The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco
Alice Elliot’s monograph The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco skilfully uses ethnography to unsettle mainstream conceptualisations of migration by […]
Border Porosities: Movement of People, Objects, and Ideas in the Southern Balkans
Petroleum engineering may seem like an odd place to find metaphors for the field of border and borderlands studies. Yet,
White Enclosures: Racial Capitalism and Coloniality Along the Balkan Route
Rexhepi’s White Enclosures is an insightful book exploring the co-construction of race and borders along the Balkan route. It puts
Second call for reviewers for our Mobilities and Migration series!
As you may have read in an earlier post, we are currently seeking book reviewers for our series on Mobilities
Call for reviewers: Books on mobilities and migration!
The past decade has been increasingly marked by the movement of bodies across political borders. Whether fleeing violence or working
The right to dignity: Housing struggles, city-making, and citizenship in urban Chile
How do poor people in the burgeoning cities of the Global South assert their right to housing and to the
Crooked Cats
This book is a rich cultural analysis of how people live with big cats in India in times of the
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 1
Falkof’s book discusses the everyday experiences of fear and moral anxiety in the city of Johannesburg in post-apartheid state South
Nicky Falkof’s ‘Worrier State’ – Part 2
Falkof, Nicky (2022): Worrier State. Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press.  South Africa 2022
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela
While a graduate student in social anthropology, Moisés Lino e Silva’s curiosity about the scarcity of freedom and lack of