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.

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.

Through a detailed ethnographic account of the everyday lives of detainees' wives in the occupied Palestinian Territory, No Place for Grief reveals the ways in which the normalization of these women's distress is intrinsically and painfully linked to the collective struggle for freedom from the occupation.

Ensalaco spent five years in Chile investigating the impact of Pinochet's rule and interviewing members of the truth commission created to investigate the human rights violations under Pinochet.

Drawing on seven years of interviews with women activists across communities in Northern Uganda and Sierra Leone, Jennifer Moore shows that when women have full socioeconomic citizenship as well as equitable and respectful partnerships with men, transformative justice can be sustained in postconflict societies.

Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, Master Peace argues that so-called experts, from violence researchers to peace professionals, have often exacerbated the violence they claim to be tackling, through their deployment of racialized tropes of conflict and peace.

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay develop the concept of the aporetic state to describe an entity that acts like a state even as nonrecognition renders it unrealizable. They argue that only by rethinking the de facto state as a realm of practice will we be able to understand the longevity of such states and what it means to live in them.

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. Ethnocracy traces the dynamics of territorial and ethnic conflicts between Jews and Palestinians and examines the consequences of settlement, land, development, and planning policies.

Paradigm Lost argues that negotiations for a two-state solution between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River are doomed and counterproductive. Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs can enjoy the democracy they deserve but only after decades of struggle amid the unintended but powerful consequences of today's one-state reality.

In The End of Peacekeeping, Marsha Henry shows how contemporary peacekeeping produces gender and racial inequalities through increasingly militarized strategies. Revealing that peacekeeping is not the benign, apolitical project it is often purported to be, this book encourages readers to imagine and enact alternative futures to peacekeeping.