"Education, Conflict and Development" is a timely collection of essays that investigate, through different case studies, the changing contours of international work around the need for the delivery of education in conflict and post-conflict situations. In her new volume Paulson has attracted contributions from an impressive array of authors with a background mainly in Education.

This edited collection comprises mostly non-Anglophone contributions by social anthropologists, historians, scientists, area experts, and practitioners in European and Mediterranean institutions. This valuable and well-written series of urban ethnographies reflects on cases of urban contention all around the Mediterranean, including disputes over metropolitan development and environmentalism, community relations, and ethno-religious conflict.

While Chen’s experience and scholarship were formed through his participation in the Taiwanese democracy movement, his work speaks also to cognate events such as the Korean June Democratic Uprising of 1987, Tiananmen Square movement in China, People’s Power in the Philippines. These and other events have shaped contemporary Asia and have attempted to address interconnected and overlapping global power relations.

A very unusual thing happened on February 12th in Athens: the Greek capital city went up in flames. This commentary attempts to explain how the concentration of collective violence in Athens emerged and how this “violence equilibrium” that it created was interlaced with the post-dictatorial regime as a whole.

Simon Reid-Henry’s "The Cuban Cure: Reason and Resistance in Global Science" offers an important counter-history of biotechnology in Cuba which points to the field’s multiplicity and heterogeneity. Drawing on a combination of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research, Reid-Henry provides an empirically detailed analysis of Cuban biotechnology from the 1980s through the mid-2000s.