Tag: ethnography

Excerpt from Unruly Domestication by Kristin Skrabut

Excerpt from Unruly Domestication by Kristin Skrabut

Unruly Domestication investigates how Peru’s ongoing, internationally endorsed “war on poverty” shapes politics, intimate identities, and urban space in Lima. Drawing on a decade of embedded, ethnographic research in Lima’s largest… READ MORE

Q&A with Mónica M. Salas Landa on Visible Ruins

Q&A with Mónica M. Salas Landa on Visible Ruins

The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted… READ MORE