2021

Bainton, A., McDougall, D. and Alexeyeff, K. (eds.,). Unequal Lives: Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific. Australian National University Press, 2021.

This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now ranks among the greatest challenges of our time. The inspiration for this volume derives from the breadth and depth of Martha Macintyre’s remarkable scholarship. The contributors celebrate Macintyre’s groundbreaking work, which exemplifies the explanatory power, ethical force and pragmatism that ensures the relevance of anthropological research to the lives of others and to understanding the global condition. More information...

Dawson, Andrew. “Driving into the nation-state: Driving, roads, and selfhood in a post-socialist milieu,” in Dundon, Alison and Vokes, Richard (eds.,). Shifting states: New perspectives on security, infrastructure, and political affect. Routledge – Taylor & Francis, 2021.

Shifting States draws on a rich history of anthropological theorising on all kinds of states – from the pre- to the post- industrial – and explores topics as diverse as bureaucracy, infrastructure, surveillance, securitisation, and public health... Based on ethnographic case studies from all over the world, this timely volume forges new ways of thinking about how state power manifests, and is imagined, and about the effects it has on ordinary people’s lives. More information…

Djohar, Zubaidah and Wolf, Lesley. “Intergenerational feminist peace: global research and a case study from Aceh, Indonesia,” in Väyrynen, Tarja et al (eds.,). Routledge Handbook of Feminist Peace Research. Routledge, 2021.

The volume argues that critical feminist thinking is necessary to analyse core peace and conflict issues and is fundamental to thinking about solutions to global problems and promoting peaceful conflict transformation. Contributions to the volume consider questions at the intersection of feminism, gender, peace, justice, and violence through interdisciplinary perspectives. The handbook engages with multiple feminisms, diverse policy concerns, and works with diverse theoretical and methodological contributions. More information…