Life in Debt: Times of Care and Violence in Neoliberal Chile
by Clara Han
University of California Press, 2012
298 pp, US$26.95 paperback
Life in Debt is not an easy read. This ethnography of care and violence—intimate, political and governmental— in La Pincoya, a poor neighborhood of neoliberal Santiago, effectively draws the reader into the everyday rhythms of its …
Erica James. Democratic Insecurities: Violence, Trauma, and Intervention in Haiti.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 384 pages; $24.95
Review by Hanna Kienzler (McGill University)
“Supported by a rich cultural heritage, the Haitian people retain a capacity for hope, faith, and resilience that remains a tremendous resource for any efforts to rehabilitate the nation and its people” …
This post was contributed by Seth Messinger (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
In March 2004, after being hired by UMBC, I attended a meeting at Walter Reed Army Medical Center with a colleague from my new department and several military and civilian clinicians. There we discussed the specific and the vague challenges that faced the increasing number of US military …
The June issue of Current Anthropology includes includes an article by Princeton’s João Biehl and Peter Locke (who has written for Somatosphere in the past): “Deleuze and the Anthropology of Becoming.” One of the wonderful things about CA articles is the commentaries genre — and this particular piece includes comments by Michael M.J. Fischer, Vanessa Fong, Angela Garcia, …