Books for Review

Available Books 1 April 2024

 

Africa

Adar, et al. The Southern African Development Community Treaty-Nexus

Chery, Kingdom Come: The Politics of Faith and Freedom in Segregationist South Africa and Beyond

Degani, The City Electric: Infrastructure and Ingenuity in Post Socialist Tanzania

Hanchey, The Center Cannot Hold: Decolonial Possibility in the Collapse of a Tanzanian NGO

Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures

Hoffman, Knowing by Ear: Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915-1918)

Michael, Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia

Niehuus, An Archive of Possibilities: Healing and Repair in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Rijke-Epstein, Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar

Rosenthal, From Immigrants to Refugees: The Politics of Aid along the Tanzania-Rwanda Border

Siddiqi, Architecture of Migration: The Dadaab Refugee Camps and Humanitarian Settlement

Sooryamoorthy, Independent Africa, Dependent Science: Scientific Research in Africa

Vaughann, Letters, Kinship, and Social Mobility in Nigeria

Williams, Primitive Normativity, Race, Sexuality, and temporality in Colonial Kenya

 

Americas

Adamovsky: A History of Argentina

Auyero, Portraits of persistence: Inequality and Hope in Latin America

Blanc, The Prestes column: An Interior History of Modern Brazil

Chancy, Harvesting Haiti: Reflections on Unnatural Disasters

Delsol, Cattle in the Post Columbian Americas

Gautam et al, Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean

Marston, Subterranean Matters: Cooperative Mining and Resource Nationalism in Plurinational Bolivia

Perez, Colonial Reckoning

Sherman, Peru since Independence

Stephenson, Llamas Beyond the Andes: Untold Histories of Camelids in the Modern World

 

Asia

Hayat, The Charismatic Leader: Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan

Rong, A Ming Confucian=s World (2022)

 

Middle East and North Africa

Fani, Afghans, Iranians & Literary Nationalism

Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

 

General

Subrahmanyam, Across the Green Sea: Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640

 

If you know of a book published since 2023 about the Global South that is not on the list that you would like to review, please contact the book review editor.