The Kobane Generation
In September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East…
Read MoreIn September 2014, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) laid siege to the town of Kobane in the Autonomous Administration of North-East…
Read MoreAlice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by tracing its hold on…
Read MorePetroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet, in her new book…
Read MoreRexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts racial exclusion in the…
Read MoreAs you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities and Migration. Several compelling…
Read MoreThe past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working within new labor regimes,…
Read MoreHow do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the city? How do they…
Read MoreThis book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the Anthropocene and climate change….
Read MoreWhile a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of liberty in Brazilian favelas…
Read MoreIn They Eat Our Sweat, Daniel Agbiboa engages the road transport sector in Lagos, Nigeria, to reveal how corruption operates through a dialectical “double…
Read More“Police, Provocation, Politics” by Deniz Yonucu is an ambitious text that documents the long and complicated history of dissident populations and spaces in urban…
Read MoreWorlds of Care: The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities by Aaron J. Jackson is a self-described “meditation on fathers’ everyday…
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