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Anthropology April 29, 2022

Building on Borrowed Time

Rising Seas and Failing Infrastructure in Semarang

Lukas Ley

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Ice caps are melting, seas are rising, and densely populated cities worldwide are threatened by floodwaters, especially in Southeast Asia. Building on Borrowed Time is a relevant and powerful ethnography …
Mobilities and Methods February 2, 2022

Fragments of the City

Making and Remaking Urban Worlds

Colin McFarlane

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Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban worlds and provocations for …
Anthropology December 24, 2021

Vertiginous Life

An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen

Daniel M. Knight

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Vertiginous Life: An Anthropology of Time and the Unforeseen (Berghahn Books, 2021) provides a theory of the intense temporal disorientation brought about by life in crisis. In the whirlpool of …
Anthropology November 18, 2021

Worlds of Care

The Emotional Lives of Fathers Caring for Children with Disabilities

Aaron J. Jackson

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Vulnerable narratives of fatherhood are few and far between; rarer still is an ethnography that delves into the practical and emotional realities of intensive caregiving. Grounded in the intimate everyday …
Mobilities and Methods November 5, 2021

Scammer's Yard

The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica

Jovan Scott Lewis

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There is romance in stealing from the rich to give to the poor, but how does that change when those perceived rich are elderly white North Americans and the poor …
Mobilities and Methods October 5, 2021

Urbanism Without Guarantees

The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood

Christian M. Anderson

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Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers a new perspective on urban dynamics and urban …
Mobilities and Methods September 24, 2021

A City Is Not a Computer

Other Urban Intelligences

Shannon Mattern

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Computational models of urbanism—smart cities that use data-driven planning and algorithmic administration—promise to deliver new urban efficiencies and conveniences. Yet these models limit our understanding of what we can know …
Mobilities and Methods September 23, 2021

Set Adrift

Capitalist Transformations and Community Politics Along Mumbai's Shores

Gayatri Nair

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The Koli community in Mumbai-which has been practicing fishing for centuries-has experienced rapid changes over the last few decades, in the forms of increased mechanization, export of fish to global …
Mobilities and Methods July 16, 2021

Blackness in Morocco

Gnawa Identity Through Music and Visual Culture

Cynthia J. Becker

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For more than thirteen centuries, caravans transported millions of enslaved people from Africa south of the Sahara into what is now the Kingdom of Morocco. Today there are no museums …
Mobilities and Methods July 7, 2021

Precarious Hope

Migration and the Limits of Belonging in Turkey

Ayse Parla

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There are more than 700,000 Bulgaristanlı migrants residing in Turkey. Immigrants from Bulgaria who are ethnically Turkish, they assume certain privileges because of these ethnic ties, yet access to citizenship …
Mobilities and Methods June 29, 2021

Dispossession and Dissent

Migrants and the Struggle for Housing in Madrid

Sophie L. Gonick

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Since the 2008 financial crisis, complex capital flows have ravaged everyday communities across the globe. Housing in particular has become increasingly precarious. In response, many movements now contest the long-held …
Mobilities and Methods June 29, 2021

Jungle Passports

Fences, Mobility and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border

Malini Sur

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Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh as Muslim "frontier peasants," "savage mountaineers," and …
Mobilities and Methods June 25, 2021

The Current Economy

Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics

Canay Özden-Schilling

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Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity …
Mobilities and Methods June 11, 2021

The Outside

Migration As Life in Morocco

Alice Elliot

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The Outside: Migration as Life in Morocco (Indiana UP, 2021) traces how migration has come to occupy a striking place in the lives of many Moroccans. A full 10 percent of …
Mobilities and Methods June 8, 2021

Working Out Desire

Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul

Sertaç Sehlikoglu

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Working Out Desire: Women, Sport, and Self-Making in Istanbul (Syracuse UP, 2020) examines spor merakı as an object of desire shared by a broad and diverse group of Istanbulite women. Sehlikoglu …
Mobilities and Methods June 3, 2021

The Migrant's Paradox

Street Livelihoods and Marginal Citizenship in Britain

Suzanne M. Hall

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In this richly observed account of migrant shopkeepers in five cities in the United Kingdom, Suzanne Hall examines the brutal contradictions of sovereignty and capitalism in the formation of street …
Mobilities and Methods June 1, 2021

Iran in Motion

Mobility, Space, and the Trans-Iranian Railway

Mikiya Koyagi

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Completed in 1938, the Trans-Iranian Railway connected Tehran to Iran's two major bodies of water: the Caspian Sea in the north and the Persian Gulf in the south. Iran's first …
Mobilities and Methods May 24, 2021

How to Make a Wetland

Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey

Caterina Scaramelli

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How to Make a Wetland: Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey (Stanford UP, 2021) tells the story of two Turkish coastal areas, both shaped by ecological change and political uncertainty …
Mobilities and Methods May 3, 2021

Bolivia in the Age of Gas

Bret Gustafson

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Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president, won reelection three times on a leftist platform championing Indigenous rights, anti-imperialism, and Bolivian control over the country's natural gas reserves. In Bolivia in …
Mobilities and Methods May 3, 2021

Queer in Translation

Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam

Evren Savci

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In Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam (Duke UP, 2021), Evren Savcı analyzes the travel and translation of Western LGBT political terminology to Turkey in order to illuminate …
Mobilities and Methods March 10, 2021

Building Socialism

The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam

Christina Schwenkel

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Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German …
Mobilities and Methods January 5, 2021

Coming Out to the Streets

LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness

Brandon Andrew Robinson

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Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
Mobilities and Methods November 18, 2020

Beyond Exception

New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula

Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora

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Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist …
Anthropology November 6, 2020

Return to Ruin

Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia

Zainab Saleh

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With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford …