Refugee response planners no longer frame Syrian refugees merely as objects of
humanitarian care. Increasingly they are portrayed as enterprising subjects, whose formal …

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman
period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests …

Egyptians often say that bread is life; most eat this staple multiple times a day, many relying
on the cheap bread subsidized by the government. In Staple Security, Jessica Barnes …

This paper examines bakeries and checkpoints through their relationship to the state and
connects considerations of affect with the burgeoning literature on infrastructure. Drawing on …

The potential for renewable energy to encourage sustainable development raises high
hopes for the future among countries in the Global South. However, there has been less …

Does overseas development aid necessarily translate into more generous national policies
for refugees? Evidence from Jordan suggests that this is not always the case. Since the …

This paper explores the passionate attachments that underpin subjection to political
authority. It does so through an examination of the ways residents of the Jordanian city of Ma …

This article analyzes the microprocesses that imbue bread with meaning and the
macropolitics that shape its subsidized provision. It begins by outlining bread's multiple …

Feminist scholarship has demonstrated that 'womenandchildren'become the central and
uncontroversial objects of humanitarian care and control in contexts of conflict, disaster, and …

This article seeks to question the epistemological monopoly of territory and scale in
analyses of the Syrian conflict. It does so to both challenge static conceptualisations of …