Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Timo Kallinen ◽  
Michael D. Jackson ◽  
Gisela Welz ◽  
Hastings Donnan ◽  
Jeevan Raj Sharma ◽  
...  

Crude Domination: An Anthropology of Oil Andrea Behrends, Stephen P. Reyna, and Günter Schlee, eds. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. 325 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-85745-255-9.The War Machines: Young Men and Violence in Sierra Leone and Liberia Danny Hoffman. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. 295 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5077-4.The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity Yael Navaro-Yashin. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 270 pp. Paper ISBN 978-0-8223-5204-4.The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia Vasiliki P. Neofotistos. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 216 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4399-4.Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal’s Civil War Judith Pettigrew. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 200 pp. Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8122-4492-2.In Memoriam

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Matthew Carey ◽  
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj ◽  
Eve Monique Zucker ◽  
Younes Saramifar ◽  
Louis Frankenthaler

THE GRECANICI OF SOUTHERN ITALY: Governance, Violence, and Minority Politics By Stavroula Pipyrou. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 256 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4830-2.FOUR DECADES ON: Vietnam, the United States, and the Legacies of the Second Indochina War Edited by Scott Laderman and Edwin A. Martini. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2013. 334 pp. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-8223-5474-1.FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS: War, Revolution, and the Making of the Cambodian Diaspora By Khatharya Um. New York: New York University Press, 2015. 272 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-1-4798-0473-3.NATIONALISM, LANGUAGE, AND MUSLIM EXCEPTIONALISM By Tristan James Mabry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. 264 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4691-9.CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS IN ISRAEL: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty By Erica Weiss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 216 pp. Hardback. ISBN 978-0-8122-4592-9.


2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 207-221
Author(s):  
Aaron Raphael Ponce ◽  
Jaime García-Iglesias ◽  
Elisa Padilla ◽  
Kirwan McHarry

Anti-Gender Campaigns in Europe: Mobilizing against Equality, Roman Kuhar and David Paternotte (eds) (2017) London: Rowman and Littlefield International, 302 pp., ISBN 978-1-78348-999-2, h/bk, $132.00; ISBN 978-1-78660-000-4, p/bk, $41.95Many Splendored Things: Thinking Sex and Play, Susanna Paasonen (2018) London: Goldsmiths Press, 208 pp., ISBN 978-1-90689-782-6, h/bk, $30.00RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas (eds) (2017) Cham: Springer Nature and Palgrave Macmillan, 309 pp., ISBN 978-3-31950-617-3, h/bk, $109.00; ISBN 978-3-31984-444-2, p/bk, $34.99Struggling for Ordinary: Media and Transgender Belonging in Everyday Life, Andre Cavalcante (2018) New York: New York University Press, 221 pp., ISBN 978-1-47988-130-7, h/bk, $89.00; ISBN 978-1-47984-131-8, p/bk, $27.00


2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Laurence McFalls ◽  
Jeffrey J. Anderson ◽  
Vanessa Beck

Jennifer A. Yoder, From East Germans to Germans? The New Postcommunist Elitesn(Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)Review by Laurence McFallsHölscher, Jens and Anja Hochberg, eds., East Germany’s Economic Development Since Unification: Domestic and Global Aspects (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998)Review by Jeffrey J. AndersonBrigitte Young, Triumph of the Fatherland. German Unification and the Marginalization of Women (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999) Review by Vanessa Beck


2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
Sam Jackson ◽  
Áron Bakos ◽  
Birgitte Refslund Sørensen ◽  
Matti Weisdorf

FAR-RIGHT FANTASY: A Sociology of American Religion and Politics By James Aho. New York: Routledge, 2016. 168 pp. Paper ISBN 978-1-138-96242-2. Review by Sam JacksonLIMINALITY AND THE MODERN: Living through the In-Between By Bjørn Thomassen. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2014, 263. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-4094-6080-0 Review by Áron BakosAFTER WAR: The Weight of Life at Walter Reed By Zoë Wool. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. 264 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 9780822360032. Review by Birgitte Refslund Sørensen and Matti Weisdorf


Transfers ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-165
Author(s):  
James Longhurst ◽  
Sheila Dwyer ◽  
John Lennon ◽  
Zhenhua Chen ◽  
Rudi Volti ◽  
...  

Book ReviewsPeter Cox, ed. Cycling Cultures (Chester, UK: University of Chester, 2015) - James LonghurstDaniel Owen Spence, Colonial Naval Culture and British Imperialism, 1922–67 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015) - Sheila DwyerColin Divall, ed., Cultural Histories of Sociabilities, Spaces and Mobilities (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2015) - John LennonChristopher Kopper and Massimo Moraglio, eds., Th e Organization of Transport: A History of Users, Industry, and Public Policy (New York: Routledge, 2014) - Zhenhua ChenPaul Ingrassia, Engines of Change: A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2012) - Rudi VoltiHagar Kotef, Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015) - Gopalan BalachandranBernd Stiegler, Traveling in Place: A History of Armchair Travel. Trans. Peter Filkins. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010) - Katarina GephardtThomas Buhler, Déplacements urbains: sortir de l’orthodoxie. Plaidoyer pour une prise en compte des habitudes (Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 2015) - Mathieu FlonneauRuth A. Miller, Snarl: In Defense of Stalled Traffi c and Faulty Networks (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2015) - Kyle SheltonNovel ReviewEmily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (London: Picador, 2014) - Fiona Wilkie


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