Volume 62, #4 // October 2020
The essays in this issue are grouped together under the following rubrics: Insurgent Youth, Social Lives of Categories, and Legal Cultures.
Clientship, Corruption, Terror: Behind the Scenes at the New Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts
Mark Anthony Geraghty provides a true “behind the scenes” account of the corruption and illicit negotiations that impact trial outcomes in the New Rwanda’s Gacaca courts.
August 2020
CSSH celebrates new publications by Sarah E. Wagner, Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski, and Alan Mikhail.
On Uprisings, Policing, and Resistance
A collection of essays on protest, revolution, policing, and resistance.
Volume 62, #3 // July 2020
The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Icons of Racism and their Afterlives, Contamination and the Half-Life of History, and The Good Kill: Law, Ethics, Technique.
Understanding “Cultural Understanding”: Julie Gibbings and Jacob Tropp follow the concept from coffee plantations to Indian reservations, counterinsurgency campaigns, and the careers of international development experts
In our Spring 2020 issue, Julie Gibbings and Jacob Tropp guide us through several telling cases of cultural, or intercultural, understanding. Our editors saw “expediency” as a theme that unites the essays, but there are many others. Tropp and Gibbings tell us more.
Volume 62, Issue 3
Meet the authors of the 62-3 issue, July 2020.
The Holy Grail of Terroir and Territory in Israel/Palestine
In this essay, Daniel Monterescu and Ariel Handel take us “behind the scenes” of the disciplinary and geopolitical border-crossing fieldwork that formed the basis of their recent CSSH article, “Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land.”
May 2020
Congratulations to Marc Baer on the publication of his new book, “German, Jew, Muslim, Gay:
The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus” (Columbia University Press, 2020).
Volume 62, #2 // April 2020
The essays in this issue are grouped under the following rubrics: Taste, Territory, and “the People,” At the Edge of the State, and Expedient Ethnography.
Decades on Disease
As coronavirus (COVID-19) commands attention worldwide, CSSH turns to its archives to gain insight. Here we have collected decades of excellent scholarship on disease and epidemics.