Over the past three decades humanitarianism has broadened considerably in scope.
Humanitarian aid agencies have increasingly moved beyond a traditionally narrow concern …

In early 2016, the Gambia experienced an unexpected political transition when the long-
term autocrat Yahya Jammeh left the country and was replaced with a democratically …

This chapter examines the history of small arms control. Although the modern small arms
control dates to the 1990s, the chapter traces the underlying notions of humanitarianism and …

Since 2014, local and regional state administrators in Senegal have negotiated a
controversial zircon and titanium sands mining venture in villages of the Casamance region …

As of the date of this writing (September 3, 2023), there have been almost 13,000 gun
killings in the United States this year, plus another 16,000 suicides and more than 25,000 …

This chapter examines what gun control means in The Gambia and elsewhere. Using the
notion of the “suture,” the chapter shows how shortcomings in gun control are seen as an …

Hultin uses international small arms control and its manifestation in the Gambia to describe
how anthropologists have focused on the ways local contexts problematize or transcend …

The international small arms control regime places the state at its center. It defines a solid
legal regime and state capacity for control as the main solution to illicit small arms and …

Although Tunisia has been celebrated as the unique success story of the Arab Spring, its
emergent democracy has failed to resolve the structural inequalities that caused the 2011 …

As we have seen in the chapters throughout this book, the intimacy of everyday lives—
experienced through personal sentiments, individual bodies, and family relationship—plays …