"Counternarrative Possibilities" reads Cormac McCarthy's westerns against the backdrop of American mythology's two formative national tropes: virgin land (from the 1950s) and homeland (after 9/11). Looking at McCarthy's westerns in the context of Ame...

States in sub-Saharan Africa, as anywhere else, are vested with the authority to implement laws and sanction their application. But in spite of a growing emphasis in Africa on participatory approaches to legislation, little research has focused on th...

The two decades following the collapse of the Soviet Union brought great changes to the new nations on its periphery".Urban Spaces after Socialism" offers a detailed ethnographic look at one area of change: the use and understanding of public space i...