Afterlives of revolution: Alice Wilson’s response
I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were discussing the future of…
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I first visited the Dhufar region of southern Oman in 2013. I was soon to learn that some residents were discussing the future of…
Read MoreIn the mid-2000s, while conducting ethnographic fieldwork on the impact of environmental conservation and development projects on the Yemeni island of Socotra, I took…
Read More“The struggle continues” is a famous and frequently repeated phrase attributed to Eduardo Mondlane, the first President of FRELIMO, the Mozambican Liberation Front that…
Read MoreThe Dhufar Revolution in Oman (1965-1976) was an attempt to depose the British-backed Sultan and implement social ideals based on egalitarianism. But the revolution…
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….
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