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Silvia Vignato and Matteo Carlo Alcano, eds, Searching for Work: Small-scale Mobility and Unskilled Labor in Southeast Asia (Thailand: Silkworm Books, 2018), 312 pp., 16 illustrations, $40.00
John Wei, Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration and Middle Classes (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2020), 216 pp., 9 illustrations. HK$495
Ben Nobbs-Thiessen, Landscapes of Migration: Mobility and Environmental Change on Bolivia's Tropical Frontier, 1952 to the Present (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020), 342 pp., 12 halftones, 4 maps, 2 graphs, $35.50
Gretchen Sorin, Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights (New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2020), xviii +332 pp. $28.95
Candacy Taylor, Overground Railroad: The Green Book and the Roots of Black Travel in America (New York: Abrams Press, 2020), 360 pp. $35.00
Contributor Notes
Aditi Aggarwal is a cultural anthropologist interested in urban transformations and how these intersect with the everyday in cities in South Asia. Her research looks at how processes of privatization of public transport infrastructures unfold, and focuses on the creation and constant disruption of vendor economies run by women on city suburban trains. Email: aaggar20@uic.edu
Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen is Professor of Gender Studies at the University of Stavanger, Norway. Amongst many publications on queer and feminist issues in China and Nordic Europe is Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography (Routledge 2014). Email: elisabeth.l.engebretsen@uis.no
Amanda K. Phillips de Lucas is a social scientist and environmental historian. She also serves as director of the Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, part of The University of Baltimore's Jacob France Institute (JFI). Email: aphillipsdelucas@ubalt.edu
Kevin Vrevich is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Wesleyan University. He is currently working on his first book project, tentatively entitled The Inner Light of Radical Abolitionism: Greater Rhode Island and the Emergence of American Civil Rights. Email: kvrevich@wesleyan.edu.