1st Edition
The Tumultuous Politics of Scale Unsettled States, Migrants, Movements in Flux
Biography
Donald M. Nonini, Professor of Anthropology, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill, has undertaken research in Malaysia, Australia, and the
United States on citizenship in the Chinese diaspora; U.S. local politics; and
on the commons. His latest book is “Getting by”: Class and State Formation
among Chinese in Malaysia (Cornell University Press, 2015).
Ida Susser, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College
and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, has published on
popular mobilizations, social movements, and the urban commons in the
United States, Europe, and Southern Africa. Her books include Norman
Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford University Press,
2012) and the co- edited volumes, Rethinking America (CRC Press, 2009) and
Wounded Cities (Berg, 2003).
This book is a worthy and interesting contribution to the revival of "political-economic anthropology" -- that is to the analysis of ethnographic findings in terms of vastly unequal classes and class struggles. The book’s central question is what it means for anthropologists to return to political economy in the globalized world of today. Overall, the collection of essays makes the case for a new set of interlocutors for the discipline. Jane Schneider, City University of New York
