Traces social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees in North AfricaSovereignty in Exile explores sovereignty and state power through the case of a liberation movement that set out...
Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
Zerrin Özlem Biner
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828634
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Traces the violence of the protracted conflict in the Kurdish region of Turkey through the lens of dispossessionThe military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed...
Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse and Christina L. Davis
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512826838
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and cultureThe recent surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the United States is widely perceived...
In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity...
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, Greece has shouldered a heavy burden struggling with internal political and financial insecurity as well as hosting enormous numbers of migrants and asylum...
In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship—a relationship just as significant...
What makes for a meaningful life? In the Japanese context, the concept of ikigai provides a clue. Translated as "that which makes one's life worth living," ikigai has also come to mean that which gives...
In her role as devoted wife, the Hindu goddess Parvati is the divine embodiment of viraha, the agony of separation from one's beloved, a form of love that is also intense suffering. These contradictory...
Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border
Malini Sur
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812224788
Pub Date: August 2021
Format: Paperback
248 Pages
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,"...
