Book Review Archive

Master Plans & Minor Acts: Review

Hudani demonstrates the importance of theorizing repair, enabling us to spatialize a Levinasian ethics of the neighbor, in the aftermath of traumatic events ranging from mass killings to large-scale dispossession.

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Zachary Levenson

The Right to Be Counted: Review

The Right to Be Counted offers a compelling analysis of citizenship struggles of the urban poor in contemporary times.

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Paroj Banerjee

Violent Inheritance Book Review

E Cram's Violent Inheritance mobilizes a network of energy grammars and analytics to argue for another story of sexual modernity, one that accounts for the body as ecological and administered by, and producing in turn, racial and sexualized value in the North American West.

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KT Thompson

Phenom Penh's Bassac District: Genealogy of Bassac Review

Although focused on buildings that have since been destroyed, the tone of this genealogy is not mournful. It instead is generative, revealing the creative outputs that have emerged and continue to shape this district. It demonstrates how architecture transforms and is transformed by a range of living and nonliving agents.

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Trude Renwick

Liberation, Solidarity, Abundance: Envisioning Hawaiʻi Beyond the GMO Present

Seeds of Occupation, Seeds of Possibility by Andrea Noelani Brower offers a powerful critique of Hawaiʻi's GMO industry that gives us a roadmap for liberation, solidarity, and abundance in the face of corporate dominance.

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Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart

Black Disability Politics Book Review

Black Disability Politics is a critical intervention in a field that remains tethered to white ways of knowing and being.

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Jenn M. Jackson

Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City Review

Byler finds that what’s going on in Xinjiang is not only violation of rights, nor simply authoritarianism, racism or Islamophobia, but rather the production and conquering of a new, colonial frontier of ethno-racialized global capitalism.

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Emma Loizeaux

Driving Forces: Arc of the Journeyman review

Arc of the Journeyman, by Nichola Khan, explores motile logics and Afghan migrant subjectivities. This book will appeal to those with an interest in life, language, and representation; theory as practice; style as substance; suffering as compound (not cumulative); and histories as recursive.

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Andrew M. Jefferson

Confinement, containment, and expansion: The Common Camp, a review

By focusing on Israel-Palestine, Irit Katz’s The Common Camp offers a sophisticated analysis of how camps are used not only for confining and containing undesirables but also for expansion and protection of settler populations in colonial contexts.

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Gaja Maestri

Cooling the Tropics Review

In Hi'ilei Hobart's sparkling debut manuscript Cooling the Tropics, she offers a critical and unique re-reading of ice as a comestible in Hawai'i and how it intersects with spatial, anticolonial, and imperial politics of cold and temperature.

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Jen Rose Smith