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About Alize Arıcan
Alize Arıcan is a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Anthropology at CUNY—City College, focusing on urban renewal, futurity, care, and migration. You can find her on Twitter @alizearican
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May 31, 2024
Violent Intimacies
In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively n…
February 25, 2024
Worlds of Care
Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of i…
November 19, 2023
Moving Words
In the decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin has re-emerged as a global city in large part thanks to its reputation as a literary city – a…
October 28, 2023
Brown Saviors and Their Others
In Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Help in India (Duke UP, 2023), Arjun Shankar draws from his ethnogra…
October 23, 2023
Fighting for the River
Fighting for the River: Gender, Body, and Agency in Environmental Struggles (U California Press, 2023) portrays women's intimate, embodied relationshi…
October 18, 2023
The Color of Asylum
In 2013, as Syrians desperate to escape a brutal war fled the country, Brazil took the remarkable step of instituting an open-door policy for all Syri…
October 10, 2023
The Right Kind of Suffering
From the overloaded courts with their constantly changing dates and appointments to the need to prove oneself the “right" kind of asylum seeker, the a…
September 26, 2023
In Quest of a Shared Planet
Based on the author’s eight years of fieldwork with the United Nations-led Conference of Parties (COP), In Quest of a Shared Planet: Negotiating Clima…
September 12, 2023
Unsettling
On August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the Un…
September 3, 2023
Filipino Time
From spectacular deaths in a drag musical to competing futures in a call center, Filipino Time: Affective Worlds and Contracted Labor (Fordham UP, 202…
August 25, 2023
Space-Time Colonialism
As the enduring "last frontier," Alaska proves an indispensable context for examining the form and function of American colonialism, particularly in t…
August 12, 2023
An Elusive Common
Karen E. Rignall's book An Elusive Common: Land, Politics, and Agrarian Rurality in a Moroccan Oasis (Cornell UP, 2021) details the fraught dynamics o…
August 11, 2023
Routine Crisis
Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001–2002, a financial crisis led to its …
August 3, 2023
Landscapes of Care
Landscapes of Care: Immigration and Health in Rural America (UNC Press, 2023) examines the ways immigrants, mainly from Latin America and the Caribbea…
July 29, 2023
After Stories
After Stories: Transnational Intimacies of Postwar El Salvador (Stanford UP, 2022) builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethno…
July 23, 2023
Circumcision and Medicine in Modern Turkey
In Turkey, circumcision is viewed as both a religious obligation and a rite of passage for young boys, as communities celebrate the ritual through gat…
July 19, 2023
Architectures of Hope
Moisés Kopper's Architectures of Hope: Infrastructural Citizenship and Class Mobility in Brazil's Public Housing (U Michigan Press, 2022) examines how…
July 10, 2023
Pressing Onward
Pressing Onward: The Imperative Resilience of Latina Migrant Mothers (U California Press, 2023) centers the stories of mothers who migrated from Latin…
July 5, 2023
Argonauts of West Africa
In rapidly changing and highly precarious contexts, unauthorized African migrants turn to kinship in search of security, stability, and predictability…
June 10, 2023
Dying Abroad
On any given day, the remains of countless deceased migrants are shipped around the world to be buried in ancestral soils. Others are laid to rest in …
June 8, 2023
Well Connected
Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid co…
May 21, 2023
Life Beyond Waste
Over the last several decades, life in Lahore has been undergoing profound transformations, from rapid and uneven urbanization to expanding state inst…
May 10, 2023
The Fluvial Imagination
Landlocked and surrounded by South Africa on all sides, the mountain kingdom of Lesotho became the world's first "water-exporting country" when it sig…
April 23, 2023
Passport Entanglements
Passport Entanglements: Protection, Care, and Precarious Migrations (U California Press, 2022) examines the problems with documents issued to Indonesi…