Books for Review

AVAILABLE BOOKS – 1 July 2026

Africa

Brankamp, Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian colonization and the Camp in Kenya

Cassell, Liberia, 1900-1950

Cruz, The Fall of the Last Colonial Empire in Africa: Cuba and the Independence War on Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde

das Nair, et.al., Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes

Langwick, Medicines that Feed US: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World [Tanzania]

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

Wendel, Rwanda’s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty

Africa [2 Book Review]

Calhoun, et al., The Essential Senghor

Ripert, ed., Senghor: Writings on Politics

AMERICAS

Bell, Promises Beyond Memory: Archives, Art, and the Afterlives of Violence in Latin America

Britt, I’ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity & Displacement in Sao Paulo

Carillo, The Business of Racism: labor and Environment in Brazil’s Racial Capitalism

Edwards, Fueling Development: how Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago

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

Gerber, Archival Interruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica

Mendoza, Transpacific Nonencounters: Racial Disconnects Across Twentieth Century Japan and Mexico

Ortiz, Interrogating the Future of Puerto Rican Studies

 

ASIA

Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

Chakravarty and Chaudhuri, Centering Women in Bollywood Biopics: Empowerment and Agency in contemporary Indian cinema.

Fuhrmann, In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City

Martinez, Concrete Colonialism: Architecture, Urbanism, and the US Imperial Project in the Philippines

Morton, Enchanted Modernities: ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong

MENA

Baar and Soliman, eds. Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Denoeux, Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa

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

GENERAL

Aramburu, et al., Comics and the Global South

Gunel, Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations

Mahler, A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe

Sitas and Keim, Global South Rising? BRICS and the Reconfiguration of Knowledge Systems

Walker-Crawford, The Climate Trial

If you know of a book not on the list — published since 2024 — that you would like to review, please contact the book review editor. It may be a book we would like to have reviewed in the journal, and we may be able to get a review copy of the book sent to you.