Figuring out the university and the student in neoliberal times: reviews of Learning under neoliberalism (Hyatt, Shear and Wright 2015) and Figuration work (Nielsen 2015)
Anders G. and O. Zenker (eds.) 2015. Transition and justice. Negotiating the terms of new beginnings in Africa. New York: Wiley‐Blackwell. 245 pp. Pb.: US$31.13. ISBN: 9781118944776.
Barnes, Jessica. 2014. Cultivating the Nile: the everyday politics of water in Egypt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 230 pp. Pb.: US$24.95. ISBN: 9780822357568.
Boellstorff, Tom and Bill Maurer (eds.) 2015. Data, now bigger and better! Chicago, IL: Prickly Paradigm Press. 104 pp. Pb.: $12.95. ISBN: 9780984201068.
Drazin, Adam and Susanne Küchler (eds.) 2015. The social life of materials: studies in materials and society. London and New York: Bloomsbury. 301 pp. Pb.: £24.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐4725‐9264‐4.
Eriksen, Thomas H., Christina Garsten and Shalini Randeria (eds.). 2014. Anthropology Now and Next: Essays in Honor of Ulf Hannerz. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. 324 pp. Hb.: $110.00/£68.00. ISBN: 978 178238 449 6.
Ghodsee, Kristen. 2015. The left side of history: World War II and the unfulfilled promise of Communism in Eastern Europe. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 256 pp. Pb.: £15.99. ISBN: 9780822358350.
Hocking, Bree T. 2015. The great reimagining: public art, urban space and the symbolic landscapes of a ‘new’ Northern Ireland. New York: Berghahn (Material mediations: people and things in a world of movement; volume 4). 232 pp. US$95.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78238‐621‐6.
Hromadžić, Azra. 2015. Citizens of an empty nation: youth and state‐making in postwar Bosnia‐Herzegovina. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press. 239 pp. Hb: £39.00. ISBN: 9780812247008.
Kasmir, Sharryn and August Carbonella (eds.) 2014. Blood and fire. Toward a global anthropology of labor. New York: Berghahn Books. 298 pp. Hb.: US$95.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐78238‐363‐5.
Knight, Daniel. 2015. History, time and economic crisis in central Greece. Hampshire: Palgrave‐Macmillan. 201 pp. Pb.: £65.00. ISBN: 978‐1‐137‐50148‐6.
Kulick, Don and Jens Rydström. 2015. Loneliness and its opposite: sex, disability, and the ethics of engagement. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 362 pp. Pb.: £17.99. ISBN: 9780822358336.
Kuper, Adam. 2015. Anthropology and anthropologists: the British school in the twentieth century. London: Routledge. xvii + 152 pp., illustrations, appendices, index. Pb.: US$42.70. ISBN: 978‐0‐415‐73634‐3.
Marinaro Clough, Isabella and Bjørn Thomassen (eds.). 2014. Global Rome: Changing Faces of the Eternal City (New Anthropologies of Europe). Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 310 pp. Pb.: $27. ISBN: 978‐0253012951.
Naraindas, Harish, Johannes Quack and William S. Sax (eds.) 2014. Asymmetrical conversations: contestations, circumventions, and the blurring of therapeutic boundaries. New York: Berghahn Books. 276 pp. Hb.: US$82.59. ISBN‐13: 978‐1782383086.
Schechter, K. 2014. Illusions of a future: psychoanalysis and the biopolitics of desire. Durham, NC: Duke University Press Books. 288 pp. Pb: US$18.34. ISBN: 978‐0822357216.
