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
A journey into de facto state-building based on ethnographic and archival research in the Turkish Republic of Northern CyprusWhat is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this...
The Violence of Recognition offers an unprecedented firsthand account of the operations of Hindu nationalists and their role in sparking the largest incident of anti-Christian violence in India’s...
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...
Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post–civil war LebanonBased on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as...
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
The turn to the nonhuman in the humanities and social sciences has arguably been mobilized through a washing away of political violence, its histories, and its traces. Reverberations aims to redress...
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,"...
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did...
A sensitive ethnography of former Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) combatantsAfter sixteen years of civil war (1976—1992) between the Mozambican National Resistance (RENAMO) and the government...
Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey
Zerrin Özlem Biner
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9780812251753
Pub Date: January 2020
Format: Hardcover
264 Pages
The military conflict between the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Turkish Armed Forces has endured over the course of the past three decades. Since 1984, the conflict has claimed the lives of...
In 1994, almost one million ethnic Tutsis were killed in the genocide in Rwanda. In the aftermath of the genocide, some of the top-echelon Hutu officers who had organized it fled Rwanda to the eastern...
