Books for Review

AVAILABLE BOOKS – 7 November 2025

Africa

Akinbola, Transatlantic Disbelonging: Unruliness, Pleasure, and Play in Nigerian Diasporic Women’s Art

Dovey, et. al., eds. Contemporary African Screen Worlds

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

Pieri & Fridy, Governance, Grievance & Violent Extremism in West Africa: From the Caliphates to Great Power Competition

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

Ripert, ed., Senghor: Writings on Politics

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

Americas

Davidson, Dominican Crossroads: H.C.C. Astwood and the Moral Politics of Race-Making in the Age of Emancipation

Derby, Bêtes Noires: Sorcery as History in the Haitian-Dominican Borderlands

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

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

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

Marinez, Spirals in the Caribbean: Representing Violence and Connection in Haiti and the Dominican Republic

Nading, The Kidney and the Cane: Planetary Health and Plantation Labor in Nicaragua

Perez, Queer Engagement: Scandalous Stories from the Twilight of AIDS in Peru

Ravindran, The Social Life of Indianism: Politics and Indigeneity in 21st-Century Bolivia

Asia

Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

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

Peters, ed., Latin American Exports to China: Local Experiences and Challenges

Middle East and North Africa

Denoeux, et. al, 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

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

Quinton-Brown, Intervention Before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy

If you know of a book published since 2024 about the Global South that is not on the list that you would like to review, please contact the book review editor.