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Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom a grandmother’s inter-generational care to the strategic and slow consensus work of elected tribal leaders, Indigenous community builders perform the daily work of culture and communalism. Indigenous Communalism conveys age-old lessons about culture, communalism, and the universal tension between the individual and the collective. It is also a critical ethnography challenging the moral and cultural assumptions of a hyper-individualist, twenty-first century global society. Told in vibrant detail, the narrative of the book conveys the importance of communalism as a value system present in all human groups and one at the center of Indigenous survival. Carolyn Smith-Morris draws on her work among the Akimel O'odham and the Wiradjuri to show how communal work and culture help these communities form distinctive Indigenous bonds. The results are not only a rich study of Indigenous relational lifeways, but a serious inquiry to the continuing acculturative atmosphere that Indigenous communities struggle to resist. Recognizing both positive and negative sides to the issue, she asks whether there is a global Indigenous communalism. And if so, what lessons does it teach about healthy communities, the universal human need for belonging, and the potential for the collective to do good? Trade Review“Inspiring and thought provoking, Indigenous Communalism is both an innovative ethnography of communalism and collectivist life and a conveyor of critical hope for our times. We move with the author along a compelling journey committed to Indigenous rights but also to viewing humanity’s future through the lens of Indigeneity, open to the possibility (if not necessity) of transforming the divisive politics that defines our individualist age into a more socially just communalist world.” -- Mark K. Watson * author of Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics *“Indigenous Communalism can serve as an introduction to those interested in indigenous studies, southern epistemologies, and decolonial thinking, as a resource for moving forward contemporary social theory, and as a complement to global south proposals by showing that it is in the complex realm of hybridity and diversity where struggles for sense making take place.” -- César Abadía-Barrero * author of I Have AIDS but I am Happy: Children’s Subjectivities, AIDS and Social Responses in Brazil *Table of ContentsPreface Positioning Acknowledgements Introduction To Begin, What is Communalism? Politics of Indigeneity - What is Indigenous? or Terms, Frames, and Representations Why is Communalism Missing The Dangers of Communalism Communalism and Health Community with the Name ‘Gila River’ Committing to Communal Rights of Indigenous Peoples Outline of the Book Chapter 1 - Belonging Introductions Relationships and Being Present Building Consensus An Introduction to Communalism The Dangers of Communalism The Touchstones of Belonging Conclusion - More than Membership Chapter 2 - Generation Individuals in a Communal Context Western Individualism Pima Individualism(s) Generating Community Out of Individuals Chapter 3 - Representation Authority and Representation Representing Communal Knowledge Representation & Race - Communal Genetics Representing Indigenous Diversity Chapter 4 - Hybridity Hybridity and Human Community Extremes of Communalism Individual/Communal Conflict at Gila River Theories of Hybridity and Divisibility The Communal Individual Protecting the Communal Individual Chapter 5 - Asserting Communalism Case 1 - Communalism in Research Case 2 - Communalism and the Body Case 3 - Communalism in Healing Fostering Communalism Chapter 6 - Indigenous Communalism - Global Implications Is There a Global Indigenous Communalism? Place Global Indigenous Communalism Foundations in Place Communalism and Rights Conclusion - Representing Communalism Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize​ This ethical and poetic ethnography analyses the upheavals to gender roles and marital relationships brought about by Somali refugee migration to the UK. Unmoored from the socio-cultural norms that made them men and women, being a refugee is described as making "everything" feel "different, mixed up, upside down." Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration details how Somali gendered identities are contested, negotiated, and (re)produced within a framework of religious and politico-national discourses, finding that the most significant catalysts for challenging and changing harmful gender practices are a combination of the welfare system and Islamic praxis. Described as “an important and urgent monograph," this book will be a key text relevant to scholars of migration, transnational families, personal life, and gender. Written in a beautiful and accessible style, the book voices the participants with respect and compassion, and is also recommended for scholars of qualitative social research methods. Trade Review"Attentively observed and provocatively argued, this book explores the dynamic inter-relationship between culture, religion, ethnicity, and gender, and how migration remakes people’s understandings of their relationships. It is not only brilliant but beautiful too, capturing the creativity in struggles to craft places in the world. Truly inspirational reading." -- Bridget Anderson * co-editor of Citizenship and Its Others *“In this sensitively-described and expertly analysed ethnography of marriage among Somalis in Bristol, Natasha Carver shows how migration has unsettled Somali cultural norms of womanhood and masculinity. Marriage, Gender and Refugee Migration is an exemplary transnational sociology of how identities are constituted." -- Seán McLoughlin * co-editor of Diasporas: Concepts, Intersections, Identities *"An exciting insight into marriage, gender, and refugee migration." * Weekendavisen *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures List of Transcription Symbols Series Foreword by Péter Berta 1: Introduction 2: Context and Narrative: Speaking With and Speaking About 3: Atrocity Stories about Divorce 4: Personal Accounts of Relationship Breakdown 5: Being Responsible: Providing for the Family 6: Doing Responsibility: Caring for the Family 7: Somalinimo: An Existential Crisis? 8: Regendering Somaliness in the British Context 9: Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTortilleras Negotiating Intimacy: Love, Friendship, and Sex in Queer Mexico City is the first ethnography in English to focus primarily on women’s sexual and intimate cultures in Mexico. The book shows the transformation of intimacy in the lives of three generations of women in queer spaces in contemporary Mexico City, as their sexual citizenship changes, including references to same-sex marriage and anti-discrimination laws. The book shows how these individuals reconfigure relationships through marriage, polyamory, friendship, and sex. Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy suggests that “new” intimate cartographies are emerging in Mexico City, ultimately redefining relationships, gender, and mexicanidad. Building on ethnographic data collected over the past decade, including forty-five in-depth interviews with women between the ages of twenty-two and sixty-five participating in LGBT spaces, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy shows how lesbian women (mainly cis, but some trans) negotiate friendship, same-sex marriage, polyamory, and sexual practices, reinventing love, eroticism, friendship, and ultimately the social organization of Latin American societies.Trade Review“Well researched, carefully written, and highly original, Tortilleras Negotiating Intimacy is a transformative ethnographic exploration of women’s sexuality in Mexico City. This truly pioneering, sorely needed book privileges social relations above static conceptions of identity, highlighting lesbian, bisexual, pansexual, and polyamorous experiences in el ambiente. It is a key contribution to queer, women’s, and Latin American studies.” -- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes * author of Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance *"This rich and thoroughly captivating ethnography challenges US centered discourse on sexual cultures to explore how diverse sexual and affective practices such as polyamory, non-monogamy, casual hook-ups, and queer domesticity have been imagined and lived among different generations of queer Latinas in Mexico City. Through sustained interviews that are by turn candid and illuminating, humorous and tender, Russo Garrido’s text highlights how radical forms of friendship, love, community, and intimacy might function as world making practices of self and collective care." -- Juana María Rodríguez * author of Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures, and Other Latina Longings *"An in-depth exploration into the changes in women’s sexualities in Latinx cultures, the volume examines marriage, polyamory, queerness, gender, love and friendship." * Ms. Magazine *Table of ContentsContents Introduction, Intimate Contestations: Love, Friendship and Sex in Queer Mexico City 1 Polyamory, Open Relationships y Otros Amoresde Familia 2 On Friendship and the Production of Lesbiana Worlds 3 Sex- Stretching the Body: A New Erotic Cartography 4 Counter-Mapping el Ambiente in Queer Times and Spaces 5 Epilogue Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWith new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxically, individuals are told to identify as black but only some people are considered black enough to benefit from these policies. Afro-Brazilians are presented with a whole range of identity choices, from how to classify oneself, to whether one votes for political candidates based on shared racial experiences. Between Brown and Black argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.Trade Review"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Black into Brown, Brown into Black: Afro-Brazilians Grapple with Racial Categorization 2. The Language of Afro-Brazilian Antiracist Socialization 3. Performing Ancestors, Claiming Blackness 4. Becoming an Antiracist or “As Black as We Can Be” 5. Who Can Be Black for Affirmative Action Programs in Brazil? 6. The Complex Calculus of Race and Electoral Politics in Salvador Conclusion: Afro-Brazilians’ Black and Brown Antiracism Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisWith new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are increasingly doing so. Other segments of the Brazilian black movement are working to influence legislation and implement formal mechanisms that aim to promote racial equality, including Affirmative Action Racial Verification Committees. For advocates of these committees, one needs to be phenotypically black enough to be a more likely target of racism to qualify for Affirmative Action programs. Paradoxically, individuals are told to identify as black but only some people are considered black enough to benefit from these policies. Afro-Brazilians are presented with a whole range of identity choices, from how to classify oneself, to whether one votes for political candidates based on shared racial experiences. Between Brown and Black argues that Afro-Brazilian activists’ continued exploration of blackness confronts anti-blackness while complicating understandings of what it means to be black. Blending linguistic and ethnographic accounts, this book raises complex questions about current black struggles in Brazil and beyond, including the black movements’ political initiatives and antiracist agenda.Trade Review"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *"Silva’s pioneering analysis brings attention to the previously unexplored interstices between browns and blacks in terms of blackness and antiracist work. This much needed, timely, and long-overdue book provides a masterful, nuanced, and above all sensitive, analysis of a very complex topic critical to understanding Brazilian race relations and mixed-race peoples’ identities more broadly." -- G. Reginald Daniel * author of Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? *"Bringing scholarship on Brazil’s tangled politics of race and racism into the twenty-first century, Silva examines recent shifts in discourse and consciousness among Afro-Brazilians in the era of affirmative action. Anti-racist consciousness building, the practices associated with racial quotas, and the reception of racial messaging in electoral campaigns all come under Silva’s lens. Leaning on Bakhtin’s still trenchant insights, this book provides an accessible and engaging update on a changing nation." -- Robin Sheriff * author of Dreaming Equality: Color, Race and Racism in Urban Brazil *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1. Black into Brown, Brown into Black: Afro-Brazilians Grapple with Racial Categorization 2. The Language of Afro-Brazilian Antiracist Socialization 3. Performing Ancestors, Claiming Blackness 4. Becoming an Antiracist or “As Black as We Can Be” 5. Who Can Be Black for Affirmative Action Programs in Brazil? 6. The Complex Calculus of Race and Electoral Politics in Salvador Conclusion: Afro-Brazilians’ Black and Brown Antiracism Acknowledgements Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisImplementing Inequality argues that the international development industry’s internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers—shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry’s internal social pressures guide development’s methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively “local” staff members, charged with carrying out development’s policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class. Trade Review"Lower wages for local employees, sexism and racism in their own ranks: development organizations are not free from power relations that they actually want to abolish. Experts and employees repeatedly criticize the inequality within aid organizations. With her large-scale field study on a democratization project in Angola, anthropologist Rebecca Warne Peters makes a contribution to the debate. Above all, she reveals the balance of power between project staff and administrative employees."— welt-sichten “Implementing Inequality is a rare book that comes alive in the best tradition of ethnographic description while building solid theory. Peters' rich account humanizes people in the "implementariat" and their daily challenges, struggles, and decisions. Ultimately hopeful, Implementing Inequality reminds us that frontline workers are already policymakers whose experience can guide a still-possible transformative development.”— Mark Schuller, author of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti "Implementing Inequality is a useful read for both students and development professionals. It could serve as a trigger for self-reflection and urges better practices and greater understanding within the sector."— LSE US Centre American Politics and Policy blog “This is a timely and well-judged analysis of the ‘internal inequalities’ that exist at the heart of the project of international development. In a thoughtful and highly readable account of a governance program in Angola, Rebecca Warne Peters combines original theoretical insight with careful empirical analysis.”— David Lewis, author of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development " Applying currently fashionable concepts with a modicum of theoretical baggage, Peters examines, in anthropological detail, international development, “the purposeful pursuit of social change,” as it is carried out by the implementariate who seek to fulfill the wishes of policy makers, consultants, and donors. Well written and well organized, this is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of international development and anthropology. Highly recommended." — ChoiceTable of ContentsGlossary of Terms and Acronyms Introduction Inside the Encounter: The Implementariat Implementation as Internal and External “Social Work” Good Governance as “Development” in Angola Research Methods and Chapter Sketches Chapter 1: Development Hierarchies The Development Industry and Development Ideology Professional Inequalities Principal-Agent Thinking and Development’s Common Sense “Shadow Work” in Development Development Work and “Making Policy” Chapter 2: Development’s Inputs and Outputs “Technically Skilled GGAP Staff…” “… and Sufficient Support” Inputs and Outputs Invisible Development Work, Invisible Development Workers Chapter 3: Reinforcing Hierarchies: Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Instruments and Tools “Quality” Data The “Lopsided Structures” of International Development Chapter 4: Designing Interventions for Peers, Not Beneficiaries Development’s Peerage Interventions Designed for Peers, not Places Sites Known and Unknown: Seeing Like a Donor Reputations at Risk Absence and Inequality in Development Intervention Chapter 5: Partnership and the Development Praxiscape Founding Partnerships The Development “We” “Battling” Toward Governance Partners or Proprietors? Partnership as Development Praxis Conclusion: Development Without Borders Shadow Work out of the Shadows Expanding Principal-Agent Thinking Tomorrow’s Development Acknowledgments Appendix: GGAP Logical Framework Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisImplementing Inequality argues that the international development industry’s internal dynamics—between international and national staff, and among policy makers, administrators, and implementers—shape interventions and their outcomes as much as do the external dynamics of global political economy. Through an ethnographic study in postwar Angola, the book demonstrates how the industry’s internal social pressures guide development’s methods and goals, introducing the innovative concept of the development implementariat: those in-country workers, largely but not exclusively “local” staff members, charged with carrying out development’s policy prescriptions. The implementariat is central to the development endeavor but remains overlooked and under-supported as most of its work is deeply social, interactive, and relational, the kind of work that receives less recognition and support than it deserves at every echelon of the industry. If international development is to meet its larger purpose, it must first address its internal inequalities of work and professional class. Trade Review“This is a timely and well-judged analysis of the ‘internal inequalities’ that exist at the heart of the project of international development. In a thoughtful and highly readable account of a governance program in Angola, Rebecca Warne Peters combines original theoretical insight with careful empirical analysis.” -- David Lewis * author of Non-Governmental Organizations, Management and Development *“Implementing Inequality is a rare book that comes alive in the best tradition of ethnographic description while building solid theory. Peters' rich account humanizes people in the "implementariat" and their daily challenges, struggles, and decisions. Ultimately hopeful, Implementing Inequality reminds us that frontline workers are already policymakers whose experience can guide a still-possible transformative development.” -- Mark Schuller * author of Humanitarian Aftershocks in Haiti *" Applying currently fashionable concepts with a modicum of theoretical baggage, Peters examines, in anthropological detail, international development, “the purposeful pursuit of social change,” as it is carried out by the implementariate who seek to fulfill the wishes of policy makers, consultants, and donors. Well written and well organized, this is an important contribution to the literature on the intersection of international development and anthropology. Highly recommended." * Choice *"Implementing Inequality is a useful read for both students and development professionals. It could serve as a trigger for self-reflection and urges better practices and greater understanding within the sector." * LSE US Centre American Politics and Policy blog *"Lower wages for local employees, sexism and racism in their own ranks: development organizations are not free from power relations that they actually want to abolish. Experts and employees repeatedly criticize the inequality within aid organizations. With her large-scale field study on a democratization project in Angola, anthropologist Rebecca Warne Peters makes a contribution to the debate. Above all, she reveals the balance of power between project staff and administrative employees." * welt-sichten *Table of ContentsGlossary of Terms and Acronyms Introduction Inside the Encounter: The Implementariat Implementation as Internal and External “Social Work” Good Governance as “Development” in Angola Research Methods and Chapter Sketches Chapter 1: Development Hierarchies The Development Industry and Development Ideology Professional Inequalities Principal-Agent Thinking and Development’s Common Sense “Shadow Work” in Development Development Work and “Making Policy” Chapter 2: Development’s Inputs and Outputs “Technically Skilled GGAP Staff…” “… and Sufficient Support” Inputs and Outputs Invisible Development Work, Invisible Development Workers Chapter 3: Reinforcing Hierarchies: Monitoring and Evaluation Monitoring and Evaluation Instruments and Tools “Quality” Data The “Lopsided Structures” of International Development Chapter 4: Designing Interventions for Peers, Not Beneficiaries Development’s Peerage Interventions Designed for Peers, not Places Sites Known and Unknown: Seeing Like a Donor Reputations at Risk Absence and Inequality in Development Intervention Chapter 5: Partnership and the Development Praxiscape Founding Partnerships The Development “We” “Battling” Toward Governance Partners or Proprietors? Partnership as Development Praxis Conclusion: Development Without Borders Shadow Work out of the Shadows Expanding Principal-Agent Thinking Tomorrow’s Development Acknowledgments Appendix: GGAP Logical Framework Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is a story about aging in place in a world of global movement. Around the world, many older people have stayed still but have been profoundly impacted by the movement of others. Without migrating themselves, many older people now live in a far “different country” than the one of their memories. Recently, the Brexit vote and the 2016 election of Trump have re-enforced prevalent stereotypes of “the racist older person”. This book challenges simplified images of the old as racist, nostalgic and resistant to change by taking a deeper, more nuanced look at older people’s complex relationship with the diversity and multiculturalism that has grown and developed around them. Aging in a Changing World takes a look at how some older people in New Zealand have been responding to and interacting with the new multiculturalism they now encounter in their daily lives. Through their unhurried, micro, daily interactions with immigrants, they quietly emerge as agents of the very social change they are assumed to oppose.Trade Review"Sure to become a classic of urban ethnography. A powerful and much needed account of the way in which older people respond to and negotiate change within urban communities. The research challenges views which present older people as 'victims' of global change, providing a highly nuanced description of both the perceived challenges of migration, but also the positive ways in which it is incorporated into new ways of adapting to social change."— Christopher Phillipson, coeditor of Precarity and Ageing: Understanding Insecurity and Risk in Later Life "Molly George’s book beautifully upends common assumptions about the widespread racism among elderly white Americans, Brits, and New Zealanders, offering a much more nuanced portrait of how ethnicity and migration are viewed by older generations. Examining everyday interactions between long-term residents and newcomers, Aging in a Changing World challenges stereotypical views of what it means to 'age in place' when places, and the people who occupy them, are in fact ever-changing. The result is a thought-provoking examination of multiculturalism as lived experience for the elderly."— Susanna Trnka, author of Traversing: Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech RepublicTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Aging in Times of Great Change 2 Global Movement, Everyday Multiculturalism, and Aging 3 Constructing the Field and Recruiting the Urban Stranger 4 “Then and Now”: Narratives of Change 5 Older New Zealanders’ Immigration-Related Concerns 6 A Surprise Twist? Older New Zealanders as Approachable and Accepting 7 Mentoring “Kiwiness” 8 Cosmopolitan Cadences 9 Conclusions Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisRace and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico explores the historic research trip taken to Puerto Rico in 1915. As a component of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Boas intended to perform field research in the areas of anthropology and ethnography while other scientists explored the island’s natural resources. A young anthropologist working under Boas, John Alden Mason, rescued hundreds of oral folklore samples, ranging from popular songs, poetry, conundrums, sayings, and, most particularly, folktales while documenting native Puerto Rican cultural practices. Through his extensive excursions, Mason came in touch with the rural lives of Puerto Rican peasants, the jíbaros, who served as both his cultural informants and writers of the folklore samples. These stories, many of which are still part of the island’s literary traditions and collected in a bilingual companion volume by Rafael Ocasio, reflect a strong Puerto Rican identity coalescing in the face of the U.S. political intervention on the island. A fascinating slice of Puerto Rican history and culture sure to delight any reader! Trade Review"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore is a must-read for those interested in the cultural layout of early twentieth-century Puerto Rico and its burgeoning, sociopolitical consciousness. Ocasio expertly traces the multicultural artifacts of oral transmission collected by ‘the Father of American Anthropology,’ Franz Boas and his mentee, John Alden Mason, on the Island at the turn of the century, revealing the relationship between those texts and Boricua identity." -- Angie Willis * co-author of forthcoming Reinaldo Arenas, Pedagogue: Readings for a Post-Fidel Castro Era *"Rafael Ocasio's Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore will be of significant interest to students of Puerto Rican culture and history as it skillfully revives important events involving the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have lost definition with the passing of time, even if they have not lost relevance. The author brings to bear on an anthropological topic his unique talent for literary and cultural criticism." -- Rudyard Alcocer * author of Time Travel in the Latin American & Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore fills in gaps both in the historiography of Puerto Rican cultural history and in the history of folkloristics in the United States. Necessary and timely issues of race, colonialism, and class as they affected the collecting and editing processes are addressed in detail. Issues of gender inequality and the effects of not including adult women in the collection, are mentioned but not unpacked at the same level." * Journal of Folklore Research *"Greyhound Grad Publishes Two Books Focused on Puerto Rican Folklore," by Desiree Cooper * Eastern New Mexico University *"For all these dazzling discoveries made with academic and intellectual rigor, you have to read this new book by Rafael Ocasio. I read it with interest, with amazement and, above all, with gratitude." * Centro Journal *"Race & Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore, Ocasio, then, makes his impact on the future of his island, as well as on a future in which we study and document small, still colonized, nations, and by doing so state that they are not expendable. That no nation is." * South Atlantic Review *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore is a must-read for those interested in the cultural layout of early twentieth-century Puerto Rico and its burgeoning, sociopolitical consciousness. Ocasio expertly traces the multicultural artifacts of oral transmission collected by ‘the Father of American Anthropology,’ Franz Boas and his mentee, John Alden Mason, on the Island at the turn of the century, revealing the relationship between those texts and Boricua identity." -- Angie Willis * co-author of forthcoming Reinaldo Arenas, Pedagogue: Readings for a Post-Fidel Castro Era *"Rafael Ocasio's Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore will be of significant interest to students of Puerto Rican culture and history as it skillfully revives important events involving the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have lost definition with the passing of time, even if they have not lost relevance. The author brings to bear on an anthropological topic his unique talent for literary and cultural criticism." -- Rudyard Alcocer * author of Time Travel in the Latin American & Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore fills in gaps both in the historiography of Puerto Rican cultural history and in the history of folkloristics in the United States. Necessary and timely issues of race, colonialism, and class as they affected the collecting and editing processes are addressed in detail. Issues of gender inequality and the effects of not including adult women in the collection, are mentioned but not unpacked at the same level." * Journal of Folklore Research *"Greyhound Grad Publishes Two Books Focused on Puerto Rican Folklore," by Desiree Cooper * Eastern New Mexico University *"For all these dazzling discoveries made with academic and intellectual rigor, you have to read this new book by Rafael Ocasio. I read it with interest, with amazement and, above all, with gratitude." * Centro Journal *"Race Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore, Ocasio, then, makes his impact on the future of his island, as well as on a future in which we study and document small, still colonized, nations, and by doing so state that they are not expendable. That no nation is." * South Atlantic Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales 1 Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process 2 A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences 3 Jíbaros’ Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros’ Authorship Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo 4 Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas 5 An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes 6 Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisRace and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore: Franz Boas and John Alden Mason in Porto Rico explores the historic research trip taken to Puerto Rico in 1915. As a component of the Scientific Survey of Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands, Boas intended to perform field research in the areas of anthropology and ethnography while other scientists explored the island’s natural resources. A young anthropologist working under Boas, John Alden Mason, rescued hundreds of oral folklore samples, ranging from popular songs, poetry, conundrums, sayings, and, most particularly, folktales while documenting native Puerto Rican cultural practices. Through his extensive excursions, Mason came in touch with the rural lives of Puerto Rican peasants, the jíbaros, who served as both his cultural informants and writers of the folklore samples. These stories, many of which are still part of the island’s literary traditions and collected in a bilingual companion volume by Rafael Ocasio, reflect a strong Puerto Rican identity coalescing in the face of the U.S. political intervention on the island. A fascinating slice of Puerto Rican history and culture sure to delight any reader! Trade Review"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore is a must-read for those interested in the cultural layout of early twentieth-century Puerto Rico and its burgeoning, sociopolitical consciousness. Ocasio expertly traces the multicultural artifacts of oral transmission collected by ‘the Father of American Anthropology,’ Franz Boas and his mentee, John Alden Mason, on the Island at the turn of the century, revealing the relationship between those texts and Boricua identity." -- Angie Willis * co-author of forthcoming Reinaldo Arenas, Pedagogue: Readings for a Post-Fidel Castro Era *"Rafael Ocasio's Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore will be of significant interest to students of Puerto Rican culture and history as it skillfully revives important events involving the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have lost definition with the passing of time, even if they have not lost relevance. The author brings to bear on an anthropological topic his unique talent for literary and cultural criticism." -- Rudyard Alcocer * author of Time Travel in the Latin American & Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore fills in gaps both in the historiography of Puerto Rican cultural history and in the history of folkloristics in the United States. Necessary and timely issues of race, colonialism, and class as they affected the collecting and editing processes are addressed in detail. Issues of gender inequality and the effects of not including adult women in the collection, are mentioned but not unpacked at the same level." * Journal of Folklore Research *"Greyhound Grad Publishes Two Books Focused on Puerto Rican Folklore," by Desiree Cooper * Eastern New Mexico University *"For all these dazzling discoveries made with academic and intellectual rigor, you have to read this new book by Rafael Ocasio. I read it with interest, with amazement and, above all, with gratitude." * Centro Journal *"Race & Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore, Ocasio, then, makes his impact on the future of his island, as well as on a future in which we study and document small, still colonized, nations, and by doing so state that they are not expendable. That no nation is." * South Atlantic Review *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore is a must-read for those interested in the cultural layout of early twentieth-century Puerto Rico and its burgeoning, sociopolitical consciousness. Ocasio expertly traces the multicultural artifacts of oral transmission collected by ‘the Father of American Anthropology,’ Franz Boas and his mentee, John Alden Mason, on the Island at the turn of the century, revealing the relationship between those texts and Boricua identity." -- Angie Willis * co-author of forthcoming Reinaldo Arenas, Pedagogue: Readings for a Post-Fidel Castro Era *"Rafael Ocasio's Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore will be of significant interest to students of Puerto Rican culture and history as it skillfully revives important events involving the U.S. and Puerto Rico that have lost definition with the passing of time, even if they have not lost relevance. The author brings to bear on an anthropological topic his unique talent for literary and cultural criticism." -- Rudyard Alcocer * author of Time Travel in the Latin American & Caribbean Imagination: Re-reading History *"Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore fills in gaps both in the historiography of Puerto Rican cultural history and in the history of folkloristics in the United States. Necessary and timely issues of race, colonialism, and class as they affected the collecting and editing processes are addressed in detail. Issues of gender inequality and the effects of not including adult women in the collection, are mentioned but not unpacked at the same level." * Journal of Folklore Research *"Greyhound Grad Publishes Two Books Focused on Puerto Rican Folklore," by Desiree Cooper * Eastern New Mexico University *"For all these dazzling discoveries made with academic and intellectual rigor, you have to read this new book by Rafael Ocasio. I read it with interest, with amazement and, above all, with gratitude." * Centro Journal *"Race Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore, Ocasio, then, makes his impact on the future of his island, as well as on a future in which we study and document small, still colonized, nations, and by doing so state that they are not expendable. That no nation is." * South Atlantic Review *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales 1 Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process 2 A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences 3 Jíbaros’ Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros’ Authorship Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo 4 Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas 5 An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes 6 Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGrowing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care is an accessible exploration of changing care arrangements in China. Combining anthropological theory, ethnographic vignettes, and cultural and social history, it sheds light on the growing movement from home-based to institutional elder care in urban China. The book examines how tensions between old and new ideas, desires, and social structures are reshaping the experience of caring and being cared for. Weaving together discussions of family ethics, care work, bioethics, aging, and quality of life, this book puts older adults at the center of the story. It explores changing relationships between elders and themselves, their family members, caregivers, society, and the state, and the attempts made within and across these relational webs to find balance and harmony. The book invites readers to ponder the deep implications of how and why we care and the ways end-of-life care arrangements complicate both living and dying for many elders. Trade Review"Rose Keimig's Growing Old in a New China is the first real ethnography of institutionalized eldercare in China, and also a fine description of old age and of eldercare between family members in China today. A first-rate account—seamlessly integrates traditional and contemporary indigenous ideas with broader theories of care. Impressive!" -- Arthur Kleinman * author of The Soul of Care *"This ground-breaking ethnography takes readers on a journey into China’s new elder care homes, focusing on the lives of those who live and work there. Richly detailed, beautifully written, and theoretically inspired, this book is a must-read for scholars of Asia, medical anthropology, aging and care." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * co-editor of Reconceiving Muslim Men: Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1: Filial Children, Benevolent Parents 2: Bodies in History, Embodied Histories 3: Place & Space, Rhythm & Routine 4: Entanglements of Care 5: Care Work 6: Chronic Living, Delayed Death Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisGrowing Old in a New China: Transitions in Elder Care is an accessible exploration of changing care arrangements in China. Combining anthropological theory, ethnographic vignettes, and cultural and social history, it sheds light on the growing movement from home-based to institutional elder care in urban China. The book examines how tensions between old and new ideas, desires, and social structures are reshaping the experience of caring and being cared for. Weaving together discussions of family ethics, care work, bioethics, aging, and quality of life, this book puts older adults at the center of the story. It explores changing relationships between elders and themselves, their family members, caregivers, society, and the state, and the attempts made within and across these relational webs to find balance and harmony. The book invites readers to ponder the deep implications of how and why we care and the ways end-of-life care arrangements complicate both living and dying for many elders. Trade Review"Rose Keimig's Growing Old in a New China is the first real ethnography of institutionalized eldercare in China, and also a fine description of old age and of eldercare between family members in China today. A first-rate account—seamlessly integrates traditional and contemporary indigenous ideas with broader theories of care. Impressive!" -- Arthur Kleinman * author of The Soul of Care *"This ground-breaking ethnography takes readers on a journey into China’s new elder care homes, focusing on the lives of those who live and work there. Richly detailed, beautifully written, and theoretically inspired, this book is a must-read for scholars of Asia, medical anthropology, aging and care." -- Marcia C. Inhorn * co-editor of Reconceiving Muslim Men: Love and Marriage, Family and Care in Precarious Times *Table of ContentsContents Introduction 1: Filial Children, Benevolent Parents 2: Bodies in History, Embodied Histories 3: Place & Space, Rhythm & Routine 4: Entanglements of Care 5: Care Work 6: Chronic Living, Delayed Death Conclusion Acknowledgments Glossary Bibliography

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Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world."— Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis "A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging."— Benjamin Capistrant, associate professor, Smith CollegeTable of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisWhen youth shake off their rural roots and middle-aged people migrate for economic opportunities, what happens to the grandparents left at home? Linked Lives provides readers with intimate glimpses into homes in a Sri Lankan Buddhist village, where elders wisely use their moral authority and their control over valuable property to assure that they receive both physical and spiritual care when they need it. The care work that grandparents do for grandchildren allows labor migration and contributes to the overall well-being of the extended family. The book considers the efforts migrant workers make to build and buy houses and the ways those rooms and walls constrain social activities. It outlines the strategies elders employ to age in place, and the alternatives they face in local old folks’ homes. Based on ethnographic work done over a decade, Michele Gamburd shows how elders face the challenges of a rapidly globalizing world.Trade Review"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *"Linked Lives is an insightful and valuable book on the complex ties between migration, care, and aging. Michele Ruth Gamburd traces malleable lives and livelihoods that need to be recast in the context of shifting economies and social relations, confronting the risks and rewards associated with them. Her work will be an important resource for researchers, students, and readers in challenging times when care, migration, and social ties are being tested across the world." -- Kavita Sivaramakrishnan * author of As the World Ages: Rethinking a Demographic Crisis *"A deeply localized and richly depicted narrative of aging in Sri Lanka. Gamburd skillfully situates the processes of how families care for elder loved ones within the wide, global context of aging in the twenty-first century. As a result, Linked Lives’ novel insights about aging in Sri Lanka create a highly engaging and valuable case study, applicable to many similar places in the global south facing rapid population aging." -- Benjamin Capistrant * associate professor, Smith College *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Chaos Flower: The Meaning of Family 3 Weighing Financial Opportunities: Migration, Remittances, or Help from the Hand? 4 Exchanging Assets for Care: Pensions and the Transfer of Property 5 A Youngest Son Called “Hope”: Virilocal Ultimogeniture and the Ancestral Home 6 Health and Illness: Aging, Self, and Bodily Care 7 Shelter or Shame? Old Folks’ Homes 8 Rebirth: Buddhism, Almsgivings and the Transmigration of Souls 9 On Beginnings and Endings Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index About the Author

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Book SynopsisThe Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories is an essay collection made up of two sections; in the first, a group of anglophone and francophone scholars examines the roots, effects and implications of the major social upheaval that shook Guadeloupe, Martinique, French Guiana, and Réunion in February and March of 2009. They clearly demonstrate the critical role played by community activism, art and media to combat politico-economic policies that generate (un)employment, labor exploitation, and unattended health risks, all made secondary to the supremacy of profit. In the second section, additional scholars provide in-depth analyses of the ways in which an insistence on capital accumulation and centralization instantiated broad hierarchies of market-driven profit, capital accumulation, and economic exploitation upon a range of populations and territories in the wider non-sovereign and nominally sovereign Caribbean from Haiti to the Dutch Antilles to Puerto Rico, reinforcing the racialized patterns of socioeconomic exclusion and privatization long imposed by France on its former colonial territories. Trade Review"This timely collection of essays persuasively suggests that there is a universal crisis of governance and rule that extends across the entire Caribbean. The Struggle of Non-Sovereign Caribbean Territories offers a close reading of the popular demands coming from the streets alongside new, insurgent themes expressed through popular culture, all turning against the neo-liberal hegemony of the present and recent past."— Brian Meeks, author of Critical Interventions in Caribbean Politics and Theory "This splendid collection makes a major contribution to both the study of neocolonialism in the Caribbean and the conundrums faced by the non-sovereign territories of the region. It is certain to be one of the foremost books on Caribbean neoliberalism for some time to come."— Aaron Kamugisha, co-editor of Caribbean popular Culture: Power, Politics and PerformanceTable of ContentsIntroduction—Non-Sovereignty and the Neoliberal Challenge: Contesting Economic Exploitation in the Eastern Caribbean – H. Adlai Murdoch Part I 1. Bridging the divide to face the Plantationocene: The chlordecone contamination and the 2009 social events in Martinique and Guadeloupe – Malcom Ferdinand 2. From the film Nèg maron (2005) to the Manifeste pour les ‘produits’ de haute nécessité (2009): Youth Dispossession, General Strikes and Alternative Economies in the French Caribbean – Louise Hardwick 3. Artists Against Exploitation: The L’Herminier Museum Squat as a Demonstration Against “La Vie Chère” – Alix Pierre 4. Martinique or the Greatness and Weakness of Spontaneity: A View of February 2009 – Hanétha Vété-Congolo 5. Neoliberalism and Caribbean Economies: Martinique, Guadeloupe and the Exploitative Strategies of Metropolitan Capital – H. Adlai Murdoch and Paget Henry Part II 6. Criminalization, Punitive Neoliberalism and the Puerto Rican Independence Movement – Jacqueline Lazú 7. Developing Disasters: Industrialization, Austerity, and Violence in Haiti since 1915 – Vincent Joos 8. A ‘New’ Antillean DOM Arts Scene, or the pragmatic aesthetics of patience: Artincidence, Annabel Guérédrat, Daniel Goudrouffe, and Henri Tauliaut – Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 9. Buskando nos mes: Giving Meaning to National Identity in Curaçao – Rose Mary Allen 10. The Parallels and Paradoxes of Postcolonial Sovereignty Games in the Dutch and French Caribbean: The End of the Netherlands Antilles and Construction of New Dutch Caribbean Political Entities and Relations – Michael Sharpe Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisNear Human takes us into the borders of human and animal life. In the animal facility, fragile piglets substitute for humans who cannot be experimented on. In the neonatal intensive care unit, extremely premature infants prompt questions about whether they are too fragile to save or, if they survive, whether they will face a life of severe disability. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork carried out on farms, in animal-based experimental science labs, and in hospitals, Mette N. Svendsen shows that practices of substitution redirect the question of "what it means" to be human to "what it takes" to be human. The near humanness of preterm infants and research piglets becomes an avenue to unravel how neonatal life is imagined, how societal belonging is evaluated, and how the Danish welfare state is forged. This courageous multi-sited and multi-species approach cracks open the complex ethical field of valuating life and making different kinds of pigs and different kinds of humans belong in Denmark. Trade Review"Near Human examines the moral sensibilities and substitution practices through which human and non-human lives come to be valued, sustained, and included within the collectivity – or killed and excluded. In Svendsen’s masterful account, vivid stories from Denmark – about piglets and preemies, scientists and migrants, global exchanges and border closures – speak to fundamental questions about how human lives and societies get shaped, alongside the lives of animals. A breathtaking achievement!" -- Janelle S. Taylor * author of The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram *"In this pathbreaking book, Mette Svendsen shows the ways in which Denmark relies upon pigs as fodder for its welfare state. Expanding the frames of translational medicine, Svendsen shows how the pig figures as a source of health and wealth that sustains the Danish population. The human-animal nexus becomes a prism to explore the boundaries of the nation, its citizenry and the politics of (non)belonging. This compelling and beautifully written book shows just how much can be learned by making other-than-human animals central to medical anthropology." -- Carrie Friese * author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals *"Near Human examines the moral sensibilities and substitution practices through which human and non-human lives come to be valued, sustained, and included within the collectivity – or killed and excluded. In Svendsen’s masterful account, vivid stories from Denmark – about piglets and preemies, scientists and migrants, global exchanges and border closures – speak to fundamental questions about how human lives and societies get shaped, alongside the lives of animals. A breathtaking achievement!" -- Janelle S. Taylor * author of The Public Life of the Fetal Sonogram *"In this pathbreaking book, Mette Svendsen shows the ways in which Denmark relies upon pigs as fodder for its welfare state. Expanding the frames of translational medicine, Svendsen shows how the pig figures as a source of health and wealth that sustains the Danish population. The human-animal nexus becomes a prism to explore the boundaries of the nation, its citizenry and the politics of (non)belonging. This compelling and beautifully written book shows just how much can be learned by making other-than-human animals central to medical anthropology." -- Carrie Friese * author of Cloning Wild Life: Zoos, Captivity, and the Future of Endangered Animals *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Lenore Manderson Prologue Introduction 1 Feeding: Cows, Pigs, and Humans in Interspecies Kinship 2 Killing: Pigs as Sacrificeable Beings 3 Treating: Infants at the Margins of Life 4 Metabolizing: Humans and Nonhumans in a Global Field Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIntimate Connections dissects ideas, feelings, and practices around love, marriage, and respectability in the remote high mountains of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan. It offers insightful perspectives from the emotional lives of Shia women and their active engagement with their husbands. These gender relations are shaped by countless factors, including embodied values of modesty and honor, vernacular fairy tales and Bollywood movies, Islamic revivalism and development initiatives. In particular, the advent of media and communication technologies has left a mark on (pre)marital relations in both South Asia and the wider Muslim world. Juxtaposing different understandings of ‘love’ reveals rich and manifold worlds of courtship, elopements, family dynamics, and more or less affectionate matches that are nowadays often initiated through SMS. Deep ethnographic accounts trace the relationships between young couples to show how Muslim women in a globalized world dynamically frame and negotiate circumstances in their lives.Trade Review"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *"Intimate Connections is an elegant and nuanced ethnographic account of gendered intimacy as experienced by women in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. Eschewing simplistic formulations such as 'love vs. arranged marriages' and 'agency vs. gendered subordination,' Anna-Maria Walter instead pushes us to consider emotions anew, in particular 'love,' as sites of embodied, ethical formation of the self, and as significant to gendered norms that shape marriage and emergent forms of conjugality." -- Attiya Ahmad * author of Everyday Conversions: Islam, Domestic Work and South Asian Migrant Women in Kuwait *"Intimate Connections is a richly ethnographic account of women’s and men’s experiences of kinship and sexuality in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, showing how young women’s changing expectations of marriage and love are reforming the institution from within." -- Katherine Lemons * author of Divorcing Traditions: Islamic Marriage Law and the Making of Indian Secularism *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments Note on Transcription 1 Politics of the Sensible 2 Embodying Modest Reserve 3 Arranging Affection 4 Fearing Passion 5 Romancing Marriage Glossary Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisUrban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside within a framework that centers on the violence of urban planning, the book shows that the forms of economic development promoted by international agencies institutionalize impermanence and instability. Conversely, it shows how everyday Haitians use and transform the city to create spaces of belonging and forms of citizenship anchored in a long history of resistance to extractive economies. Taking readers into the remnants of failed industrial projects in Haitian provinces and into the streets, rubble, and homes of Port-au-Prince, this book reflects on the possibilities and meanings of dwelling in post-disaster urban landscapes.Trade Review"Joos’ Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships undertakes a monumental task—analyzing the failures of international aid and post-disaster reconstruction through the lens of urban housing. Arguing for embodied forms of dwelling, Joos compellingly argues for Haitian models of urban housing built upon communal living, vernacular architecture, and sustainable habitation. Through his intimate, empathic ethnography, Joos powerfully asserts a 'right to the city' (and the country) through spatial citizenship, a correlate to what Mimi Sheller (Island Futures) defines as mobile justice." -- Jana Evans Braziel * author of Riding with Death: Vodou Art and Urban Ecology in the Streets of Port-au-Prince *"Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships is a tour de force, arguing for the importance of place in belonging and citizenship. Exceptionally well-researched, weaving a rich and diverse set of first-hand accounts with scholars from Haiti and elsewhere, Joos brings a critique of foreign disaster capitalism to the highest level, pushing hard against sensationalist narratives." -- Mark Schuller * author of Humanity's Last Stand: Confronting Global Catastrophe *New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies interview with Vincent Joos * New Books Network - New Books in Caribbean Studies *"A Big Hole: Notes from Jovenel Moïse’s Hometown," by Vincent Joos * The Society for Cultural Anthropology *"Richly narrated ethnographies accompanied by well-documented urban projects convey Joos’ principal argument: that culturally anchored practices related to reciprocal networks, income-generation (ti komés), social organization, and vernacular dwelling typologies (structures that withstood the earthquake on most occasions), are socially, economically and ecologically sustainable forms of urbanism that may offer viable alternatives to conventional post-disaster rehabilitation trajectories and internationally sponsored urban planning that turn a blind eye to ‘what already is.’" * ERLACS *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Introduction 1 Developing Disasters: Dispossession and Industrialization in Northern Haiti 2 Industrial Futures: Abstract and Disciplinarian Landscapes in Post-Earthquake Haiti 3 State Interventions: Infrastructure and Citizenship 4 Inhabiting Port-au-Prince after 2010: Indigenous Urbanization, History, and Belonging 5 Daily Life in the Shotgun Neighborhoods of Downtown Port-au-Prince 6 Demolishing Shotgun Neighborhoods Conclusion: Peyi a Lok Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisAre we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individuals fight over limited resources, and racist reaction to migration strains the social fabric of many countries. How can we retain our humanity in the midst of these life-and-death struggles? Humanity’s Last Stand dares to ask these big questions, exploring the interconnections between climate change, global capitalism, xenophobia, and white supremacy. As it unearths how capitalism was born from plantation slavery and the slaughter of Indigenous people, it also invites us to imagine life after capitalism. The book teaches its readers how to cultivate an anthropological imagination, a mindset that remains attentive to local differences even as it identifies global patterns of inequality and racism. Surveying the struggles of disenfranchised peoples around the globe from frontline communities affected by climate change, to #BlackLivesMatter activists, to Indigenous water protectors, to migrant communities facing increasing hostility, anthropologist Mark Schuller argues that we must develop radical empathy in order to move beyond simply identifying as “allies” and start acting as “accomplices.” Bringing together the insights of anthropologists and activists from many cultures, this timely study shows us how to stand together and work toward a more inclusive vision of humanity before it’s too late. More information and instructor resources (https://humanityslaststand.org)Trade Review"Humanity’s Last Stand is a call to arms to elevate our thinking to the species level or, Schuller cautions, the species will face extinction."— Cynthia McKinney, activist and former Congresswoman, from the foreword "[Schuller's] invitation to use anthropology to imagine new ways of organizing society and economics is well taken."— Kirkus Reviews "Mark Schuller’s approach to the convergent crises pushing us toward human catastrophe and planetary disaster should be taken to heart. With admirable conviction and commitment to radical empathy and pragmatic solidarity, he makes a bold argument for a publicly-engaged anthropological imagination that contributes a holistic understanding of and concrete solutions to urgent global crises."— Faye V. Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age “Humanity’s Last Stand illustrates how we are living in a moment of great turmoil and great possibilities for transformation. This is a timely text for activists and scholars committed to collective liberation. Dr. Schuller not only makes it clear that we are all connected, he makes a compelling case for us all to center the environment, and land, as stewards — not owners.”— Charlene A. Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements "Off the Presses: ‘Humanity’s Last Stand" by Dan Aubrey— U.S. 1 Community News "Mark Schuller has an 'in your face' and challenging style. It conveys his passion and the urgency of the situation addressed in the book. It is more than appropriate--it is engaging. Humanity's Last Stand is an important intervention at a moment of economic, political, cultural, and ecological crisis in the United States and the world. This is a book that has the potential to change the minds of many."— Kevin Yelvington, editor of Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora "When I finished reading, I needed to catch my breath. The book is furiously and forcefully written, engaging both historical and contemporary issues. Most productively, Schuller puts analyses written by political organizers and anthropologists into conversation, showing how they inform each other and move us forward together. This book is needed for this moment in history."— Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network “Humanity’s Last Stand is an electrifying work that dissects a range of interconnected problems—climate change, ultra-right nationalism, and global inequality—and proposes concrete steps to avert total catastrophe. This highly readable book is prescient, if not premonitory. It is essential reading for anyone interested in our species' long-term survival. Anthropology at its finest!”— Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Created Its Own Cell Phone Network "Schuller's brilliant book is critical reading for all of us who work to envision, and bring into being, a socially and ecologically just world. Grounded in a politics of solidarity built through the understanding of, and dismantling of privilege, he mobilizes a new vision for what 'an anthropological imagination' can afford us in terms of activist practice and radical empathy."— Paige West, editor of From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities "Schuller offers this not as a replacement for more traditional world systems theories (such as Marxism) but as a complement, one meant to guide the way to understanding that all struggles for a just world are tied to one another and all are mutually dependent upon all the others; understanding from the bottom up, if you will, to complement analysis from the top down."— Truthout “Mark Schuller takes anthropology to the public with critical insights on the historical and contemporary that expose the catastrophic and complex realities of global racial capitalism. He implores the willing to forge futures where differences matter and praxis of solidarity are intentionally quotidian. Humanity’s Last Stand is a pivotal ecological intervention for these times of crisis.”— Gina Athena Ulysse, author of Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD "An urgent and much needed contribution to our world in crisis. Schuller lays out crucial ground work for how an anthropological reimagining of global social, political, and economic relationships can save us from ourselves. In clear prose he shows the public how anthropology can be deployed as a way to create more empathy in these troubling times."— Jason De León, author of The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant TrailTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Cynthia McKinney Introduction: Careening Toward Extinction 1 Structuring Solidarity 2 Dismantling White Supremacy 3 Climate Justice Versus the Anthropocene 4 Humanity on the Move- Justice and Migration 5 Dismantling the Ivory Tower Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAre we as a species headed towards extinction? As our economic system renders our planet increasingly inhospitable to human life, powerful individuals fight over limited resources, and racist reaction to migration strains the social fabric of many countries. How can we retain our humanity in the midst of these life-and-death struggles? Humanity’s Last Stand dares to ask these big questions, exploring the interconnections between climate change, global capitalism, xenophobia, and white supremacy. As it unearths how capitalism was born from plantation slavery and the slaughter of Indigenous people, it also invites us to imagine life after capitalism. The book teaches its readers how to cultivate an anthropological imagination, a mindset that remains attentive to local differences even as it identifies global patterns of inequality and racism. Surveying the struggles of disenfranchised peoples around the globe from frontline communities affected by climate change, to #BlackLivesMatter activists, to Indigenous water protectors, to migrant communities facing increasing hostility, anthropologist Mark Schuller argues that we must develop radical empathy in order to move beyond simply identifying as “allies” and start acting as “accomplices.” Bringing together the insights of anthropologists and activists from many cultures, this timely study shows us how to stand together and work toward a more inclusive vision of humanity before it’s too late. More information and instructor resources (https://humanityslaststand.org)Trade Review"Humanity’s Last Stand is a call to arms to elevate our thinking to the species level or, Schuller cautions, the species will face extinction."— Cynthia McKinney, activist and former Congresswoman, from the foreword "[Schuller's] invitation to use anthropology to imagine new ways of organizing society and economics is well taken."— Kirkus Reviews "Mark Schuller’s approach to the convergent crises pushing us toward human catastrophe and planetary disaster should be taken to heart. With admirable conviction and commitment to radical empathy and pragmatic solidarity, he makes a bold argument for a publicly-engaged anthropological imagination that contributes a holistic understanding of and concrete solutions to urgent global crises."— Faye V. Harrison, author of Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age “Humanity’s Last Stand illustrates how we are living in a moment of great turmoil and great possibilities for transformation. This is a timely text for activists and scholars committed to collective liberation. Dr. Schuller not only makes it clear that we are all connected, he makes a compelling case for us all to center the environment, and land, as stewards — not owners.”— Charlene A. Carruthers, author of Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements "Off the Presses: ‘Humanity’s Last Stand" by Dan Aubrey— U.S. 1 Community News "Mark Schuller has an 'in your face' and challenging style. It conveys his passion and the urgency of the situation addressed in the book. It is more than appropriate--it is engaging. Humanity's Last Stand is an important intervention at a moment of economic, political, cultural, and ecological crisis in the United States and the world. This is a book that has the potential to change the minds of many."— Kevin Yelvington, editor of Afro-Atlantic Dialogues: Anthropology in the Diaspora "When I finished reading, I needed to catch my breath. The book is furiously and forcefully written, engaging both historical and contemporary issues. Most productively, Schuller puts analyses written by political organizers and anthropologists into conversation, showing how they inform each other and move us forward together. This book is needed for this moment in history."— Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, author of Labor and Legality: An Ethnography of a Mexican Immigrant Network “Humanity’s Last Stand is an electrifying work that dissects a range of interconnected problems—climate change, ultra-right nationalism, and global inequality—and proposes concrete steps to avert total catastrophe. This highly readable book is prescient, if not premonitory. It is essential reading for anyone interested in our species' long-term survival. Anthropology at its finest!”— Roberto J. González, author of Connected: How a Mexican Village Created Its Own Cell Phone Network "Schuller's brilliant book is critical reading for all of us who work to envision, and bring into being, a socially and ecologically just world. Grounded in a politics of solidarity built through the understanding of, and dismantling of privilege, he mobilizes a new vision for what 'an anthropological imagination' can afford us in terms of activist practice and radical empathy."— Paige West, editor of From Reciprocity to Relationality: Anthropological Possibilities "Schuller offers this not as a replacement for more traditional world systems theories (such as Marxism) but as a complement, one meant to guide the way to understanding that all struggles for a just world are tied to one another and all are mutually dependent upon all the others; understanding from the bottom up, if you will, to complement analysis from the top down."— Truthout “Mark Schuller takes anthropology to the public with critical insights on the historical and contemporary that expose the catastrophic and complex realities of global racial capitalism. He implores the willing to forge futures where differences matter and praxis of solidarity are intentionally quotidian. Humanity’s Last Stand is a pivotal ecological intervention for these times of crisis.”— Gina Athena Ulysse, author of Because When God is Too Busy: Haiti, me & THE WORLD "An urgent and much needed contribution to our world in crisis. Schuller lays out crucial ground work for how an anthropological reimagining of global social, political, and economic relationships can save us from ourselves. In clear prose he shows the public how anthropology can be deployed as a way to create more empathy in these troubling times."— Jason De León, author of The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant TrailTable of ContentsContents Foreword by Cynthia McKinney Introduction: Careening Toward Extinction 1 Structuring Solidarity 2 Dismantling White Supremacy 3 Climate Justice Versus the Anthropocene 4 Humanity on the Move- Justice and Migration 5 Dismantling the Ivory Tower Conclusion Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisDisputing Discipline explores how global and local children’s rights activists’ efforts within the school systems of Zanzibar to eradicate corporal punishment are changing the archipelago’s moral and political landscape. Through an equal consideration of child and adult perspectives, Fay explores what child protection means for Zanzibari children who have to negotiate their lives at the intersections of universalized and local "child protection" aspirations while growing up to be pious and responsible adults. Through a visual and participatory ethnographic approach that foregrounds young people’s voices through their poetry, photographs, and drawings, paired with in-depth Swahili language analysis, Fay shows how children’s views and experiences can transform our understanding of child protection. This book demonstrates that to improve interventions, policy makers and practitioners need to understand child protection beyond a policy sense of the term and respond to the reality of children’s lives to avoid unintentionally compromising, rather than improving, young people’s well-being. Trade Review"Disputing Discipline is an important intervention in universalist children’s rights discourse. Fay’s nuanced and sensitive treatment of a highly polemic topic demonstrates what happens when development initiatives fail to reckon with religious and cultural specificities. This book clearly and compellingly articulates the need to decolonize international child protection efforts, if they hope to succeed. Scholars and practitioners alike take heed." -- Kristen Cheney * author of Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS *"Disputing Discipline insightfully examines the tensions produced between global, decontextualized child protection policies and vernacular practices of care including Muslim children’s relational achievement of social and moral personhood in Zanzibar. By arguing for the need to decolonize the child protection apparatus in Zanzibar, it makes an important addition to existing studies that interrogate the hegemony of universal certitudes, like children’s rights, not to debunk these, but to better fulfill their assurances." -- Sarada Balagopalan * author of Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India *"Disputing Discipline is an important intervention in universalist children’s rights discourse. Fay’s nuanced and sensitive treatment of a highly polemic topic demonstrates what happens when development initiatives fail to reckon with religious and cultural specificities. This book clearly and compellingly articulates the need to decolonize international child protection efforts, if they hope to succeed. Scholars and practitioners alike take heed." -- Kristen Cheney * author of Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS *"Disputing Discipline insightfully examines the tensions produced between global, decontextualized child protection policies and vernacular practices of care including Muslim children’s relational achievement of social and moral personhood in Zanzibar. By arguing for the need to decolonize the child protection apparatus in Zanzibar, it makes an important addition to existing studies that interrogate the hegemony of universal certitudes, like children’s rights, not to debunk these, but to better fulfill their assurances." -- Sarada Balagopalan * author of Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India *Table of ContentsA Note on Language and Translation Glossary of Swahili Terms Introduction 1. Being Young in Zanzibar 2. Childhood With/out Punishment 3. Children and Child Protection 4. Child Protection in Zanzibar Schools 5. Gender, Islam, and Child Protection 6. Decolonizing Child Protection 7. Beyond Well-being, towards Children Conclusion Acknowledgements Glossary of Swahili Terms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisDisputing Discipline explores how global and local children’s rights activists’ efforts within the school systems of Zanzibar to eradicate corporal punishment are changing the archipelago’s moral and political landscape. Through an equal consideration of child and adult perspectives, Fay explores what child protection means for Zanzibari children who have to negotiate their lives at the intersections of universalized and local "child protection" aspirations while growing up to be pious and responsible adults. Through a visual and participatory ethnographic approach that foregrounds young people’s voices through their poetry, photographs, and drawings, paired with in-depth Swahili language analysis, Fay shows how children’s views and experiences can transform our understanding of child protection. This book demonstrates that to improve interventions, policy makers and practitioners need to understand child protection beyond a policy sense of the term and respond to the reality of children’s lives to avoid unintentionally compromising, rather than improving, young people’s well-being. Trade Review"Disputing Discipline is an important intervention in universalist children’s rights discourse. Fay’s nuanced and sensitive treatment of a highly polemic topic demonstrates what happens when development initiatives fail to reckon with religious and cultural specificities. This book clearly and compellingly articulates the need to decolonize international child protection efforts, if they hope to succeed. Scholars and practitioners alike take heed." -- Kristen Cheney * author of Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS *"Disputing Discipline insightfully examines the tensions produced between global, decontextualized child protection policies and vernacular practices of care including Muslim children’s relational achievement of social and moral personhood in Zanzibar. By arguing for the need to decolonize the child protection apparatus in Zanzibar, it makes an important addition to existing studies that interrogate the hegemony of universal certitudes, like children’s rights, not to debunk these, but to better fulfill their assurances." -- Sarada Balagopalan * author of Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India *"Disputing Discipline is an important intervention in universalist children’s rights discourse. Fay’s nuanced and sensitive treatment of a highly polemic topic demonstrates what happens when development initiatives fail to reckon with religious and cultural specificities. This book clearly and compellingly articulates the need to decolonize international child protection efforts, if they hope to succeed. Scholars and practitioners alike take heed." -- Kristen Cheney * author of Crying for Our Elders: African Orphanhood in the Age of HIV and AIDS *"Disputing Discipline insightfully examines the tensions produced between global, decontextualized child protection policies and vernacular practices of care including Muslim children’s relational achievement of social and moral personhood in Zanzibar. By arguing for the need to decolonize the child protection apparatus in Zanzibar, it makes an important addition to existing studies that interrogate the hegemony of universal certitudes, like children’s rights, not to debunk these, but to better fulfill their assurances." -- Sarada Balagopalan * author of Inhabiting ‘Childhood’: Children, Labour and Schooling in Postcolonial India *Table of ContentsA Note on Language and Translation Glossary of Swahili Terms Introduction 1. Being Young in Zanzibar 2. Childhood With/out Punishment 3. Children and Child Protection 4. Child Protection in Zanzibar Schools 5. Gender, Islam, and Child Protection 6. Decolonizing Child Protection 7. Beyond Well-being, towards Children Conclusion Acknowledgements Glossary of Swahili Terms Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisViral Frictions takes the reader along a trail of intersecting narratives to uncover how and why it is that HIV-related stigma persists in the age of treatment. Pfeiffer convincingly argues that stigma is a socially constructed process co-produced at the nexus of local, national, and global relationships and storytelling about and practices associated with HIV. Based on a decade of fieldwork in one highway trading center in Kenya, Viral Frictions offers compelling stories of stigma and discrimination as a lens for understanding broader social processes, the complexities of globalization and health, and their profound impact on the everyday social lives and relationships of people living through the ongoing HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. This highly engaging book is ideal reading for those interested in teaching and learning about intersectionality, as Pfeiffer meticulously demonstrates how HIV stigma interacts with issues of treatment, race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, social change, and international aid systems.Trade Review"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *"Through engaging storytelling and careful analysis, Viral Frictions examines the persistence of stigma surrounding AIDS in Kenya. Tracing the intersection of multiple axes of inequality and illuminating the complicity of global actors, Elizabeth Pfeiffer provides a new and insightful perspective on an enduring problem. Further, her rich ethnography takes a Rift Valley 'truck stop'—stereotypically reduced to a risk site—and reveals a vibrant community." -- Daniel Jordan Smith * author of AIDS Doesn’t Show Its Face: Inequality, Morality, and Social Change in Nigeria *“An exquisite ethnography of the complex social frictions arising from decades of HIV interventions, and more recent efforts to 'end AIDS,' in Kenya. Deftly interweaving history, theory, and ethnographic stories, Viral Frictions offers a humane and carefully wrought reminder that HIV stigma persists in social relations even as the virus becomes increasingly 'undetectable' in bodies due to biomedical treatment.” -- Nora Kenworthy * author of Mistreated: The Political Consequences of the Fight Against AIDS in Lesotho *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson PrefaceAcronyms and Abbreviations Introduction 1 Uneven Anthropological and Epidemiological Stories in Historical HIV Context2 “The Postelection Violence Has Brought Shame on Us All”: HIV and Legacies of Racism, Political Violence, and Ethnic Conflict 3 Stigma and the Cultural Politics of Uncertainty 4 “We Call HIV a Sex Worker Disease”: Economic Inequalities, Social Change, and the Politics of Gender and Sexuality 5 (Re)Imagining Stigma at the Intersection of HIV and Mental Health Statuses6 “What Has Happened to You?” HIV and the (Re)Making of Moral Personhood Conclusion AcknowledgmentsNotes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Cape Town, South Africa, many people with tuberculosis also use substances. This sets up a seemingly impossible problem: People who use substances are at increased risk of tuberculosis disease; and substance use seems to result in erratic behavior that makes successful treatment of people affected by tuberculosis extremely difficult. People affected don’t get healthy, healthcare providers are frustrated, and families seek to balance love and care for those who are ill with self-protection. How are we to understand this? Where does the responsibility for poor health and healing lie? What are the possibilities for an effective healthcare response? Through a close look at lives and care, Making Uncertainty: Tuberculosis, Substance Use, and Pathways to Health shows how patterns of substance use, tuberculosis disease, and their interaction are shaped by history, social context, and political economy. This, in turn, generates new perspectives on what makes poor health, and what good care might look like.Trade Review"This is an outstanding ethnography that makes important contributions to medical anthropology specifically in relation to infectious diseases, substance use, and anthropological studies of global health practices and interventions. The nuanced anthropological focus on the intersections of substance use and tuberculosis among marginalized and impoverished persons that Versfeld analyzes in relation to historical legacies of colonialism and Apartheid is both in-depth and accessible. Critical reading for medical anthropologists, global public health scholars, and those interested in health inequalities in Africa and the Global South." -- Erin Koch * author of Free Market Tuberculosis: Managing Epidemics in Postsocialist Georgia *"South Africa has among the highest tuberculosis rates in the world, related to indoor residential crowding, occupational hazards like mining, and high background HIV prevalence. Drug resistance and active TB resurgence magnify the original problem, increasing costs of care and reducing survival. I recommend this important contribution for anyone seeking deeper insights into the healthcare and community challenges facing the syndemic of substance use and TB, often complicated by HIV co-infection. Only a multifaceted response is likely to succeed for a disease too often addressed with limited “vertical” programs." -- Sten Vermund * the Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, and Dean of the Yale School of Public Health *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Lenore Manderson 1 Returners 2 The Stickiness of Moral Opinion 3 Co-constitutions: Makers and Maskers 4 Salience and Silence: Data, Evidence, and the Making of Figure Facts 5 The Challenge of “Unruly” Patients 6 Care to Cure 7 Catching Breath: The Hospital as Restricted Respite 8 Anthropology in Action Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisArranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women. Trade Review"Arranged marriage is unhooked from its stereotypes and stigmas in this volume. What we get instead are new and unexpected insights into an enduring, flexible, portable, and hybrid mode of heterosexual conjugality. An excellent scholarly and pedagogical tool!" -- Jyoti Puri * (Simmons University), author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law i *“As a set of practices that are constantly mutating and notoriously difficult to pin-down statistically, arranged marriages have aroused much interest, debate, and judgment in scholarly, feminist, and activist circles. The present volume of thoroughly researched and sharply analyzed essays offers a global view of this complex institution that helps the reader to develop a dynamic understanding of arranged marriage practices, departing from received notions. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary reality of a deep historical practice.” -- Rochona Majumdar * (The University of Chicago), author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal *“The collection highlights the blurred lines between arranged and forced marriages, on the one hand, and arranged and ‘love’ marriages, on the other hand. It underlines the dynamics of these marriages, both historically, over time, and processually, in time, through evocative and sensitively documented case studies, each essay stressing the evolving relations between individual agency, gender, generation, and power in changing economic, technological, and demographic circumstances. Many of the case studies are surprising and thought-provoking, and the remarkable achievement in bringing them all together in a single volume is to underline both the similarities and differences in familial relations across the world.” -- Pnina Werbner * (Keele University), author of Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult *“This thoughtful collection of essays reveals deep variation in the lived experiences of arranged marriage in today’s border crossing world. A valuable contribution to scholarship on the politics of marriage and the diverse meanings of choice, consent, love, and intimacy.” -- Sara L. Friedman * (Indiana University), author of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Ta *“This book offers fresh perspectives on contemporary practices of arranged marriage, and as such should be regarded as a pioneering work. In particular, it makes an important new contribution by exploring where, how, and with what consequences arranged marriage practices intersect with rights-based discourses about forced marriage and child marriage – that is, with state concerns to prevent human trafficking and to protect women and children from sexual exploitation. As this book shows, arranged marriage is thriving, in fluid and flexible contemporary forms, embedded in processes of transnational migration, modernization, and the sustaining of ethnic, national, and religious differences." -- Alison Shaw * (University of Oxford), author of Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain *“Euro-American discourse on marriage in diasporic communities often becomes hopelessly entangled in the supposed binary relationship between arranged and love marriage. This book does an excellent job of exploring the fluidity of marital arrangements and the agency individuals exercise within the patriarchal constraints without losing sight of the coercion and violence that might underlie some of these arrangements.” -- Sonalde Desai * (University of Maryland), author of Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transiti *“Arranged Marriage is a compelling collection that forces readers to rethink their assumptions about love, marriage, and choice. Although “modern” is a word rarely associated with such unions, Arranged Marriage persuasively demonstrates that these marriages are not an outdated relic of the past. By providing a thoughtful and nuanced picture of this age-old practice, Arranged Marriage leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the good outweighs the bad.” -- Marcia Zug * (University of South Carolina), author of Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches *“Highlighting processual and contextual understandings of arranged marriage, and a de-essentializing approach, this timely collection shows the continued vibrancy, versatility, and variability of current arranged marriage practices – and their crucial importance for studies of marriage and relationality.” -- Janet Carsten * (University of Edinburgh), author of After Kinship *“Berta’s edited volume is a deep dive into the nuances of the varied processes of arranged marriages – from love-choice to trafficking. Each chapter reads like a novel, taking us through rich collections of stories grounded in ethnography and legal records in communities as diverse as Canadian Mormons, Israelis, Chinese, South Asians, Roma, and Syrian refugees. I look forward to the debates with my students.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * (University of Southern California), author of Gender, Power and Resistance in India *“This volume interrogates arranged marriage in all its complexities and ambiguities across the globe. It illuminates how migration, legal institutions, technology, and transnational cultural flows interweave with shifting marital practices in Europe, North America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Australia.” -- Keera Allendorf * (Indiana University), co-editor of Special Issue on Developmental Idealism (Sociology of Development *“This comprehensive approach to arranged marriage looks both at the dark side of arranged marriages, where women are treated as objects and vulnerable to severe exploitation, and a more nuanced look from a global perspective on how arranged marriage can suit the needs of different populations around the world. There is a high level of scholarship among the invited authors for this book of curated articles and it is hard to imagine anyone who is interested in arranged marriage not needing this book.” -- Pepper Schwartz * (University of Washington), co-author of The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities *“This valuable collection shows both the diversity of arranged marriages, and the manner in which the practice has changed globally to adapt to current social, economic, political, and media settings. The authors refute the simplistic binary between “arranged” and “love” marriages in contemporary societies. The volume also sheds light on forced marriages and how a marriage which might seem consensual may not be so. Must reading for scholars of Marriage Studies anywhere.” -- Janet Afary * (University of California), author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran *Table of Contents Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisArranged Marriage: The Politics of Tradition, Resistance, and Change shows how arranged marriage practices have been undergoing transformation as a result of global and other processes such as the revolution of digital technology, democratization of transnational mobility, or shifting significance of patriarchal power structures. The ethnographically informed chapters not only highlight how the gendered and intergenerational politics of agency, autonomy, choice, consent, and intimacy work in the contexts of partner choice and management of marriage, but also point out that arranged marriages are increasingly varied and they can be reshaped, reinvented, and reinterpreted flexibly in response to individual, family, religious, class, ethnic, and other desires, needs, and constraints. The authors convincingly demonstrate that a nuanced investigation of the reasons, complex dynamics, and consequences of arranged marriages offers a refreshing analytical lens that can significantly contribute to a deeper understanding of other phenomena such as globalization, modernization, and international migration as well as patriarchal value regimes, intergenerational power imbalances, and gendered subordination and vulnerability of women. Trade Review"Arranged marriage is unhooked from its stereotypes and stigmas in this volume. What we get instead are new and unexpected insights into an enduring, flexible, portable, and hybrid mode of heterosexual conjugality. An excellent scholarly and pedagogical tool!" -- Jyoti Puri * (Simmons University), author of Sexual States: Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law i *“As a set of practices that are constantly mutating and notoriously difficult to pin-down statistically, arranged marriages have aroused much interest, debate, and judgment in scholarly, feminist, and activist circles. The present volume of thoroughly researched and sharply analyzed essays offers a global view of this complex institution that helps the reader to develop a dynamic understanding of arranged marriage practices, departing from received notions. A must-read for anyone interested in the contemporary reality of a deep historical practice.” -- Rochona Majumdar * (The University of Chicago), author of Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal *“The collection highlights the blurred lines between arranged and forced marriages, on the one hand, and arranged and ‘love’ marriages, on the other hand. It underlines the dynamics of these marriages, both historically, over time, and processually, in time, through evocative and sensitively documented case studies, each essay stressing the evolving relations between individual agency, gender, generation, and power in changing economic, technological, and demographic circumstances. Many of the case studies are surprising and thought-provoking, and the remarkable achievement in bringing them all together in a single volume is to underline both the similarities and differences in familial relations across the world.” -- Pnina Werbner * (Keele University), author of Pilgrims of Love: The Anthropology of a Global Sufi Cult *“This thoughtful collection of essays reveals deep variation in the lived experiences of arranged marriage in today’s border crossing world. A valuable contribution to scholarship on the politics of marriage and the diverse meanings of choice, consent, love, and intimacy.” -- Sara L. Friedman * (Indiana University), author of Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Ta *“This book offers fresh perspectives on contemporary practices of arranged marriage, and as such should be regarded as a pioneering work. In particular, it makes an important new contribution by exploring where, how, and with what consequences arranged marriage practices intersect with rights-based discourses about forced marriage and child marriage – that is, with state concerns to prevent human trafficking and to protect women and children from sexual exploitation. As this book shows, arranged marriage is thriving, in fluid and flexible contemporary forms, embedded in processes of transnational migration, modernization, and the sustaining of ethnic, national, and religious differences." -- Alison Shaw * (University of Oxford), author of Kinship and Continuity: Pakistani Families in Britain *“Euro-American discourse on marriage in diasporic communities often becomes hopelessly entangled in the supposed binary relationship between arranged and love marriage. This book does an excellent job of exploring the fluidity of marital arrangements and the agency individuals exercise within the patriarchal constraints without losing sight of the coercion and violence that might underlie some of these arrangements.” -- Sonalde Desai * (University of Maryland), author of Human Development in India: Challenges for a Society in Transiti *“Arranged Marriage is a compelling collection that forces readers to rethink their assumptions about love, marriage, and choice. Although “modern” is a word rarely associated with such unions, Arranged Marriage persuasively demonstrates that these marriages are not an outdated relic of the past. By providing a thoughtful and nuanced picture of this age-old practice, Arranged Marriage leaves it up to the reader to decide whether the good outweighs the bad.” -- Marcia Zug * (University of South Carolina), author of Buying a Bride: An Engaging History of Mail-Order Matches *“Highlighting processual and contextual understandings of arranged marriage, and a de-essentializing approach, this timely collection shows the continued vibrancy, versatility, and variability of current arranged marriage practices – and their crucial importance for studies of marriage and relationality.” -- Janet Carsten * (University of Edinburgh), author of After Kinship *“Berta’s edited volume is a deep dive into the nuances of the varied processes of arranged marriages – from love-choice to trafficking. Each chapter reads like a novel, taking us through rich collections of stories grounded in ethnography and legal records in communities as diverse as Canadian Mormons, Israelis, Chinese, South Asians, Roma, and Syrian refugees. I look forward to the debates with my students.” -- Erin Patrice Moore * (University of Southern California), author of Gender, Power and Resistance in India *“This volume interrogates arranged marriage in all its complexities and ambiguities across the globe. It illuminates how migration, legal institutions, technology, and transnational cultural flows interweave with shifting marital practices in Europe, North America, the Middle East, South Asia, and Australia.” -- Keera Allendorf * (Indiana University), co-editor of Special Issue on Developmental Idealism (Sociology of Development *“This comprehensive approach to arranged marriage looks both at the dark side of arranged marriages, where women are treated as objects and vulnerable to severe exploitation, and a more nuanced look from a global perspective on how arranged marriage can suit the needs of different populations around the world. There is a high level of scholarship among the invited authors for this book of curated articles and it is hard to imagine anyone who is interested in arranged marriage not needing this book.” -- Pepper Schwartz * (University of Washington), co-author of The Gender of Sexuality: Exploring Sexual Possibilities *“This valuable collection shows both the diversity of arranged marriages, and the manner in which the practice has changed globally to adapt to current social, economic, political, and media settings. The authors refute the simplistic binary between “arranged” and “love” marriages in contemporary societies. The volume also sheds light on forced marriages and how a marriage which might seem consensual may not be so. Must reading for scholars of Marriage Studies anywhere.” -- Janet Afary * (University of California), author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran *Table of Contents Series Foreword PÉTER BERTA Introduction: Conceptualizing Arranged Marriage– From Binary Oppositions to Hybridity, Processuality, and Contextual Dependency PÉTER BERTA PART ONE Regulating Arranged Marriage 1 Nothing “Celestial” about It: Trafficking Underage Brides between Canada and the United States for the Purposes of Arranged Marriage SERENA PETRELLA 2 From FamilySafety Net to the WorldWide Web of Immigration Fraudsters: The Evolution of Arranged Marriages among South Asian Canadians NOORFARAH MERALI PART TWO (Re)conceptualizing Arranged Marriage 3 Arranged Marriage as a Process: From Premarital Normalization of Arranged Marriage to Arranged Divorce and Arranged Remarriage PÉTER BERTA 4 Configuring Arranged Marriage as a Foil to Forced Marriage in Multicultural Australia HELENA ZEWERI 5 Forced Marriage and “Honor”-Based Violence in Britain: Issues, Debates, and the Question of Consent CHRISTINA JULIOS PART THREE Revitalizing and Reinventing Arranged Marriage 6 Revisiting Transnational Arranged Marriages among Syrian Refugees in Germany: A Relational Approach YAFA SHANNEIK AND SCHIRIN VAHLE 7 From Patriarchal Call to Digital Hunt: Transforming “Arranged Marriages” in China PAN WANG PART FOUR Modernizing Arranged Marriage 8 Family-Arranged Marriages in Globalizing India: Shifting Scripts of Desire, Infidelity, and Emotional Compatibility SHALINI GROVER 9 Progressive Traditions, Repressive Victorians, and the Modern Present: Arranged Marriage and Gender in Sri Lanka ASHA L. ABEYASEKERA 10 “I Wanted to Choose for Myself”: Changing Marriage Patterns in the Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel SIMA ZALCBERG BLOCK PART FIVE Diasporizing Arranged Marriage 11 Wedded to Tradition? Continuity and Change in Arranged Marriage Practices among British Indians RAKSHA PANDE 12 The Changing Face of Arranged Marriage in the South Asian Diaspora in Chicago FARHA TERNIKAR Afterword MARIAN AGUIAR Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become “contested space” between policy and practice. Trade Review"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *Table of ContentsIntroductionWilliam C. Olsen and Carolyn SargentPart I Global Medicines in Local Cultures1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian ClinicMorgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian HospitalAnita Hannig3 The Cosmopolitan HospitalCheryl Mattingly4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in AsanteWilliam C. Olsen5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases ComparedJohn M. JanzenPart II Care Giving and Hospital Labor6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital BeninMark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in GuatemalaAnita Chary and Peter Rohloff8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, TanzaniaAdrienne E. Strong9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. HurdPart III Hospitals and the Patient10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone WrongElisa J. Sobo12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public HospitalsEugenia Georges13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani HospitalEmma VarleyAfterwordClaire WendlandReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in the social production of health and disease in the communities where they are. Many low-resource countries have experienced increasing privatization and dysfunction of public sector institutions such as hospitals, and growing withdrawal of funding for non-profit organizations. Underlying the chapters in The Work of Hospitals is a fundamental question: how do hospitals function lacking the medications, equipment and technologies, and personnel normally assumed to be necessary? This collection of ethnographies demonstrates how hospital administrators, clinicians, and other staff in hospitals around the world confront innumerable risks in their commitment to deliver health care, including civil unrest, widespread poverty, endemic and epidemic disease, and supply chain instability. Ultimately, The Work of Hospitals documents a vast gulf between the idealized mission of the hospital and the implementation of this mission in everyday practice. Hospitals thus become “contested space” between policy and practice. Trade Review"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *"Drawing on a range of evocative and sometimes shocking examples, The Work of Hospitals showcases the value of comparative, ethnographic research, beautifully asserting the enduring significance of the clinical space as a lens through which to understand society. Hospitals are spaces of refracted power, surveillance, and Othering, but also inevitably of experimentation. Medicine is no finished product to be enacted on passive bodies, but is negotiated and remade continually in relation to patients’ own sentiments and worldviews." -- Elizabeth Hull * author of Contingent Citizens: Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital *"A landmark study of the hospital as a social space caught up in global and neoliberal logics. The book's incisive case studies explore moments of care and canny improvisation in the face of structural neglect. By showing how professionals, patients, and families engage each other on contested hospital landscapes, the book makes an important contribution to the anthropology of medicine, power and care in a global age." -- Paul Brodwin * author of Everyday Ethics: Voices from the Front Line of Community Psychiatry *Table of ContentsIntroductionWilliam C. Olsen and Carolyn SargentPart I Global Medicines in Local Cultures1 Global Health Goals and Local Constraints in a Rural Peruvian ClinicMorgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, and Thomas L. Leatherman2 Science and Sanctity: Biomedicine and Christianity at an Ethiopian HospitalAnita Hannig3 The Cosmopolitan HospitalCheryl Mattingly4 “Dangerous Disease”: Epilepsy in AsanteWilliam C. Olsen5 The Salience of the State in Biomedicine: Congo and Uganda Cases ComparedJohn M. JanzenPart II Care Giving and Hospital Labor6 Creating a Therapeutic Community: Lessons from Allada Hospital BeninMark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh, and Roch Christian Johnson7 Medical “Errands” among Women with Cervical Cancer in GuatemalaAnita Chary and Peter Rohloff8 Routinized Caring or a “Call” to Nursing: Shifts in Hospital Nursing in Rukwa, TanzaniaAdrienne E. Strong9 “We Work with What We Have, Not with What We Would Like to Have”: Hospital Care in MexicoVania Smith-Oka and Kayla J. HurdPart III Hospitals and the Patient10 The Navigation of Public Hospitals by West African Immigrants with Cancer in Paris, FranceCarolyn Sargent11 Each Child Is Unique: The Responsible U.S. Parent’s Take on Hospital Care Gone WrongElisa J. Sobo12 Making Ethnographic Sense of Cesarean Rates in Greek Public HospitalsEugenia Georges13 The Nightside of Medicine: Obstetric Suffering and Ethnographic Witnessing in a Pakistani HospitalEmma VarleyAfterwordClaire WendlandReferencesNotes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisChildren of the Rainforest explores the lives of children growing up in a time of radical change in Amazonia. The book draws on ethnographic fieldwork conducted with the Matses, a group of hunter-gatherer forest dwellers who have lived in voluntary isolation until fairly recently. Having worked with them for over a decade, returning every year to their villages in the rainforest, Camilla Morelli follows closely the life-trajectories of Matses children, watching them shift away from the forest-based lifestyles of their elders and move towards new horizons crisscrossed by concrete paving, lit by the glow of electric lights and television screens, and centered around urban practices and people. The book uses drawings and photographs taken by the children themselves to trace the children’s journeys—lived and imagined—from their own perspectives, proposing an ethnographic analysis that recognizes children’s imaginations, play, and shifting desires as powerful catalysts of social change.Trade Review"This brief summary of Children of the Forest barely conveys the significance of this grand accomplishment. Seldom has childhood been studied so thoroughly nor yielded so many original findings. This is a must read for anthropologists who study childhood and scholars across the spectrum interested in the process of social change." -- David Lancy * Anthropology Book Forum *"While it is often argued that children are the leading change agents in Indigenous communities, Camilla Morelli provides one of the first and the most thorough documentation of this phenomenon." -- David F. Lancy * author of The Anthropology of Childhood: Cherubs, Chattel, Changelings *"This is a highly innovative book that offers a remarkable perspective on the immense social change facing the Matses since the 1960s through the eyes and lives of children. It is as eminently readable as it is theoretically challenging and offers a truly exceptional ethnography that will appeal to a wide audience. This is one of the most insightful and inspiring books on Indigenous people that I have read in recent years." -- Andrew Canessa * author of Intimate Indigeneities: Race, Sex, and History in the Small Spaces of Andean Life *"Children of the Rainforest is a much awaited and fine-grained analysis of Amazonian childhood! Morelli's ethnographic account is timely, highly informative, and moving." -- Olga Ulturgasheva * coeditor of Animism in Rainforest and Tundra: Personhood, Animals, Plants and Things in Contemporary *Table of ContentsForeword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi Introduction 1 The Child in the Forest: A Glimpse into the Childhood of the Past 2 River Horizons: Moving toward the Big Water 3 The Sound of Inequality: Children as Agents of Economic Change 4 Consuelo’s Dolls: Shifting Desires and the Subversion of Womanhood 5 Jean-Claude Van Damme in the Rainforest: The Spoken Weapons of Masculinity 6 Yearning for Concrete: Children’s Imagination as a Catalyst for Change 7 Urban Futures: When Dreams of Concrete Come True Conclusion Afterword by Roldán Dunú Tumi Dësi Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisBrazil changed drastically in the 21st century’s second decade. In 2010, the country’s outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval. As the presidency passed to his Workers' Party successor, Dilma Rousseff, many across the world hailed Brazil as a model of progressive governance in the Global South. Yet, by 2019, those progressive gains were being dismantled as the far right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of a bitterly divided country. Digging beneath this pendulum swing of policy and politics, and drawing on rich ethnographic portraits, Precarious Democracy shows how these transformations were made and experienced by Brazilians far from the halls of power. Bringing together powerful and intimate stories and portraits from Brazil's megacities to rural Amazonia, this volume demonstrates the necessity of ethnography for understanding social and political change, and provides crucial insights on one of the most epochal periods of change in Brazilian history. Trade Review"Precarious Democracy presents a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary Brazil through a rich collection of ethnographies and a range of thoughtful analyses and insights about ordinary people throughout the country as they respond in multiple ways to the rise and political consolidation of the far-right in recent years. It is essential reading for understanding what is going on in Brazil today." -- James N. Green * author of Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary *"This collection offers rich, theoretically evocative ethnographies on a range of sites seldom brought together in a single volume, from family frictions that expose the polarization of the past decade to guns and the performance of masculinity to Black queer resilience amid Brazil’s rightward shift. The assembled cases foreground feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial epistemologies and shed unique light on Brazil’s 'unraveling,' bringing into view the precarity often underlying formal democratic arrangements, even, or perhaps especially, those governed by the Left." -- Sonia E. Alvarez * co-editor of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America *"Precarious Democracy presents a kaleidoscopic view of contemporary Brazil through a rich collection of ethnographies and a range of thoughtful analyses and insights about ordinary people throughout the country as they respond in multiple ways to the rise and political consolidation of the far-right in recent years. It is essential reading for understanding what is going on in Brazil today." -- James N. Green * author of Exile within Exiles: Herbert Daniel, Gay Brazilian Revolutionary *"This collection offers rich, theoretically evocative ethnographies on a range of sites seldom brought together in a single volume, from family frictions that expose the polarization of the past decade to guns and the performance of masculinity to Black queer resilience amid Brazil’s rightward shift. The assembled cases foreground feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial epistemologies and shed unique light on Brazil’s 'unraveling,' bringing into view the precarity often underlying formal democratic arrangements, even, or perhaps especially, those governed by the Left." -- Sonia E. Alvarez * co-editor of Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America *Table of ContentsList of Acronyms Editors’ Introduction: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unravelling by Benjamin Junge, Alvaro Jarrin, Lucia Cantero, and Sean T. Mitchell A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy: A Critical Overview by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz Part I: The Intimacy of Power Chapter 1: “Family is Everything”: Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections by Benjamin Junge Chapter 2: Among Mothers and Daughters: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia by Jessica Jerome Chapter 3: Dreaming with Guns: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro’s Brazil by Isabela Kalil, Rosana Pinheiro-Machado, and Lucia Mury Scalco Chapter 4: Whiteness Has Come Out of the Closet and Intensified Brazil’s Reactionary Wave by Patricia de Santana Pinho Part II: Corruption and Crime Chapter 5: Cruel Pessimism: The Affect of Anti-Corruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class by Sean T. Mitchell Chapter 6: The Effects of Some Religious Affects: Revolutions in Crime by Karina Biondi Chapter 7: “Look at that”: Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands that have become a Sea (of Money) by John Collins Chapter 8: The Oil is Ours: Petrobras, Corruption and Extractive Global Lawfare by Lucia Cantero Part III: Infrastructures of Hope Chapter 9: Despairing Hopes (and Hopeful Despair) in Amazonia by David Rojas, Andrezza Alves Spexoto Olival, and Alexandre de Azevedo Olival Chapter 10: Tempered Hopes: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife’s Alternative Music Scene by Falina Enriquez Chapter 11: Withering Dreams: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil’s Once Rising Poor by Moisés Kopper Chapter 12: Bolsonaro Wins Japan: Support for the Far Right among Japanese-Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants by Sarah LeBaron von Baeyer Part IV: Old Challenges, New Activism Chapter 13: Holding the Wave: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience Amidst the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro by LaShandra Sullivan Chapter 14: LGBTTI Elders in Brazil: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance and Vulnerability by Carlos Eduardo Henning Chapter 15: Disgust and Defiance: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism Amidst a Heteronormative Backlash by Alvaro Jarrín Chapter 16: “Barbie e Ken, Cidadãos de Bem”: Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil by Melanie A. Medeiros, Patrick McCormick, Erika Schmitt, and James Kale Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisGlobal Health for All trains a critical lens on global health to share the stories that global health’s practices and logics tell about 20th and 21st century configurations of science and power. An ethnography on multiple scales, the book focuses on global health’s key epistemic and therapeutic practices like localization, measurement, triage, markets, technology, care, and regulation. Its roving approach traverses policy centers, sites of intervention, and innumerable spaces in between to consider what happens when globalized logics, circulations, and actors work to imagine, modify, and manage health. By resting in these in-between places, Global Health for All simultaneously examines global health as a coherent system and as a dynamic, unpredictable collection of modular parts.Trade Review"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China Institute, The New School *"This fantastic book paints an ambitious and sophisticated historical and ethnographic tableau of the global health field and the globalization of health during the last forty years or so. Articulated around a series of innovative themes, from political/economic triage to persistent hospitals to provincializing the WHO, the book is a must-read for anyone curious about the transformation of international health and biomedicine at the turn of the twentieth century." -- David Reubi * co-editor of Global Health and Geographical Imaginaries *"Global Health for All challenges classic understandings of periodization of structures of international health versus a burgeoning global health movement to rethink the very foundations of what has emerged as practices aspiring toward 'health universalism' in the twenty-first century. The range of fascinating case studies, the scope of ideas, and the provocation for rethinking and new research is simply stunning. It is a book to be pondered, contested, and taught." -- Byron Good * co-editor of A Reader in Medical Anthropology: Theoretical Trajectories, Emergent Realities *"This is a deeply thoughtful and brilliantly argued book that cuts across stale debates to offer a new framework for conceptualizing health in a globalized world. Its compelling analysis is both important and urgent—as COVID-19 becomes a pivotal moment for rethinking approaches to health, it is crucial that new knowledge and interventions be guided by conceptual and methodological imperatives such as those offered in Global Health for All." -- Manjari Mahajan * Associate Professor of International Affairs & Starr Professor and Co-Director of the India China In *Table of ContentsPrologue: A Story with Sixteen Tellers by Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction: Health Universalism and the Health of Others by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Claudia Lang Periodization A Field and What Else? The Game of Scales Standardization What’s Neoliberal in Global Health? Multi-scalar methodologies Chapter 1: Localization in the Global by Andrew McDowell, Lucile Ruault, Olivia Fiorilli, Laurent Pordié Grounding localization The Local as Site of Innovation SkyCare and the Virtual Global Community: The Discursive Local The Local as Hub of Global Circulations Conclusion Chapter 2: Metrics for Development by Anne M. Lovell, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Introduction Global Burden of Disease Season 1: The World Bank’s Tool for Prioritizing Health Investments Putting GBD 1 to Use: The Real but Problematic “Economization” of National Investments in Health Global Burden of Disease, Season 2 (GBD 2): Limitations and Legitimation Challenging GBD 2 Crises of ownership and counting Conclusion Chapter 3: Triage Beyond the Clinic by Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Claire Beaudevin Political Triage and its Economic Alternative: The Primary Health Care Strategy and its Eclipse Strategy in Practice—The Essential Drugs List and the Rise of the “Selective” Primary Health Care The 1990s and Its Aftermath: Performance-Based Triage and the World Bank Triage toward Disease Control: Tuberculosis and “Verticalization” in Global Health Comprehensive Primary Healthcare, Medical Genetics, and Task Shifting in Oman Distributed Political Triage in Kerala Conclusion Chapter 4: Markets, Medicines, and Health Globalization by Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Laurent Pordié, Jessica Pourraz, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Introduction Toward a Global Market: Branded Artemisinin Drugs Reaching Tanzania Rethinking Medicine Making: The Local Production of Generic Anti-Malarials in Ghana The Reformulation Regime: Industrial Ayurveda Goes Global Transactions at the Interstices: The Licit and Illicit Circulation of Drugs in Cambodia Conclusion Chapter 5: Tech for All by Andrew McDowell, Claudia Lang, Mandy Geise, Sameea Ahmed Hassim, Vegard Sture The Launching of a Depression Technopack A Sliding Scale: TB GeneXpert: Of Genes and Experts Technopacking Genomics, Mestizaje and Diabetes in Mexico Cuba’s Prenatal Screening Technopack Conclusion Chapter 6: Persistent Hospitals by Claire Beaudevin, Fanny Chabrol, Claudia Lang Introduction Crafting Medical Genetics in an Omani Hospital Providing Multidrug-resistant Treatment in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Tanzania The Mental Hospital and Community Mental Health in India Conclusion Chapter 7: Provincializing the WHO by Christoph Gradmann, Olivia Fiorilli, Jean-Paul Gaudillière, Caroline Meier zu Biesen, Lucile Ruault, Simeng Wang Tuberculosis, the Making of DOTS and the Decline of Primary Health Care The WHO and the World Bank: Revisiting the “Take-over” The WHO and the Missed Opportunity for a Global Agenda on Human Genetics, 1980s–2000s Transregional Health Encounters: Indian Ayurveda, African markets, and the WHO’s Guiding Principles A Road to Africa – China and Global Health Conclusion Epilogue: The Health of Others, Covid-19 and BeyondClaudia Lang, Andrew McDowell, Claire Beaudevin, Jean-Paul Gaudillière Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIslamic Divorce in the 21st Century shows the wide range of Muslim experiences in marital disputes and in seeking Islamic divorces. For Muslims, having the ability to divorce in accordance with Islamic law is of paramount importance. However, Muslim experiences of divorce practice differ tremendously. The chapters in this volume discuss Islamic divorce from West Africa to Southeast Asia, and each story explores aspects of the everyday realities of disputing and divorcing Muslim couples face in the twenty-first century. The book’s cross-cultural and comparative look at Islamic divorce indicates that Muslim divorces are impacted by global religious discourses on Islamic authority, authenticity, and gender; by global patterns of and approaches to secularity; and by global economic inequalities and attendant patterns of urbanization and migration. Studying divorce as a mode of Islamic law in practice shows us that the Islamic legal tradition is flexible, malleable, and context-dependent.Trade Review"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a wonderful book in which we travel geographically and intellectually. Its importance draws on the variety of national experiences it documents in a truly comparative perspective, as well as on the scholarship of both coeditors and contributors. It is a compulsory read for everybody interested in understanding how Islam is a global phenomenon with a huge array of local declensions." -- Baudouin Dupret * author of Positive Law from the Muslim World: Jurisprudence, History, Practices *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century provides rich empirical data and sophisticated theoretical perspectives on the gendered complexities of kinship and marriage, divorce, inequality, and Islamic law and normativity in nine nations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This engagingly written and compelling volume will be welcomed by scholars in various fields and has great potential for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Michael G. Peletz * author of Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a tour de force, offering both breadth and depth on Muslim divorce practices. In addition to presenting scholarship from rarely documented countries, this volume provides a perspective on global connections and the transformations that ensue. It is a must-read for scholars of Muslim family law." -- Arzoo Osanloo * author of The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a wonderful book in which we travel geographically and intellectually. Its importance draws on the variety of national experiences it documents in a truly comparative perspective, as well as on the scholarship of both coeditors and contributors. It is a compulsory read for everybody interested in understanding how Islam is a global phenomenon with a huge array of local declensions." -- Baudouin Dupret * author of Positive Law from the Muslim World: Jurisprudence, History, Practices *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century provides rich empirical data and sophisticated theoretical perspectives on the gendered complexities of kinship and marriage, divorce, inequality, and Islamic law and normativity in nine nations in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. This engagingly written and compelling volume will be welcomed by scholars in various fields and has great potential for use in both undergraduate and graduate courses." -- Michael G. Peletz * author of Sharia Transformations: Cultural Politics and the Rebranding of an Islamic Judiciary *"Islamic Divorce in the 21st Century is a tour de force, offering both breadth and depth on Muslim divorce practices. In addition to presenting scholarship from rarely documented countries, this volume provides a perspective on global connections and the transformations that ensue. It is a must-read for scholars of Muslim family law." -- Arzoo Osanloo * author of The Politics of Women's Rights in Iran *Table of ContentsNote on TransliterationList of AbbreviationsSeries Foreword by Péter BertaPreface (Acknowledgment)Chapter 1: Muslim Marital Disputes and Islamic Divorce Law in Twenty-First Century Practice by Erin E. Stiles and Ayang Utriza Yakin Part I : State Politics and Divorce Law: Reform and RecommendationsChapter 2: Divorce by Khul‘ in Pakistani Courts: Expanding Women’s Rights through Reconfiguring Religious Authority by Elisa Giunchi Chapter 3: Male-Initiated Divorce before the Egyptian Judiciary by Nathalie Bernard-Maugiron Chapter 4: Problems of and Possibilities for Islamic Divorce in South Africa by Fatima Essop Part II: Gendered Strategies and Judicial Responses in Marital DisputingChapter 5: Women in the Search of Sexual Pleasure: The Judicial Practices of Divorce on the Ground of Sexual Dissatisfaction within Indonesian Religious Courts by Ayang Utriza YakinChapter 6: “I Divorced Him but He Said He Has Not Divorced Me”: Gendered Perspectives on Muslim Divorce In Accra, Ghana by Fulera Issaka-Toure Chapter 7: Undoing Marriage in Lebanon. Divorce within and beyond Family Courts by Jean-Michel LandryPart III: Islamic Divorce in the Context of Global Patterns of Mobility, Upheaval, and Changing Household EconomiesChapter 8: Islamic Renewal, Muslim Divorce and Gender Relations in Mali by Dorothea Schulz and Souleymane DialloChapter 9: A ‘Much-Married Woman’ Revisited: Kinship Perspectives on the High Frequency of Divorce among Uyghurs in Southern Xinjiang, China by Rune SteenbergChapter 10: The Ends of Divorce: Marital Dispute as a Locus of Social Change in India by Katherine Lemons with Nadia HusseinAfterword: Islamic Divorce in Context and in Action: Notes from the Field and Concluding Thoughts by Erin E. Stiles with Ayang Utriza Yakin Notes on ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisSet in the remote, mountainous Guangxi Autonomous Region and based on ethnographic fieldwork, Families We Need traces the movement of three Chinese foster children, Dengrong, Pei Pei, and Meili, from the state orphanage into the humble, foster homes of Auntie Li, Auntie Ma, and Auntie Huang. Traversing the geography of Guangxi, from the modern capital Nanning where Pei Pei and Meili reside, to the small farming village several hours away where Dengrong is placed, this ethnography details the hardships of social abandonment for disabled children and disenfranchised, older women in China, while also analyzing the state’s efforts to cope with such marginal populations and incorporate them into China’s modern future. The book argues that Chinese foster families perform necessary, invisible service to the Chinese state and intercountry adoption, yet the bonds they form also resist such forces, exposing the inequalities, privilege, and ableism at the heart of global family making.Trade Review"Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian Orphanage "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Raffety’s work provides a rare and precious view on foster care and other kinship practices in mountainous Southwest China, showing us their deep entanglements with forces of urbanization and globalization. It reveals how life-transforming care could emerge where the most vulnerable individuals encounter each other, quietly resisting the deeply-seated biases of ableism, classism, and even imperialism. The book exemplifies the most empathic and humanizing type of ethnography."— Zhiying Ma, Assistant Professor at The University of Chicago "Families We Need is a brilliant and warmly empathic book. Written with grace and lucidity, it elevates readers’ understanding of the need for family, and of how neediness can be a source of strength, and even abundance."— Kathie Carpenter, Author of Life in a Cambodian OrphanageTable of ContentsPrologue Glossary of People, Places, and Concepts Introduction: Needy Kinship 1 Abandonment, Affinity, and Social Vulnerability 2 Fostering (Whose) Family? 3 Needy Alliances 4 Envying Kinship 5 Replaceable Families? 6 Disruptive Families Conclusion: Families We Need Epilogue Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Cancer Within examines cervical cancer in Romania as a point of entry into an anthropological reflection on contemporary health care. Cervical cancer prevention reveals the inner workings of emerging post-communist medicine, which aligns the state and the market, public and private health care providers, policy makers, and ordinary women. Fashioned by patriarchal relations, lived religion, and the historical trauma of pronatalism, Romanian women’s responses to reproductive medicine and cervical cancer prevention are complicated by neoliberal reforms to medical care. Cervical cancer prevention – and especially the HPV vaccination – provided Romanians a legitimate instance to express their conflicting views of post-communist medicine. What sets Romania apart is that pronatalism, patriarchy, lived religion, medical reforms, and moral contestation of preventive medicine bring into line systemic contingencies that expose the historical, social, and cultural trajectories of cervical cancer. Trade Review"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceausescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *"Beautifully written and theoretically inspired, this vivid and pathbreaking ethnography shows how history continues to haunt Romanian women’s sexual and reproductive lives, and how post-socialist healthcare provides no panacea for a cervical cancer crisis and accompanying HPV vaccine hesitancy. The Cancer Within is a must-read for those interested in gender, sexuality, and reproductive health, as well as medicine in the post-socialist era." -- Marcia Inhorn * author of America’s Arab Refugees: Vulnerability and Health on the Margins *"The Cancer Within is a compelling analysis of Romanian women’s resistance to cervical cancer screening and the HPV vaccine by a cultural 'insider.' In this wide-ranging and readable account, Pop reveals how Romanians’ reproductive lives and choices are profoundly shaped by the country’s violent history of reproductive governance under Ceauşescu, as well as by inequities of health care delivery in the post-communist era." -- Elise Andaya * author of Conceiving Cuba: Reproduction, Women, and the State in the Post-Soviet Era *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Series Foreword by Lenore Manderson Note on Terminology Introduction: Systemic Contingencies Part I: Women’s, Men’s and God’s Will 1. ”We All Descend from Communism” 2. Reproductive Invisibility Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part One. 3. Beyond Rationalities Part II: Medicine and Its Moralities 4. Dismantling Medicine Interlude: Cervical Cancer Prevention: A Romanian Odyssey. Part Two. 5. The Other Hospital 6. Locating Corruption Conclusion: The Space between Informed and Non-informed Refusal Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMoney occupies a powerful place in our lives – it is a problem, a goal, and motivator, a measure of self-worth and national progress, and even an influence on how we relate to each other and to nature – but what happens when communities start to reinvent money and markets? Over the last twenty-five years, grassroots activists in Medellín, Colombia, have used barter markets and community currencies as one strategy to re-weave a social fabric shredded by violence and to establish an economy founded on respect and reciprocity rather than exploitation. In Social Exchange, Brian J. Burke provides a deep ethnographic investigation of this activism and its effects. This story draws us into the cultural and material effects of capitalism and narco-violence, while also helping us understand what new radical imaginations look like and how people bring them to life. The result is an intimate glimpse of urban life in Latin America, as well as a broader analysis of non-capitalist or post-capitalist possibility.Trade Review"Brian Burke has produced a rich, wonderfully evocative and thickly described portrayal of the real economy through which millions of us make livelihoods and struggle, imperfectly, for something better. Latin America has often been inspirational to those of us in the neoliberalized North, and here you will find inspiration from a close observation of early experiments in developing economies where what matters is living well rather than endless growth." -- Peter North * author of Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements *"With theoretical depth and accessible writing, Burke brings lucid ethnographic and historical context to an analysis of the possibilities and constraints on diverse economic experimentation, both as a mode of survival and of transformation in Medellin. Burke joins this ethnographic realism with a stance towards possibility; he details how barter networks interrupt capitalist logics and desires, rework space and place, shift social relations, and most importantly cultivate subjectivities at the level of everyday practice and engagement. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding and advancing post-capitalist imaginings and practices." -- Boone Shear * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Brian Burke has produced a rich, wonderfully evocative and thickly described portrayal of the real economy through which millions of us make livelihoods and struggle, imperfectly, for something better. Latin America has often been inspirational to those of us in the neoliberalized North, and here you will find inspiration from a close observation of early experiments in developing economies where what matters is living well rather than endless growth." -- Peter North * author of Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements *"With theoretical depth and accessible writing, Burke brings lucid ethnographic and historical context to an analysis of the possibilities and constraints on diverse economic experimentation, both as a mode of survival and of transformation in Medellin. Burke joins this ethnographic realism with a stance towards possibility; he details how barter networks interrupt capitalist logics and desires, rework space and place, shift social relations, and most importantly cultivate subjectivities at the level of everyday practice and engagement. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding and advancing post-capitalist imaginings and practices." -- Boone Shear * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1 Diverse Economies in the War System 2 The Birth of Barter 3 A Day at the Market: Barter Livelihoods, Ethics, and Pleasure 4 What Barter Stimulates: Economic and Social Impacts 5 “A Barter That Runs through Our Veins”: Culture, Power, and Subjectivity 6 Strategies for a New Economy: Bridges, Boundaries, Culture, and Economy Conclusion: “Para que Cambiemos” Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisMoney occupies a powerful place in our lives – it is a problem, a goal, and motivator, a measure of self-worth and national progress, and even an influence on how we relate to each other and to nature – but what happens when communities start to reinvent money and markets? Over the last twenty-five years, grassroots activists in Medellín, Colombia, have used barter markets and community currencies as one strategy to re-weave a social fabric shredded by violence and to establish an economy founded on respect and reciprocity rather than exploitation. In Social Exchange, Brian J. Burke provides a deep ethnographic investigation of this activism and its effects. This story draws us into the cultural and material effects of capitalism and narco-violence, while also helping us understand what new radical imaginations look like and how people bring them to life. The result is an intimate glimpse of urban life in Latin America, as well as a broader analysis of non-capitalist or post-capitalist possibility.Trade Review"Brian Burke has produced a rich, wonderfully evocative and thickly described portrayal of the real economy through which millions of us make livelihoods and struggle, imperfectly, for something better. Latin America has often been inspirational to those of us in the neoliberalized North, and here you will find inspiration from a close observation of early experiments in developing economies where what matters is living well rather than endless growth." -- Peter North * author of Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements *"With theoretical depth and accessible writing, Burke brings lucid ethnographic and historical context to an analysis of the possibilities and constraints on diverse economic experimentation, both as a mode of survival and of transformation in Medellin. Burke joins this ethnographic realism with a stance towards possibility; he details how barter networks interrupt capitalist logics and desires, rework space and place, shift social relations, and most importantly cultivate subjectivities at the level of everyday practice and engagement. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding and advancing post-capitalist imaginings and practices." -- Boone Shear * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *"Brian Burke has produced a rich, wonderfully evocative and thickly described portrayal of the real economy through which millions of us make livelihoods and struggle, imperfectly, for something better. Latin America has often been inspirational to those of us in the neoliberalized North, and here you will find inspiration from a close observation of early experiments in developing economies where what matters is living well rather than endless growth." -- Peter North * author of Money and Liberation: The Micropolitics of Alternative Currency Movements *"With theoretical depth and accessible writing, Burke brings lucid ethnographic and historical context to an analysis of the possibilities and constraints on diverse economic experimentation, both as a mode of survival and of transformation in Medellin. Burke joins this ethnographic realism with a stance towards possibility; he details how barter networks interrupt capitalist logics and desires, rework space and place, shift social relations, and most importantly cultivate subjectivities at the level of everyday practice and engagement. This is an important book for anyone interested in understanding and advancing post-capitalist imaginings and practices." -- Boone Shear * co-editor of Learning Under Neoliberalism: Ethnographies of Governance in Higher Education *Table of Contents Preface Introduction 1 Diverse Economies in the War System 2 The Birth of Barter 3 A Day at the Market: Barter Livelihoods, Ethics, and Pleasure 4 What Barter Stimulates: Economic and Social Impacts 5 “A Barter That Runs through Our Veins”: Culture, Power, and Subjectivity 6 Strategies for a New Economy: Bridges, Boundaries, Culture, and Economy Conclusion: “Para que Cambiemos” Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisA World of Many explores the world-making efforts of Tzotzil Maya children from two different localities within the municipality of Chenalhó, Chiapas. The research demonstrates children’s agency in creating their worlds, while also investigating the role played by the surrounding social and physical environment. Different experiences with schooling, parenting, goals and values, but also with climate change, water scarcity, as well as racism and settler colonialism form part of the reason children create their emerging worlds. These worlds are not make believe or anything less than the ontological products of their parents. Instead, Norbert Ross argues that by creating different worlds, the children ultimately fashion themselves into different human beings - quite literally being different in the world. A World of Many combines experimental research from the cognitive sciences with critical theory, exploring children’s agency in devising their own ontologies. Rather than treating children as somewhat incomplete humans, it understands children as tinkerers and thinkers, makers of their worlds amidst complex relations. It regards being as a constant ontological production, where life and living constitutes activism. Using experimental paradigms, the book shows that children locate themselves differently in these emerging worlds they create, becoming different human beings in the process.Trade Review"Norbert Ross questions the foundations of everything—the architecture of reality, knowledge, and learning—in his investigations of the Mexican community of Chenalhó. The observations and experiences of Tzotzil maya children help us understand what it is to be human, to be alive, and to have a soul and how life is activism. This methodologically innovative and theoretically intricate project invites readers to appreciate in a nuanced and profound way diversity in humanity and ways of being in the world." -- Kathryn Sampeck * co-editor of Substance and Seduction: Ingested Commodities in early Modern Mesoamerica *"I love books like this that challenge us to turn our thinking about ontology upside down. Scholars of young people often begin by examining what ontology teaches about childhood. We can forget how valuable it is to explore how notions of childhood actually reshape ontology. A World of Many is a successful experiment in inverting our assumptions about what we think we know about what we know." -- Rachael Stryker * co-editor of Up, Down, and Sideways: Anthropologists Trace the Pathways of Powe *Table of Contents 1 Introduction 2 A World Where Other Worlds Can Be at Home 3 Ontology and Resistance 4 Folk-Biological Knowledge, Education, and Framework Theories 5 Study Design and Methods 6 Complexity, Niche Theory, and Cultural Models 7 From Subsistence to Extraction: Globalization, Change, and Spatial Organization in Chenalhó 8 Knowledge Sources and Learning Biases: Experience, Values, and Ontologies 9 Growing Up in Chenalhó: Knowledge Sources and the Spatial Distribution of Change and Modernity 10 What Is It Called? Plant Knowledge in Chenalhó 11 Concepts of “Alive and “Living Kinds”: Experience, Culture, and Ontology 12 How Alive Is It? Revisiting the Concept of “Alive” 13 Being in Space 14 One of Many: The Making of a Diversity of WorldsAcknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians. Trade Review"This seminal collection by Jason Bruner and David Kirkpatrick features essential insights and diverse interdisciplinary approaches from leading international scholarly voices. Taken together, they show us how the distinct paths that American Religious History and World Christianity each have charted share common trailheads distinctively marked by 'global visions of violence.' Neither field can be understood without the 'global' aspirations that motivate Christianity or the 'violence' that plagues its history and our present." -- John D. Carlson * co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America *“This timely volume puts faces to the agents behind violence today. By interrogating Christian imaginaries of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom within increasingly polarizing, globalizing spaces—real or imagined—Global Visions of Violence expertly complexifies the gendered tropes of religious identities and social vulnerabilities within world Christianity.” -- Afe Adogame * co-editor of Fighting in God’s Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives *Table of Contents Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK PART ONE Geographies 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda JOHN CORRIGAN 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism OMRI ELISHA 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster HILLARY KAELL PART TWO Bodies 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa JOEL CABRITA 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers KATE KINGSBURY 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship CANDACE LUKASIK PART THREE Communities 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa HARVEY KWIYANI 8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response MELANI McALISTER Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisIn Global Visions of Violence, the editors and contributors argue that violence creates a lens, bridge, and method for interdisciplinary collaboration that examines Christianity worldwide in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. By analyzing the myriad ways violence, persecution, and suffering impact Christians and the imagination of Christian identity globally, this interdisciplinary volume integrates the perspectives of ethicists, historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers to generate new conversations. Taken together, the chapters in this book challenge scholarship on Christian growth that has not accounted for violence while analyzing persecution narratives that can wield data toward partisan ends. This allows Global Visions of Violence to push urgent conversations forward, giving voice to projects that illuminate wide and often hidden landscapes that have been shaped by global visions of violence, and seeking solutions that end violence and turn toward the pursuit of justice, peace, and human rights among suffering Christians. Trade Review"This seminal collection by Jason Bruner and David Kirkpatrick features essential insights and diverse interdisciplinary approaches from leading international scholarly voices. Taken together, they show us how the distinct paths that American Religious History and World Christianity each have charted share common trailheads distinctively marked by 'global visions of violence.' Neither field can be understood without the 'global' aspirations that motivate Christianity or the 'violence' that plagues its history and our present." -- John D. Carlson * co-editor of From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America *“This timely volume puts faces to the agents behind violence today. By interrogating Christian imaginaries of persecution, suffering, and martyrdom within increasingly polarizing, globalizing spaces—real or imagined—Global Visions of Violence expertly complexifies the gendered tropes of religious identities and social vulnerabilities within world Christianity.” -- Afe Adogame * co-editor of Fighting in God’s Name: Religion and Conflict in Local-Global Perspectives *Table of Contents Introduction: Locating Christian Agency in a World of Suffering JASON BRUNER AND DAVID C. KIRKPATRICK PART ONE Geographies 1 Of Numbers and Subjects: Empathic Distance in the American Protestant Missionary Agenda JOHN CORRIGAN 2 Saved by a Martyr: Media, Suffering, and Power in Evangelical Internationalism OMRI ELISHA 3 American Theodicy: Human Nature and Natural Disaster HILLARY KAELL PART TWO Bodies 4 Apartheid and World Christianity: How Violence Shapes Theories of “Indigenous” Religion in Twentieth-Century Africa JOEL CABRITA 5 Danger, Distress, Disease, and Death: Santa Muerte and Her Female Followers KATE KINGSBURY 6 Modern-Day Martyrs: Coptic Blood and American Christian Kinship CANDACE LUKASIK PART THREE Communities 7 Bishop Colenso Is Dead: White Missionaries and Black Suspicion in Colonial Africa HARVEY KWIYANI 8 Religion and the Production of Affect in Caste-Based Societies SUNDER JOHN BOOPALAN 9 From Persecution to Exile: The Church of Almighty God from China CHRISTIE CHUI-SHAN CHOW Afterword: Global Visions of Violence—A Response MELANI McALISTER Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFor two decades, Sébastien Tutenges has conducted research in bars, nightclubs, festivals, drug dens, nightlife resorts, and underground dance parties in a quest to answer a fundamental question: Why do people across cultures gather regularly to intoxicate themselves? Vivid and at times deeply personal, this book offers new insights into a wide variety of intoxicating experiences, from the intimate feeling of connection among concertgoers to the adrenaline-fueled rush of a fight, to the thrill of jumping off a balcony into a swimming pool. Tutenges shows what it means and feels to move beyond the ordinary into altered states in which the transgressive, spectacular, and unexpected take place. He argues that the primary aim of group intoxication is the religious experience that Émile Durkheim calls collective effervescence, the essence of which is a sense of connecting with other people and being part of a larger whole. This experience is empowering and emboldening and may lead to crime and deviance, but it is at the same time vital to our humanity because it strengthens social bonds and solidarity. The book fills important gaps in Durkheim’s social theory and contributes to current debates in micro-sociology as well as cultural criminology and cultural sociology. Here, for the first time, readers will discover a detailed account of collective effervescence in contemporary society that includes: an explanation of what collective effervescence is; a description of the conditions that generate collective effervescence; a typology of the varieties of collective effervescence; a discussion of how collective effervescence manifests in the realm of nightlife, politics, sports, and religion; and an analysis of how commercial forces amplify and capitalize on the universal human need for intoxication.This book is also freely available online as an open access digital edition.Download the open access ebook here.Trade Review"Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity." -- Philip Smith * Professor of Sociology, Yale University *"Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory." -- Lois Presser * author of Why We Harm *"From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic." -- François Gauthier * author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market *"Intoxication is a remarkable and ambitious book. Rarely is ethnography connected to classical social theory with such productive results. Tutenges offers a significant extension of the concept of collective effervescence. We learn that Durkheim, Mauss, and Bataille are essential resources for understanding the self, the sacred, and the collectivity in modernity." -- Philip Smith * Professor of Sociology, Yale University *"Tutenges’s study of collective effervescence is commanding, thoughtful, and thought-provoking. Intoxication is a stunning example of ethnographically informed social theory." -- Lois Presser * author of Why We Harm *"From sports to religion to party venues, effervescence is as much a blind spot of research as it is a phenomenon fundamental to society’s very make-up. Intoxication introduces us to the party practices of today’s youth in vivid fashion and with a remarkable interpretative sensitivity. Far from being the wastelands of meaning they appear to be, these drunken landscapes are existential theaters for the abandonment of the self to social forces and the experience of other ways of being and feeling. A long-awaited book which could well become a campus classic." -- François Gauthier * author of Religion, Modernity, Globalisation. Nation-State to Market *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1 Introduction2 Ways to Effervescence3 Unity 4 Intensity 5 Transgression 6 Symbolization 7 Revitalization 8 Afterword NotesReferences Index

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Book SynopsisPerpetrators of mass atrocities have used displacement to transport victims to killing sites or extermination camps to transfer victims to sites of forced labor and attrition, to ethnically homogenize regions by moving victims out of their homes and lands, and to destroy populations by depriving them of vital daily needs. Displacement has been treated as a corollary practice to crimes committed, not a central aspect of their perpetration. Destroying Them Gradually examines four cases that illuminate why perpetrators have destroyed populations using displacement policies: Germany’s genocide of the Herero (1904–1908); Ottoman genocides of Christian minorities (1914–1925); expulsions of Germans from East/Central Europe (1943–1952); and climate violence (twenty-first century). Because displacement has been typically framed as a secondary aspect of mass atrocities, existing scholarship overlooks how perpetrators use it as a means of executing destruction rather than a vehicle for moving people to a specific location to commit atrocities. Trade Review“Destroy Them Gradually focuses our attention on spatial techniques of displacement and their prominent role in group destruction. Basso offers a compelling argument for taking displacement seriously as a crime and demonstrates the new and profound insights one gains when giving fuller attention to questions of when, where, and why this method of atrocity is deployed.”— Andrew Woolford, author of This Benevolent Experiment: Indigenous Boarding Schools, Genocide, and Redress in Canada a "In this brilliant intervention, Andrew Basso demonstrates that displacement constitutes its own understudied method of mass violence. Basso reveals the role of displacement in historical atrocities and, as we nosedive into intense climate change, how it is rapidly becoming perhaps the most prevalent form of mass destruction. Anyone concerned with the future of mass violence should read this timely contribution."— Benjamin Meiches, Benjamin Meiches, associate professor of Politics, Philosophy and Public Affairs at the University oTable of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Part I: Displacement Atrocity Crimes Chapter 1 Extirpation: Understanding Annihilatory Forced Displacement Chapter 2 Exposure: A Theory of Displacement Atrocity Crimes Part II: German South-West Africa Chapter 3 Trepidation: Colonized Namibia and Violent Horizons (1652-1904) Chapter 4 Extermination: Germany’s Genocide of the Herero (1904-1908) Chapter 5 Inescapability: The Nama Genocide (1905-1908) Part III: The Ottoman Empire and Turkey Chapter 6 Collapse: The Nadir of the Ottoman Empire (1839-1915) Chapter 7 Excision: The Ottoman Genocide of Christian Minorities (1914-1925) Chapter 8 Neurosis: The Hamidian Massacres (1894-1897) Part IV: Central and East Europe Chapter 9 Metamorphosis: A World Made New (9th Century-1945) Chapter 10 Catharsis: The Expulsion of the Germans (1944-1950) Chapter 11 Desolation: The Holocaust (1933-1945) Part V: Climate Violence and Conclusions Chapter 12 Tragedy: Logics of Displacement in the 21st Century Chapter 13 Farce: To Destroy Them Gradually? Chapter 14 Praxis: Seeking Justice and Disrupting Pathways Acknowledgments Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBetween Self and Community investigates the early childhood socialization process in a rapidly changing, globalizing South Korea. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork in a South Korean preschool, it shows how both children and teachers interactively navigate, construct, and reconstruct their own multifaceted and sometimes conflicting models of what makes “a good child” amid Korea’s shifting educational and social contexts. Junehui Ahn details the conflicting and competing ways in which the ideologies of new personhood are enacted in actual everyday socialization contexts and reveals the confusions, dilemmas, and ruptures that occur when globally dominant ideals of childhood development are superimposed onto local experiences. Between Self and Community pays special attention to the way children, as active agents of socialization, create, construe, and sustain their own meanings of their personhood, thereby highlighting the dynamism children and their culturally rich peer world create in South Korea’s shifting socialization terrain. Trade Review "Junehui Ahn once again establishes herself as one of the pre-eminent chroniclers of children’s lives. Her delicate and lucid ethnography closely documents how Korean preschoolers actively contribute to their own socialization. As striking is her compelling demonstration of how these children deftly mediate between local values and a new, globalized vision of personhood." — Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, author of Race in the Making: Cognition, Culture, and the Child's Construction of Human Kinds "What does it mean to be a 'good child' today in a globally influenced society? Ahn tackles this intriguing question through the eyes and mouths of young children and teachers in a South Korean preschool. She reveals how children navigate peer relationships, influence their teachers' pedagogical approaches, and redefine expectations. Ahn encourages us to reflect on and recalibrate our own expectations of children and childhood in an ever-changing, global environment." — Barbra A. Meek, author of We Are Our Language: An Ethnography of Language Revitalization in a Northern Athabaskan CoTable of ContentsNote on Transcription and Romanization 1 Introduction: A Journey into the Shifting South Korean Socialization Landscape 2 New Personhood and Transformation of South Korean Early Childhood Socialization 3 “Why Don’t We Find a Unique Self Concept Developing in Our Children?”: The Heterogeneous and Conflicting Socialization Landscape 4 “I Want to Copy My Best Friend’s Artwork”: Expressions and Social Relationships in Children’s Peer World 5 “Maybe We’re Not Wrong”: Communal Creativity and Multidirectionality of Learning 6 Conclusion: A Journey and Beyond Acknowledgments Notes References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the Shadow of Tungurahua relates the stories of the people of Penipe, Ecuador living in and between several villages around the volcano Tungurahua and two resettlement communities built for people displaced by government operations following volcanic eruptions in 1999 and 2006. The stories take shape in ways that influence prevailing ideas about how disasters are produced and reproduced, in this case by shifting assemblages of the state first formed during Spanish colonialism attempting to settle (make “legible”) and govern Indigenous and campesino populations and places. The disasters unfolding around Tungurahua at the turn of the 21st century also provide lessons in the humanitarian politics of disaster—questions of deservingness, reproducing inequality, and the reproduction of bare life. But this is also a story of how people responded to confront hardships and craft new futures, about forms of cooperation to cope with and adapt to disaster, and the potential for locally derived disaster recovery projects and politics.Trade Review"In the Shadow of Tungurahua is a powerful reminder of ethnography’s analytical and methodological value in the anthropological study of disasters. Weaving theoretical reflections with ethnographic storytelling, Faas examines the ways people work tirelessly to make meaningful lives in catastrophe’s aftermath and how disaster affected communities are often haunted by colonial and post-colonial political ecological processes that engender disasters. Books like this are few and far between." -- Roberto E. Barrios * author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction *"This book demonstrates how deeply an anthropological eye can probe when guided by solid theory, methodology, and long and careful fieldwork. A.J. Faas makes a transformative contribution to the study of disasters and politics in Ecuador, Latin America, and the Global South. It’s a delightful read, rich in ethnographic detail and engaging prose, and a testament to the value of anthropological approaches to the study of disaster." -- Virginia García-Acosta * editor of The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art *"A. J. Faas masterfully presents the stories of residents who were affected by the 1999 and 2006 volcanic eruptions of Tungurahua in the Sierra of central Ecuador [and] provides valuable insight into the politics of disasters. The accounts and experiences of the people of Penipe following the eruption and during their resettlement are powerful, and readerswill quickly feel transported to the streets, porches, agricultural fields, and communal buildings where these events unfolded." * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Tungurahua is a volcano that erupted ten years before Faas completed his fieldwork in Penipe...[L]ike the volcano, Faas’s In the Shadow of Tungurahua is similarly potent due to the scope of its scholarly interventions, for how it brings together the anthropologies of work, risk, and disaster. It is also potent for how it keeps the ethnographic encounter front and center, which breathes life into the text." * Exertions, the Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Work *"In the Shadow of Tungurahua, by A.J. Faas, is a frame story, a structure that allows a rich tapestry of place-based stories to unfold...Faas understands the present situation of people responding to disaster not as an unexpected development but a manifestation of centuries of social and political activity in a place permanently plagued by conquest and resistance – but it is anything but simplistic." * Disaster Prevention and Management *"In the Shadow of Tungurahua is a powerful reminder of ethnography’s analytical and methodological value in the anthropological study of disasters. Weaving theoretical reflections with ethnographic storytelling, Faas examines the ways people work tirelessly to make meaningful lives in catastrophe’s aftermath and how disaster affected communities are often haunted by colonial and post-colonial political ecological processes that engender disasters. Books like this are few and far between." -- Roberto E. Barrios * author of Governing Affect: Neoliberalism and Disaster Reconstruction *"This book demonstrates how deeply an anthropological eye can probe when guided by solid theory, methodology, and long and careful fieldwork. A.J. Faas makes a transformative contribution to the study of disasters and politics in Ecuador, Latin America, and the Global South. It’s a delightful read, rich in ethnographic detail and engaging prose, and a testament to the value of anthropological approaches to the study of disaster." -- Virginia García-Acosta * editor of The Anthropology of Disasters in Latin America: State of the Art *Table of ContentsPrefacePrologue – Fire on The MountainIntroduction – Reframing DisasterPart I – Mobility and LegibilityIntroductionChapter 1 – Mobilities & (Re)SettlementsChapter 2 – Archipelagos and Bare LifeChapter 3 – The Production of SpaceChapter 4 – The Four Walls of Bare LifePart II – The Palimpsest of MingaIntroductionChapter 5 – Enduring CooperationChapter 6 – InstitutionsChapter 7 – El Indigno, El Truco, El Chisme, Y El AdelantoPart III – RecoveriesIntroductionChapter 8 – “But We Did It”Epilogue – ConvivirAcknowledgementsNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisThe Iraqi Baʿth state’s Anfāl operations (1987-1991) is one of the twentieth century’s ultimate acts of destruction of the possibility of being human. It remains the first and only crime of state in the Middle East to be tried under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention, the 1950 Nuremberg Principles, and the 1969 Iraqi Penal Code and to be recognized as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes in Baghdad between 2006 and 2007. Being Human: Political Modernity and Hospitality in Kurdistan-Iraq offers an unprecedented pathway to the study of political violence. It is a sweeping work of anthropological hospitality, returning to the Anfāl operations as the violence of political modernity only to turn to the human survivors’ hospitality and acts of translation—testimonial narratives, law, politics, archive, poetry, artworks, museums, memorials, symbolic cemeteries, and infinite pursuit of justice in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Being Human gathers together social sciences, humanities, and the arts to understand modernity's violence and its living on. Trade Review"Being Human is an unsettling and urgent work of scholarship that transcends the confines of the university to address some of the most compelling conditions of human life and death. Anthropological hospitality, the idea at the heart of this book, provides an illuminating and passionate perspective on the plight of locality in the fight for the recognition of global justice." -- Homi K. Bhabha * Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University *"In rich, poetic prose, Fazil Moradi brilliantly unravels the politics of reading, witnessing, and memory challenging us to listen to survivors of the al-Anfal to understand the limits and possibilities of justice and accountability without losing sight of the hope and trust required for acts of hospitality and translation in Being Human." -- Victoria Sanford * Victoria Sanford, author of Textures of Terror: The Murder of Claudina Isabel Velasquez and Her Fath *"Raw and beautiful. Moradi shows us how to listen to survivors of mass violence. In silences, gestures, and words from generous hosts who lived through the mass Anfal attacks of late 20th-century Kurdistan Iraq, Moradi implicates political modernity. This book richly and poignantly displays the dignity and beauty of both people lost, and those who live on having survived and witnessed. It is painful to read, and that is one of its successes. All students of the modern state should read this book." -- Diane E. King * Diane E. King, author of Kurdistan on the Global Stage: Kinship, Land, and Community in Iraq *Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Map of the Anfāl operations Prologue 1 The Destruction of Jalamourd, an Outlawed Village 2 The Inhospitality of Political Modernity 3 Homeless in the World 4 The Baghdād Tribunal 5 Habitability, in the Afterlives of a Massacre 6 Whose Homeland? Whose Nation? 7 Physiological Disquiet Epilogue: Genosite Acknowledgements Bibliography Notes Index

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Book Synopsis Immigrants have left their mark on the great melting pot of American cuisine, and they have continued working hard to keep America’s kitchens running, even during times of crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. For some immigrant cooks, the pandemic brought home the lack of protection for essential workers in the American food system. For others, cooking was a way of reconnecting with homelands they could not visit during periods of lockdown. Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis is a stimulating collection of essays about the lives of immigrants in the United States before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, told through the lens of food. It includes a vibrant mix of perspectives from professional food writers, restaurateurs, scholars, and activists, whose stories range from emotional reflections on hardship, loss, and resilience to journalistic investigations of racism in the American food system. Each contribution is accompanied by a recipe of special importance to the author, giving readers a taste of cuisines from around the world. Every essay is accompanied by gorgeous food photography, the authors’ snapshots of pandemic life, and hand-drawn illustrations by Filipino American artist Angelo Dolojan. Trade Review"This eloquently written collection of essays takes you on a journey into the memories and foodways that sustain, bind and ground us, especially during times of adversity such as the COVID pandemic. Deeply personal and evocative, these powerful narratives are sure to resonate with everyone." -- Laila el-Haddad * coauthor of The Gaza Kitchen: A Palestinian Culinary Journey *"Resilient Kitchens collects the deeply personal accounts of immigrant chefs, writers, and scholars of how their experiences as “other” informed their use of food and cooking to stay centered during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their stories are vastly different but all bear on why food matters so much to personal identity." -- Marion Nestle * author of Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics *"This illuminating, often deeply personal collection of essays and interviews gives voice to the immigrant experience during the worst public health crisis of the past century. The chefs, writers, artists, scholars, and humanitarians in this volume speak of fractures to the system -- some freshly made, some untreated from many, many years ago. But they also speak of food as a solace, a connection to home, and a way to find meaning amid the chaos." -- Tim Carman * food reporter and columnist with The Washington Post *"Resilient Kitchens: American Immigrant Cooking in a Time of Crisis beautifully details the recipes, writings, and personal stories from a collection of incredible immigrant chefs and food writers in America during the COVID-19 crisis - how they fed our communities, combated food insecurity, fostered food equity, and comforted so many of us through their deeply poignant and inspiring stories." -- Marisel Salazar * food writer, cook, host, and immigrant *Table of ContentsPreface 1 The Lost Year Reem Kassis Recipe: Malfoof (Stuffed Cabbage Rolls) 2 Quarantine Cooking in an Improvised HouseholdStephanie Jolly and Krishnendu Ray Recipe: Pasta with Shallots and White Wine 3 Duck TalesTien Nguyen Recipe: Cà Phê Sữa Đá (Iced Coffee with Condensed Milk) 4 Cooking with the Lights OffBonnie Frumkin Morales Recipe: Mom’s Chicken Kotleti 5 The Meaning of Martin YanMayukh Sen Recipe: Martin Yan’s Hot Walnut Soup 6 Pound Cake and PuriGeetika Agrawal and Fernay McPherson Recipes: Sour Cream Pound Cake and Puri 7 Teta Thursdays: Conversations on Food, Culture, and Identity during a Global PandemicAntonio Tahhan Recipe: Kousa Mahshi (Aleppan-Style Stuffed Squash) 8 The Map to MyselfSangeeta Lakhani Recipe: Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken) 9 There Will Always Be a Seawritten by Keenan Dava, recipe by Tim Flores Recipe: Kasama Chicken Adobo 10 Food and Caring during the Times of COVID-19 on the U.S.–Mexico BorderGuillermina Gina Núñez-Mchiri Recipe: Red Chilaquiles 11 Intimate Tables: Food and Migration in a Time of CrisisPhilip Gleissner and Harry Eli Kashdan Recipes: Hefezopf / Tsoureki (German-Greek Bread) and Almond, Lemon, and Ricotta Cake for Passover AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsArt CreditsIndex

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Book SynopsisIn both local and international imaginations, Vancouver, Canada, is often celebrated as one of the world’s most beautiful, cosmopolitan, and livable cities. Simultaneously, the city continues to be ground zero for successive waves of public health emergency and intervention, including a recent and unprecedented drug overdose crisis driven by the proliferation of illicitly manufactured fentanyl and related analogs in the local drug supply. In The Best Place: Addiction, Intervention, and Living and Dying Young in Vancouver, Danya Fast explores these politics of place from the perspectives of young people who use drugs. Those who are the subject of this book were in many ways relegated to the social, spatial, and economic margins of the city. Yet, they were also often at the very center of city life and state projects, including the project of protecting life in the context of the current overdose crisis.Trade Review"Wow! A gripping ethnography of the everyday ecstatic emergency and boredom of methamphetamine, fentanyl and failed relationships that cuts short the lives of Canadian youth—often indigenous—desperately seeking community, meaning and survival. Documents the dysfunctional meshes of care/jail/gentrification/predatory narcotics markets and human betrayals that betrays their persistent universally recognizable dreams/hopes against all odds for a better futures that never arrives." -- Philippe Bourgois * author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio and coauthor of Righteous Dopefiend *"The Best Place offers an analysis of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, British Columbia, a locale where young people's illicit drug use has received international attention. Fast has worked in this area for many, many years, developing long-term relationships with young drug users and health professionals. This is a collaboration that offers a model of multi-level analyses and showcases the hope of Fast's interlocutors for the future. Fast draws on their visions of possible futures, and on their critiques of current approaches, articulated with those of healthcare professionals. This is a book many have been waiting for." -- Dara Culhane * cofounder and cocurator for the Centre for Imaginative Ethnography *Table of Contents Foreword by Lenore Manderson Acknowledgments Dramatis Personae Places Introduction PART I: DREAMS OF PLACE Lee, the Best Place on Earth, 2009 Jeff, Paradise, 2009 Big-City Dreams Lula and Jeff, Paradise, 2012 Senses of Place Lee, World City, 2009 Where I’m Going, Lee, 2011 Jordan, Normal Places, 2012 Danya and Nancy, the Field, 2010 Lee, Not These Service Places, 2009 Jordan, Normal People, 2008 Frictions Danya, around Downtown, 2008 Janet and the Lost Boys, Never Never Land, 2008 Trajectories Carly and Connor, Family, 2009 Geographies Patty and Joe, Home, 2012 Part II: SOMETHING Patty, Coast Salish Territories, 2009 Vital Experimentation Shae, Lula, and Jeff, Lighthouse Shelter, 2009 Momentum Laurie and Aaron, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Moral Worlds Terry, Jail, 2011 Carly and Connor, Apartment, 2013 Stagnation Janet, Trafalgar Hotel, 2010 Patty and Joe, Mackenzie Hotel, 2010 Endless Business Terry, Field Office, 2012 Lee, Mackenzie Hotel, 2012 Reentering Never Never Land Jordan, Beachwood Hotel, 2013 74 Shae, Mackenzie Hotel, 2009 Disappearances Lee, Gone, 2015 PART III: LOST Patty, City of Glass, 2011 Community Care Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2010 Losing Everything Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2012 Boredom Aaron, Northwest Apartments, 2013 (No)Exit, Shae, 2013 Flashbacks and Futures Patty, Terminal City, 2013 The Dance of Death Patty and Joe, St. Mary’s, 2013 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Waiting Terry, St. Mary’s, 2014 Flights Patty and Joe, Lakeshore Hotel, 2014 PART IV: NOWHERE Patty, Saltwater City, 2017 The Will to Intervene Shane, Passages, 2017 Living on the Edge of Change Jessica, Horizons, 2018 Filling the Hours Shane, Downtown, 2017 Stalls and Dead Ends Lula, Wenonah House, 2016 Everything We Need, Carly and Connor, 2013 A Churn of Intervention Raymond, Downtown, 2017 The Colonial Present Aaron, Field Office, 2017 Living with Death Lula and Jeff, Field Office, 2017 The Broken Promise Land Janet, Johnny, Rachel, and Gordo, Camp under the Tracks, 2017 Exits, Janet, 2015 PART V: EVERYWHERE Jordan, Rain City, 2016 Laura, Field Office, 2017 Shae/Trix, Apartment, 2017 Janet, Recovery House, 2018 Exits, Janet, 2018 Terry, Psychiatric Ward, 2018 The Way Home, Terry, 2011 Laurie, Downtown, 2018 Aaron, Beachwood Hotel, 2019 Lula and Jeff, Greystone Hotel, 2019 Dom, BC Children’s Hospital, 2020 Carly and Connor, Field Office, 2018 Joe, Field Office, 2018 Patty, Everywhere, 2018 Where We’ve Ended Up, Patty and Joe, 2013 Afterword Notes References Index

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