Search Result List

Making Migrants is an ethnography of transnational migration and the bureaucracy that sustains it. It explores how global migration management is introduced and facilitated between Tajikistan and Russia, revealing how well-meaning migration officials entrench and inevitably advance colonial rationalities.

People as Protection explores civilian self-protection in Nigeria’s struggle to overcome Boko Haram, focusing on the Civilian Joint Task Force, a grassroots response to the insurgency. Merging emotional insight and cultural analysis, it uncovers how hope, patriotism, and community drove ordinary citizens to confront violence and reclaim dignity.

Sharing stories of Native American resilience amidst toxic school and community cultures, Mneesha Gellman examines the consequences of the misrepresentation and suppression of Indigenous culture in secondary education through the insights of students and teachers working to revitalize the Yurok language.

Temptations in Ruin examines the political-economic afterlife of the Armenian genocide in present-day Turkey, focusing on the region of Muş (Moush). Anthropologist Alice von Bieberstein explores how the 1915 genocide and dispossession of Armenians shaped property regimes, citizenship, and economic logics that continue to reverberate today.

In Forensic Fantasies, anthropologist Başak Can examines how progressive doctors, medical institutions, and state forces in Turkey use forensic methods to detect, erase, and reveal evidence of state violence.

Centering the lived realities of domestic sex trafficking survivors in New England, Trafficking Trajectories highlights the role of structural violence before, during, and after trafficking. Alicia Peters reveals opportunities for rethinking and broadening the response to trafficking to make it more focused on prevention, and thus more effective.

Tracing social, political, and economic changes among Sahrawi refugees, Sovereignty in Exile reveals the dynamics of a postcolonial liberation movement that has endured for decades in the deserts of North Africa while trying to bring about the revolutionary transformation of a society which identifies with a Bedouin past.

States of Dispossession highlights everyday experiences in an attempt to understand the persistent and intangible effects of dispossession and the ways people of differing religious and ethnic backgrounds remember, experience, and live with the remains of a violence that is still unfolding.

A Break in the Future considers the ways in which belief in political change is maintained after movements fail. Examining political activism in Lebanon in the decade between the Arab and Lebanese uprisings, Fuad Musallam explores the ebb and flow of political engagement in dialogue to better understand how political possibility endures.