Powerful forces during the tumultuous last quarter of the twentieth century buffeted states,
leading to widespread, transformative crises in them. From members of the European Union …

City Life from Jakarta to Dakar focuses on the politics incumbent to this process–an"
anticipatory politics"–that encompasses a wide range of practices, calculations and …

The global triumph of capitalism at the millennium, its Second Coming, raises a number of
conundrums for our understanding of history at the end of the century. Some of its corollaries …

Since the end of the cold war, Africa has seen a dramatic rise in new political and religious
phenomena, including an eviscerated privatized state, neoliberal NGOs, Pentecostalism, a …

“Deborah A. Thomas's Exceptional Violence is at once methodologically astute, richly
researched, and critically engaged. In reframing the historical object of violence in Jamaica …

Among government officials, urban planners, and development workers, Africa's burgeoning
metropolises are frequently understood as failed cities, unable to provide even basic …

In this provocative and compelling examination of the deep politics of war, Carolyn
Nordstrom takes us from the immediacy of war-zone survival, through the offices of power …

The Bengal Borderland constitutes the epicentre of the partition of British India. Yet while the
forging of international borders between India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Burma (the'Bengal …

African history reveals the inadequacy of the concept of globalization. In contrasting a
present of flows with a past of structures, it misreads the ways in which a 400‐year‐long …

This paper examines the predicament of the postcolonial nation-state through the prism of
environmental catastrophe. When are plant'invaders' likely to become an urgent political …