... research in a politically charged context. It outlines how the author’s prolonged presence among Afro-Colombians in Guapi led to a dialogical engagement, drawing on a rich tradition of experimental ethnographies and activist methodologies proposed by paradigmatic figures such as Paulo Freire and Orlando...

... The chapter explores the fierce conflict over the meaning of sharia among Nigeria’s contending ethno-religious and ethno-regional political classes during the country’s ongoing civil-democratic government following a prolonged era of military misrule in the 1990s. The chapter engages contentious...

... abandoned to the margins of the city. As these men are left in a state of what Michel Foucault calls “letting die,” the chapter explores ethnographically how the homeless endure social death and the widely shared structure of feeling brought about by living through the prolonged experience of one’s own...

...—where it shares a conceptual bed with globalization and contemporary technology—that has forcefully imposed itself over the last thirty years or so. It prolongs the earlier chapters by elucidating the properly political role played by the attempts to purify the political realm by isolating it from its...

... of postliberalization. In contrast to the lower court’s vision, the apex court seeks to reaffirm the state and prolong governance through legislative intrusions into the realm of sexuality. Voices against Section 377 Naz v. Government of nct of Delhi and Others , Suresh Kumar Koushal and Another v. Naz...

... with the ways it too is shaped by the imperatives of postliberalization. In contrast to the lower court’s vision, the apex court seeks to reaffirm the state and prolong governance through legislative intrusions into the realm of sexuality. Voices against Section 377 Naz v. Government of nct of Delhi...