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Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Journal of Global South Studies.daily12026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 32 (2015) through current issueLatest Articles: Journal of Global South StudiesTWOProject MUSE®Journal of Global South Studies2476-14192476-1397Latest articles in Journal of Global South Studies. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Foreword
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973226
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After six and a half years at the helm, this issue of the Journal of Global South Studies will be my last. It has been a pleasure and an honor to serve as editor, and I depart on fond terms. I want to thank the many people who have contributed to the journal—associate editors, the book review editor, copy editors, journal managers, authors, manuscript readers, and book reviewers—one last time. I also look forward to aiding in the transition to the next editor, who will be announced at the October conference of the Association of Global South Studies in Mérida, Mexico.The five articles contained in this issue cover a wide range of geographic and topical areas. These include the following: a consideration of scale in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallForeword2025-11-13text/htmlen-USForeword2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®62892026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13A Shot in the Arm or a Shot in the Foot?
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973227
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There is one story from 2012, my lone season on the bewildering ride known as the academic job market, that has stuck with me through the years. I was being interviewed by the faculty at a place we’ll call the University of X, doing what most recently minted PhDs desperate for a tenure-track placement do: overselling my underbaked-dissertation-soon-to-be-greatest-book-ever-written. In this instance, I was making the case that the book would have mass-market appeal beyond the halls of academia (spoiler alert: it did not), when one of the more seasoned faculty members (we’ll call him Professor X) interrupted me to ask this: Why do historians feel the need to demonstrate that their work will have popular appeal? I’m
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallA Shot in the Arm or a Shot in the Foot?2025-11-13text/htmlen-USA Shot in the Arm or a Shot in the Foot?2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®102332026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13A Life of Dedication to Others in the Most Need: Gary Kline 1950–2024
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973228
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Dr. William Gary Kline, a scholar of uncompromising dedication, passed away on July 30, 2024, at Baptist Memorial Hospital–Golden Triangle in Columbus, Mississippi. He was seventy-three years old. His career, spanning decades of teaching, research, and service, left an indelible mark on our organization and the field of Global South studies. Known for his intellectual rigor, his commitment to justice, and his mentorship of students and colleagues alike, Gary shaped the academics of Georgia Southwestern State University and the broader Global South scholarly community.Born on September 6, 1950, in Waco, Texas, Gary embarked on a life of inquiry that would carry him from the halls of the University of Texas at
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallA Life of Dedication to Others in the Most Need: Gary Kline 1950–20242025-11-13text/htmlen-USA Life of Dedication to Others in the Most Need: Gary Kline 1950–20242025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®113102026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Politics of the State and Urbanization Rescaling in Contemporary Iran (from 1789 to 2023)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973229
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Urbanization in Iran has been profoundly shaped by the spatial-political projects and economic strategies of the state. This article seeks to explain the rescaling of urbanization and state spaces in Iran during the Qajar dynasty (1789–1925), the Pahlavi dynasty (1925–79), and the Islamic Republic government (1979–2023).With regard to the rescaling of urbanization and state spaces in Iran (see Figure 1), two prominent theories in Iranian scholarship are Hans Bobek’s rent capitalism theory and the theory of the state and urbanization in Iran,1 presented by Rahnamaei.2The theory of rent capitalism was originally introduced by Bobek,3 specifically about Iran, in 1948. This theory is based on the main assumption that
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallPolitics of the State and Urbanization Rescaling in Contemporary Iran (from 1789 to 2023)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USPolitics of the State and Urbanization Rescaling in Contemporary Iran (from 1789 to 2023)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®1214732026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Eco-Development: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism in the Global South
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973230
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“Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?”1 These words, first spoken by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi at a United Nations (UN) podium in 1972, caused a stir at the Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm.2 As the only head of state to address the conference, Gandhi’s provocative question was widely quoted by news outlets from around the world.3 It seemed to encapsulate the underlying rifts threatening the conference and, as the New York Times reported, “exposed the split between the rich industrial nations of the West and the underdeveloped states of the Third World—reportedly eager for their turn to produce and pollute.”4 More than fifty years later, Gandhi’s speech continues to be utilized as
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallEco-Development: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism in the Global South2025-11-13text/htmlen-USEco-Development: Rethinking the Roots of Environmentalism in the Global South2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®1111372026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Context-Bounded Subaltern Realism: A Case Study of Gilgit Baltistan
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973231
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We want to begin this article by reaffirming a key conclusion from various significant studies on Gilgit-Baltistan (GB),1 as well as our own findings: the people of GB overwhelmingly demand a provincial status, at least provisionally. The demand for provincial status places GB in a unique position as an integrationist movement, in contrast to the predominantly secessionist movements across South Asia. This demand arises from the region’s exclusion from Pakistan’s key decision-making bodies, such as the National Assembly and Senate, leaving its people politically disenfranchised.2 The primary reason for this exclusion is Pakistan’s official stance that GB is part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallContext-Bounded Subaltern Realism: A Case Study of Gilgit Baltistan2025-11-13text/htmlen-USContext-Bounded Subaltern Realism: A Case Study of Gilgit Baltistan2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®1382252026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13TPLF and the Politics of Factionalism in Tigray
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973232
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Following the 2020–22 Tigray war that shambled the TPLF’s internal structure and legitimacy, the historical and dominant political force of contemporary Tigray evolves into factional politics, understood as a group-based power struggle within the party. This contribution first and foremost intends to enlighten and provide insights into the current TPLF political crisis. Despite common and dominant narratives focusing on personal or ideological agendas, the article intends to demonstrate to what extent this crisis is deeply rooted in TPLF’s genesis and historical development. Nevertheless, in terms of consequences, it is an unprecedented one, as it challenges the internal structure of the party itself and the making
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallTPLF and the Politics of Factionalism in Tigray2025-11-13text/htmlen-USTPLF and the Politics of Factionalism in Tigray2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®1146072026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Brazil, India, and South Africa and the Use of Force in Peace Operations: Pragmatism Rather than Inconsistency
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973233
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Peacekeeping has evolved over the past few decades to address numerous changes in patterns of conflict. In an attempt to respond to new challenges, since the 1990s, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) has authorized the use of force for mandates and/or to protect civilians under imminent threat of physical violence as well as the personnel and humanitarian workers of the United Nations (UN), its agencies, and nongovernmental organizations. Attitudes toward the use of force in peace operations can generally be divided between those in favor and those who are less permissive. However, some states demonstrate a mixed approach by resisting or opposing the use of force at the political level but accepting its use
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallBrazil, India, and South Africa and the Use of Force in Peace Operations: Pragmatism Rather than Inconsistency2025-11-13text/htmlen-USBrazil, India, and South Africa and the Use of Force in Peace Operations: Pragmatism Rather than Inconsistency2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®1336102026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13A Special Section of the Journal of Global South Studies
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973234
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This section of the Journal of Global South Studies is a deviation from the standard approach to publishing exclusively peer-reviewed articles. The two essays featured in this section stand out for their quality and timeliness, even as they depart from the traditional publication norms found in this and other issues of the journal and most other academic publications of a similar kind.The first piece, by William Twayigize, is a beautifully written cri de coeur concerning the ecological destruction of his central African homeland at the base of the Virunga volcanic range. His impassioned plea draws a sharp contrast between the endless biodiversity and natural beauty of his childhood with the slow onset of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallA Special Section of the Journal of Global South Studies2025-11-13text/htmlen-USA Special Section of the Journal of Global South Studies2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®33622026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Climate Change and the Struggles of the Global South: A Personal Reflection
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973235
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Growing up at the foot of the majestic Virunga volcanic range—a lush and vibrant region spanning northern Rwanda, western Uganda, and eastern Congo—was like living in a masterpiece painted by nature’s hand. This breathtaking terrain, crowned with towering peaks such as Mount Muhabura, Mount Sabyinyo, Mount Gahinga, Mount Visoke, Nyiragongo, and Nyamuragira, was more than a geographical marvel; it was a cradle of life, culture, and spirituality. It held within its embrace the endangered mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park, a sanctuary teeming with life and a symbol of the region’s unmatched biodiversity. Rivers, visible and subterranean, carved through the volcanic terrain, their crystal-clear waters weaving
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallClimate Change and the Struggles of the Global South: A Personal Reflection2025-11-13text/htmlen-USClimate Change and the Struggles of the Global South: A Personal Reflection2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®219812026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Advocating for the Decolonization of Hearing Health Care Development in the Pacific Islands: Reflections from an Australian Audiologist in Samoa
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973236
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The year 2024 marked my twenty-year anniversary as an audiologist . . . and my goodness, has it been a wild ride! Never could I have imagined that my professional journey would take me to beautiful Samoa, a country I now call home and a people I now call family. As a young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed twenty-six-year-old audiologist, I had the opportunity to volunteer on a two-week trip to Malaysia at a school for children with disabilities. This was my first experience of a low- and middle-income country (LMIC) setting, and while I realized that this was exactly where I wanted to be, I also realized that I had no idea what I was doing. The experience also made two other things very clear to me: if I was serious
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallAdvocating for the Decolonization of Hearing Health Care Development in the Pacific Islands: Reflections from an Australian Audiologist in Samoa2025-11-13text/htmlen-USAdvocating for the Decolonization of Hearing Health Care Development in the Pacific Islands: Reflections from an Australian Audiologist in Samoa2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®554282026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973237
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The dramatic and drastic opening of the acknowledgment to Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire seeps through every single page thereafter in this insightful interpretation of Africa’s quite well-known military intervention in, or, if you want, disruption of its democratic experimentation. Hence, Samuel Fury Childs Daly pushes the frontiers of this aspect of the continent’s history amid an unuttered invitation to readers to do a sound and sincere reconsideration of the military’s role therein. Having once been ensconced in the median of critical cynics and genuine gatekeepers, two camps that equally “inhibit historical understanding” (xii), the author attempts a bold exercise in objectivity to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallSoldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USSoldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa after Empire by Samuel Fury Childs Daly (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®99822026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973238
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In what ways do conflicts surrounding electricity serve as a crucial arena for urban Tanzanians to express, engage with, and discuss their social contract with the government? In The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania, Michael Degani explores the political economy of electricity as both an ethnographic subject and a methodological approach, focusing on the dynamics between affluent and impoverished populations, as well as the interactions between those in power and those subjected to authority. He investigates how these groups navigate their respective shares of the electricity flow, which interconnects them within a shared ecological framework of circulation in postcolonial
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Postcolonial Tanzania by Michael Degani (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®75622026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973239
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In The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO, Hanchey, a former aid worker and assistant professor at Arizona State University, explores the contradictions inherent in Western-led development work, particularly as they manifest in nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). Focusing on the collapse of the pseudonymous Tanzanian “Little Community,” Hanchey examines the potential for decolonial justice that emerges when neocolonial structures of aid and subjectivity fall apart. She argues that “the processes of ruination and collapse, whether of Western subjectivities or NGO structures, hold productive potential for decolonial futures” (3).Divided into two parts and six chapters
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO by Jenna N. Hanchey (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®90432026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973240
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Guillaume Lachenal’s The Doctor Who World Be King is the story of an emperor, a region, and an idea. Part theoretical reflection and part travelogue, Lachenal records his first encounter with his subject, Dr. Jean Joseph David; his later investigative research; and his final thoughts on the COVID-19 pandemic. From its inception, The Doctor Who Would Be King confronts questions of equity and power. Researching in twenty-first-century Cameroon, Lachenal meets his subject, Dr. David, through the work of Dr. Wang Sonné, a deceased Cameroonian medical historian. Lachenal notes that even in the postcolonial period, as a Cameroonian, Dr. Sonné was underpaid, and his research was undervalued. In contrast, the mythologized
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe Doctor Who Would Be King by Guillaume Lachenal (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®65442026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Haile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia by Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973241
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Nigusie Michael’s Haile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia is considered one of the most critically balanced views of Ethiopian history during the emperor’s reign. Much of the existing publications on Haile Selassie were either exceedingly complimentary or, to a great degree, negative. The author, a professor of history at Moscow’s Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University, culled his book narrative from Russian and Ethiopian archival sources, plus memories of eyewitnesses. Nigusie Michael presents a multifaceted and unfortunate story of Ethiopia’s last emperor, as well as the internal and external forces that impacted the fall of the empire. While offering a critical assessment, the author provides insights into
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallHaile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia by Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USHaile Selassie 1, Emperor of Ethiopia by Nigusie Kassaye W. Michael (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®93232026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947–2022 by Raphael Chijioke Njoku (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973242
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In Queen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947–2022, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, a professor of African History and Global Studies at Idaho State University, provides a detailed analysis of the role of Queen Elizabeth II in African decolonization and postcolonial development. Situating Elizabeth at the heart of Britain’s navigation of decolonization, Njoku argues that “to gratify the British lawmakers in her complex and marginal place under the British Parliamentary system with conservative versus reformist agitators, Elizabeth came short of the expectations of African nationalists with her silence and inactions during the African decolonization
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallQueen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947–2022 by Raphael Chijioke Njoku (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USQueen Elizabeth II and the Africans: Narrating Decolonization, Postwar Commonwealth, and Africa’s Development, 1947–2022 by Raphael Chijioke Njoku (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®86892026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Maritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast by Kwaku Nti (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973243
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In Maritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast, Kwaku Nti presents a deeply researched social history of the Fanti people, focusing on their rich maritime culture and daily life along the coastline of Ghana, particularly in the town of Cape Coast, the first colonial capital. The comprehensive study delves into intricate cross-cultural relationships between local citizens, cultural groups, local leaders, and colonial authorities, spanning over a century of social, political, and economic history—from the transatlantic slave trade to the postcolonial era. Through this broad exploration, Nti demonstrates the agency and the adjustment of the Fanti people: first, in resisting
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallMaritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast by Kwaku Nti (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USMaritime Culture and Everyday Life: A Social History of the Fanti People of Cape Coast by Kwaku Nti (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®83552026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Infrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya by Emma Park (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973244
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Is Kenya’s current infrastructural condition influenced by postcolonial realities and dynamics? Emma Park explicates the intricate relationships between the state and the market, neoliberalism and austerity, and public and private sectors, alongside the concepts of sovereignty and citizenship that have shaped governance in Kenya since the nineteenth century. She articulates how Kenya’s knowledge and expertise have been overshadowed by corporate interests, highlighting the persistent alignment of the country’s infrastructural development with private enterprises. She highlights the importance of viewing prosthetics not merely as substitutes that perform the functions and daily activities of absent parts but as a
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallInfrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya by Emma Park (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USInfrastructural Attachments: Austerity, Sovereignty, and Expertise in Kenya by Emma Park (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®74902026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border by Jill Rosenthal (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973245
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Bucking the trend of Ngara’s rich culture, history, and tradition, Rosenthal explores the history of migration and asylum while teasing out how foreign aid to Rwandan refugees configures humanitarian politics in the area. In From Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border, Jill Rosenthal examines the historical development of the concept of “nation” as it has been perceived by individuals residing along the borders of the Tanzanian nation-state. Rosenthal’s central argument is that transnational aid to Rwandan refugees in Ngara unravels as a section of a larger project of nation-state regulation and constitution—specifically, one that hugely impacts native stories of identity and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallFrom Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border by Jill Rosenthal (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USFrom Migrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border by Jill Rosenthal (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®71872026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973246
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Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi’s Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement defies conventional classification, blending architectural history, anthropology, and postcolonial critique to produce a work that is at once analytical, evocative, and urgent. Siddiqi reconfigures our understanding of refugee camps—not as sites of ephemerality and crisis, but as enduring landscapes of spatial practice, knowledge production, and political subjectivity. The book meticulously traces the historical, material, and ideological dimensions of Dadaab, one of the world’s largest and longest-standing refugee settlements, located in northeastern Kenya. By centering the lived experiences and architectural
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallArchitecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USArchitecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement by Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®75932026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda by António Tomás (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973247
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In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda traces the evolution of Luanda, Angola’s oldest and largest city, from the perspective of the margins and the marginalized. The fate of the urban poor, from enslaved to squatter, reflects the city’s economic and political changes. This work’s emphasis on Luanda’s social and economic edges leads to a focus on the city’s permeable borders or “skin” (11). According to Tomás, the skin is where Luandans, elites and squatters, the state, and private interests, form the relationships that create the city. The disenfranchised squatters must negotiate rights of residence and rights to land. Their life in and on the “skin” is uneasy and filled with contradictions.
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallIn the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda by António Tomás (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USIn the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda by António Tomás (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®71922026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973248
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Over the years, African scholars and social justice crusaders have attempted to animate native knowledge that the African postcolony has been relegated to the margin or silenced to the backwater of obliviousness. Nimi Wariboko’s excellent work, Lifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective, is the latest to enliven African communities to rebuild their world and provide a unique perspective on political philosophy emanating from the Kalabari-Ijo people of the Niger Delta, drawing on autochthonous knowledge and philosophy. Unpacking lifemaking and utilizing a trinitarian paradigm—the abysmal character, the human flourishing character, and the form character—Wariboko teases out the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallLifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USLifemaking: Political Philosophy for Human Flourishing in African Perspective by Nimi Wariboko (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®76002026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America by Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, and Patrick O’Hare (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973249
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Taking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America explores grassroots self-publishing and self-promoting multigenerational movements. These efforts are grounded in creating books from carton—recycled cardboard, an embodiment of creative strength—because ”recovering material that has been discarded is a powerful statement” (4). Based on research-observation, dialogue, and collaboration with collective cartonera publishers in Brazil and Mexico, the book follows an interdisciplinary team as they trace cartonera publishing communities from Argentina, Mexico, and Brazil, describing for the reader the integration process of recycled carton, paint, colored thread, creative imagination, and collaboration
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallTaking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America by Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, and Patrick O’Hare (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USTaking Form, Making Worlds: Cartonera Publishers in Latin America by Lucy Bell, Alex Ungprateeb Flynn, and Patrick O’Hare (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®98252026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil by Mari Rodríguez Binnie (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973250
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The overthrow of President João Belchior Marques Goulart’s government in 1964 led Brazil toward a despotic dictatorship that would last until 1985. Censorship was strongly enforced during this period, and those who did not align with the status quo and displayed defiance faced harsh consequences. In Brazil, the Ato Institucional #5 (AI-5) amendment enacted by President Artur da Costa e Silva (1967–69), for national security reasons, would bring a harsh end to many civil liberties for Brazilians. AI-5 “authorized the president to order by decree, enabled the discretionary dismissal of public employees, officially instituted censorship, suspended habeas corpus, ratified torture, and reinstated the death penalty” (2).
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil by Mari Rodríguez Binnie (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil by Mari Rodríguez Binnie (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®72582026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters by Myriam J. A. Chancy (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973251
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Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters is a collection of twenty-two essays arranged in five parts responding to the aftermath of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010 and left more than 250,000 people dead, 300,000 injured, and 1.4 million people homeless. Scholar and activist, Chancy is a Haitian Canadian writer who examines the structures that emerged after that terrible cataclysm and makes clear the importance of sustaining Haitian lives and their dignity. The summer of 2021 saw the assassination of Haiti’s president and another disastrous earthquake. Chancy explains her somewhat unusual title, Harvesting Haiti, by suggesting that historians have denied the significance of
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallHarvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters by Myriam J. A. Chancy (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USHarvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters by Myriam J. A. Chancy (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®65092026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study by Nicolas Delson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973252
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Scholars have long noted that when Europeans arrived in the Americas, they brought livestock animals, including cattle, with them. Nicolas Delsol, who is currently a researcher in the historical archaeology program at the Florida Museum of Natural History, examines cattle remains from four sites throughout Mesoamerica and the Caribbean. Delsol employs the theoretical metaphor of the object itinerary, “a sequential model that connects social arenas, places, and periods by following objects or beings through their life histories” (4), to illustrate how “cattle can assume diverse material forms as they move from one location to another, connecting various human actors, objects, and locations” (3). Delsol also uses
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallCattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study by Nicolas Delson (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USCattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study by Nicolas Delson (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®67072026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973253
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How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution is based on Cuban lived experiences in the revolution from the 1980s to 2020. This book is appropriate for graduate students, historians, sociologists, and anthropologists interested in Cuba and the human dynamics of revolutionary society. Nonacademics with an interest in Cuba, including activists, particularly those participating in the Venceremos Brigades of the ’70s, will find in the words of respondents, or narrators, as they are referred to in the book, powerful descriptions of the Cuban revolutionary experiment. This book, based on an oral history project, is the work of the late scholar-activist Elizabeth Dore (1946–2022), a major contributor to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallHow Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USHow Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution by Elizabeth Dore (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®110972026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph, and Timothy J. Henderson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973254
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In 2002, Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson published The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics to great acclaim. Twenty years later, the authors released a revised and updated second edition of The Mexico Reader. In addition to keeping many of the same documents, with some new additions, from the first edition of The Mexico Reader, the new edition also includes significant additional information about the two tumultuous decades that occurred between printings. The new information comprises the impacts of Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderón’s presidencies, the return of the PRI to power in 2012 with Enrique Peña Nieto’s presidency, Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s victory in 2018, and the effects of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph, and Timothy J. Henderson (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gilbert M. Joseph, and Timothy J. Henderson (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®65012026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13The Border Reader ed. by Gilberto Rosas, and Mireya Loza (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973255
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Even before nineteenth-century Westward Expansion, Mexico was coveted by the United States. The existing region between the two nations was a site of contention, based on US territorial expansionist designs. The consequence of this was that the United States instigated the Mexican–American War, formed the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, and absorbed approximately 50 percent of the northern Mexican territories into the United States. As time progressed, for Mexicans, the border became a barrier, a point of exclusion. This barrier evolved into a militarized, surveilled space, where the act of crossing into the United States in search of economic survival or asylum is criminalized. Migration across the border
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallThe Border Reader ed. by Gilberto Rosas, and Mireya Loza (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USThe Border Reader ed. by Gilberto Rosas, and Mireya Loza (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®82692026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Student Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’ by Richard G. Smith (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973256
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Richard G. Smith explores the little-studied role of rebellious high school and university students who vigorously opposed the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. After the 1973 coup, the regime moved immediately to impose military tutelage: expelling suspect students and professors from the universities, installing military-appointed rectors and a system of spies and surveillance in universities and high schools, and depoliticizing the remaining students. Groups of more than three on campus were broken up. Leaflets, posters, and murals were prohibited, and political activity was banned. La Federación de Estudiantes de la Universidad de Chile (FECh) and La Federación de Estudiantes Secundarios de Santiago (FESES) were
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallStudent Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’ by Richard G. Smith (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USStudent Resistance to Dictatorship in Chile, 1973–1990: ‘Security to Study, Freedom to Live!’ by Richard G. Smith (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®79352026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World by Marcia Stephenson (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973257
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Humans write history, but we’re not the only animals who make it. In Llamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World, Marcia Stephenson presents a cogent and well-crafted case for the roles that South American camelid species—principally llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, and, to a lesser extent, guanacos—played in the creation of Western imperialist narratives around New World exploration, exploitation, and resource extraction. Stephenson’s 2023 work is not only supported by thorough, thoughtful, and thought-provoking scholarship but also highly readable and accessible to a wide range of audiences. An associate professor of Spanish at Purdue University, Marcia Stephenson also authored Gender and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallLlamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World by Marcia Stephenson (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USLlamas beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World by Marcia Stephenson (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®75662026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Spying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War by Paul McGarr (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973258
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In this well-researched book, Paul McGarr provides a fresh examination of the activities of British and American intelligence and security services in postcolonial India. The book “probes the nexus between intelligence and statecraft in South Asia, and questions relationships established between foreign intelligence agencies and South Asian governments for the promotion of democracy, which evolves into justification for repression” (1–2). Using ten chapters to unpack the complicated history between the Indian intelligence services and their Western partners, McGarr argues that “the Cold War interventions undertaken by British and American intelligence and security agencies in India proved to be misguided and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallSpying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War by Paul McGarr (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USSpying in South Asia: Britain, the United States, and India’s Secret Cold War by Paul McGarr (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®80832026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13Global Development: The Basics by Daniel Hammett (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/973259
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Scholars from various disciplines focusing on global development have produced a vast array of books, ranging in scope from broad overviews to the analysis and/or description of quite specific issues such as polity, economy, gender, and social well-being, to name a few. Daniel Hammett’s Global Development: The Basics, in turn, is a welcome recent addition to Rout-ledge’s “The Basics” long-standing series, which includes books on wide-ranging topics with the intent of providing the novice reader with introductory essentials and a fundamental foundation of the topic at hand. As such, Global Development is an excellent choice for students and other readers who seek an introductory understanding of critical issues in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-11T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/715/image/coversmallGlobal Development: The Basics by Daniel Hammett (review)2025-11-13text/htmlen-USGlobal Development: The Basics by Daniel Hammett (review)2025-11-132025TWOProject MUSE®80362026-05-11T00:00:00-05:002025-11-13