scholarly journals Book Reviews

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Kurdish Studies
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
University Of Cambridge ◽  
University Of Berlin ◽  
Tennessee Technological University ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Technological University

Zerrin Özlem Biner, States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020, 264 pp., (ISBN 9780812251753). Salih Can Açıksöz, Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, Oakland: University of California Press, 2020, 272 pp., (ISBN: 9780520305304). Reviewed by Marlene Schäfers, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Andrew Bush, Between Muslims: Religious Difference in Iraqi Kurdistan, Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020, 240 pp., (ISBN: 9781503611436). Reviewed by Metin Atmaca, Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey Mneesha Gellman, Democratization and Memories of Violence: Ethnic minority rights movements in Mexico, Turkey, and El Salvador, London and New York: Routledge, 2018, 226 pp., (ISBN: 9781138597686). Reviewed by Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Siena College, United States Seevan Saeed, Kurdish Politics in Turkey: From the PKK to the KCK, London and New York: Routledge, 2017, 150 pp., (ISBN: 978-1-138-19529-5 (hbk); 978-1-315-63848-5 (ebk)). Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University Mohammedali Yaseen Taha, Media and Politics in Kurdistan. How Politics and Media are Locked in an Embrace, London: Lexington, 2020, 145 pp., (ISBN: 9781793611031). Reviewed by Kerem Schamberger, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. Philip G. Kreyenbroek and Yiannis Kanakis, "God First and Last": Religious Traditions and Music of the Yaresan of Guran. Volume I: Religious Traditions, by Philip G. Kreyenbroek, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020. XIV+188 pp., (ISBN 9783447114240). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, Netherlands Seyedeh Behnaz Hosseini, The Yārsān of Iran, Socio-Political changes and Migration, Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 229 pp., (ISBN 978-981-15-2634-3). Reviewed by Hamidreza Nikravesh, Free University of Berlin, Germany Mohammed Ihsan, Nation building in Kurdistan: Memory, Genocide and Human Rights, New York: Routledge, 2017, 194 pp., (ISBN: 9781472466792). Reviewed by Ugur Ümit Üngör, NIOD Institute, University of Amsterdam

Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-228
Author(s):  
Martin Van Bruinessen ◽  
Michael M. Gunter ◽  
Joost Jongerden ◽  
Michiel Leezenberg ◽  
Stanley Thangaraj
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Academic Publishing ◽  
Ethnic Cleansing ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
City College ◽  
Tennessee Technological University ◽  
Technological University

Michael M. Gunter (ed.), Routledge Handbook on the Kurds, London and New York: Routledge, 2019, 483 pp., (ISBN: 9781138646643). Reviewed by Martin van Bruinessen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Kardo Bokani, Social Communication and Kurdish Political Mobilisation in Turkey, Balti, Republic of Moldova: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2017, 252 pp., (ISBN: 978-3-330-33239-3) Reviewed by Michael M. Gunter, Tennessee Technological University, United States Emel Elif Tugdar & Serhun Al, eds., Comparative Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Actors, Ideas, and Interests, Cham: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2018, pp. 235, (ISBN: 978-3319537146) Reviewed by Joost Jongerden, Wageningen University, The Netherlands Christoph Markiewicz, The Crisis of Kingship in Late Medieval Islam: Persian Emigres and the Making of Ottoman Sovereignty, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 364 pp, (9781108684842). Reviewed by Michiel Leezenberg, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Thomas Schmidinger, The Battle for the Mountain of the Kurds: Self-Determination and Ethnic Cleansing in the Afrin Region of Rojava, Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2019, 192 pp. (ISBN: 978-1629636511). Reviewed by Stanley Thangaraj, City College of New York, United States

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 255-268
Author(s):  
Leyla Neyzi ◽  
Nida Alahmad ◽  
Nina Gren ◽  
Martha Lagace ◽  
Chelsey Ancliffe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Political Violence ◽  
University Of California ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
Palestinian Refugee ◽  
Identity Thinking

Sacrificial Limbs: Masculinity, Disability, and Political Violence in Turkey, by Salih Can Açıksöz. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2019. 272 pp. 19 illus. Paperback. ISBN 978-0-5203-0530-4. For the Love of Humanity: The World Tribunal on Iraq, by Ayça Çubukçu. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 240 pp. 7 illus. Hardcover. ISBN 978-0-8122-5050-3. Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics, by Ilana Feldman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2018. 320 pp. 20 illus. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-0-520-29963-4. Peaceful Selves: Personhood, Nationhood, and the Post-Conflict Moment in Rwanda, by Laura Eramian. New York: Berghahn Books, 2019. 202 pp. 3 illus. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-78920-493-3. Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right, by Walden Bello. Blackpoint: Fernwood Publishing, 2019. 196 pp. Paperback. ISBN: 978-1-77363-221-6. Critique of Identity Thinking, by Michael Jackson. New York: Berghahn Books., 2019. 207 pp. Hardcover. ISBN 978-1-78920-282-3.

Book Reviews

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-225
Author(s):  
Timo Kallinen ◽  
Michael D. Jackson ◽  
Gisela Welz ◽  
Hastings Donnan ◽  
Jeevan Raj Sharma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Duke University ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
The Republic

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

Book Reviews

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Matthew Carey ◽  
Ida Nielsen Sølvhøj ◽  
Eve Monique Zucker ◽  
Younes Saramifar ◽  
Louis Frankenthaler
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Southern Italy ◽  
The United States ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
New York University ◽  
Minority Politics ◽  
Conscientious Objectors ◽  
Duke University ◽  
Indochina War

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.

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 116-129
Author(s):  
Kelsey Hanrahan ◽  
Sarah Kunz ◽  
Milla Mineva ◽  
Kara Moskowitz ◽  
Till Mostowlansky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Women Migrants ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Road ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The Family ◽  
Out Of Africa ◽  
And Migration

Seeing Women Migrants in Africa Kalpana Hiralal and Zaheera Jinnah, eds., Gender and Mobility in Africa: Borders, Bodies and Boundaries (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), xi + 259 pp., 10 illus., $119Indigenous Mobilities: Thinking Mobility from the South and beyond the Nation-State Rachel Standfield, ed., Indigenous Mobilities: Across and Beyond the Antipodes (Canberra: ANU Press), 279 pp., $50Mobile Dwellings, Standing Still: An Ethnography of Possible Mobility Hege Høyer Leivestad, Caravans: Lives on Wheels in Contemporary Europe (London: Bloomsbury Academic), 192 pp., 20 illus., $102.60Rethinking Exile in and Out of Africa Nathan Riley Carpenter and Benjamin N. Lawrance, eds., Africans in Exile: Mobility, Law, and Identity (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018), 337 pp., $35How to Study Roads Anthropologically Dimitris Dalakoglou, The Road: An Ethnography of (Im)mobility, Space, and Cross-Border Infrastructures in the Balkans (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2017), 203 pp., 34 illus., £19.99Invisible Cycle Histories for Brighter Mobility Futures Tiina Männistö-Funk and Timo Myllyntaus, eds., Invisible Bicycle: Parallel Histories and Different Timelines (Leiden: Brill, 2018), xii + 282 pp., $133Someone Needs to Care: Caregiving Practices beyond the Family and the State Azra Hromadzic and Monika Palmberger, eds., Care across Distance: Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018), 183 pp., 15 illus., $110

Book Reviews

Journeys ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
Jackie Clarke ◽  
Melanie Kay Smith ◽  
Margret Jäger ◽  
Anne O'Connor ◽  
Robert Shepherd
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
University Of Pennsylvania ◽  
New York University ◽  
Class Culture ◽  
Alternative Tourism ◽  
Chinese Gardens

Bianca Maria Rinaldi, Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300– 1860 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016), viii + 376 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-4763-3, $89.95 (hardcover).Susan E. Hill, Alternative Tourism in Budapest: Class, Culture and Identity in a Postsocialist City (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2017), xxvii + 92 pp., ISBN-9781498528641, $80.00 (hardcover).Amy Speier, Fertility Holidays: IVF Tourism and the Reproduction of Whiteness (New York: New York University Press, 2016), 165 pp., ISBN- 978-1-4798-4910-9, $28 (paperback).Raphaël Ingelbien, Irish Cultures of Travel: Writing on the Continent, 1829– 1914 (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), ix + 252 pp., ISBN 978-1-137- 56783-3, $80 (hardcover).Leanne White, ed., Commercial Nationalism and Tourism: Selling the National Story (Bristol, UK: Channel View Publications, 2017), xvi + 299 pp., 9781845415884, $49.95 (paperback).

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