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FEELING LIKE A STATE: Desire, Denial, and the Recasting of Authority: By Davina Cooper. Cooper is also aware of the fact that her state conception "may prove less useful, diffusing the extent of coercive state power and blunting some of the ways governmental authority is exercised unequally. Furthermore, as Cooper argues, states not only consist of dissenting and fleeting actors, beliefs, and space; there are also differently scaled state and state-like formations that coexist and overlap. [Extracted from the article]

By foregrounding this labor, Appel illustrates the operation of global capitalism not as a set of intrinsic, systematic logics, but as an ongoing project of construction made through grounded material and semiotic practices. THE LICIT LIFE OF CAPITALISM: U.S. Oil in Equatorial Guinea: By Hannah Appel. While Appel's subject matter is complex, the book's clear, compelling, and approachable prose make it an excellent addition to graduate-level geography courses focused on political economy, political ecology, infrastructure, or racial capitalism. [Extracted from the article]