Articles

Ruins for the future
Critical allegory and disaster governance in post-tsunami Japan
by ANDREW LITTLEJOHN

Spectral kinship
Understanding how Vietnamese women endure domestic distress
by TINE M. GAMMELTOFT

Aging in digital
Simulation and succession in Canadian forestry research
by TOM ÖZDEN-SCHILLING

Making noise in urban Taiwan
Decibels, the state, and sono-sociality
by JENNIFER C. HSIEH

Violent masculinities
Gendered dynamics of policing in Rio de Janeiro
by TOMAS SALEM and ERIKA ROBB LARKINS

Electrosonic statecraft
Technology, authority, and latency on Moroccan Qur’ānic radio
by IAN VANDERMEULEN

Love as understanding
Marriage, aspiration, and the joint family in middle-class Pakistan
by AMMARA MAQSOOD

“Objectivity” as a bureaucratic virtue
Cultivating unemotionality in an Israeli medical committee
by YAEL ASSOR

Book Reviews

The Value of Aesthetics: Oaxacan Woodcarvers in Global Economies of Culture
by Alanna Cant • reviewed by JEFFREY H. COHEN

Practicing Caste: On Touching and Not Touching
by Aniket Jaaware • reviewed by BARBARA G. HOFFMAN

The Rule of Violence: Subjectivity, Memory and Government in Syria
by Salwa Ismail • reviewed by ELLEN R. JUDD

Privilege at Play: Class, Race, Gender, and Golf in Mexico
by Hugo Cerón-Anaya • reviewed by CARMEN MARTÍNEZ NOVO

Navigating Miscarriage: Social, Medical and Conceptual Perspectives
by Susie Kilshaw and Katie Borg • reviewed by EMILY METZNER

A War on People: Drug User Politics and a New Ethics of Community
by Jarrett Zigon • reviewed by MATTHEW NESVET

Hunted: Predation and Pentecostalism in Guatemala
by Kevin Lewis O’Neill • reviewed by KAREN PONCIANO

Separated: Family and Community in the Aftermath of an Immigration Raid
by William D. Lopez • reviewed by PATRICIA SILVER

Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
by Péter Berta • reviewed by ANDRIA D. TIMMER

No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics
by Ruben Andersson • reviewed by THOMAS M. WILSON

Porkopolis: American Animality, Standardized Life, and the Factory Farm
by Alex Blanchette • reviewed by JON WOLSETH

Volume 48 | Issue 1 | February 2021