David L. Eng’s beautifully presented and compellingly argued "The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy" creatively retheorizes kinship and intimacy by rerouting such practices as same-sex domesticity and transnational adoption through the histories of capital, diaspora, and empire.

Tolia-Kelly provides a detailed account of her methodological approach that calls for grounding theory through participatory action research that seeks to enable the voices of South Asian migrant women.

Cold War geographies birthed and nursed their own intricate conundra. So how was the dichotomous spatial complexity of that time and place – especially place – organized into existence?

This is an elegant, beautifully written book that is a must-read for anyone doing or writing an ethnography, those interested in national cultures and cosmopolitanism, specialists in Japanese and Filipino studies, and those with interests in transnational feminism and migration.

By the end of Vibrant Matter, Bennett succeeds in showing readers that "vitality" has been a focus of European thought for over 2000 years, starting with the ancient Greeks, re-emerging during the early Enlightenment period, and re-surfacing again at the turn of the 20th century. Her book is very much a reflection of, and contributory to, the latest resurgence.