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DIGITAL PUBLISHING INITIATIVE 3 Reimagining Money The Current Economy Waste Siege Kenya in the Digital Electricity Markets and The Life of Infrastructure Finance Revolution Techno-Economics in Palestine Sibel Kusimba Canay Özden-Schilling Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins In countries around the world, Electricity is a quirky commodity: Waste Siege depicts the environmen- digital payment is displacing cash. more often than not, it cannot be tal, infrastructural, and aesthetic In Reimagining Money, Kusimba stored, transported except through context in which Palestinians are offers a rich portrait of how this dedicated routes, or imported from obliged to forge their lives. Tracing technology changes the economic overseas. Before lighting up our their experiences of wastes over and social landscape—creating homes, it changes hands through the past decade, Stamatopoulou- networks that she argues will shape specialized electricity markets Robbins considers how multiple future financial technologies. that rely on engineering expertise authorities governing the West Kusimba presents fascinating to be traded competitively while Bank—including the Palestin- accounts of how migrants maintain respecting the physical requirements ian Authority, international aid their presence in rural areas of the electric grid. The Current organizations, and Israel—rule by through money gifts; how families Economy is an of waste siege, whether intentionally or use crowdfunding software for electricity markets in the United not. Her work challenges common emergency medical care; and how States that shows the heterogenous formulations of waste as “matter new financial groups organize and technologically inflected nature out of place,” by suggesting instead investments. Examining how the of economic expertise today. Based that waste siege be understood as notion of money as wealth-in-peo- on ethnographic fieldwork among an ecology of “matter with no place ple, long cultivated in sub-Saharan to go.” Waste siege thus not only Africa, is brought to bear on the market data analysts, electric grid describes a stateless Palestine, but digital age, Kusimba presents a new engineers, and citizen activists, this also becomes a metaphor for our theory of money with applications book provides a deep dive into the besieged planet. for financial technologies to come. convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout “Taking the reader on a journey “In this provocative, nuanced ethno- daily life. Contributing to economic through landfills and rubbish markets, graphy, Kusimba asks the question: anthropology, science and technol- encounters with bags of bread left can money be designed for the ogy studies, energy studies, and the hanging on the sides of dumpsters, ‘wealth-in-people’ that sustains and the movement of sewage across lives and livelihoods in an ever- anthropology of expertise, this book is a map to the everyday infrastruc- political barriers, Stamatopoulou- more precarious world?” Robbins brilliantly excavates the —William Maurer, tures of economy and energy into ambient politics of waste.” University of California, Irvine which we are plugged as denizens of —Ilana Feldman, and Economic Life a technological world. George Washington University 240 pages, January 2021 240 pages, July 2021 9781503614413 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 344 pages, 2019 9781503628212 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503610897 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

4 Technopolitics Paradoxes of Care Special Treatment Trading Life Children and Global Medical Student Doctors at the All India Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, Aid in Egypt Institute of Medical Sciences and Exploitation Rania Kassab Sweis Anna L. Ruddock Seán Columb Paradoxes of Care examines how The All India Institute of Medical Drawing on the experiences of prominent global aid organizations Sciences (AIIMS) is iconic in the African migrants, Trading Life attempt to care for vulnerable landscape of Indian healthcare. brings together five years of field- children in Egypt through bio- Established in the early years of work charting the development of medical interventions and global independence, this enormous the organ trade from an informal healthcare programs. Focusing public teaching hospital rapidly economic activity into a structured on two main groups of child aid gained fame for high-quality treat- criminal network operating within recipients—street children and ment at a nominal cost; at present, and between Egypt, Libya, Sudan, out-of-school village girls—this an average of 10,000 patients pass Eritrea, and Europe. Ground-level in-depth ethnographic study reveals through the outpatient department analysis provides new insight into how global aid fails to “save” these each day. With its notorious medi- the operation of organ trading children according to its stated cal program acceptance rate of networks and the impact of cur- aims, but rather produces paradoxes less than 0.01%, to be trained as a rent legal and policy measures in of care for children and local aid doctor here is to be considered the response to the organ trade. Columb workers. In capturing medical best. In what way does this endur- reveals how investing financial and humanitarian encounters in real ing reputation of excellence shape administrative resources into law time, Paradoxes of Care illustrates the institution’s ethos? How does enforcement and border securitiza- how child recipients and local aid elite medical education sustain tion at the expense of social services experts grapple with global aid’s India’s social hierarchies and the has led to the convergence of illicit shortcomings and its paradoxical health inequalities entrenched smuggling and organ trading net- outcomes in Egypt. By foreground- within? In the first-ever ethnogra- works in the informal economy and ing vulnerable children’s responses phy of AIIMS, Ruddock considers the development of organized crime. to global medical aid, Sweis moves prestige as a byproduct of norms “A compelling and powerful look at past an unquestioned benevolence attached to ambition, aspiration, how law generates violence.” of global health in the Middle caste, and class in modern India, —Audrey Macklin, East to demonstrate how children asking what is lost when medicine University of Toronto manage their bodies and lives both is used not as a social equalizer, 224 pages, 2020 with and without the assistance of but as a means to cultivate and 9781503612556 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale global medicine. maintain prestige. 216 pages, June 2021 South Asia in Motion 9781503628632 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 264 pages, July 2021 9781503628250 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

Technopolitics 5 Digital Pirates A Unified Theory of Cats When Words Trump Politics Policing Intellectual Property on the Internet Resisting a Hostile Regime in Brazil of E.J. White Alexander Sebastian Dent Adam Hodges The line “the internet is made of Digital Pirates examines the cats” seems to need no explanation. When Words Trump Politics takes unauthorized creation, distribution, Everyone understands the joke, but insights from and consumption of movies and few know how it started. A Unified to decode, understand, and ultimately music in Brazil. Dent offers a new Theory of Cats on the Internet is the provide non-expert readers with easily definition of piracy as indispensable first book to explore how the cat digestible tools to resist the politics of to current capitalism alongside became the internet’s best friend. division and hate. Hodges’ short essays increasing global enforcement of Bringing together fun anecdotes, address Trump’s Twitter insults, racism intellectual property (IP). Complex thoughtful analyses, and hidden and white nationalism, “truthiness” and capricious laws may prohibit history of the communities that and “alternative facts,” #FakeNews and it, but piracy has become a core built the internet, White shows conspiracy theories, Supreme Court activity of the twenty-first century. how japonisme, punk culture, cute politics and #MeToo, Islamophobia, Combining the tools of linguistic culture, and the battle among dif- political theater, and many other timely and with ferent communities for the soul of and controversial discussions. Hodges breaks down the specific linguistic models from media studies and the internet informed the sensibility techniques and processes that make political economy, Digital Pirates of online felines. Internet cats thus Trump’s rhetoric successful in our reveals how the dynamics of IP offer a playful—and useful—way to contemporary political landscape. He and piracy serve as strategies for understand how culture shapes and identifies the language ideologies, word managing the gaps between texts— is shaped by technology. choices, and recurring metaphors that in this case, digital content. “A definitive overview of one of underlie Trumpian rhetoric to offer an “Smart, sly, and generatively discon- online culture’s least understood essential resource for anyone who cares certing, Digital Pirates is an ethno- phenomena.” about freeing democracy from the spell —Ethan Zuckerman, graphically textured and theoretically of demagoguery. rambunctious charting of emerging MIT mediascapes.” STANFORD BRIEFS “Trumpian discourse is overrepresented —Donald L. Brenneis, 168 pages, 2020 and yet underanalyzed, and this book University of California, Santa Cruz 9781503604636 Paper $14.00 $11.20 sale highlights the special need to attend to the subversive, anti-democratic use of 208 pages, 2020 language Trump has modeled.” 9781503612976 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale —Paul V. Kroskrity, University of California, Los Angeles

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6 Technopolitics Screen Shots The Power of Deserts How to Make a Wetland State Violence on Camera in Climate Change, the Middle East, Water and Moral Ecology in Turkey Israel and Palestine and the Promise of a Post-Oil Era Caterina Scaramelli Rebecca L. Stein Dan Rabinowitz This book tells the story of two In the last two decades, amidst the Hotter and dryer than most parts Turkish coastal areas, both shaped global spread of smartphones, state of the world, the Middle East could by ecological change and political killings of civilians have increasingly soon see climate change exacerbate uncertainty. Farmers, scientists, been captured on camera. Screen food and water shortages, aggravate fishermen, and families grapple Shots studies this phenomenon from social inequalities, and drive dis- with livelihoods in transition, as the vantage point of the Israeli occu- placement and political destabiliza- their environment is bound up in pation of the Palestinian territories. tion. The Power of Deserts surveys national and international conserva- Here, Palestinian activists, Israeli regional climate models and identi- tion projects. Scaramelli offers an soldiers, Jewish settlers, and human fies the potential impact on socio- anthropological understanding rights workers all trained their lens economic disparities, population of sweeping environmental and on Israeli state violence, propelled movement, and political instability. infrastructural change, and the by a shared dream: that advances Offering more than warning and moral claims made on livability and in digital photography—closer, fear, however, the book highlights materiality. Beginning from a moral sharper, faster—would advance their a potentially brighter future—a ecological position, she takes into respective political agendas. Most recent shift across the Middle East account the notion that politics is would be let down. Drawing on toward renewable energy. With his not simply projected onto animals, ethnographic work, Stein chronicles deep knowledge of the region and plants, soil, and water. Rather, Palestinian video-activists seeking knack for presenting scientific data people make politics through them. justice, Israeli soldiers laboring to with clarity, Rabinowitz makes a Scaramelli highlights the aspirations, perfect the military’s image, and sober yet surprisingly optimistic moral relations, and care practices Zionist conspiracy theorists accusing investigation of opportunity arising in constant play in contestations and Palestinians of “playing dead.” Writ- from a looming crisis. alliances over environmental change. ing against techno-utopianism, she “An important argument detail- “Caterina Scaramelli is a deeply investigates what camera dreams and ing how the Middle East could be informed guide to the wetlands, whose disillusionment across these political devastated by the impact of climate very ecological richness and complexity divides reveal about the Israeli and change—or could generate huge make them an ideal lens for under- Palestinian colonial present, and the amounts of renewable energy. A standing what humans have done provocative work.” with and to the environment.” shifting terms of power and struggle —Steven Cohen, Columbia University —James C. Scott, in the smartphone age. Yale University 256 pages, June 2021 STANFORD BRIEFS 256 pages, March 2021 9781503628021 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 184 pages, 2020 9781503615403 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503609983 Paper $14.00 $11.20 sale

Technopolitics 7 The Subject of Human Rights #HumanRights When Misfortune Edited by Danielle Celermajer The Technologies and Politics Becomes Injustice of Justice Claims in Practice and Alexandre Lefebvre Evolving Human Rights Struggles Ronald Niezen for Health and Social Equality The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address #HumanRights examines how Alicia Ely Yamin the “human” part of “human rights.” new technologies interact with When Misfortune Becomes Injustice Drawing on the finest thinking older models of rights claiming and surveys the last thirty years of in political theory, cultural stud- communication, influencing and health, economic, and social rights ies, history, law, anthropology, reshaping the modern-day pursuit advancement within the interna- and literary studies, this volume of justice. Niezen argues that the tional human rights community. examines how human rights—as impacts of information technologies Yamin tells a story of extraordinary discourse, law, and practice—shape on human rights are not found in progress with respect to the right how we understand humanity and an exclusive focus on sophisticated to health, including how traditional human beings. It asks how the data management, but in consider- forms of tyranny were curbed, and humanness that the human rights ing how these technologies interact how new discourses of equality, the idea seeks to protect and promote with other, “traditional” forms of welfare state, and inclusive is experienced. It suggests ways media to produce new avenues of were formed. Yamin also shows that in which we might reimagine expression, public sympathy, redress the possibilities and political space the relationship between human of grievances, and sources of the necessary to advance egalitarian rights and subjectivity with a view self. #HumanRights paints a striking health rights are shrinking and to benefitting human rights and panoramic picture of the contest require more attention to growing subjects alike. between authoritarianism and the inequality and building more new tools people use to bring the “An indispensable rethinking of diverse strategies for resistance and the field of contemporary human powerful to account. social transformation. rights studies.” “Groundbreaking and insightful.” “Yamin draws on years of practical —James Loeffler, —Stuart Kirsch, field experience to speak with unique University of Virginia University of Michigan authority among human rights schol- 336 pages, 2020 280 pages, 2020 ars about the global and national 9781503613713 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503612631 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale dynamics that systematically produce poverty and health inequalities across the world.” —Paul E. Farmer, Harvard University 312 pages, 2020 9781503611306 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale

8 STANFORD STUDIES IN HUMAN RIGHTS A series edited by MARK GOODALE Indigenous Dispossession Food in Cuba Nobody’s People Housing and Maya Indebtedness The Pursuit of a Decent Meal Hierarchy as Hope in a in Mexico Hanna Garth Society of Thieves M. Bianet Castellanos Food in Cuba follows Cuban families Anastasia Piliavsky Following the recent global housing as they struggle to maintain a What if we could imagine hierarchy boom, tract housing development decent quality of life in Cuba’s not as a social ill, but as a source of became a billion-dollar industry faltering, post-Soviet welfare social creativity and hope? In in Mexico. At the national level, state by looking at the social and Nobody’s People, Piliavsky takes us neoliberal housing policy has over- emotional dimensions of shifts in into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, taken debates around land reform. access to food. Based on extensive in the Indian state of Rajasthan. For Indigenous peoples, access to fieldwork in Santiago de Cuba, Introducing us to wily policemen, affordable housing remains crucial to Garth examines Cuban families’ quirky aristocrats, and resourceful alleviating poverty. But as traditional attempts to acquire and assemble goddesses, she shows that, locally, thatch and wood palapas are re- “a decent meal,” unraveling the hierarchy is a potent normative placed by tract houses in the Yucatán layers of household dynamics, idiom through which Kanjars imag- Peninsula, Indigenous peoples’ community interactions, and ine better lives and pursue social relationship to land, urbanism, and individual reflections on everyday ambitions. Piliavsky invites readers finance is similarly transformed, life in today’s Cuba. Garth argues to see in hierarchy a viable ethical revealing a settler colonial legacy of that these ongoing struggles pro- frame instead of an archaic system of debt and dispossession. Indigenous duce what Cuban families describe subjugation. Doing so, she suggests, Dispossession examines how Maya as “a change in character,” and that will help us understand not only families grapple with the ramifica- for some, this shifting concept of rural Rajasthan, but also much of the tions of neoliberal housing policies self and social relations leads to a world, including settings stridently in Cancún, one of Mexico’s fastest- transformation in society. committed to equality. Challenging growing cities. Even as Maya people “Garth’s in-depth and intimate eth- egalo-normative commitments, contend with predatory lending Piliavsky asks us to consider hierar- practices and foreclosure, Castel- nography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba’s welfare system, and the chy as an intellectual resource. lanos argues, they cultivate strategies profound consequences for the way “This scintillating re-reading of of resistance and forge a new vision people eat and think of themselves of Indigenous urbanism. hierarchy, most poignant where as Cuban.” it has supposedly been banished, “A powerful indictment of neoliberal- —Megan A. Carney, picks apart one of anthropology’s ism’s perpetuation of the settler project University of Arizona greatest conundrums.” of Indigenous dispossession.” 232 pages, 2020 —Marilyn Strathern, —Shannon Speed, 9781503611092 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale University of Cambridge University of California, Los Angeles South Asia in Motion 192 pages, December 2020 300 pages, November 2020 9781503614345 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 9781503614208 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

Anthropology of Ethics 9 Healing Labor Queer Palestine and the Pious Peripheries Japanese Sex Work in the Empire of Critique Runaway Women in Post- Taliban Afghanistan Gendered Economy Sa’ed Atshan Gabriele Koch Sonia Ahsan-Tirmizi Solidarity with Palestinians has Contemporary Japan is home to become a salient domain of global Taliban made piety a business of the one of the world’s largest and most queer politics. Yet LGBTQ Palestin- state, and thereby intervened in the diversified markets for sex. Widely ians are themselves often subjected daily lives and social interactions understood to be socially neces- to an “empire of critique” that has of Afghan women. Pious Peripher- sary, the sex industry operates led to an emphasis within the move- ies examines women’s resistance and recruits openly, staffed by a ment on anti-imperialism over the through groundbreaking fieldwork diverse group of women who are struggle against homophobia. With at a women’s shelter in Kabul, attracted by its high pay and the this book, Atshan asks how social home to runaway wives, daughters, promise of autonomy—but whose movements can balance struggles mothers, and sisters of the Taliban. work remains stigmatized and for liberation along more than one Whether running to seek marriage unmentionable. Based on field- axis. He explores critical junctures or divorce, enduring or escaping work with adult Japanese women in Palestinian LGBTQ activism, abuse, or even accused of singing in Tokyo’s sex industry, Healing revealing a spirit of agency, defiance, sexually explicit songs in public, Labor explores the relationship and creativity, despite daunting “promiscuous” women challenge between how sex workers think pressures and forces working to the status quo—and once marked about what sex is and what it does constrict it. Queer Palestine and as promiscuous, women have few and the political economic roles the Empire of Critique explores the resources. Ahsan-Tirmizi explores and possibilities that they imagine necessity of connecting the struggles how these women negotiate for themselves. Koch reveals how for Palestinian freedom with the gendered power mechanisms and Japanese sex workers regard sex as struggle against homophobia. create a new supportive community, finding friendship and solidarity a deeply feminized care—a healing “This utterly brilliant book will be labor—that is both necessary and a classic. Atshan has given us a among the women who inhabit the significant for the well-being and landmark work valuable to Middle margins of Afghan society. productivity of men. East studies, queer studies, and “In this stunning ethnography, Ahsan- anthropology in the broadest sense.” “An elegantly written, pathbreaking Tirmizi skillfully shows how coura- book that carries its theoretical —Tom Boellstorff, geous women navigate the dynamics sophistication and great University of California, Irvine of piety and promiscuity to achieve erudition lightly.” 296 pages, 2020 seemingly inaccessible freedoms.” —Sabine Frühstück, 9781503612396 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale —Michael Herzfeld, University of California, Harvard University Santa Barbara 216 pages, May 2021 248 pages, 2020 9781503614710 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503611344 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

10 Anthropology of Ethics Between Muslims Say What Your Longing Protestant Textuality and Religious Difference in Heart Desires the Tamil Modern Iraqi Kurdistan Women, Prayer, and Poetry Political Oratory and the Social J. Andrew Bush in Imaginary in South Asia Between Muslims provides an Niloofar Haeri Bernard Bate ethnographic account of Iraqi This book offers an elegant ethnog- Edited by E. Annamalai, Kurdish Muslims who turn raphy of religious debates among Francis Cody, Malarvizhi Jayanth, away from devotional piety yet a group of educated, middle-class and Constantine V. Nakassis remain intimately engaged with women whose voices are often Throughout history, speech and Islamic traditions and with other muted in studies of Islam. Haeri storytelling have united communities Muslims. Bush offers a new way to follows them in their daily lives and mobilized movements. Protestant understand religious difference in as they engage with the classi- Textuality and the Tamil Modern Islam, rejecting simple stereotypes cal poetry of Rumi, Hafez, and examines this phenomenon in Tamil- about ethnic or sectarian identi- Saadi, illuminating a long-standing speaking South India over the last ties. Integrating textual analysis mutual inspiration between prayer three centuries, charting the develop- of poetry, sermons, and Islamic and poetry. She recounts how ment of political oratory and its history into accounts of everyday different forms of prayer may influence on society. Supplementing life in Iraqi Kurdistan, Between transform into dialogues with God, his narrative with thorough archival Muslims illuminates the interplay and, in turn, illuminates the ways work, Bernard Bate begins with of attraction and aversion to Islam in which believers draw on prayer Protestant missionaries’ introduction among ordinary Muslims. and ritual acts as the emotional and of the sermonic genre and takes the reader through its local vernacular- “Written with a scholar’s rigor and intellectual material through which a poet’s grace, Between Muslims they think, deliberate, and debate. ization. What originally began as a depicts textures of Islamic tradition format of religious speech became rarely discussed in the literature. “This is one of the best books on an essential political infrastructure This deeply-layered monograph is a prayer in all of anthropology. used to galvanize support for new must-read for scholars in anthropol- Niloofar Haeri shows that prayer social imaginaries, from Indian ogy, religious studies, and beyond.” is not an empty ritual, but that it becomes a relationship that changes independence to Tamil nationalism. —Noah Salomon, people—and allows the secular Completed by a team of Bate’s Carleton College reader to understand how poetry colleagues, this ethnography marries 240 pages, 2020 enables women to feel spiritual linguistic anthropology to perfor- 9781503614581 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale presence. A beautifully written work.” mance studies and political history, —Tanya Luhrmann, illuminating new geographies of Stanford University belonging in the modern era. 224 pages, November 2020 South Asia in Motion 9781503614246 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 280 pages, August 2021 9781503628656 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale

Anthropology of Ethics 11 Into the Field From Boas to Black Power A History of False Hope Human Scientists of Racism, Liberalism, and Investigative Commissions Transwar Japan American Anthropology in Palestine Miriam Kingsberg Kadia Mark Anderson Lori Allen In the 1930s, a cohort of professional From Boas to Black Power investi- This book offers a provocative human scientists coalesced gates how U.S. cultural anthropolo- retelling of Palestinian political around a common and particular gists wrote about race, racism, and history through an examination understanding of objectivity as the “America” in the twentieth century of the international commissions foundation of legitimate knowledge, as a window into the greater project that have investigated political and of fieldwork as the pathway of U.S. anti-racist liberalism. In this violence and human rights viola- to objectivity. Into the Field is the groundbreaking intellectual history tions. Drawing on debates in the first collective biography of this of anti-racism within twentieth- press, previously unexamined cohort. At the height of imperialism, century cultural anthropology, UN reports, historical archives, they undertook field research in Anderson starts with the legacy of and ethnographic research, Allen territories under Japanese rule in Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict and explores six key investigative com- pursuit of “objective” information continues through the post-war era missions over the last century. She that would justify the subjugation of and Black Power movement to the highlights how Palestinians’ per- local peoples. After 1945, amid the birth of the Black Studies discipline, sistent demands for independence defeat and dismantling of Japanese exploring the problem “America” have been routinely translated into sovereignty, they created new nar- represents for liberal anti-racism. the numb language of reports and ratives of human difference around From Boas to Black Power provides a resolutions. These commissions, major rethinking of anthropological the new national values of democracy, Allen argues, operating as tech- anti-racism as a project that, in step capitalism, and peace. The 1968 nologies of liberal global gover- with the American racial liberalism student movement challenged nance, yield no justice—only the it helped create, paradoxically main- these values, but the legacy of these oppressive status quo. A History of tained white American hegemony. men lives on in the disciplines they False Hope issues a biting critique developed and the beliefs they “Anderson’s insightful analysis un- of the captivating allure and cold established about human diversity. silences significant aspects of anthro- impotence of international law. pology’s past and illuminates how “Kingsberg Kadia’s important study dominant liberal modalities of anti- “Allen has produced a fascinating, allows a glimpse into Japan’s postwar racism—regardless of intention— engaging, and innovative scholarly re-imagination of itself through the sustain the epistemic, cultural, and assessment of how international com- lens of American social science .” structural power of white supremacy.” missions have failed to deliver political —Amy Borovoy, —Faye V. Harrison, results to the Palestinian people.” Princeton University University of Illinois at —Richard Falk Urbana-Champaign 344 pages, 2019 272 pages, 2019 432 pages, December 2020 9781503610613 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale 9781503607873 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503614185 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

12 Anthropology of Ethics Political and Legal Anthropology The Universal Enemy Graveyard of Clerics Heritage and the Cultural Jihad, Empire, and the Challenge Everyday Activism in Saudi Arabia Struggle for Palestine of Solidarity Pascal Menoret Chiara De Cesari Darryl Li Developed after World War II to Efforts to reclaim and assert Palestinian No contemporary figure is more encourage a society of docile, iso- heritage differ significantly from demonized than the Islamist lated citizens, Saudi suburbs instead the typical global cultural project: foreign fighter. Spreading violence, opened new spaces for political ac- here it is people’s cultural memory disregarding national borders, and tion. Religious activists in particular and living environment, rather than rejecting secular norms, so-called turned homes, schools, mosques, ancient history and , that jihadists seem opposed to univer- and summer camps into resources take center stage. De Cesari examines salism itself. In a radical departure for mobilization. With the support Palestinian heritage projects and the from conventional wisdom, The of suburban grassroots networks, transnational actors, practices, and Universal Enemy argues that activists won local elections and material sites they mobilize to create transnational jihadists are engaged found opportunities to protest gov- new quasi-state institutions. Through in their own form of universalism: ernment actions—until they faced their rehabilitation of Palestinian these fighters struggle to realize a new wave of repression under the heritage, these organizations have an Islamist vision directed at all of current Saudi leadership. With this halted the expansion of Israeli settle- humanity, transcending racial and book, Menoret offers a cautionary ments and given Palestinians oppor- cultural difference. Li highlights tale: the ongoing repression from tunities to rethink and transform the parallels between transnational Saudi elites—achieved often with state functions. Heritage and the jihads and other universalisms such the complicity of the international Cultural Struggle for Palestine reveals as the War on Terror. Developed community—is shutting down how the West Bank is home to from more than a decade of grassroots political movements with research with former fighters in a creative experimentation, insurgent significant consequences for the half-dozen countries, The Universal agencies, and resourceful attempts country, and the world. Enemy explores the relationship to reverse colonial violence—and a between jihad and American em- “A distinguished ethnographer, model of how things could be. pire to shed critical light on both. Menoret excavates the Islamic Awak- “This pathbreaking book links cultural ening in Saudi Arabia with great heritage and the postcolonial condi- “Original, authoritative, and broad empathy and understanding, bring- tion in new and provocative ways.” in significance. This remarkable ing us face to face with the men of the achievement is anchored in Darryl —John F. Collins, movement, and their rise and demise Queens College, CUNY Li’s unique combination of skills and in the Saudi state.” sensibilities, which are at once ethno- —Madawi al-Rasheed, 288 pages, 2019 graphic, lawyerly, and linguistic.” London School of Economics 9781503609389 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale —Brinkley Messick, Columbia University 264 pages, 2020 384 pages, 2019 9781503612464 Paper $24.00 $19.20 sale 9781503610873 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

Political and Legal Anthropology 13 Paradoxes of the Popular Brand New Nation Dark Finance Crowd Politics in Bangladesh Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Illiquidity and Authoritarianism Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury Designs in Twenty-First- at the Margins of Europe Century India Few places are as politically Fabio Mattioli precarious as Bangladesh, even Ravinder Kaur Dark Finance is one of the first fewer as crowded. It is also one of The early twenty-first century was an ethnographic accounts of financial the poorest among such densely optimistic moment of global futures- expansion and its political impacts populated nations. In spite of an making. The chief narrative was in Eastern Europe. Following work- overriding anxiety of exhaustion, the emergence of the BRIC nations ers, managers, and investors in the there are a few important caveats to branded afresh as resource-rich hubs Macedonian construction sector, the familiar feelings of despair—a of untapped talent and potential Mattioli shows how financializa- growing economy, and an uneven, from the old third world that tion can empower authoritarian yet robust, nationalist sentiment “opened up” for foreign investments. regimes—not by making money —which, together, generate The tantalizing promise of economic accessible to everyone, but by al- revealing paradoxes. In this book, growth invited investments in the lowing a small group of oligarchs to Chowdhury offers insights into the nation’s exciting futures; it also monopolize access to international so-called Bangladesh Paradox in offered utopian visions of “good credit and promote a cascade of order to analyze the constitutive times”, and even restoration of exploitative domestic debt relations. contradictions of popular politics. lost glory to the nation’s citizens. One bad deal at a time, Dark Finance Chowdhury writes provocatively Grounded in the history of modern chronicles how Macedonia’s about everyday democracy in India, Brand New Nation reveals authoritarian regime rode a wave Bangladesh in a rich ethnography the on-the-ground experience of of financial expansion to deepen its that studies some of the most the relentless transformation of reach into Macedonian society, only consequential protests of the last the nation-state into an attractive to discover that, like other specula- decade, making an original case for investment destination for specula- tive bubbles, its domination was the crowd as a defining feature of tive global capital. always on the verge of collapsing. democratic practices in South Asia “A hugely thoughtful and innovative “As financialization and populism and beyond. analysis of the phenomenon known reshape the world, Fabio Mattioli’s “Richly ethnographic, this study as ‘India Inc.’” rich and timely analysis traces the takes a fresh and contemporary —Sumathi Ramaswamy, intersection of finance-fueled look at the role of crowds in Duke University construction and authoritarian democratic politics.” rule in Macedonia.” South Asia in Motion —Partha Chatterjee, —Sohini Kar, Columbia University 360 pages, 2020 London School of Economics 9781503612594 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale and Political Science South Asia in Motion 264 pages, 2019 248 pages, 2020 9781503609471 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503612938 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale

14 Political and Legal Anthropology The Encrypted State Iran Reframed Mafia Raj Delusion and Displacement in Anxieties of Power in the The Rule of Bosses in South Asia the Peruvian Andes Islamic Republic Lucia Michelutti, Ashraf Hoque, David Nugent Narges Bajoghli Nicolas Martin, David Picherit, What happens when the state starts Iran Reframed offers unprec- Paul Rollier, Arild E. Ruud, and bending facts? Or imagines illusory edented access to those who wield Clarinda Still opposition parties? The Encrypted power in Iran as they debate and “Mafia” has become an indigenous State closely examines political crisis define the future of the Republic. South Asian term. Like Italian in order to further understand Over ten years, Bajoghli met mobsters, the South Asian “gangster the notion of political stability. It with men in Iran’s Revolutionary politicians” are known for inflicting does so by focusing on an agrarian Guard, Ansar Hezbollah, and brutal violence while simultaneously region and administrative depart- Basij paramilitary organizations upholding vigilante justice—inspir- ment in the northern Peruvian to investigate how their media ing fear and fantasy. But the term Andes during the struggling dic- producers developed strategies also refers to the diffuse spheres of tatorship of General Odria (1948- to court Iranian youth. Readers crime, business, and politics operat- 1956). Nugent argues that the state come to know these men—what ing within a shadow world that is is always a mask, and those who the regime means to them and popularly referred to as the rule of seek a successful hold on political their anxieties about the future the mafia, or “Mafia Raj.” Through power are able to normalize and of their revolutionary project. intimate ethnographic accounts of legitimize their rule. Combining Contestation over how to define the lives of powerful and aspiring archival and ethnographic research, the regime underlies all their bosses in India, Pakistan, and Ban- Nugent raises new questions about efforts to communicate with the gladesh, this book illustrates their state formation in the grip of crisis, public. This book offers a multi- personal struggles for sovereignty as and what we can learn from states layered story about what it means they climb the ladder of success. The that fail to normalize and legitimize to be pro-regime in the Islamic authors theorize what they call “the art their political rule. Republic, challenging everything of bossing,” providing nuanced ideas we think we know about Iran and about crime, corruption, and the lure “This brilliant, inspired book reshapes of the strongman across the world. the debate about ‘the state’ in a revolution. number of disciplines, challenging “Iran Reframed is incomparable. “With unforgettable portraits of virtually all the prevailing ortho- A must read on Iran’s media land- gangsters, politicians, hustlers, and doxies about states in their relation scape and paramount for anyone extortionists, this account upends our to societies.” who wants to understand Iran as it notions of democracy and legitimacy.” —Akhil Gupta, really is. Gripping and provocative.” —Milan Vaishnav, University of California, Los Angeles Carnegie Endowment for —Negar Mottahedeh, International Peace 304 pages, 2019 Duke University South Asia in Motion 9781503609037 Cloth $65.00 $52.00 sale 176 pages, 2019 352 pages, 2018 9781503610293 Paper $22.00 $17.60 sale 9781503607316 Paper $30.00 $24.00 sale

Political and Legal Anthropology 15 The Ethics of Staying Village Gone Viral Wild Policy Social Movements and Land Rights Understanding the Spread of Policy Indigeneity and the Unruly Politics in Pakistan Models in a Digital Age Logics of Intervention Mubbashir A. Rizvi Marit Tolo Østebø Tess Lea The military coup that brought In 2001, Ethiopian Television aired This book describes what happens General Pervez Musharraf to power a documentary about a small, rural to Indigenous social policy when it as Pakistan’s tenth president resulted village called Awra Amba, where targets the putatively “wild people” in the abolition of a century-old women ploughed, men worked in of regional and remote Australia. sharecropping system that was the kitchen, and so-called harmful Lea explores policy unplugged, gone rife with corruption. In its place traditional practices did not exist. live, ramifying in everyday life, to the military regime implemented The documentary radically chal- show that it is policies that are wild, a market reform policy of cash lenged prevailing images of Ethiopia not the people being targeted. Lea contract farming. Meant to improve as gender-conservative and argues that wild policies are not living conditions for tenant farmers, aid-dependent, and Awra Amba about undoing the big causes of instead the new system mobilized became a symbol of gender equal- inequality, and do not ameliorate one of the largest, most successful ity and sustainable development in harms terribly well either—without land rights movements in South Ethiopia and beyond. Village Gone yielding all hope. Drawing on Asia—still active today. In The Ethics Viral uses the example of Awra efforts across housing and infra- of Staying, Rizvi presents an original Amba to consider the widespread structure, resistant media-making, framework for understanding this circulation and use of modeling health, governance and land tenure major social movement called the practices, as policy models go “vi- battles, Wild Policy looks at how the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP). ral” in an increasingly transnational logics of intervention are formulat- Rizvi also offers a glimpse of and digital policy world. While a ed and what this reveals in answer Pakistan that challenges its standard policy model may be presented as to the question: why is it all so hard? framing as a hub of radical mili- a “best practice,” the local impacts Lea offers a layered, multi-relational tancy, opening a window into the of the model paradigm are far more approach called policy ecology to everyday struggles of its people. ambivalent, potentially increasing probe “what is to be done?” “Theoretically sophisticated, the book social inequalities. “An extraordinary contribution to represents a milestone in reorienting “Østebø enriches the anthropology the anthropology of policy, settler how we think about state and society of development with new theoretical colonialism, and infrastructural in agrarian Pakistan.” tools and updates it with concepts inequality.” —David Gilmartin, appropriate for the Internet age. —Daniel Fisher, North Carolina State University Highly recommended.” University of California, Berkeley South Asia in Motion —Thomas Hylland Eriksen, 224 pages, 2020 University of Oslo 224 pages, 2019 9781503612662 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale 9781503608764 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 264 pages, February 2021 9781503614529 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

16 Political and Legal ANTHROPOLOGY OF POLICY Anthropology A series edited by CRIS SHORE AND SUSAN WRIGHT The Gray Zone Precarious Hope The Inconvenient Generation Sovereignty, Human Smuggling, Migration and the Limits of Migrant Youth Coming of Age on and Undercover Police Belonging in Turkey Shanghai’s Edge Investigation in Europe Ayşe Parla Minhua Ling Gregory Feldman Precarious Hope explores the After three decades of massive Based on rare, in-depth fieldwork tensions between ethnic privilege rural-to-urban migration in China, among an undercover police inves- and economic vulnerability a burgeoning population of over tigative team working in a southern displayed through the hopefulness 35 million second-generation EU maritime state, Feldman of migrants. Hope is both an act of migrants living in its cities poses examines how “taking action” against dignity and perseverance, as well a challenge to socialist modes of human smuggling rings requires the as a tool of the state, reproducing a population management and urban team to enter the “gray zone”, a space migration regime that categorizes governance. In The Inconvenient where legal and policy prescriptions some as desirable and others as Generation, Ling offers the first do not hold. Feldman asks how this foreign and dispensable. Through longitudinal study of these migrant seven-member team makes ethical the experiences of Bulgaristanlı youth from middle school to the judgments when they secretly migrants residing in Turkey, labor market in the years after the investigate smugglers, traffickers, Precarious Hope speaks to the global Shanghai municipal government migrants, lawyers, shopkeepers, and predicament in which increasing partially opened its public school many others. These gray zones create numbers of people are forced to system to them. Illuminating the opportunities for team members manage both cultivation of hope aspirations and strategies of these both to degrade subjects of investiga- and relentless anxiety within struc- young men and women, Ling tions and to take unnecessary risks tures of inequality. captures their experiences against for them. Feldman explores their “With stunning analytic precision, the backdrop of a reemergent personal experiences and daily work global Shanghai. to crack open wider issues about intellectual grace, and captivating sovereignty, action, ethics, and, ethnography, Ayşe Parla takes on “Beautifully crafted, this is a key debates about precarity and ultimately, being human. poignant story about coming of hope. If the migrant is the quintes- age as ‘liminal subjects.’” “An ethnography of policing unlike sential figure of our anxious times, —Li Zhang, any other. Feldman’s exhilarating, fast- this magnificent book is the essential University of California, Davis paced study of an undercover police guide to thinking more politically team is stitched through and profoundly about her predicament.” 288 pages, 2020 9781503610767 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale with a highly original reflection on —Lila Abu-Lughod, sovereignty, violence, and distance Columbia University between ethos and ethics.” —Mark Maguire, 256 pages, 2019 Maynooth University 9781503609433 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 240 pages, 2019 9781503607651 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

MIGRATION AND DIASPORA 17 Return to Ruin Chinese Senior Migrants Mexican American Fastpitch Iraqi Narratives of Exile and the Globalization Identity at Play in Vernacular Sport and Nostalgia of Retirement Ben Chappell Zainab Saleh Nicole DeJong Newendorp In Mexican American communi- With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, The twenty-first century has seen ties in the central United States, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return growing numbers of seniors turn- the modern tradition of playing one day to a better Iraq, became ing to migration in response to fastpitch softball has been passed uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin newfound challenges to traditional from generation to generation. This tells the human story of this exile. forms of retirement and old-age ethnic sporting practice is kept Focusing on debates among Iraqi support, such as increased longev- alive through annual tournaments, exiles about what it means to be an ity, aging populations, and global the longest running of which were Iraqi after years of displacement, neoliberal trends reducing state founded in the 1940s, when softball Saleh weaves a narrative that draws welfare. Chinese-born migrants was a ubiquitous form of recreation attention to a once-dominant, to the U.S. are an exemplary case, and the so-called “Mexican vibrant Iraqi cultural landscape with 30 percent of all migrants American generation” born to and social and political shifts since 1990 being at least 60 years immigrant parents was coming of among the diaspora after decades old. This book tells the story of age. Carrying on with fastpitch into of authoritarianism, war, and retirees’ pursuit of meaningful the second or third generation of occupation in Iraq. She illuminates retired lifestyles at the social and players even as wider interest in the how Iraqis continue to fashion a economic margins of American sport has waned, these historically sense of belonging and imagine a life, arguing that their experiences Mexican American tournaments future, built on the shards of these demonstrate the significance of age now function as reunions that shattered memories. as a fundamental mediating factor allow people to maintain ties to a shared past, and to remember “Powerful and heartbreaking, in how migration is experienced. the decades of segregation when Return to Ruin is a must-read for “Though centered in Boston’s all who are interested in the fraught Mexican Americans’ citizenship Chinatown, Newendorp skillfully was unfairly questioned. In this relationships between colonial dura- contextualizes the migration stories bility and political action.” of Cantonese seniors within broader multi-sited ethnography, Chappell —Deborah A. Thomas, historical trajectories of pre- and situates the sport within a history University of Pennsylvania post-1949 Cantonese transnational marked by migration, marginaliza- 280 pages, 2020 migration, as she speaks to the tion, and struggle, through which 9781503614116 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale broader phenomenon of the Mexican Americans have navigated ‘globalization of retirement.’” complex negotiations of cultural, —Andrea Louie, national, and local identities. Michigan State University 232 pages, 2020 232 pages, July 2021 9781503613881 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503628595 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale

18 MIGRATION AND DIASPORA Migranthood Borders of Belonging Court of Injustice Youth in a New Era of Deportation Struggle and Solidarity in Mixed- Law Without Recognition in Lauren Heidbrink Status Immigrant Families U.S. Immigration Migranthood chronicles deportation Heide Castañeda J.C. Salyer from the perspectives of Indigenous Borders of Belonging investigates Court of Injustice reveals how im- youth who migrate unaccompanied the impact of U.S. immigration migration lawyers work to achieve from Guatemala to Mexico and policies and practices not only on just results for their clients in a the U.S. In communities of origin, undocumented migrants, but also system that has long denigrated zones of transit in Mexico, detention on their family members, some of the rights of those they serve. centers in the U.S., government whom possess a form of legal status. Salyer’s ethnography specifically facilities receiving returned Castañeda reveals the trauma, investigates immigration enforce- children in Guatemala, and com- distress, and inequalities that occur ment in New York City, following munities of return, young people daily, alongside the stratification of individual migrants, their lawyers, share how they negotiate everyday particular family members’ access and the NGOs that serve them violence and discrimination, how to resources. She paints a vivid into the immigration courtrooms they and their families prioritize picture of the resilience, resistance, that decide their cases. Combining limited resources and make difficult and solidarity between parents and anthropological and legal analysis, decisions, and how young people children, siblings, and other kin. Salyer demonstrates the economic, develop and sustain relationships Castañeda’s innovative ethnography historical, political, and social over time and space. Heidbrink combines fieldwork with individu- elements that go into constructing uncovers the transnational effects als and family groups to present a inequity under law for millions of of the securitized responses to portentous vision of how the fur- non-citizens who live and work migration management and ther encroachment of immigration in the U.S. Salyer provides a new development on individuals and enforcement would affect millions perspective to the study of migra- families, across space, citizenship of mixed-status families. tion by focusing specifically on the status, and generation. “Through the use of compassionate laws, courts, and people involved in “A must-read for anyone who personal narratives, Castañeda U.S. immigration law. cares about migrant youth, and humanizes the anguish and “This book is a unique, essential, ur- a wake-up call for policymakers resilience of the book’s protagonists. gent read for anyone who cares about recycling failed immigration and An essential and engrossing read.” immigration and immigrants today.” development policies.” —Susan Bibler Coutin, —Cecilia Menjívar, —Victoria Sanford, University of California, Irvine University of California, Los Angeles City University of New York 280 pages, 2019 216 pages, 2020 240 pages, 2020 9781503607910 Paper $28.00 $22.40 sale 9781503612488 Paper $26.00 $20.80 sale 9781503612075 Paper $25.00 $20.00 sale

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