Articles

FORUM: HUMANITARIAN REASON AT ITS LIMITS

“Strange” affinities: Iṣlāḥ and British Muslim volunteers in the Syrian war
Muneeza Rizvi

An imperial meantime: The invisible violence of a humanitarian peace in Western Sahara
Vivian Solana

On the humanitarian horizon
Peter Redfield

Man\power and violence at the thresholds of humanitarian and anthropological reason
Adia Benton

Anthropological humanitarianism
Philip Fountain

Humanitarian contradictions
Antonio De Lauri

RESEARCH ARTICLES

Hypeful worlds: Putting the brakes on critique in Tanzanian technoscience
Tom Neumark

Productive leisure on the farm: The experimental ethics of agriculture among India’s techie farmers
Camille Fraizer

Creating value for objects-in-waiting: Valuating and decolonizing art in Mumbai
Olga Kanzaki Sooudi

Egg providers in eGoli: Operability and aspiration in South African fertility markets
Tessa Moll

“Magical math hand-waving”: The coloniality of political risk forecasting
Jon Schubert

The king of martyrs: Poetic parallelism and postcolonial publics in Oran, Algeria
Stephanie V. Love

Editorial

Editor’s Note: Humanitarian reason at its limits
Jesse Hession Grayman

BOOK REVIEWS

Rights refused: Grassroots activism and state violence in Myanmar By Elliott Prasse-Freeman. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 366 pp.
Geoffrey Rathgeb Aung

Fighting to breathe: Race, toxicity, and the rise of youth activism in Baltimore By Nicole Fabricant. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 266 pp.
Joseph O. Baker

Creating a shared moral community: The building of a mosque congregation in London By Judy Shuttleworth. London: Routledge, 2023. 190 pp.
John R. Bowen

Remembering the tatas: Domestic women and slavery in Tetouan (19th–20th centuries) By Josep Lluís Mateo Dieste. Leiden: Brill, 2024. 444 pp.
Marta Domínguez Díaz

Revolution of things: The Islamism and post-Islamism of objects in Tehran By Kusha Sefat. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 184 pp.
Alireza Doostdar

Predatory economies: The Sanema and the socialist state in contemporary Amazonia By Amy Penfield. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 248 pp.
Amelia Fiske

The trauma mantras: A memoir of prose poems By Adrie Kusserow. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 176 pp.
Karen Coen Flynn,  Donald W. Goodrich

Nuclear ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima’s gray zone By Ryo Morimoto. Oakland: University California of Press, 2023. 356 pp.
Tomoki Fukui

Indifference: On the praxis of interspecies being By Naisargi Davé. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 208 pp.
Susan Haris

The work of repair: Capacity after colonialism in the timber plantations of South Africa By Thomas Cousins. New York: Fordham University Press, 2023. 314 pp.
Agata A. Konczal

Building socialism: The afterlife of East German architecture in urban Vietnam By Christina Schwenkel. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 432 pp.
Sandra Kurfürst

A witch’s hand: Curing, killing, kinship, and colonialism among the Lujere of New Guinea By William E. Mitchell. Chicago: Hau Books, 2024. 567 pp.
David Lipset

Peasant politics of the twenty-first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc Edelman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 356 pp.
Walter E. Little

Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By Viola Thimm. London: UCL Press, 2023. 287 pp.
Mirjam Lücking

Involuntary consent: The illusion of choice in Japan’s adult video industry By Akiko Takeyama. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 252 pp.
Robert C. Marshall

The fluvial imagination: On Lesotho’s water-export economy By Colin Hoag. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. 224 pp.
Emily McKee

Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. Lyons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 218 pp.
Meghan L. Morris

The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp.
Jill Morrison

The border within: Vietnamese migrants transforming ethnic nationalism in Berlin By Phi Hong Su. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 216 pp.
Stan Nadel

If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.
Rebecca Warne Peters

Revolution squared: Tahrir, political possibilities, and counterrevolution in Egypt By Atef Shahat Said. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 360 pp.
Dena Qaddumi

For Putin and for Sharia: Dagestani Muslims and the Islamic State By Iwona Kaliszewska. Translated by Arthur Barys. Ithaca, NY: Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023. 168 pp.
Jean-François Ratelle

Futures after progress: Hope and doubt in late industrial Baltimore By Chloe Ahmann. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2024. 366 pp.
Joshua O. Reno

Quinoa: Food politics and agrarian life in the Andean highlands By Linda Seligmann. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2023. 201 pp.
Guillermo Salas Carreño

Ageing with smartphones in urban China: From the cultural to the digital revolution in Shanghai By Xinyuan Wang. London: UCL Press, 2023. 291 pp.
Xinru Sun

A thousand steps to parliament: Constructing electable women in Mongolia By Manduhai Buyandelger. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022. 288 pp.
Baasanjav Terbish

The made-up state: Technology, trans femininity, and citizenship in Indonesia By Benjamin Hegarty. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022. 198 pp.
Ferdiansyah Thajib