Political & Economic Anthropology Books

New and Published Books

1. Counterinsurgency, Democracy, and the Politics of Identity in India

   From Warfare to Welfare?

   By Mona Bhan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series

   The rhetoric of armed social welfare has become prominent in military and counterinsurgency circuits with profound consequences for the meanings of democracy, citizenship, and humanitarianism in conflict zones. By focusing on the border district of Kargil, the site of India and Pakistan’s fourth...

   Published September 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. Critical Border Studies

   Broadening and Deepening the 'Lines in the Sand' Agenda

   Edited by Noel Parker, Nick Vaughan-Williams

   This edited collection formalises Critical Border Studies (CBS) as a distinctive approach within the interdisciplinary border studies literature. Although CBS represents a heterogeneous assemblage of thought, the hallmark of the approach is a basic dissatisfaction with the ‘Line in the Sand’...

   Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
3. Times of Security

   Ethnographies of Fear, Protest and the Future

   Edited by Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen

   Series: Routledge Studies in Anthropology

   In the current world disorder, security is on everyone’s lips. But what is security from a cross-cultural perspective? How is it imagined and experienced by people on the ground? Crucially, what visions of the future are at stake in people’s potentially divergent concerns with security: what, and...

   Published August 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Margins of Citizenship

   Edited by Philip Cook, Jonathan Seglow

   Citizenship is a central concept in political philosophy, bridging theory and practice and marking out those who belong and who share a common civic status. The injustices suffered by immigrants, disabled people, the economically inactive and others have been extensively catalogued, but their...

   Published August 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. Development and Environmental Politics Unmasked

   Authority, Participation and Equity in East Timor

   By Christopher Shepherd

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Focusing on rural development and environmental management, this book brings together the detailed history of development in East Timor under two colonial regimes and under the contemporary conditions of national independence. It addresses two comparative areas of development: across the three...

   Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. Violence, Torture and Memory in Sri Lanka

   Life after Terror

   By Dhana Hughes

   Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series

   Drawing on original ethnographic field-research conducted primarily with former guerrilla insurgents in southern and central Sri Lanka, this book analyses the memories and narratives of people who have perpetrated political violence. It explores how violence is negotiated and lived with in the...

   Published July 22nd 2013 by Routledge
7. Post-identity?

   Culture and European Integration

   Edited by Richard McMahon

   Series: Routledge/ESA Studies in European Societies

   Collective identity, the emotionally powerful sense of belonging to a group, is a crucial source of popular legitimacy for nations. However efforts since the 1990s to politically support European integration by using identity mechanisms borrowed from nationalism have had very limited success....

   Published June 12th 2013 by Routledge
8. Language in Late Capitalism

   Pride and Profit

   Edited by Alexandre Duchêne, Monica Heller

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

   This book examines the ways in which our ideas about language and identity which used to be framed in national and political terms as a matter of rights and citizenship are increasingly recast in economic terms as a matter of added value. It argues that this discursive shift is connected to...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
9. Migration in the 21st Century

   Political Economy and Ethnography

   Edited by Pauline Gardiner Barber, Winnie Lem

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This edited collection focuses on global migration in its inter-regional, international and transnational variants, and argues that contemporary migration scholarship is significantly advanced both within anthropology and beyond it when ethnography is theoretically engaged to grapple with the...

   Published May 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. The Modern Anthropology of India

    Ethnography, Themes and Theory

    Edited by Peter Berger, Frank Heidemann

    The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It...

    Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge