{"title":"An imperial meantime","authors":"Vivian Solana","doi":"10.1111/amet.13346","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13346","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On November 13, 2020, the Sahrawi movement for national liberation, known as the Polisario Front, resumed its armed struggle against Morocco's occupation of Western Sahara. With this decision, the movement put an end to a 29-year-long peace process throughout which the implementation of international law had been indefinitely deferred. During this cease-fire, the Polisario used humanitarian aid to strengthen its nation-state building in exile. This practice formed part of a larger historical narration that was inserted into the cease-fire's temporal parenthesis, or what I call an <i>imperial meantime</i>. As a result, a disjuncture arose between the movement's political forms and its goal of achieving state sovereignty over Western Sahara. During this imperial meantime, a generation of refugees came of age. Describing the contradictions experienced by young politicized refugees, and highlighting the role that the control over time plays in humanitarian governance, I show how the invisible violence of a humanitarian peace anticipated the return to armed struggle.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"502-515"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13346","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142236789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The king of martyrs","authors":"Stephanie V. Love","doi":"10.1111/amet.13347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.13347","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How can people talk about the past in a deeply fractured society, wounded by two centuries of colonial and postcolonial violence? In Oran—Algeria's second-largest city—people find creative ways to speak without speaking about unspeakable pasts. They do this by creating poetic parallelism between urban forms—from skeletons of buildings to martyr images—in everyday speech and image-events. In poetics, parallelism deploys similar linguistic forms to suggest equivalence of meaning for certain effects. In everyday life, parallelism is emergent social action that brings new publics to life through its performance. This parallelism enables ordinary people to talk to each other across entrenched sociopolitical divides, especially in contexts of authoritarian censorship. Through poetic parallelism, Oranis revivify the martyrs of independence as agentive witnesses to their decaying city's housing crisis. In doing so, they reconfigure the relationship between the colonial past and postcolonial present.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"592-604"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142588034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vital decomposition: Soil practitioners + life politics By Kristina M. Lyons. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 218 pp.","authors":"Meghan L. Morris","doi":"10.1111/amet.13327","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13327","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"637-638"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142160443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The movement for reproductive justice: Empowering women of color through social activism By Patricia Zavella. New York: New York University Press, 2020. 299 pp.","authors":"Jill Morrison","doi":"10.1111/amet.13340","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13340","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"639-640"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142152374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Strange” affinities","authors":"Muneeza Rizvi","doi":"10.1111/amet.13345","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>British Muslim volunteers in Syria have been variously cast as humanitarians, activists, and—under the suspicious gaze of the war on terror—disguised militants. Yet many volunteers frame their efforts as attempts at <i>iṣlāḥ</i> (reform, repair, rectification). What is the ethicopolitical life of <i>iṣlāḥ</i>, a multivalent concept in the Islamic tradition, in a landscape marked by war and international relief efforts? Considered ethnographically, <i>iṣlāḥ</i> organizes heterogeneous practices, including charitable giving, political defiance, and ethical contestation. It is thus irreducible to either (religious) charity or to its oft-purported opposite, (political) solidarity. Further, it reveals the embedded secularity of such oppositions, which shapes the reasoning of both the British security state and social scientific commentary.</p>","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"490-501"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/amet.13345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142152375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"If books fail, try beauty: Educated womanhood in the new East Africa By Brooke Schwartz Bocast. New York: Oxford University Press, 2024. 205 pp.","authors":"Rebecca Warne Peters","doi":"10.1111/amet.13325","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13325","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"643-644"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peasant politics of the twenty-first century: Transnational social movements and agrarian change By Marc Edelman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 356 pp.","authors":"Walter E. Little","doi":"10.1111/amet.13319","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13319","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"629-630"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shopping with Allah: Muslim pilgrimage, gender and consumption in a globalised world By Viola Thimm. London: UCL Press, 2023. 287 pp.","authors":"Mirjam Lücking","doi":"10.1111/amet.13344","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13344","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"631-632"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Indifference: On the praxis of interspecies being By Naisargi Davé. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 208 pp.","authors":"Susan Haris","doi":"10.1111/amet.13322","DOIUrl":"10.1111/amet.13322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48134,"journal":{"name":"American Ethnologist","volume":"51 4","pages":"621-622"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142144201","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}