Applied linguistics is a field concerned with issues pertaining to language (s) and literacies
in the real world and with the people who learn, speak, write, process, translate, test, teach …

This article offers an overview of the field of mobilities research, tracing the theoretical
antecedents to the study of mobilities both within the classical sociological tradition and at its …

Intersectionality as Critical Social Theory (Duke University Press, 2019, henceforth IACST)
investigates how knowledge has been essential for resisting political domination. Whether …

In this article I consider several emergent trends in anthropology since the 1980s against a
backdrop of the rise of neoliberalism as both an economic and a governmental formation. I …

Can entrepreneurs develop a nation, serve the poor, and pursue creative freedom, all while
generating economic value? In Chasing Innovation, Lilly Irani shows the contradictions that …

This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding
space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield …

La neblina y la tierra, la violencia y la magia han rodeado el trazado y la institucionalización
de las fronteras desde fines de la antigüedad. Diversas fuentes provenientes de distintas …

In Disaffected Xine Yao explores the racial and sexual politics of unfeeling—affects that are
not recognized as feeling—as a means of survival and refusal in nineteenth-century …

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project—US oil
companies working off the shores of Equatorial Guinea—and a sweeping theorization of …

Debates about the role and nature of the state are at the heart of modern politics. However,
the state itself remains notoriously difficult to define, and the term is subject to a range of …