Citizenship has become a major topic in anthropology and the study of language (including
sociolinguistics) since the early 1990s, with scholars in these fields especially examining the …

Following pro-market policies, the Peruvian state has aimed to regulate profitable fisheries
and aquaculture activities in order to increase their production. However, informal and illegal …

This review outlines an emerging agenda for ethnographic interpretation of the rule of law.
From a survey of studies done on the rule of law in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas …

Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political
alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of …

This article analyses the Peruvian government's quest to formalize small‐scale mining in the
Amazon as a political process which shows how state governance problems are reproduced …

Through a critical comparison of the spatial management of street vending in Ciudad del
Este, Paraguay and New York City, USA, we show how uncertainty enables the …

This article aims to consider conceptions of the Brazilian conditional cash transfer Bolsa
Família Program as elaborated by both those responsible for its implementation and its …

High commodity prices have led to the proliferation of informal gold mining in the Andes.
Despite their limited financial capacity, informal gold miners have proved capable of …

Gig Economy platforms such as Uber, Ola, Zomato among others have proliferated across
urban centres of the world and transformed the ways in which people access mobility, food …

Water for All chronicles how Bolivians democratized water access, focusing on the
Cochabamba region, which is known for acute water scarcity and explosive water protests …