Urban mobility is a gendered terrain in South Asia. In City of Men, we learn about the layered experiences of men navigating precarious labor conditions, the emotional toll of migration, and the paradoxes of masculine honor entwined with economic survival.

At IJmuiden, where capitalist infrastructure encounters and encloses the subsurface turbulence of the estuary, brackishness appears as an ecological disjuncture in which the material contradictions of transition policy and the real abstractions of logistical value are rendered startlingly concrete.

Hudani demonstrates the importance of theorizing repair, enabling us to spatialize a Levinasian ethics of the neighbor, in the aftermath of traumatic events ranging from mass killings to large-scale dispossession.

The Right to Be Counted offers a compelling analysis of citizenship struggles of the urban poor in contemporary times.

Laleh Khalili's latest manuscript, The Corporeal Life of Seafaring (2024), gives breath to the complex and hidden life of seafaring. Khalili provides a vivid account of the lives of seafarers who power the vast global trade network, typically hidden from land-based consumers. The researcher embarked on two voyages, twenty months apart, aboard different CMA CGM ships travelling from Malta to Jabal Ali, Dubai. Using a mix of ethnographic notes, photographs, interviews, and archival materials, Khalili reveals the living conditions aboard these cargo ships.

What is it about this conjuncture that makes the unprecedented use of force with which UC Berkeley reclaimed People’s Park acceptable and even desirable for so many? We examine the pressures and opportunities, strategies for winning consent, and counter-hegemonic tactics at different scales.