"Outlaw Capital explores the ethnographic case of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, which is described as the "largest illicit economy in the Western Hemisphere." Jennifer Lee Tucker details the city's transformation from a tiny frontier outpost into a global trading hub and demonstrates the key...

"Disturbing Development in the Jim Crow South explores how Black employees within the United States Department of Agriculture re-worked federal mandates and re-imagined federal projects to serve their own collective goals to support Black farmer survival within the Jim Crow South. Domosh focuses...

Grounding Spanish housing financialization and mortgage biopolitics -- The biopolitics of the 1997-2007 housing boom -- Maintaining mortgaged lives -- Political subject formation in struggles to demortgage life -- Housing life-debt struggles in spain and beyond.

In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and...

Introduction: Political practice at the margins -- Political economies of food sovereignty -- Episteme(s) of food sovereignty -- Temporary commons: urban community gardens -- Spatial practices of governance: community-based rights -- Re/territorializing food security: Manoomin gift economies --...

Introduction -- Geographical politics and the politics of geography -- Latin America and the production of the global economy -- From passive revolution to silent revolution: the politics of state, space, and class formation in modern Mexico -- The changing state of resistance: defending place...

Territories of Poverty challenges the conventional North-South geographies through which poverty scholarship is organized. Staging theoretical interventions that traverse social histories of the American welfare state and critical ethnographies of international development regimes, these essays...

"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID -- "In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War -- Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization -- Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror -- Development...