This article by Meredith Alberta Palmer examines the politics of race, indigeneity, and landscape in US American enactments of property in the homelands of the Haudenosaunee.

This article by Joseph F Getzoff examines current manifestations of Zionist political-economy by analyzing discourses that frame Israel as a “Start-Up Nation”—that is, a unique economic achievement that offers a successful business model for the world.

In this article, Annie M Elledge and Caroline Faria attend to the powerful role of beauty labor, norms, and practices in national development through the Miss Tourism Uganda beauty pageant.

José Ciro Martínez and Omar Sirri's paper examines bakeries and checkpoints through their relationship to the state and connects considerations of affect with the burgeoning literature on infrastructure.

Martina Tazzioli and Nicholas De Genova's article identifies and analyses the tactic of kidnapping migrants that is increasingly deployed by states to disrupt, decelerate, and block migrants’ mobility.

Drawing on ethnographic research, Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen's paper demonstrates how Morocco's new migration policy expanded rather than dismantled the border regime, respatializing it from the edges of Moroccan territory into cities in the interior.

Nina Sahraoui's article uncovers how medical humanitarianism, enmeshed in the border regime, yields gendered constraints from practices of immobilisation to imposed practices of mothering.

Through an in-depth account of the struggle, Joe Penny's paper tells a story of the London Borough of Lambeth's nine-day occupation of Carnegie Library and presents how austerity measures are downloaded and rolled-out, as well as experienced and resisted in everyday and undecided ways.

In this paper, Jen Jack Gieseking writes that, like stars in the sky, contemporary urban lesbians and queers often create and rely on fragmented and fleeting experiences in lesbian–queer places, evoking patterns based on generational, racialized, and classed identities.