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{"title":"Unsettling the Affordable Housing Crisis in New York City","authors":"Isabelle S. Soifer","doi":"10.1002/nad.70010","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In New York City, the lack of affordable housing opportunities is frequently described by politicians and other institutional leaders as an affordable housing crisis, and they claim that simply building more housing units will remedy the crisis. However, using the Morningside Heights neighborhood and Columbia University as a case-study, I argue that the affordable housing crisis is built upon decades of disinvestment in predominantly lower-income Black and Latinx communities and ongoing land grabbing practices while denying the public housing services allegedly available to them. Instead of focusing on the lack of housing, this paper argues that there should be a greater focus placed upon the real estate practices of powerful anchor institutions such as universities, as well as state and city governments, that intentionally withhold resources to house people while continuing to promote land grabbing practices under the guise of serving the public interest. I show how urban housing is treated as a tool of control over people's use of space through its commodification and hyper securitization. I find that public-private partnerships between university and city leaders reduce housing stock to raw material in order to reproduce certain kinds of racialized and classed workers into the urban environment while naturalizing the negative effects of such practices on lower income households as a crisis. I conclude that the result is a revamping of racialized and classed geographies whereby city land is continually repurposed as an exclusive product for the benefit of predominantly wealthy, white young people.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70010","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147666199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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{"title":"Empty Justice: Ethnographic Court-Witnessing in Authoritarian Times","authors":"Amelia Frank-Vitale,&nbsp;Lauren Heidbrink,&nbsp;Luis Xavier Guaman","doi":"10.1002/nad.70009","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article investigates the operations of United States immigration courts ethnographically, examining how law, politics, and bureaucracy converge in the everyday production of immigration adjudication. Based on over 500 h of observation in 36 courtrooms across 11 immigration courts, we document how life-altering deportation decisions—often <i>in absentia</i> and lasting only minutes—are rendered through routinized procedures that obscure judicial ambivalence, the politicization of immigration, and bureaucratic pressures. While legal scholarship has emphasized patterns in judicial outcomes, and anthropology has traced how law shapes immigrants' lives beyond the courtroom, few studies ethnographically analyze the affective arrangements inside immigration court. We develop a novel, multi-sited methodology by mobilizing a national network of undergraduate students trained and supervised by faculty to conduct ethnographic court-watching. This approach produces rich qualitative data on tone, demeanor, and “off-the-record” exchanges, while also democratizing research through pedagogical innovation. We argue that immigration courts are best understood not only as legal institutions but as affective arrangements: spaces where judges, attorneys, clerks, interpreters, federal agents, and respondents are entangled in performances of authority, credibility, and fairness under conditions of bureaucratic and political constraint. We conclude by reflecting on the risks of conducting ethnography under escalating authoritarianism. Surveillance, suppression of dissent, and the targeting of students and scholars render research itself precarious. What does it mean to observe and analyze courts when the very act of knowledge production is marked with vulnerability and threat?</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146091496","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Futures After Progress: Hope and Doubt in Late Industrial Baltimore, By Chloe Ahmann, University of Chicago Press, 2024. 342 pp. $29.00 (paperback). ISBN: 978-0-226-83361-3","authors":"Ellen Garnett Kladky","doi":"10.1002/nad.70006","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145406588","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Grassroots Memory and Maternal Refusal in Michoacán","authors":"Veronica Valencia Gonzalez","doi":"10.1002/nad.70005","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70005","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;In the heart of Morelia's central plaza, a stone wall bears the faces of the disappeared (Figure 1). The flyers are taped one over another—some faded by sun and rain, others freshly posted. Each one was placed here by &lt;i&gt;Madres de Desaparecidos en Michoacán&lt;/i&gt;, a collective of mothers searching for their missing children—daughters, sons, siblings—in the face of institutional silence.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During my fieldwork on intimate partner violence in rural Mexico, I passed this wall regularly. Though the city's rhythms changed—markets opened, tourists passed, protests formed—the wall remained, accumulating layers of absence. What struck me most was the quiet forcefulness of these flyers. There is no spectacle here, but each sheet of paper resists forgetting. Each one says: &lt;i&gt;They matter. We are still looking&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The disappeared come from varied backgrounds. Some vanished in domestic spaces, others in public spaces, or in transit. Some cases involve organized crime, others intimate partners, opportunistic actors, or direct state collusion. In some instances, disappearances are linked to local power struggles or economic disputes. What unites them is the failure of authorities to investigate and the refusal of their families—especially mothers—to remain silent in the face of overlapping webs of violence and impunity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This image captures how public space becomes a site of grief, resistance, and care. The wall is both an archive and a protest. Through it, mothers assert presence in a system that renders their children invisible. Unlike the uniform look of state-issued alerts, these flyers vary in size, language, and tone. Some are photocopies; others include prayers or poetry. Together, they form a grassroots visual language of refusal. This language is not only a refusal of silence, but also a demand: for truth and investigation, for recognition of their children as victims of disappearance, and for accountability from a state that has failed to act.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Over time, the wall shifted. Some posters disappeared, others were added. Purple handprints, symbols of feminist protest in Mexico, appeared among them. The wall became a layered memorial: part personal mourning, part political claim. Forgetting here is not neutral; it is a form of violence. Through bureaucratic neglect, institutional silence, and the erasure of records, the state enacts a secondary disappearance—one that compounds families' grief by attempting to make loss invisible. The mothers' wall interrupts this violence of forgetting, insisting that absence be seen and remembered.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a country where more than 100,000 people are currently missing, such walls are neither decorative nor incidental. They are built from pain, sustained by love, and charged with defiance.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For anthropologists, this image underscores the importance of paying attention to how visibility is produced and sustained by those most affected by violence. It invites us to see the public posting of flyers","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70005","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145406673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Bodily Reorientations Within Racial Imaginaries: Learning Boxing Styles in the United States","authors":"Gabriel A. Torres Colón","doi":"10.1002/nad.70004","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Boxing styles typify interrelated sets of fighting techniques and combative characters. Because boxers acquire a style through bodily practice and styles in the United States are often tied to racialized social groups, an ethnography of the acquisition of boxing styles presents an opportunity to examine how youth, in conjunction with other social actors in the boxing world, reorient their bodies within racial imaginaries. Bridging experiential and psychoanalytic approaches, this framework sheds light on the intersectional nature of race, gender, nationality, class, and other embodied social differences. Theorizing bodily reorientations within racial imaginaries invites us to reconsider the relationship between embodied difference, culture, and race. More than a social construct, racial experience can be a meaningful source for people to reimagine themselves in constructive ways against societies where racialized bodies are stigmatized and devalued.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"28 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145406777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The tentacles of surveillance: Cephalopods and United States satellite intelligence","authors":"Andrew Bickford","doi":"10.1002/nad.70000","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the symbol placed on a US spy satellite, National Reconnaissance Office Launch–39 (NROL-39). In 2013, NROL-39 was launched into space, the payload vehicle and mission patch emblazoned with a gigantic octopus, its tentacles surrounding the globe, and the words “Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach” written below the globe. Spy satellites are not new, but what is new here is the explicit use of a known symbol of threat and domination by a United States intelligence agency and the stories it crafts around fear and domination. NROL-39 is an insight into how a US intelligence organization pictures itself, its role, and its targets. NROL-39 gives us a glimpse behind the mask of the security state and what this tells us about the worldview and political imaginaries of the people behind it. The use of a symbol traditionally associated with political repression and threat gives us insight into how security officials think about satellites, intelligence collection, security, domination, and enemies. It is an opening into the militarized imaginary of satellite intelligence, technological capabilities, propaganda and psychological operations, and the further militarization and politicization of space.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"“We're Not Going to Be a Coal Superpower Anymore”: Political Discourse, Elections, and Everyday Economics in the Coalfields of Southwest Virginia","authors":"Julie Shepherd-Powell","doi":"10.1002/nad.70001","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the coalfields of Appalachia, coal production and employment have steadily decreased over the last two decades, yet political discussions in every recent election cycle continue to focus on coal or fossil fuels as the answer to the region's economic woes. Based on 18 months of fieldwork conducted in 2012 and 2013, I investigate the ways that coalfield residents experienced the intersections of political discourse with everyday material realities. Following David Ruccio's concept of everyday economic representations, I explore the ways residents directly and indirectly contest the dominant narratives in electoral politics that suggest coal is the only means to fix the depressed coalfield economy. I further argue that votes cast in each election cycle do not provide an adequate picture of the region or the reasons people go, or do not go, to the polls at all. I finally offer some insights into more recent election cycles and the economic futures of the coalfields as residents creatively work toward a just transition.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/nad.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143919439","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}