This pioneering ethnography of the UN Human Rights Committee reveals how perpetual reporting, driven by hope and belief in rights, paradoxically reinforces state power. A compelling study for scholars, students, and practitioners of human rights, international law, and the anthropology of international organizations.
The Paradox of Postconflict Power Sharing in Africa
Alexander Noyes
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512829600
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
Power-sharing pacts are a key strategy for resolving a wide range of violent conflicts worldwide, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. But Alexander Noyes argues that postconflict power-sharing accords lead to compromised coalitions and that their negatives all too often outweigh their positives.
Edited by Alexa S. Dietrich, Scott Gabriel Knowles and Rodrigo Ugarte
Contributions by Joie Acosta, George Aumoithe, Tanya Buhler Corbin, Anirban Kapil Baishya, Jih-Fei Cheng, Moon Choi, Vivian Choi, Nishaant Choksi, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Sukanya Deogam, Kim Fortun, Alice Fothergill, Danya Glabau, Monica H. Green, Dolly Jørgensen, Dani Joslyn, Christine Keeves, Hyunah Keum, Christos Lynteris, Rachel Margolis, Katherine A. Mason, Tyesha Maddox, Luke J. Matthews, Darshana Sreedhar Mini, Samantha Montano, Courtney Page-Tan, Hyeonbin Park, Lori Peek, Elisa Perego, Rashawn Ray, Kalpesh Rathwa, Monica Sanders, Amanda Savitt, Sarah Senk, Robert Soden, Jacob Steere-Williams, Cécile Stephanie Stehrenberger, Kathleen Tierney, Kristin Urquiza, Ashton M. Verdery, Carlos Villegas, Haowei Wang, Jacqueline Wernimont, Sarah S. Willen, Heather M. Wurtz, Myungji Yang and Carl A. Zimring
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512829495
Pub Date: July 2026
Format: Hardcover
384 Pages
COVID Studies is a “state of the field” collection of essays that presents the latest research on the pandemic. Examining the pandemic as a process that was shaped by longer histories of what came before it and that continues to make new realities in the present, the contributors suggest that we are still researching and writing from inside the disaster.
Encounters at the Existential Borderlands of the Mediterranean
Alessandro Corso
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829549
Pub Date: June 2026
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
Hope amid Despair tells the story of life on Lampedusa, a small island in the central Mediterranean and the southernmost frontier of undocumented migration to Europe. Alessandro Corso argues for an understanding of this border zone not as a site of order and control, but as one of existential struggle and moral possibility.
The Untold Violence of Retribution in Besieged Sarajevo
Jelena Golubović
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512829013
Pub Date: May 2026
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
Inner Zone unearths a buried history of violence within the 1992–1995 siege of Sarajevo. As Serb forces besieged the city, Serb civilians, particularly women, became targets for retribution—but they couldn’t discuss their experiences postwar. By tracing this silencing, Inner Zone advances a new approach to telling contentious histories of war.
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.
Sovereign Accumulation and the Making of Post-Genocide Turkey
Alice von Bieberstein
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512828405
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
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.
Doctors, Documents, and the Limits of Truth in Turkey
Başak Can
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512827774
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Paperback
216 Pages
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.
