{"id":115,"date":"2023-03-12T21:28:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T21:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/?page_id=115"},"modified":"2026-11-02T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T15:09:52","slug":"books-to-review","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.gsw.edu\/agss\/index.php\/books-to-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Books for Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

AVAILABLE BOOKS \u2013 1 November 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa<\/u><\/p>\n

Akcay.\u00a0 Transnational African Identities in contemporary Urban Fiction: Community, Hospitality, and Friendship<\/p>\n

Brankam. Occupied Refuge: Humanitarian Colonization and the Camp in Kenya<\/p>\n

Cassell. Liberia, 1900-1950: Accounts of the First African Republic.<\/p>\n

das Nair, Klaaren, and Roberts, eds. Regulating for Rivalry in Africa: The Development of Competition Regimes.<\/p>\n

Koroma. Freetown Echoes: Tales from Along the Odokoko.<\/p>\n

Langwick. Medicines that Feed US: Plants, Healing, and Sovereignty in a Toxic World [Tanzania].<\/p>\n

Kuna. The Upright Farmer: Racial Capitalism and Agricultural Modernization in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n

Managa, Achu, and Mjimba. Considering Peace and Development in Africa.<\/p>\n

Rijke-Epstein.\u00a0Children of the Soul: The Power of Built Form in Urban Madagascar<\/p>\n

Wendel, Rwanda\u2019s Genocide Heritage: Between Justice and Sovereignty<\/p>\n

Simelane, Zaca, Moyo, Dube, and Mphambukeli, eds. Trade and sustainability under the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n

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ASIA<\/u><\/p>\n

Fuhrmann, In the Mood for Texture: The Revival of Bangkok as a Chinese City<\/p>\n

Morton, Enchanted Modernities: ancestral Vitalizations in the Upper Mekong.<\/p>\n

MENA<\/u><\/p>\n

Aijazi, Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir<\/p>\n

Baar and Soliman, eds. Disability in the Arab World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives<\/p>\n

Denoeux, Springborg, and Alaoul. Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa<\/p>\n

Moaddel, Mansoor. Cracks in Tradition: Liberal Trends in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

Zayani & Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East<\/p>\n

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AMERICAS<\/u><\/p>\n

Beck and Stephen. Seeking Justice for Gendered Violence: Courts, Communities, and Care in Guatemala.<\/p>\n

Britt, I\u2019ll Samba Someplace Else: A Spatial History of Race, Ethnicity & Displacement in Sao Paulo<\/p>\n

Carillo, The Business of Racism: labor and Environment in Brazil\u2019s Racial Capitalism<\/p>\n

Edwards, Fueling Development: how Black Radical Trade Unionism Transformed Trinidad and Tobago<\/p>\n

Gautam, Pinheiro, and Wilson. Financialization, Austerity, and Inclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean<\/p>\n

Gerber, Archival Interruptions: Constructing Religion and Criminalizing Obeah in Eighteenth-Century Jamaica.<\/p>\n

McDonald. Peripheral Citizenship: Popular Movements and the Progressive Catholic Church in Urban Brazil.<\/p>\n

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GENERAL<\/u><\/p>\n

Gunel, Floating Power: Energy, Infrastructure, and South-South Relations<\/p>\n

Mahler, A Wide Net of Solidarity: Antiracism and Anti-Imperialism from the Americas to the Globe<\/p>\n

Ogunnaike, Formas of Worship: How Orisha Worship Became Religion in Nigeria and Brazil.<\/p>\n

Rodin, Rising Temperatures, Rising Tensions: Climate Change & Great Power Conflict.<\/p>\n

Walker-Crawford, The Climate Trial<\/p>\n

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If you know of a book not on the list — published in 2026 — 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.<\/p>\n\n\n

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