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In a discussion of Jovan Scott Lewis's Scammer's Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica (2020), the book is considered as ethnography written from "inside the circle" (Sadiya Hartman) of a generation of young Black men brought up in Jamaica. Nonetheless, Lewis shows genuine appreciation of the profound differences between himself and his respondents. However, the response ends by proposing that Lewis needed to widen the circle to include those who died in the terrible violence that was a consequence of the scamming practices that he describes, and that his arguments about Black repair might have been all the more convincing had he been able to do so. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Bengal Diaspora: Rethinking Muslim Migration produces one of our most detailed anatomies of a "TranslAsian" time-space location. It juxtaposes the ways that multiple migrations and diasporas have been locally, multi-locally and trans-temporally configured, and so re-orientates attention beyond a Eurocentric focus on the West. In an ambitious move towards multidisciplinary holism that reflexively acknowledges the "pieced-together" nature of its own representations "here and now" social relations and juxtaposed with thicker descriptions of memorialized "origins and causes". In this regard The Bengal Diaspora can be said to map "religion"-based dimensions of Muslim diasporas in terms of three distinctive spatial scales. However, while "Muslim" identifications are rightly conceived as contextual performances by migrants with divergent social capitals in specific social settings, I suggest that the unstable reproduction of Islamic tradition as a more or less enduring part of social structure is a part of Muslim performativity too. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses Jessica Schiefauer's prize-winning young adult novel Pojkarna (The Boys), where a magical metamorphosis from girl to boy takes place. The novel raises questions about girlhood and gender: what is it like not being able to identify with a specific gender? The article analyses how girlhood is constructed in Pojkarna, and discusses the novel as fantastic realism and thus as an eclectic form of fantasy literature. The argument of the article is that the novel, through its depiction of gender, contributes to a renewal of the fantastic genre. This article examines how girlhood is constructed through metamorphoses, performativity, spatiality and mirroring. The narrative does not demand a reversion to realism, utilizing the subversiveness of the fantastic genre to its fullest. Thus the potential of the magical metamorphosis, to another gender, remains at the end of the novel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the books "An Engine Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets" and "Material Markets: How Economic Agents are Constructed," both by Donald MacKenzie.

The article reviews two books "Dead End Feminism," by Elisabeth Badinter and "Culture and Performance: The Challenges of Ethics, Politics and Feminist Theory," by Vikki Bell.