This essay principally meditates on the scholarship published by sociocultural
anthropologists in 2019. In 2019, the field of anthropology confronted anthropogenic climate …

Active chemicals are among the contaminants of emerging concern that are rarely covered
in regulatory documents in sub-Saharan Africa. These substances are neither in the list of …

This review presents new perspectives on the anthropology of bureaucracy. Since Weber's
account of the importance of this organizational mode to the functioning of contemporary …

In Plantation Life Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi examine the structure and governance
of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of …

Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with
resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of …

As the new century unfolds, humans are increasingly surrounded by multiple and expanding
wave fronts of calculation. What remains of the human subject in an age when instrumental …

This article examines hidden costs of three prominent mineral supply chain 'solutions' that
respectively aim to create 'conflict-free'minerals, curtail corruption, and reduce mercury …

This special issue considers the relationship between energy, capitalism, and space through
the lens of electricity capital. Electricity capital is the nexus of state, regulatory, and financial …

Infrastructure is often thought of in big material terms: dams, buildings, roads, and so on.
This study, instead, draws on literatures in anthropology and the social sciences to analyse …

Work requirements backed by threats of incarceration offer a fertile but neglected site for
sociolegal inquiry. These “carceral work mandates” confound familiar accounts of both the …