Volumes in this series provide ethnographic examinations of the causes, consequences, and experiences of political violence. In doing so they seek to broaden our understandings of both politics and violence.
Series Editors:
Daniel J. Hoffman
Associate Professor of African Studies, University of Washington
Tobias Kelly
Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh
Sharika Thiranagama
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University
Staff Editorial Contact:
Elisabeth Maselli, Senior Editor emaselli@upenn.edu
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.
Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
Zerrin Özlem Biner
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512828634
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
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.
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.
Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine
Lotte Buch Segal
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512827934
Pub Date: May 2025
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
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.
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.
Pinky Hota explores the roots of ethnonationalist conflict between the Kandha, who are Adivasi (tribal people considered indigenous in India), and the Pana, a community of Christian Dalits. The Violence of Recognition reveals the violent implications of minority recognition in creating and maintaining hierarchies of racial capitalism.
On the Doorstep of Europe examines how asylum seekers and service providers in Greece navigate dilemmas of governance, ethics, knowledge, and sociability. A new preface highlights how the difficulties encountered by asylum seekers in an earlier time remain relevant and revealing in the face of ongoing crises and challenges today.
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
In Jungle Passports Malini Sur follows the struggles of the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Bangladesh and their efforts to secure shifting land, gain access to rice harvests, and smuggle the cattle and garments upon which their livelihoods depend.
Edited by Yael Navaro, Zerrin Özlem Biner, Alice von Bieberstein and Seda Altuğ
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9780812253498
Pub Date: December 2021
Format: Hardcover
328 Pages
Reverberations aims to generate new concepts and methodologies for the study of political violence and its aftermath. Essays attend to the distribution, extension, and endurance of violence across time, space, materialities, and otherworldly dimensions, as well as its embodiment in subjectivities, discourses, and political imaginations.
