2018

de Solier, Isabelle. “Tasting the Digital: New Food Media,” in Lebesco, Kathleen and Naccarato, Peter (eds.,) The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture. Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.

The influence of food has grown rapidly as it has become more and more intertwined with popular culture in recent decades. The Bloomsbury Handbook of Food and Popular Culture offers an authoritative, comprehensive overview of and introduction to this growing field of research. Bringing together over 20 original essays from leading experts, including Amy Bentley, Deborah Lupton, Fabio Parasecoli, and Isabelle de Solier, its impressive breadth and depth serves to define the field of food and popular culture. More information...

Mustapha, Abdul Raufu, Ehrhardt, David and Diprose, Rachael. “Historical Contexts of Muslim-Christian Encounters in Northern Nigeria,” in Mustapha, Abdul Raufu and Ehrhardt, David (eds.,). Creed & Grievance: Muslim-Christian Relations and Conflict Resolution in Northern Nigeria. Boydell & Brewer, 2018.

Refuting a “clash of civilizations” between Muslims and Christians, the authors of this new study highlight the multiplicity of Muslim and Christian groups contending for influence and relevance, and the doctrinal, political and historical drivers of conflict and violence between and within them. They analyse three of the most contentious issues: the conflicts in Jos; the Boko Haram insurgency; and the challenges of legal pluralism posed by the declaration of full Sharia law in 12 Muslim majority states. More information...

Fernandez, Bina. “Queer Border Crossers: Pragmatic Complicities, Indiscretions and Subversions,” in Otto, Diane (ed.,). Queering International Law: Possibilities, Alliances, Complicities. Routledge, 2018.

This ground-breaking collection reflects the growing momentum of interest in the international legal community in meshing the insights of queer legal theory with those critical theories that have a much longer genealogy - notably postcolonial and feminist analyses... The contributors to the book use queer legal theory to critically analyse the basic tenets and operations of international law, with many surprising, thought-provoking and instructive results. More information...

Fitz-Henry, Erin. “Domesticating the U.S. Air Force: The Challenges of Anti-Military Activism in Manta, Ecuador,” in McGranahan, Carole and Collins, John F. (eds.,). Ethnographies of U.S. Empire. Duke University Press, 2018.

From the Mohawk Nation, Korea, and the Philippines to Iraq and the hills of New Jersey, the contributors show how a methodological and theoretical commitment to ethnography sharpens all of our understandings of the novel and timeworn ways people live, thrive, and resist in the imperial present. More information...