the present article aims to conduct an ethnographic study of the confrontation between the local culture and global commodities in baneh. theoretically, this article suggests that confrontation with the global should be understood in relation to neoliberal market, identityand collective ideologies. thus,while carrying out a participant observation,we interviewed fifteen people in baneh. the res...

Solomon Benatar offers an important critique of the limited frame that sets the boundaries of much of what is referred to as ‘global health.’ In placing his comments within a criticism of increasing poverty (or certainly income and wealth inequalities) and the decline in our environmental commons, he locates our health inequities within the pathology of our present global economy. In that respe...

The two excellent books I discuss in this essay offer an apparent paradox. They present significantly overlapping empirical material, yet provide widely divergent—at times, seemingly contradictory—analyses. Yet, considered together, the two studies help us to think through violence and governance in the urban Global South in new ways. Erika Robb Larkins’s meticulously researched and described e...

In their recent essay, ‘Human Geography without Scale’, Marston, Jones and Woodward (2005) take stock, albeit selectively, of almost 25 years of scale research and find it wanting. Given how substantial and influential the scale literature has become, not only in human geography but also now in political science, sociology and anthropology, we welcome their efforts to assess and critique this l...