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.

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

Building on three decades of comparative research on marginality, ethnicity, and penality in the postindustrial metropolis, Loïc Wacquant's Bourdieu in the City: Challenging Urban Theory (2023) offers a novel interpretation of Pierre Bourdieu as urban theorist. He invites us to explore the city through what he calls the trialectic of symbolic space (the mental categories through which we perceive and organize the world), social space (the distribution of capital in its different forms), and physical space (the built environment). Clément Rivière interviews Loïc Wacquant on thinking the urban with Bourdieu.

Laleh Khalili's latest manuscript, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (2024), gives breath to the complex and hidden life of seafaring. Khalili provides a vivid account of the lives of seafarers who power the vast global trade network, typically hidden from land-based consumers. The researcher embarked on two voyages, twenty months apart, aboard different CMA CGM ships travelling from Malta to Jabal Ali, Dubai. Using a mix of ethnographic notes, photographs, interviews, and archival materials, Khalili reveals the living conditions aboard these cargo ships.

What is it about this conjuncture that makes the unprecedented use of force with which UC Berkeley reclaimed People’s Park acceptable and even desirable for so many? We examine the pressures and opportunities, strategies for winning consent, and counter-hegemonic tactics at different scales.

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.