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Reflections on 25 years of Refried Elvis (Part 1 of 2)
Jun 12 2024
Celebrating 25 years of REFRIED ELVIS with the first of two posts focusing on the monumental book.
Q&A with Chelsea Schields, author of Offshore Attachments
Jun 10 2024
Offshore Attachments reveals how the contested management of sex and race transformed the Caribbean into a crucial site in the global oil economy. By the mid-twentieth century, the Dutch islands of Curaçao and Aruba housed the world’s largest oil refineries. To bolster this massive industrial experi
Why We Need a Handbook for Practicing Asylum
Jun 07 2024
Practicing Asylum brings together experienced expert witnesses and immigration attorneys to highlight best practices and strategies for giving expert testimony in asylum cases. As the scale and severity of violence in Latin America has grown in the last decade, scholars and attorneys have collaborat
Recovering the transnational history of the Sandinista Revolution
Jun 06 2024
By Eline van Ommen, author of Nicaragua Must Survive: Sandinista Revolutionary Diplomacy in the Global Cold WarWhen I submitted my dissertation in 2019, my supervisor gave me the mug that had been on her desk for years. Printed on it were the red and black silhouettes of people waving rifles, fl
The Chilling Truth Behind Silicon Valley’s Surveillance of Immigrants
Jun 05 2024
By Melissa Villa-Nicholas, author of Data Borders: How Silicon Valley Is Building an Industry around ImmigrantsAround 2018, I started to read reports about increasing information technology surveillance at the U.S.-Mexico border and around the U.S. to assist in immigration detention and deportat
Q&A with Ieva Jusionyte, author of Exit Wounds
Apr 16 2024
American guns have entangled the lives of people on both sides of the US-Mexico border in a vicious circle of violence. After treating wounded migrants and refugees seeking safety in the United States, anthropologist Ieva Jusionyte boldly embarked on a journey in the opposite direction—following the
Is Cuba the World’s Most Sustainable Country?
Aug 30 2023
By Gustav Cederlöf, author of The Low-Carbon Contradiction: Energy Transition, Geopolitics, and the Infrastructural State in CubaWhen lightning set 40 percent of Cuba’s oil reserves ablaze last year—a thunderstorm hit its main oil storage facility—the thick plume of smoke released incredible amo