in Ethnographic Research Projects / George E. Marcus 41 4. Juxtaposition: Differences That Matter / Else Vogel 53 Part II. Physical Objects 5. Relocating Innovation: Postcards from Three Edges / Endre Dányi, Lucy Suchman, and Laura Watts 69 6. Object Exchange / Trine Mygind Korsby and Anthony Stavrianakis 82 7. Drawing as Analysis: Thinking in Images, Writing in Words / Rachel Douglas-Jones 94 8. Diagrams: Making Multispecies Temporalities Visible / Elaine Gan 108 Part III. Infrastructural Play 9. Ethnographic Drafts and Wild Archives / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 123 10. Multimodal Sorting: The Flow of Images across Social Media and Anthropological Analysis / Karen Waltorp 133 11. Categorize, Recategorize, Repeat / Graham M. Jones 151 12. Sound Recording as Analytic Technique / Brit Ross Winthereik and James Maguire 163 Part IV. Incommensurabilities 13. Substance as Method (Shaking Up Your Practice) / Joseph Dumit 175 14. Excreting Variously: On Contrasting as an Analytic Technique / Justine Laurent, Oliver Human, Carolina Domínguez Guzmán, Els Roding, Ulrike Scholtes, Marianne de Laet, and Annemarie Mol 186 15. Facilitating Breakdowns through the Exchange of Perspectives / Steffen Dalsgaard 198 16. Analogy / Antonia Walford 209 17. Decolonizing Knowledge Devices / Ivan da Costa Marques 219 18. Writing an Ethnographic Story in Working toward Responsibly Unearthing Ontological Troubles / Helen Verran 235 19. Not Knowing: In the Presence of . . . / Marisol de la Cadena 246 Afterword 1. Questions, Experiments, and Movements of Ethnographies in the Making / Melanie Ford Lemus and Katie Ulrich 257 Afterword 2. Where Would You Put This Volume? On Thinking with Unruly Companions in the Middle of Things / Clément Dréano and Markus Rudolfi 262 References 267 Contributors 287 Index 295

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Book SynopsisIn Thinking Like a Climate Hannah Knox confronts the challenges that climate change poses to knowledge production and modern politics. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England—birthplace of the Industrial Revolution—Knox explores the city''s strategies for understanding and responding to deteriorating environmental conditions. Climate science, Knox argues, frames climate change as a very particular kind of social problem that confronts the limits of administrative and bureaucratic techniques of knowing people, places, and things. Exceeding these limits requires forging new modes of relating to climate in ways that reimagine the social in climatological terms. Knox contends that the day-to-day work of crafting and implementing climate policy and translating climate knowledge into the work of governance demonstrates that local responses to climate change can be scaled up to effect chaTrade Review“What makes climate change mitigation so challenging, even for activists and municipal officials committed to the project? Working with planners, experts, and citizens seeking to redress the most pernicious impacts of climate change in Manchester, Hannah Knox has produced the most stunning and thought-provoking ethnographic account of climate change that I have read. She urges us to consider climate change as a ‘form of thought’—a pattern produced when spreadsheets, green moralities, technologies, and modes of calculation interact. These interactions, she argues, not only remake what climate means, or what counts as climate action: they demand nothing less than a revolutionary transformation of our understandings of humanity and responsibility in the contemporary moment.” -- Nikhil Anand, author of * Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai *“We know that industrial activity is altering our planet's atmosphere, and that we need to act fast to mitigate it. But what should we do, exactly? Through her careful and inventive exploration of climate change activism in Manchester, anthropologist Hannah Knox provides pathways to answering this vital yet difficult question. Her stellar ethnography demonstrates that we will learn how to ‘think like a climate,’ building connections rather than boundaries.” -- Gökçe Günel, author of * Spaceship in the Desert: Energy, Climate Change, and Urban Design in Abu Dhabi *“In this innovative ethnographic study, Hannah Knox takes the reader on a journey through the city of Manchester, UK, telling the story of climate change through the lives of those who model, govern, and enact it.... Researchers interested in environmental politics...will find great value in reading this book.” -- Danial H. Naqvi * Environmental Politics *“Thinking Like a Climate has a sense of urgency.... The book shows the vitality of new anthropological and geographical analyses of climate action in practice and their creativity in a collective effort to take seriously the material conditions of climate action.” -- Vanesa Castán Broto * AAG Review of Books *“One of the most important contributions of [Thinking Like a Climate] is Knox’s position as an engaged researcher who is implicated in Manchester’s contextually specific climate dynamics. . . . Knox argues that addressing the climate crisis requires a fundamental recalibration of how we think about and act upon the world." -- Andrew Karvonen * LSE Review of Books *“Thinking Like A Climate convincingly demonstrates why an anthropologi­cal approach is essential to the study of climate change. Methodologically, Knox has produced a compelling case that to understand climate change as a material-discursive phenomenon, the methods of ethnography are not only useful but crucial.” -- Sydney Giacalone * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Matter, Politics, and Climate Change 1 Part I. Contact Zones Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story 35 1. 41% and the Problem of Proportion 40 How the Climate Takes Shape 63 2. The Carbon Life of Buildings 67 Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think Like a Climate 89 3. Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations 95 When Global Climate Meets Local Nature(s) 122 4. An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios 127 Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change 156 5. Stuck in Strategies 159 Part II. Rematerializing Politics 6. Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers 179 7. Activist Devices and the Art of Politics 205 8. Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack 234 Conclusion. "Going Native" in the Anthropocene 259 Notes 273 References 285 Index 305

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Book SynopsisEvo Morales, Bolivia''s first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country''s natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in the Age of Gas, Bret Gustafson explores how the struggle over natural gas has reshaped Bolivia, along with the rise, and ultimate fall, of the country''s first Indigenous-led government. Rethinking current events against the backdrop of a longer history of oil and gas politics and military intervention, Gustafson shows how natural gas wealth brought a measure of economic independence and redistribution, yet also reproduced political and economic relationships that contradicted popular and Indigenous aspirations for radical change. Though grounded in the unique complexities of Bolivia, the volume argues that fossil-fuel political economies worldwide are central to the reproduction of militarism and racial capitalism and suggests that progressive change demaTrade Review“Fossil capitalism, and the calamitous consequences of our dependence on coal and petroleum, is central to any understanding of life in the Anthropocene. Bret Gustafson offers up an original and compelling take on the oft-told tale of oil wealth, petroviolence, and the so-called curse of oil dependency by reinterpreting the colonial and postcolonial history of Bolivia through the country's relation to natural gas, what he calls the gaseous state. Gustafson draws together the temporalities, spaces, and excesses of a world built through the exploitation of gas and in so doing takes the reader on an exhilarating ride through US imperialism, the Bolivian state, Indigenous territoriality, the hard-edged world of pipelines, wellheads, violent corporate capital, and of course the rise and fall of Evo Morales. A book for our time.” -- Michael Watts, Class of 63 Professor, University of California, Berkeley“Bolivia in the Age of Gas is without a doubt the definitive account of the Bolivian petrostate and its subjects. It makes important contributions to anthropology, to Latin American studies, and to the emergent interdisciplinary literature in energy humanities. It is also a true pleasure to read, the rare scholarly page-turner that conveys critical analytical insights in terms and ethnographic moments that will captivate readers of all backgrounds.” -- Dominic Boyer, author of * Energopolitics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene *“Bret Gustafson’s Bolivia in the Age of Gas is an ambitious and exquisitely detailed historical ethnography of Bolivia and its complicated relation with gas (and oil).... Gustafson exudes an enviable clarity even as he insists on nuance, complexity and contradiction.” -- Maria Elena Garcia * ReVista *“Gustafson’s Bolivia in the Age of Gas examines the historical and contemporary cultural politics of Bolivia’s complex and often troubled relationship with natural gas.... Fundamental questions surface at the end of [Gustafson’s book] that chart new directions for political analyses of Latin American social movements....” -- Nicole Fabricant * NACLA Report on the Americas *"[Bolivia in the Age of Gas] provide[s] important insight into Bolivia and Ecuador, and into fossil-fuel capitalism writ large." -- Kim Fortun & James Adams * Public Books *"While [Bret Gustafson] assumes a degree of familiarity with Bolivian geography and political history, his writing is gripping, and the book will be fruitful for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses." -- C. Lurtz * Choice *"Gustafson’s book is historically expansive, beginning with the Chaco War of 1932–1935 and concluding with the 2020 ouster of Evo Morales, but it remains anchored and oriented by the ethnographer’s attention to the quotidian. The result is a compelling analysis of petropower in Bolivia shaped as much by the commanding heights of the global fossil empire and the military-industrial complex as by the gendered and colonial violence of everyday life on the gas frontier." -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Latin American Research Review *"Gustafson’s book is historically expansive, beginning with the Chaco War of 1932–1935 and concluding with the 2020 ouster of Evo Morales, but it remains anchored and oriented by the ethnographer’s attention to the quotidian. The result is a compelling analysis of petropower in Bolivia shaped as much by the commanding heights of the global fossil empire and the military-industrial complex as by the gendered and colonial violence of everyday life on the gas frontier." -- Donald V. Kingsbury * Latin American Research Review *“[Bolivia in the Age of Gas] is an important book, worthy of sustained and considered attention. From here forward, it will be required reading for all competent scholars wrestling with the various components of extractive capitalism in contemporary Bolivia from a variety of social science disciplines.” -- Jeffery R.Webber * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations ix Note on Labels and Language xiii Preface and Acknowledgments xv Introduction. Gaseous State 1 Part One. Time 1. Heroes of Chaco 27 2. Imperial Maneuvers 50 3. Las nalgas of YPFB 69 Part Two. Space 4. Gas Lock-In 97 5. Bulls and Beauty Queens 125 6. Just a Few Lashes 152 Part Three. Excess 7. Requiem for the Dead 179 8. Gas Work 202 9. Quarrel over the Excess 223 Postscript. Bolivia 2020 247 Notes 255 References 271 Index 293

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Book SynopsisFor six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this book of the same name, Stovall uses the project as a point of departure for understanding everyday life in Detroit and the possibilities for ethnographic research, art, and knowledge creation. Her conversations with her neighbors—which touch on everything from economics, aesthetics, and sex to the political and economic racism that undergirds Detroit''s history—bring to light rarely acknowledged experiences of longtime Detroiters. In these exchanges, Stovall enacts an innovative form of ethnographic engagement that offers new modes of integrating the social sciences with the arts in ways that exceed what either approach can achieve alone.Trade Review“For [Maya] Stovall, how we know is the operative question. Through such a simple act, dancing on the sidewalk before these business establishments, she sparks so much one-on-one engagement that has led to long-term dialogues. It is through her performances that she is able to bring into relief what affects the lives of her community: the economic, racial, historic, political, social forces that shape the area's inhabitants and the built environment that surrounds them.” -- Christopher Y. Lew, from the foreword“Maya Stovall's wildly ambitious, experimental, poetic, and multimodal ethnographic engagement reimagines what the ethnographic encounter entails and demands while asking us to reconsider the very nature of scholarly research in urban America.” -- John L. Jackson Jr., Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania“An important contribution to the conversation on performance ethnography and the ethics of representing racialized bodies in urban space, Liquor Store Theatre is a singular type of immersion across ethnography, historiography, geography, and art.” -- Aimee Meredith Cox, author of * Shapeshifters: Black Girls and the Choreography of Citizenship *"The interest many will find here is the unexpectedness and complexity of the lives she reveals. Residents share memories and discuss neighborhood changes, talk about their experiences with family and work, housing, shopping, education, transportation, and their understanding of the forces that have shaped their lives. These are individuals, not subjects, and Stovall offers the particularities that good storytelling requires. Once we are able to see them as individuals, the residents of McDougall-Hunt are hard to ignore." -- Andrea Kirsh * Artblog *"Stovall is an anthropologist by training, and this becomes abundantly clear in the first few pages of Liquor Store Theatre, which is meticulously researched and scintillatingly told. . . . The publication of Liquor Store Theatre therefore becomes a space to unpack the true depth of the project, as well as a site for exploring Stovall’s larger research methodology." -- Alice Bucknell * Pin-Up Magazine *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Foreword / Christopher Y. Lew xiii Prologue 1 Introduction 25 1. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 1 (2014) 47 2. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 2 (2014) 58 3. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 1, No. 3 (2014) 70 4. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 1 (2015) 76 5. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 2 (2015) 87 6. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 2, No. 3 (2015) 99 7. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 3 (2016) 107 8. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 4 (2016) 120 9. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 5 (2016) 133 10. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 6 (2016) 156 11. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 3, No. 7 (2016) 165 12. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2017) 178 13. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2017) 187 14. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 3 (2017) 202 15. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2017) 211 16. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 5 (2017) 217 17. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 6 (2017) 224 18. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 4, No. 7 (2017) 233 19. Liquor Store Theatre, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2018) 247 Acknowledgments 263 Notes 265 Bibliography 287 Index 299

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Book SynopsisIn Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a 'just recovery' in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti''s political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the 'coloniality of climate.' Sheller insists that alternative projects forTrade Review“An accomplished and brilliant scholar, Mimi Sheller writes with imagination and insight, a deep theoretical sophistication, and an eye toward the configuration of new epistemic visions and approaches grounded in Caribbean realities. I can't think of any other analysis of the contemporary Haitian and Caribbean context quite like this important book.” -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *“In this timely and timeless book, Mimi Sheller offers a long overdue critical historical analysis of the contemporary state of infrastructure and climate change in the Caribbean at a time when its environmental vulnerabilities and dependencies could not be more apparent. Island Futures is an outstanding and groundbreaking book set to provoke and sustain dialogues across disciplines and beyond.” -- Gina Athena Ulysse, author of * Because When God Is Too Busy: Haiti, Me, and the World *"I wish all researchers of the Caribbean, but especially those recently drawn to the region seeking to find quick answers to their research questions, could read Island Futures. In it they will find an excellent model to emulate how to ethically engage with a culture, place, and people without reproducing the coloniality of climate change. In addition, the book is recommended for journal and book editors who after reading how ethical research in the Caribbean can be conducted should be able to articulate similar ethical demands to their authors." -- Joaquín Villanueva * Journal of Latin American Geography *"The significance of Island Futures lies in the way the structure of each chapter, and the structure of the book as a whole, gradually reveal the uneven economies of racialized desire. . . . [Sheller] takes readers to the edge of an ethical aporia where our own decisions on how to engage with opacity and difference in White supremacist societies contribute to or foreclose alternative future-making projects." -- Kevin Grove * AAG Review of Books *"Island Futures is a work with a rich content, reflections and imaginaries on just recoveries from disaster colonialism and climate colonialism, and alternatives to development in the Anthropocene. . . . This book will be of great interest to Caribbean studies and disaster studies scholars, and to anyone interested in broadening their notions of what development is and what it should look like. Individual chapter could be useful as main or complementary readings in modules at the graduate or late bachelor levels." -- Gibrán Cruz-Martínez * Alternautas *"Island Futures is a fascinating, important book, one whose urgency and honesty will challenge a wide range of readers, including scholars in several disciplines and students well versed in Haitian and Caribbean studies." -- John Patrick Walsh * Journal of Haitian Studies *"Island Futures is a vital provocation and contribution toward visions of sustainable and just futures. Sitting in productive dialogue with scholarly work in disaster and mobility studies, this timely book resonates with myriad disciplinary strands, such as Caribbean philosophy and human geographies. As a valuable addition to decolonizing literatures, this book is a 'must-read.'" -- Shiva S. Mohan * Small States & Territories *Table of ContentsPreface: An Autobiography of My Mother ix Acknowledgments xxvii Introduction: Im/Mobile Disaster 1 1. Kinopolitical Power 29 2. Water Power 48 3. Aerial Power 65 4. Digital Power 83 6. Sexual Power 129 Conclusion: Surviving the Anthropocene 144 Afterword: This Is Not a Requiem 159 Notes 173 Bibliography 193 Index 217

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Book SynopsisEthiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan examines how the young men of Delhi's hip hop scene construct themselves on- and off-line and how digital platforms offer these young men the means to reimagine themselves and their city through hip hop.Trade Review“A rich narrative of urban transformation told from the perspectives of young men on the margins of Delhi. This lucid ethnography illuminates how hip hop and digital media entangle cultural worlds and redefine classed masculinity. A riveting read with cross-disciplinary appeal, The Globally Familiar opens new perspectives about urbanity from below.” -- Radha S. Hegde, Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has produced a wonderfully rich, nuanced narrative of Delhi's hip hop scene. Engaging with young men from India, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Somalia, and Nepal, The Globally Familiar is not only brilliantly and elegantly theorized but methodologically innovative and sophisticated. Combining the tradition of ‘hiphopography’ with digital production and participation, Dattatreyan's narrative not only bristles with insights about youth cultural production vis-à-vis race, masculinity, capitalism, and the global but also pushes global hip hop studies to the next level by demonstrating the power of sustained commitment to both the culture and those who produce it. The Globally Familiar is a rare gem.” -- H. Samy Alim, David O. Sears Presidential Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles“The Globally Familiar convincingly argues that migrant working class young men’s performance of hip hop’s sonic, visual and kinemic aesthetics enables them to reimagine and remake the self and the city.... The book makes a stunning contribution to the burgeoning research on digital cultures, globalization, South Asian urban neighbourhoods and masculinity.” -- Anjali Gera Roy * Popular Music *“I am thrilled to learn from and teach this ethnography. With The Globally Familiar, Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan has blown up the stage of the normative anthropological and cultural studies understanding of popular culture, India, urban aesthetics, subaltern life, global connections, and hip-hop.” -- Stanley Thangaraj * Current Anthropology *“The Delhi that emerges from Dattatreyan’s richly textured writing is like a contact zone or a borderland; a contested, unequal, but not unimaginable or unimaginative urban space.... A concept like the globally familiar allows for a complex understanding of how globalization transforms our cities from below.” -- Jaspal Naveel Singh * AAG Review of Books *“In The Globally Familiar, Gabriel Dattatreyan presents an intimate, complex, and ultimately hopeful ethnography of the hip hop scene in Delhi, India, capturing how hip hop’s meaning comes to be contested in its global circulation and uptake by young men in Delhi.” -- Amanda Weidman * Journal of Anthropological Research *“The Globally Familiar is an important work in providing a fully intersectional ethnography of the hip hop subculture in Delhi. This book has broad implications for helping us understand global hip hop outside of the West, as well as the globality of cultural activity in India outside of the elite.” -- Sara Hakeem Grewal * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Friendship and Romance 21 2. The Materially Familiar 49 3. Labor and Work 79 4. Hip Hop Ideologies 107 5. Urban Development 135 6. Race and Place 163 Epilogue 191 Notes 205 Bibliography 229 Index 241

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Book SynopsisThe Inheritance is anthropologist Elizabeth A. Povinelli's graphic memoir in which she explores her family's history and the events, traumas, and social structures that define our individual and collective pasts and futures.Trade Review“With the understanding of a scholar and the storytelling instincts of a novelist, Elizabeth A. Povinelli has brought a rare degree of scope and insight to the graphic memoir form. Relatively few illustrated works are so complex and insightful, so intricately concerned with families, nationalities, and politics. An extraordinary book.” -- Michael Cunningham, author of * The Hours *“A melancholy yet often darkly funny reflection on the intersections of biography, geography, kinship, and history, The Inheritance is a genuinely original work that made an impact on this reader and will leave a lasting mark on the field.” -- Naisargi N. Dave, author of * Queer Activism in India: A Story in the Anthropology of Ethics *"An inspired use of the graphic format to weave a narrative with a power beyond words alone." (Starred Review) * Kirkus Reviews *"This book is memoir, art, and anthropology, as it cleverly addresses the interplay between individual lives and collective experiences, thus inviting a more open and associative mode of interpretation than most academic monographs.… This text handles complex and contested social themes through sparing text and provocative imagery and as such is a unique contribution to the conversation on the legacies of European immigration to the United States." -- Caroline DeVane * Europe Now *"This is a fascinating study of family persona and their changing relationships, but it is not just an engaging family history. The book is also an analysis of the historical context, 'the patterns of violence, dislocation, racism and structural inequality' (p. xi) that shape US society." -- Louise Lamphere * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface xi Act I 1 Act II Papa The Vorburgers Gramma Act III Reading List

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Book SynopsisIn The Genealogical Imagination Michael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality. Drawing on over fifty years of fieldwork, Jackson recounts the 150-year history of a Sierra Leone family through its periods of prosperity and powerlessness, war and peace, jihad and migration. Jackson also offers a fictionalized narrative loosely based on his family history and fieldwork in northeastern Australia that traces how the trauma of wartime in one generation can reverberate into the next. In both stories Jackson reflects on different modes of being-in-time, demonstrating how genealogical time flows in stops and starts—linear at times, discontinuous at others—as current generations reckon with their relationships to their ancestors. Genealogy, Jackson demonstrates, becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being-in-the-world, as nobody can escape kinship and the pull of the past. UnconventionTrade Review“Michael Jackson has long been a source of inspiration for those of us interested in pushing the boundaries of anthropological writing, providing us with regular and often much-needed reminders of the high ethical stakes of such writerly experimentation. The Genealogical Imagination will be of immense interest to anthropologists, literary scholars, students and teachers of creative writing, and anyone interested in the expressive possibilities of writing as a means of exploring the ways in which humans exist in time.” -- Stuart McLean, author of * Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human *“I already have the sense that The Genealogical Imagination will not leave me alone in the years to come—that I will be haunted by it and worked upon by it in the way I am worked over by the stories of my own forebears. The Genealogical Imagination is an anthropological tour de force. It will inhabit the imagination of generations of anthropologists to come.” -- Lisa Stevenson, author of * Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic *Table of ContentsPreamble 1 Chronicles of the Barawa Marah Being-in-Time 7 Being of Two Minds 13 Koinadugu 23 Jihad and Colonization 33 Albitaiya 36 Primus inter Pares 41 Lifelines and Lineages 45 Prospero and Caliban 51 Tina Komé 56 Abdul's Reminiscences 63 Limitrophes 71 Noah's Story 78 Taking Stock 89 Ferensola 95 S. B.'s Story 99 After the War 107 Within These Four Walls 111 Passages 119 Relationship and Relativity 122 Endings 135 Only Connect 152 Transition 156 Fathers and Sons Part 1 Black Mountain 167 Clearing Out the Garage 174 A Hidden History 188 New Lives for Old 191 Billy 206 The Wet 208 Part II Aground on the Great Barrier 219 University 223 Maya 232 Families 237 Breaking Point 241 Part III The Unanimous Night 253 Weary Bay 259 Bulbul 267 Toby 270 The Reef 281 The Return 285 Postscript 288 Notes 293Index to Chronicles of the Barawa Marah 305

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Book SynopsisKareem Rabie examines how Palestine's desire to fully integrate its economy into global markets through large-scale investment projects represented a shift away from political state building with the hope that a thriving economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state.Trade Review“Palestine Is Throwing a Party is a brilliant, carefully researched, and thoughtful book. Kareem Rabie uses the lens of urban planning and development to show us how global processes of unequal capital accumulation, racialized labor and property regimes within Israel/Palestine, and the managerial rule of Palestinian technocrats and capitalists collaborating with Israel all persistently reproduce the violent systems of settler-colonial expropriation in Israel/Palestine since 1948.” -- Laleh Khalili, author of * Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula *“Drawing on his exceptional knowledge and understanding of Palestine, along with a considerable amount of original, innovative, and detailed fieldwork, Kareem Rabie presents thought-provoking insights on the question of urbanism in Palestine. This extremely interesting study makes an important contribution.” -- Adam Hanieh, author of * Money, Markets, and Monarchies: The Gulf Cooperation Council and the Political Economy of the Contemporary Middle East *"[A] detailed, often dense but intellectually penetrating look at how that conference heralded a significant change in both economic and political strategy." -- Ian Black * Tel Aviv Review of Books *"The capitalist concept of Palestine, despite its exclusion, is part of the normalised state-building process, which in turn normalises dealings with Israel. Rabie's book is a pragmatic approach that does not necessarily condone the alteration of Palestinian territory, but takes a dispassionate look at the facts." -- Ramona Wadi * Middle East Monitor *"By applying the analytic of settler colonialism without essentializing indigenous identity, and by theorizing the effects of global capitalism on Palestinian class formation, Palestine is Throwing a Party shows the way forward. Though there is nothing optimistic about its portrayal of relations between Palestinians and Israelis as a dark, distorting mirror, its reminder that the two groups are forever shaping one another against a backdrop of steep global inequalities will be crucial for any politics of democratic decolonization." -- Matan Kaminer * +972 Magazine *"Palestine Is Throwing a Party exemplifies the best of what ethnography can do: theoretically nuanced analysis derived from the specificities of social life rather than imposed on them. One of the many strengths of this ethnography is the way Rabie eschews easy invocations of a universal version of capitalism, instead making 'universalism' into an ethnographic object: first, by examining how capitalist investors in the West Bank invoke it to make their profit-seeking projects appear desirable, cosmopolitan, and inevitable, even as these projects are contingent and uncertain; and second, to illuminate how the liberalism of the Israeli legal system works to enhance Israel’s domination." -- Lisa Rofel * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Palestine is Throwing a Party can contribute to a wide range of literatures. . . . It should prove crucial reading to all those interested in the future of Palestine . . . as well as political economy approaches more broadly." -- Dana El Kurd * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"Brilliant . . . . Rabie’s book forces scholars to more deeply reflect upon and analyze contemporary forms of settler colonialism and the partial, constrained sovereignties under which indigenous peoples all over the world currently live and struggle." -- Les W. Field * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Rabie carefully disentangles the claims and political-economic goals of stability and freedom. This complicates the picture but is essential because it helps us understand what is going on in Palestine today and contributes to a discussion on the contours of a political future not confined to the nation-state form. In doing so, Rabie offers ways to think otherwise and imagine emancipatory futures." -- Timothy Seidel * American Anthropologist *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 1. The Site 37 2. Developers and Designers 54 3. Image, Process, and Precedent 67 4. Public Urban Planning 81 5. Housing Shortage and National Priority 93 6. Public-Private Partnership 105 7. Buyers and Villagers 131 8. Critique, Capital, and the Landscape 149 9. Settlers and the Land 163 10. The Law, Mirroring, and the State 183 Conclusion 199 Acknowledgments 213 Notes 217 References 235 Index 255

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary societies by taking up the everyday words such as democracy, revolution, and populism that we use to understand the political present.Trade Review“Emphasizing that words rest within social actions and social worlds and are woven into the fabric of the conceptual backdrop of contemporary politics, economics, and social worlds, this volume will have a major impact on our thinking about the fate of liberalisms and democracy.” -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of * The Inheritance *“Veena Das and Didier Fassin have assembled an arresting, methodologically innovative, and utterly relevant political lexicon. They have brought together a world-class group of authors who—with great sensitivity and insight—illuminate some of the concepts most urgently required for political understanding.” -- Alice Crary, author of * Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought *“Dark times require that, rather than reasserting fixed conceptual meanings and understandings, we follow Theodor Adorno in focusing upon the concept as both enabling and preventing access to the world. In this respect, [Words and Worlds] is an erudite reminder of the power of critical theory to put words to work while appreciating their ambiguous relation to reality.” -- David Chandler * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: From Words to Worlds / Didier Fassin and Veena Das 1 1. Knowledge / Veena Das 19 2. Democracy / Jan-Werner Müller 39 3. Authority / Banu Bargu 61 4. Belonging / Peter Geschiere 83 5. Toleration / Uday S. Mehta 103 6. Power / Alex De Waal 123 7. War / Julieta Lemaitre 143 8. Revolution / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 166 9. Corruption / Caroline Humphery 185 10. Openness / Todd Sanders and Elizabeth F. Sanders 205 11. Resilience / Jonathan Pugh 225 12. Inequality / Ravi Kanbur 243 13. Crisis / Didier Fassin 261 Bibliography 277 Contributors 299 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisCarolyn Hardin offers a new way of understanding arbitragethe trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profitas a means of showing how its reliance upon taking on risk is fundamental to financial markets.Trade Review“In this compelling work, Carolyn Hardin zeroes in on the founding paradox of modern finance—arbitrage or the possibility of risk-free gain—to illuminate the system of abstract capture in which we live. A bold new voice, Hardin updates the critique of capitalism for a financial age and proposes a new politics of risk-based solidarity for our times.” -- Melinda Cooper, author of * Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism *“This brilliant and beautifully written book sets a new standard for the social study of finance by exposing the paradox that arbitrage, the most frequent evil in the theory of finance, is the most reliable producer of financial profits in financial markets. This is a book for all scholars, both within and outside business schools, who want to find alternatives to the hegemony of finance in our everyday lives.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Capturing Finance provides a robust framework for analyzing arbitrage and the financial system it underpins. Drawing chiefly on Moishe Postone, with a touch of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardin combines a precise and flexible theoretical apparatus . . . with detailed technical analysis.” -- Jordan Sjol * Journal of Cultural Economy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Into the Lion's Den 1 1. Capitalism as Capture 11 2. Arbitrage in Theory 33 3. Arbitrage IRL 49 4. The Postonian Turn 68 5. Money Machines 87 6. The Emperor's New Clothes 105 Conclusion. A Politics of Risk 120 Notes 131 References 143 Index 155

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Book SynopsisDavid Boarder Giles traces the work of Food Not Bombs—a global movement of grassroots soup kitchens that recover wasted grocery surpluses and redistribute them to those in need—to examine the relationship between waste and scarcity in global cities under late capitalism and the fight for food justice.Trade Review“Chronicling the work of the urban justice organization Food Not Bombs, David Boarder Giles analyzes urgent and overlapping social, economic, and political concerns common in today's global cities. Giles engages with a range of scholarly disciplines and theoretical arguments eloquently and elegantly, while offering ethnographic details that are both vivid and convincing.” -- Robin Nagle, author of * Picking Up: On the Streets and Behind the Trucks with the Sanitation Workers of New York City *“In A Mass Conspiracy To Feed People, David Boarder Giles documents the rhizomatic magic by which the anarchist direct action group Food Not Bombs converts urban food waste into meals for the hungry and hope for a better world. Along the way he intertwines his own lived experience and a sophisticated critique of the contemporary capitalist city to create a beautiful book that is itself a recipe for a slow-simmering revolution.” -- Jeff Ferrell, author of * Drift: Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge *“[A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People] is appropriate for upper division undergraduate and graduate classes on social movements. . . . It is a must read for social activists looking to address equity issues in a neo-liberal, capitalist world. Kudos to Giles for providing such an excellent blueprint for ways in which the detritus of capitalism can be used to address the ills of the system." -- Michael L. Hirsch * International Social Science Review *“Themes of abject waste, abject communities, and the subversive potential of counterpublics form the structure of [A Mass Conspiracy to Feed People] and aptly carry the reader from the quotidian bin into new political possibilities.” -- Benjamin Wyatt * Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *"A Mass Conspiracy is an academic book with the aesthetics of an anarchist zine, replete with side-bar soup recipes, reproductions of FNB flyers, and vivid photographs of discarded food and abandoned people. This, combined with Giles’ lively prose, helps the reader through a dense theoretical argument. It also brings us back to what really matters: who and what is being thrown out of the towering heights of global cities, and what insights and possibilities we can recover from the wreckage." -- Alex V. Barnard * Mobilization *Table of ContentsPreface/Acknowledgments vii Prologue: Any Given Sunday in Seattle xi Introduction: Of Waste, Cities, and Conspiracies 1 Part I. Abject Capital Scene i: It's Thanksgiving in Seattle 27 1. The Anatomy of a Dumpster: Abject Capital and the Looking Glass of Value 31 Scene ii: Reckoning Value at the Market 55 2. Market-Publics and Scavenged Counterpublics 58 Part II: World-Class Cities, World-Class Waste Scene iii: If You Build It, They Will Come 91 3. Place-making and Waste-making in the Global City 97 Scene iv: Like a Picnic, Only Bigger, and with Strangers 117 4. Eating in Public: Shadow Economies and Forbidden Gifts 123 Part III: Slow Insurrection Scene v: "Rabble" on the Global Street 157 5. A Recipe for Mass Conspiracy 166 Scene vi: When I First Got to the Kitchen 198 6. Embodying Otherwise: Toward a New Politics of Surplus 202 Encore: A New Zeitgeist 233 Conclusion: Open Letters to Lost Homes (Political Implications) 235 Notes 255 Bibliography 271 Index 293

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Book SynopsisJafari S. Allen offers a sweeping and lively ethnographic and intellectual history of Black queer politics, culture, and history in the 1980s as they emerged out of radical Black lesbian activism and writing.Trade Review“A genre-transcending meditation on one of the most undertheorized periods in Black queer history, There’s a Disco Ball Between Us is a timely and necessary account of what the period leading up to, during, and after the long shadow of the 1980s means for the current moment in Black queer world-making. At once poetic and playful, it pushes the boundaries of traditional scholarship, providing a methodology for analyzing Black queer culture. To use the vernacular of the ballroom children, folks are going to gag at its deft reads, melodic writing, and creative rendering of Black queer history.” -- E. Patrick Johnson, author of * Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women *“In this innovative and generously envisioned book, Jafari S. Allen presents an unprecedented consideration of Black queerness as he weaves together a loving tapestry of Black feminist and Black queer theorists that spans half a century of critical work. Suffused with the ‘Blackfullness’ of queer love, loss, and world-making, There’s a Disco Ball Between Us is a lyrical, incisive, history-making, and paradigm-shifting work.” -- Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, author of * Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders *"A book to re-read in order to reach new depths, to see the reflections from the disco ball from yet another angle. . . . I strongly recommend this book to scholars and student within academia, across disciplines, to artists, writers, and activists outside of academia – to anyone seeking to explore and become more intimate with Black gay (and queer) habits of mind." -- Rebecka Rehnström * Anthropology Book Forum *"There’s a Disco Ball Between Us anthologizes desire as a glittering communal practice of Black/gay habit: as a moment of recognition between kith if not kin, as acknowledgement even if in quarrel, shifting lives in and out of time, dancing freedom." -- Sharanya * Full Stop *"This text does not shy away from the intellectual tradition of Black feminist affect in which it exists. Instead, Allen invites the reader into an experience that can work, if they choose to work it. Allen’s register is sharp, to the bone, and it shines. At times, I wondered if I was grown enough to know these things, or well read enough to show up to this conversation and hang. . . . For Allen, Black gay life is a refraction of fantasy and action. His critical ethnography builds upon a Black feminist drive to create embodied narratives. . . . His prose and rigorous engagement with the long 1980s invite the reader into conversation with a litany of elder co-conspirators." -- Charlene A. Carruthers * Public Books *"Jafari Allen’s There’s a Disco Ball Between Us has been so helpful and clarifying for me. . . ." -- Ashon Crawley * Public Books *"At once an intellectual history, a manifesto, a self-reflexive ethnography, and a memoir, Allen’s book is a genre-defying text that revises our understanding of the Black experience." -- Frank Andrew Guridy * Public Books *“Allen has skillfully woven together the experiences of an ‘anthologized generation’ without falling into the trap of eliding them. Rather, like a disco ball, the many reflections and refractions come together to form a theory of Black gay life that is at once coherent and infinitely diverse.” -- Baird Campbell * American Anthropologist *"Truly expansive. . . a call to read, think, and act differently." -- Emily R. Bock * Black Perspectives *"A stunning and ambitious model. . . . There’s a Disco Ball Between Us advances a vision for Black Queer historical inquiries, inquiries that utilize interdisciplinary methods, trouble conventional historical periodization, (re)constitute expansive archives and centers the Diaspora. This book stands as a comprehensive intellectual, social, and political history of Black queer life globally during the last five decades." -- Jennifer Dominique Jones * Black Perspectives *Table of ContentsAn Invitation ix Introduction. Pastness Is a Position 1 I. A Stitch in Space Time. The Long 1980s 25 1. The Anthological Generation 27 2. "What It Is I Think They Were Doing, Anyhow" 61 3. Other Countries 76 4. Disco 118 5. Black Nations Queer Nations? 139 II. Black/Queerpolis 165 6. Bonds and Disciplines 167 7. Archiving the Anthological at the Current Conjuncture 192 8. Come 221 9. "Black/Queer Mess" as Methodological Case Study 245 10. Unfinished Work 261 III. Conclusion. Lush Life (in Exile) 295 Acknowledgments 313 Notes 325 Bibliography 379 Index 403

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities.Trade Review“Through its attention to both the transnational cocaine commodity chain and the locally specific moral economies that have developed along it, Cocaine presents an innovative and urgent perspective. This highly original and engaging volume makes significant contributions to studies of crime, governance, economics, and Latin American studies.” -- Rivke Jaffe, author of * Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean *“A beautifully curated collection of rich and nuanced work surrounding cocaine, this outstanding book should be read across disciplines by policy makers, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and sensible political scientists.” -- Graham Denyer Willis, author of * The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil *"That rarest of edited volumes, one that genuinely changes the field, maintains structure and coherence, and never drifts into repetitiveness." -- Molly C. Ball * HAHR *"Cocaine offers new insights into the impact of narcotics in Latin America. It is an authoritative, interdisciplinary collection of studies geared to policy makers, social scientists, and historians that will undoubtedly strengthen their understanding of this complex subject." -- Jane Rausch * Journal of Global South Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi 1 1. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi 41 2. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands / Annette Idler 69 3. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss n Indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León 94 4. From Corumbá to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking / Robert Gay 117 5. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes 139 6. Drug Cartels, From Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templarios' Mirror Sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison 165 7. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers 190 8. "A Very Well Established Culture": Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser 209 9. Visible and Invisible "Cracklands" in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990–2017) / Taniele Rui 232 10. The Violence of the American Dream in Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos and Fernando Montero 254 11. Shifting South: Cocaine's Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975–2015 / Paul Gootenberg 287 Conclusion. Responding to Cocaine's Moral Economies / Enrique Desmond Arias 317 Contributors 341 Index 347

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Book SynopsisIn thirteen sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material forms of decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe.Trade Review“This innovative and ethnographically tantalizing book presents the notion of decay as a keyword for our times—times that are depressive and apocalyptic—and connects it to a broad array of terms that circulate in today's pop culture and critical scholarship. Decay's punchy and insightful essays introduce readers to an exciting new terrain in social theory, one that is good to think with and pregnant with possibility.” -- Charles Piot, author of * The Fixer: Visa Lottery Chronicles *“Striking out at the lack of decay in our conceptual approaches, Decay encourages anthropologists to examine entropy and the tendency toward disorder as a new way of thinking about social change, persistence, and relationality.” -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of * Between Gaia and Ground: Four Axioms of Existence and the Ancestral Catastrophe of Late Liberalism *“These essays in Decay provide an attractive opening invitation for further thought. Taking up the difficult task of uniting a disparate number of biological, physical, organisational, moral, political, personal and social concerns, they are provocative, imaginative and stimulating in their reach.” -- Helen Mackreath * LSE Review of Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: States of Decay / Ghassan Hage 1 1. Forever "Falling Apart": Semiotics and Rhetorics of Decay / Violeta Schubert 17 2. Trash and Treasure: Pathologies of Permanence on the Margins of Our Plastic Age / Debra McDougall 28 3. Infrastructure as Decay and the Decay of Infrastructure / Akhil Gupta 37 4. The Waterfall at the End of the World: Earthquakes, Entropy, and Explanation / Monica Minnegal, Michael Main, and Peter D. Dwyer 47 5. "Vile Corpse": Urban Decay as Human Beauty and Social Pollution / Michael Herzfeld 58 6. Decay or Fresh Contact? The Morality of Mixture after War's End / Bart Klem 73 7. Seeds of Decay / Fabio Mattioli 86 8. Discourses of Decay in Settler Colonial Australia / Elise Klein 99 9. Decay as Decline in Social Viability among Ex-Militiamen in Lebanon / Ghassan Hage 110 10. Relational Decay: White Helpers in Australia's Indigenous Communities / Cameo Dalley 128 11. Decay, Rot, Mold, and Resistance in the US Prison System / Tamara Kohn 140 References 153 Contributors 171 Index 175

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Book SynopsisObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifyingTrade Review"A powerful, original contribution to this emerging literature. . . . [T]hese two volumes will be of great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions." -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *"On its own or in conjunction with its companionate volume II on Orisa, Obeah, Orisa, & Religious Identity in Trinidad is a welcome and valuable contribution to Africana religious studies, Atlantic studies, and Caribbean historiography." -- Aisha Khan * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“A model of rigorous scholarship that offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the dynamic constructions of African religion and identity in Trinidad from the colonial period to the present.” -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction to Volume I 1 1. The Formation of a Slave Colony: Race, Nation, and Identity 13 2. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad’s Early Slave Society 52 3. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son: Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature 104 4. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad 141 Afterword. C’est Vrai—It Is True 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 241 Index 253

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Book SynopsisObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a religTrade Review"Stewart’s volume masterfully probes African Trinidadians’ use of Yoruba identified ritual poetics and social formations. ... These two volumes will be of very great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions." -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *“[A] theoretically sophisticated and intellectually stimulating publication by two of the foremost scholars of African heritage religions working in the academy today.” -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Used in Text ix Note on Orthography and Terminology xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction to Volume II 1 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad 9 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige 52 3. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power 83 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition 147 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora 221 Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana 249 List of Abbreviations Use in Notes 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 305 Index 327

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Book SynopsisSmitha Radhakrishnan explores India's microfinance industry, showing that despite the rhetoric about improving the everyday lives of women borrowers, the practice is a commercial industry that seeks to extract the maximum value from its customers.Trade Review“Smitha Radhakrishnan's compelling and important study of women in the world of microfinance is one of the best books I've read in several years. No other book on the market features this kind of data, access, or methods of triangulation. With its clear writing, rich stories and nuance, Making Women Pay will challenge readers to think more critically about how microfinance is deeply gendered. Engaging, moving, and powerful.” -- Kimberly Kay Hoang, author of * Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work *“While the scholarship on microfinance has become increasingly nuanced over the past three decades, we still lack critical information about the very people who put microfinance into practice—namely, the loan officers, educators, and field-workers who directly interface with clients and act as brokers between clients and administration, as well as upper-level administrators. Smitha Radhakrishnan fills this critical gap, offering readers a new analysis of microfinance that takes seriously microfinance workers at all levels as social agents. Reading this book is a breath of fresh air and a true delight.” -- Erin Beck, author of * How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs *"...[T]he book is fascinating and does well to showcase how markets hurt women. Recommended. Undergraduates and faculty." -- J. Bhattacharya * Choice *"Smitha Radhakrishnan combines a novelist’s eye with a sharp, feminist analysis. By sympathetically bringing to life the people she encounters in her research in southern India and the USA, she illustrates the serious underlying issues. . . Making Women Pay offers a disturbing but rewarding read." -- Deborah Eade * Gender & Development *"Compelling. . . ." -- Kevin P. Donovan * Boston Review *Table of ContentsAbbreviations and Acronyms ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. The Invisible State of Gender and Credit 25 2. Men and Women of the MFI 47 3. Making Women Creditworthy 70 4. Social Work 100 5. Empowerment, Declined 124 6. Distortions of Distance 148 7. Impact Revisited 177 Conclusion 197 Methodological Appendix 211 Notes 219 Bibliography 233 Index 245

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Book SynopsisAnalyzing a longitudinal study of HPV occurrence in men in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Emily A. Wentzell explores how people can use individual health behaviors like participating in medical research to enhance group well-being amid crisis and change.Trade Review“Collective Biologies is an engaging, theoretically astute, and crisply written ethnography of research participation and shifting notions of gender and modernity in Mexico. Emily A. Wentzell captures a sense of the way biomedical research increasingly becomes enfolded into the experiences and projects of everyday life and particular understandings and aspirations of modernity in a way that is both emergent and urgent to understand. Her thoughtful, accessible, and illuminating examination makes crucial contributions to scholarship in science studies, medical anthropology, and Latin American studies.” -- Megan Crowley-Matoka, author of * Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico *“Emily A. Wentzell's study challenges medicine's conception of ‘the body’ as a discrete entity and the way medical testing is done and the results understood. It is an excellent contribution to both medical anthropology and to public health.” -- Laura A. Lewis, author of * Chocolate and Corn Flour: History, Race, and Place in the Making of “Black” Mexico *"This solid contribution to medical anthropology reifies the concept that individuals enfold themselves into larger, collective, societal arenas. Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-division undergraduates. Graduate students, faculty, and professionals." -- G. R. Campbell * Choice *"Wentzell’s skill in describing these biological abstractions is impressive. She has the capacity to weave complex subjects together: class differences, Mexican gender norms, national stereotypes, history, the economy, racial stereotypes, sexual disease transmission, familial and educational concerns, perceptions of governmental function, and more." -- William Sorensen * The Latin Americanist *Table of ContentsPreface: Collective Biologies in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond ix Acknowledgments xiii 1. Sexual Health Research, Relationships, and Social Change in Cuernavaca 1 2. Performing Modern Masculinities in Medical Research 35 3. HPV and Couples Biology 52 4. Cultivating Companionate Families 81 5. Creating a "Culture of Prevention" 106 6. Evangelicals Participating as Piety 130 7. From "Human Subjects" to "Collective Biologies" 155 Appendix: The Study Design 181 References 189 Index 213

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity take an anthropological and comparative approach to capturing the diversity and growth of global film industries, bringing into relief common film production practices as well as the local contingencies and deeper cultural realities at work in every film industry.Trade Review“This field-framing book features eight exemplary case studies involving sophisticated fieldwork, comparative analysis, and provocative theorizing. It counters film studies' standard schemes, theorizing ‘modularity’ to explain production as simultaneously local and integral to ‘industries.’ Faulting media industries studies’ coherence and production studies for understating its anthropological debt, the book underscores the need for an interfield reckoning. Adding crucial Asian and African perspectives to the literature, this disciplinary boundary--making project pushes production studies to better explore its common ground with anthropology.” -- John T. Caldwell, Distinguished Research Professor, University of California, Los Angeles“Ramyar D. Rossoukh and Steven C. Caton have put together an exciting collection of essays with a uniformly high level of excellence. Located at a variety of sites around the world, each is ethnographically rich, analytically insightful, and well written. This will be a go-to book for courses in the anthropology of media, visual anthropology, and production studies.” -- Sherry B. Ortner, Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles"This volume shows us that film worlds are not constituted only by the film itself, the viewing experience, and the audience’s engagement with and interpretation of the content. Film creators work under complex conditions of creativity and constraint, local cultural expectations and understandings, and as part of teams, crews, and industries. Each chapter holds up a magnifying glass to different phases of filmmaking processes, analyzing their particular meanings, practices, and contributions to the actual film that audiences eventually watch." -- Reighan Gillam * American Anthropologist *“[Anthropology, Film Industries, Modularity] provides new and comparative insight on these industries’ differences as well as their similarities by being part of global cinema. This text will no doubt be a useful tool for researchers studying cinema and the ethnography and anthropology of film industries throughout the world.” -- Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi * Exertions *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction / Ramyar D. Rossoukh and Steven C. Caton 1 1. “English is So Precise and Hindi Can be So Heavy!”: Language Ideologies and Audience Imaginaries in a Dubbing Studio in Mumbai / Tejaswani Ganti 41 2. The Digital Devine: Postproduction of Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2005) / Ramyar D. Rossoukh 63 3. Journalists as Cultural Vectors: Film as the Building Blocks of News Narratives in India / Amrita Ibrahim 89 4. “This is Not a Film”: Industrial Expectations and Film Criticism as Censorship at the Bangladesh Film Censor Board / Lotte Hoek 109 5. “This Most Reluctant of Romantic Cities”: Dis-location Film Shooting in the Old City of Sana’a / Steven C. Caton 129 6. Stealing Shots: The Ethics and Edgework of Industrial Filmmaking / Sylvia J. Martin 163 7. Making Virtual Reality Film: An Untimely View of Film Futures from (South) Africa / Jessica Dickson 181 8. The Moroccan Film Industry: Á Contre-Jour: The Unpredictable Odyssey of a Small National Cinema / Kevin Dwyer 213 References 243 Contributors 267 Index 269

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Book SynopsisKaushik Sunder Rajan proposes a reconceptualization of ethnography as a multisituated practice that speaks to the myriad communities of accountability and the demands of doing and teaching anthropology in the twenty-first century.Trade Review“The remarkable transformations over the past thirty years in the nonetheless emblematic research process that still defines anthropologists have never been explored so comprehensively, so instructively, and so passionately by a gifted, imaginative teacher to those who become anthropologists today in a historically key department.” -- George E. Marcus, coeditor of * Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology’s Method in a Time of Transition *"This challenging and stimulating monograph is intended for faculty involved in training graduate students in ethnographic practice. . . . Highly recommended." -- W. Kotter * Choice *"Multisituated is a passionate and eloquent contribution to contemporary discussions about anthropology’s pasts, presents, and possible futures that deserves to be widely read and keenly debated." -- Stuart McLean * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. A Problem, a Paradox, a Politics . . . and a Praxis 1 1. Scale 29 2. Comparison 57 3. Encounter 91 4. Dialogue 136 Conclusion. Toward a Diasporic Anthropology 169 Notes 189 References 229 Index 245

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Book SynopsisMichael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality, showing how genealogy becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being in the world.Trade Review“Michael Jackson has long been a source of inspiration for those of us interested in pushing the boundaries of anthropological writing, providing us with regular and often much-needed reminders of the high ethical stakes of such writerly experimentation. The Genealogical Imagination will be of immense interest to anthropologists, literary scholars, students and teachers of creative writing, and anyone interested in the expressive possibilities of writing as a means of exploring the ways in which humans exist in time.” -- Stuart McLean, author of * Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human *“I already have the sense that The Genealogical Imagination will not leave me alone in the years to come—that I will be haunted by it and worked upon by it in the way I am worked over by the stories of my own forebears. The Genealogical Imagination is an anthropological tour de force. It will inhabit the imagination of generations of anthropologists to come.” -- Lisa Stevenson, author of * Life beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic *Table of ContentsPreamble 1 Chronicles of the Barawa Marah Being-in-Time 7 Being of Two Minds 13 Koinadugu 23 Jihad and Colonization 33 Albitaiya 36 Primus inter Pares 41 Lifelines and Lineages 45 Prospero and Caliban 51 Tina Komé 56 Abdul's Reminiscences 63 Limitrophes 71 Noah's Story 78 Taking Stock 89 Ferensola 95 S. B.'s Story 99 After the War 107 Within These Four Walls 111 Passages 119 Relationship and Relativity 122 Endings 135 Only Connect 152 Transition 156 Fathers and Sons Part 1 Black Mountain 167 Clearing Out the Garage 174 A Hidden History 188 New Lives for Old 191 Billy 206 The Wet 208 Part II Aground on the Great Barrier 219 University 223 Maya 232 Families 237 Breaking Point 241 Part III The Unanimous Night 253 Weary Bay 259 Bulbul 267 Toby 270 The Reef 281 The Return 285 Postscript 288 Notes 293Index to Chronicles of the Barawa Marah 305

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Words and Worlds examine the state of politics and the political imaginary within contemporary societies by taking up the everyday words such as democracy, revolution, and populism that we use to understand the political present.Trade Review“Emphasizing that words rest within social actions and social worlds and are woven into the fabric of the conceptual backdrop of contemporary politics, economics, and social worlds, this volume will have a major impact on our thinking about the fate of liberalisms and democracy.” -- Elizabeth A. Povinelli, author of * The Inheritance *“Veena Das and Didier Fassin have assembled an arresting, methodologically innovative, and utterly relevant political lexicon. They have brought together a world-class group of authors who—with great sensitivity and insight—illuminate some of the concepts most urgently required for political understanding.” -- Alice Crary, author of * Inside Ethics: On the Demands of Moral Thought *“Dark times require that, rather than reasserting fixed conceptual meanings and understandings, we follow Theodor Adorno in focusing upon the concept as both enabling and preventing access to the world. In this respect, [Words and Worlds] is an erudite reminder of the power of critical theory to put words to work while appreciating their ambiguous relation to reality.” -- David Chandler * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction: From Words to Worlds / Didier Fassin and Veena Das 1 1. Knowledge / Veena Das 19 2. Democracy / Jan-Werner Müller 39 3. Authority / Banu Bargu 61 4. Belonging / Peter Geschiere 83 5. Toleration / Uday S. Mehta 103 6. Power / Alex De Waal 123 7. War / Julieta Lemaitre 143 8. Revolution / Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi 166 9. Corruption / Caroline Humphery 185 10. Openness / Todd Sanders and Elizabeth F. Sanders 205 11. Resilience / Jonathan Pugh 225 12. Inequality / Ravi Kanbur 243 13. Crisis / Didier Fassin 261 Bibliography 277 Contributors 299 Index 303

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Viapolitics center the vehicle, its infrastructures, and the environments it navigates in the study of migration and borders across a range of sites, from ships crossing the Pacific and deportation train cars in the United States to treacherous Alpine mountain passes.Trade Review“Routes are far from neutral elements for migrants. Viapolitics unpacks the material and logistical constitution of routes, shedding light on the struggles and clashes that can make migrant travels lethal or safe. This pioneering book takes readers on a fascinating journey through history and geography, challenging and transforming the temporal and spatial coordinates of border and migration studies. A major contribution on one of the most pressing issues of our time.” -- Sandro Mezzadra, coauthor of * Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor *“Featuring a gold mine of conceptual work and detailed contexts and examples, this thrilling collection is going to be absolutely central to our thinking about movement and politics. Viapolitics makes a major intervention into debates around migration, mobility, and politics in the fields of geography, sociology, cultural studies, and beyond. A landmark volume.” -- Peter Adey, author of * Mobility *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Viapolitics: An Introduction / William Walters, Charles Heller, and Lorenzo Pezzani 1 Part I: Vehicles of Migration 1. Capillary Power, Rail Vessels, and the Carceral Viapolitics of Early Twentieth-Century American Deportation / Ethan Blue 35 2. From Migrants to Revolutionaries: The Komagata Maru’s 1914 “Middle Passage” / Renisa Mawani 58 3. Stowing Away via the Cargo Ship: Tracing Governance, Rival Knowledges, and Violence en Route / Amaha Senu 84 4. Boxed In: “Human Cargo” and the Technics of Comfort / Julie Y. Chu 105 Part II: Trajectories, Routes, and Infrastructures 5. Infrastructures of Escort: Transnational Migration, Viapolitics, and Cultures of Connection in Indonesia / Johan Lindquist 131 6. Routes Thinking / Maribel Casas-Cortes and Sebastian Cobarrubias 153 7. Historicizing the Balkan Route: Governing Migration through Mobility / Sabine Hess and Bernd Kasparek 183 Part III: The Geophysics of Migration 8. The Other Boats: The Shifting Operations of State and Nonstate Vessels at the EU's Maritime Frontier / Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani 211 9. When the “Via” Is Fragmented and Disrupted: Migrants’ Walking along the Alpine Route / Glenda Garelli and Martina Tazzioli 235 10. Deportation and Airports / Clara Lecadet and William Walters 258 Afterword: For the Migrant, the Way Is the Life / Ranabir Samaddar 281 Contributors 295 Index 301

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Book SynopsisCarolyn Hardin offers a new way of understanding arbitragethe trading practice that involves buying assets in one market at a cheap price and immediately selling them in another market for a profitas a means of showing how its reliance upon taking on risk is fundamental to financial markets.Trade Review“In this compelling work, Carolyn Hardin zeroes in on the founding paradox of modern finance—arbitrage or the possibility of risk-free gain—to illuminate the system of abstract capture in which we live. A bold new voice, Hardin updates the critique of capitalism for a financial age and proposes a new politics of risk-based solidarity for our times.” -- Melinda Cooper, author of * Family Values: Between Neoliberalism and the New Social Conservatism *“This brilliant and beautifully written book sets a new standard for the social study of finance by exposing the paradox that arbitrage, the most frequent evil in the theory of finance, is the most reliable producer of financial profits in financial markets. This is a book for all scholars, both within and outside business schools, who want to find alternatives to the hegemony of finance in our everyday lives.” -- Arjun Appadurai, Paulette Goddard Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University“Capturing Finance provides a robust framework for analyzing arbitrage and the financial system it underpins. Drawing chiefly on Moishe Postone, with a touch of Deleuze and Guattari, Hardin combines a precise and flexible theoretical apparatus . . . with detailed technical analysis.” -- Jordan Sjol * Journal of Cultural Economy *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Into the Lion's Den 1 1. Capitalism as Capture 11 2. Arbitrage in Theory 33 3. Arbitrage IRL 49 4. The Postonian Turn 68 5. Money Machines 87 6. The Emperor's New Clothes 105 Conclusion. A Politics of Risk 120 Notes 131 References 143 Index 155

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Book SynopsisThe contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout Latin America and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities.Trade Review“Through its attention to both the transnational cocaine commodity chain and the locally specific moral economies that have developed along it, Cocaine presents an innovative and urgent perspective. This highly original and engaging volume makes significant contributions to studies of crime, governance, economics, and Latin American studies.” -- Rivke Jaffe, author of * Concrete Jungles: Urban Pollution and the Politics of Difference in the Caribbean *“A beautifully curated collection of rich and nuanced work surrounding cocaine, this outstanding book should be read across disciplines by policy makers, geographers, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, and sensible political scientists.” -- Graham Denyer Willis, author of * The Killing Consensus: Police, Organized Crime, and the Regulation of Life and Death in Urban Brazil *"That rarest of edited volumes, one that genuinely changes the field, maintains structure and coherence, and never drifts into repetitiveness." -- Molly C. Ball * HAHR *"Cocaine offers new insights into the impact of narcotics in Latin America. It is an authoritative, interdisciplinary collection of studies geared to policy makers, social scientists, and historians that will undoubtedly strengthen their understanding of this complex subject." -- Jane Rausch * Journal of Global South Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. The Moral Economy of the Cocaine Trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi 1 1. The White Factory: Coca, Cocaine, and Informal Governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi 41 2. Tracing Cocaine Supply Chains from Within: Illicit Flows, Armed Conflict, and the Moral Economy of Andean Borderlands / Annette Idler 69 3. Drug Crops, Twisted Motorcycles, and Cultural Loss n Indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León 94 4. From Corumbá to Rio: An Ethnography of Trafficking / Robert Gay 117 5. Border, Ghetto, Prison: Cocaine and Social Orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. Fontes 139 6. Drug Cartels, From Political to Criminal Intermediation: The Caballeros Templarios' Mirror Sovereignty in Michoacán, Mexico / Romain Le Cour Grandmaison 165 7. Of Drugs, Tortillas, and Real Estate: On the Tangible and Intangible Benefits of Drug Dealing in Nicaragua / Dennis Rodgers 190 8. "A Very Well Established Culture": Cocaine Market Self-Regulation as Alternative Governance in San Juan, Puerto Rico / Lilian Bobea and Cyrus Veeser 209 9. Visible and Invisible "Cracklands" in Brazil: Moral Drug Commerce and the Production of Space in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1990–2017) / Taniele Rui 232 10. The Violence of the American Dream in Segregated US Inner-City Narcotics Markets / Philippe Bourgois, Laurie Kain Hart, George Karandinos and Fernando Montero 254 11. Shifting South: Cocaine's Historical Present and the Changing Politics of Drug War, 1975–2015 / Paul Gootenberg 287 Conclusion. Responding to Cocaine's Moral Economies / Enrique Desmond Arias 317 Contributors 341 Index 347

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Book SynopsisObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume I, Obeah, Hucks traces the history of African religious repression in colonial Trinidad through the late nineteenth century. Drawing on sources ranging from colonial records, laws, and legal transcripts to travel diaries, literary fiction, and written correspondence, she documents the persecution and violent penalization of African religious practices encoded under the legal classification of “obeah.” A cult of antiblack fixation emerged as white settlers defined themselves in opposition to Obeah, which they imagined as terrifyingTrade Review"A powerful, original contribution to this emerging literature. . . . [T]hese two volumes will be of great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions." -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *"On its own or in conjunction with its companionate volume II on Orisa, Obeah, Orisa, & Religious Identity in Trinidad is a welcome and valuable contribution to Africana religious studies, Atlantic studies, and Caribbean historiography." -- Aisha Khan * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“A model of rigorous scholarship that offers a thoughtful and nuanced reflection on the dynamic constructions of African religion and identity in Trinidad from the colonial period to the present.” -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction to Volume I 1 1. The Formation of a Slave Colony: Race, Nation, and Identity 13 2. Let Them Hate So Long as They Fear: Obeah Trials and Social Cannibalism in Trinidad’s Early Slave Society 52 3. Obeah, Piety, and Poison in The Slave Son: Representations of African Religions in Trinidadian Colonial Literature 104 4. Marked in the Genuine African Way: Liberated Africans and Obeah Doctoring in Postslavery Trinidad 141 Afterword. C’est Vrai—It Is True 203 Notes 209 Bibliography 241 Index 253

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Book SynopsisObeah, Orisa, and Religious Identity in Trinidad is an expansive two-volume examination of social imaginaries concerning Obeah and Yoruba-Orisa from colonialism to the present. Analyzing their entangled histories and systems of devotion, Tracey E. Hucks and Dianne M. Stewart articulate how these religions were criminalized during slavery and colonialism yet still demonstrated autonomous modes of expression and self-defense. In Volume II, Orisa, Stewart scrutinizes the West African heritage and religious imagination of Yoruba-Orisa devotees in Trinidad from the mid-nineteenth century to the present and explores their meaning-making traditions in the wake of slavery and colonialism. She investigates the pivotal periods of nineteenth-century liberated African resettlement, the twentieth-century Black Power movement, and subsequent campaigns for the civil right to religious freedom in Trinidad. Disrupting syncretism frameworks, Stewart probes the salience of Africa as a religTrade Review"Stewart’s volume masterfully probes African Trinidadians’ use of Yoruba identified ritual poetics and social formations. ... These two volumes will be of very great interest to scholars working in Caribbean and African Diaspora Religions." -- Alexander Rocklin * Nova Religio *“[A] theoretically sophisticated and intellectually stimulating publication by two of the foremost scholars of African heritage religions working in the academy today.” -- Brendan Jamal Thornton * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations Used in Text ix Note on Orthography and Terminology xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Introduction to Volume II 1 1. I Believe He Is a Yaraba, a Tribe of Africans Here: Establishing a Yoruba-Orisa Nation in Trinidad 9 2. I Had a Family That Belonged to All Kinds of Things: Yoruba-Orisa Kinship Principles and the Poetics of Social Prestige 52 3. “We Smashed Those Statues or Painted Them Black”: Orisa Traditions and Africana Religious Nationalism since the Era of Black Power 83 4. You Had the Respected Mothers Who Had Power! Motherness, Heritage Love, and Womanist Anagrammars of Care in the Yoruba-Orisa Tradition 147 5. The African Gods Are from Tribes and Nations: An Africana Approach to Religious Studies in the Black Diaspora 221 Afterword. Orisa Vigoyana from Guyana 249 List of Abbreviations Use in Notes 255 Notes 257 Bibliography 305 Index 327

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