The spread of the principles and techniques of financial accounting into new systems for
measuring, ranking, and auditing performance represents one of the most important and …

" They Leave Their Kidneys in the Fields takes the reader on an ethnographic tour of the
melon and corn harvesting fields in California's Central Valley to understand why …

Law and regulation increasingly interact with science, technology, and medicine in
contemporary society. Law and social science (LSS) analyses can therefore benefit from …

Contemporary definitions of trauma and their application remain controversial within
anthropology. A survivor's awareness of a parallel, incompatible world of atrocity is …

This book offers a provocative retelling of Palestinian political history through an
examination of the international commissions that have investigated political violence and …

One of the most ambitious legacies of the 20th century was the universal commitment to
ensure freedom from want as a human right. But to what extent are countries across the …

ABSTRACT When Costa Rican regulators set water rates, they effectively transform the
human right to water into a price. I propose the notion of a “calculation grammar” to grasp the …

Border walls permeate our world, with more than thirty nation-states constructing them.
Anthropologists Margaret E. Dorsey and Miguel Díaz-Barriga argue that border wall …

The massacres that spread across Algeria in 1997 and 1998 shocked the world, both in their
horror and in the international community's failure to respond. In the years following, the …

While the distinction between civilians and combatants is fundamental to international law, it
is contested and complicated in practice. How do North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) …