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Reviews week: Let’s talk about gender!

February, 2017 / By Judith Beyer

Following up on Felix Girke’s review of Rogers Brubaker’s book #trans, this #reviews week is dedicated to more new publications […]

January, 2017 / By M. Gabriela Torres

Politics, law and global agendas all actively shape the kinship bonds that are formed and sometimes dissolved in marriage. To

January, 2017 / By Felix Girke

In early 2015, I followed the case of Rachel Dolezal, the Spokane woman who attempted to pass as black. She

January, 2017 / By Subhashim Goswami

Nayanika Mathur’s Paper Tiger. Law, Bureaucracy and the Developmental State in Himalayan India is an ethnography of the everyday life of

January, 2017 / By Judith Beyer

After a well deserved break during the holiday season, Allegra is back and full of energy for yet another exciting

October, 2016 / By Gabriela Radulescu

Underlying the domain of human rights is the conception of the human on which we predicate, and advocate for, human

October, 2016 / By Judith Beyer

This week we have two new reviews for you, tackling the question of #race (see our #callforreviews here): Tomorrow, our

August, 2016 / By Koreen M. Reece

When the picture of Alan Kurdi’s drowned body first hit the headlines, it was instantly iconic. For many, the simple

August, 2016 / By Linnéa Rowlatt

While Western political leaders overtly inflame followers by ascribing innate difference to Others, the lucidity and coherence of Marshall Sahlins’

August, 2016 / By Rituparna Patgiri

The tile of the book itself informs its readers that it is an interrogation of women as class ‘subjects.’ Although