Although immigration and immigrant populations have become increasingly important foci in
public health research and practice, a social determinants of health approach has seldom …

This review examines precarity through two foci. First, I focus on related terms of the
lumpenproletariat and informal economy, each of which have left their mark on the notion of …

How do colonial histories matter to the urgencies and conditions of our current world? How
have those histories so often been rendered as leftovers, as" legacies" of a dead past rather …

How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to
put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new …

Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education reveals how neoliberal policies, practices, and
modes of material and symbolic violence have radically reshaped the mission and practice …

And so, one dream summoning another, we walked out into the bay, sitting for a while on a
stranded boulder and then getting up quickly to move closer to the shore when the incoming …

This paper examines the social life and sociality of urban infrastructure. Drawing on a case
study of land occupations and informal settlements in the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil …

In Decolonizing Extinction Juno Salazar Parreñas ethnographically traces the ways in which
colonialism, decolonization, and indigeneity shape relations that form more-than-human …

In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention
from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to …

In the 1980s, anthropology set aside a focus on societies defined as radically 'other'to the
anthropologists' own. There was little consensus at the time, however, about who might …