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Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Foreign Affairs Best of Books 2017 – Africa / Malawi"
"Winner of the 2018 Best Scholarly Book Award, Global and Transnational Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Honorable Mention for the 2018 Outstanding Published Book Award, Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity Section of the American Sociological Association"
"Finalist for the 2018 Melville J. Herskovits Prize, African Studies Association"
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A Fraught Embrace is both an important piece of transnational public sociology and one of the most important works in cultural sociology to have been published in a long while."
---Iddo Tavory, European Journal of Sociology"Few books can claim to address a social problem involving billions of dollars with millions of lives hanging in the balance, but Swidler and Watkins’s
A Fraught Embrace does just that. Dissecting the role of foreign altruists and local brokers in aid efforts to stem the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa generally, and Malawi more specifically, this book makes a compelling sociological contribution to the study of foreign aid—a field of research more often reserved for economists and international development studies scholars."
---Liam Swiss, American Journal of Sociology
