Counterinsurgency in Istanbul
“Police, Provocation, Politics” by Deniz Yonucu is an ambitious text that documents the long and complicated history of dissident populations and spaces in urban…
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“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…
Read MoreBook review of Amarasuriya, Harini, et al. The Intimate Life of Dissent: Anthropological Perspectives. UCL Press, 2020. The Intimate Life of Dissent examines practices…
Read MoreDurand, P. (2020). The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death. University of Chicago Press. All bolded terms are defined at the bottom of this…
Read MoreIn What is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction, geographer Jamie Linton (2010: 14) describes “modern water” as the following: “an abstract, isomorphic,…
Read MoreWe are often told that Jordan is one of the most water-poor countries on the planet and it is hard not to recognize…
Read MoreWhen encountering the generosity of brilliant colleagues, one can only start with gratitude. Add to that a historical moment when a virus has reconfigured…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero (2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. As I write these lines, my home city, Madrid, is covered in a…
Read MoreAndrea Ballestero,(2019). A Future History of Water. Duke University Press. I have an exercise I like to assign to my students, one that I…
Read MoreAs I finished reading Ballestero’s A Future History of Water, the world observed World Water Day 2021. Organized by the United Nations, it has…
Read MoreIn the search to close the digital divide, which has been even more exposed since the COVID-19 pandemic, the insights about technological use within…
Read MoreIn the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic the optimism of the early days of the world wide web appears to have completely abated. The…
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