The Penn Press list for spring 2021 includes hardcover releases, first-time paperbacks, and ebook editions intended for scholars, students, and serious general readers worldwide. Click here to explore our forthcoming books, grouped by subject area.

The Ethnography of Political Violence

Series Editors: Daniel J. Hoffman, Tobias Kelly, Sharika Thiranagama

Ambikaipaker, Political Blackness in Multiracial Britain (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Argenti-Pillen, Masking Terror: How Women Contain Violence in Southern Sri Lanka (hc 2002, eb 2013)

Besteman, Unraveling Somalia: Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery (pb 1999, eb 2014)

Billaud, Kabul Carnival: Gender Politics in Postwar Afghanistan (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Biner, States of Dispossession: Violence and Precarious Coexistence in Southeast Turkey (hc 2020, eb 2019)

Bornstein, Crossing the Green Line Between the West Bank and Israel (pb 2003)

Bryant/Hatay, Sovereignty Suspended: Building the So-Called State (hc 2020, eb 2020)

Bucaille/Rundell, Making Peace with Your Enemy: Algerian, French, and South African Ex-Combatants (hc 2019)

Buch Segal, No Place for Grief: Martyrs, Prisoners, and Mourning in Contemporary Palestine (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Cabot, On the Doorstep of Europe: Asylum and Citizenship in Greece (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Doughty, Remediation in Rwanda: Grassroots Legal Forums (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Drexler, Aceh, Indonesia: Securing the Insecure State (pb 2009)

Duschinski/Bhan, Resisting Occupation in Kashmir (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Hedlund, Hutu Rebels: Exile Warriors in the Eastern Congo (hc 2019, eb 2019)

Hermez, War Is Coming: Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon (hc 2017, pb May 2021, eb 2017)

Hinton/Good, Culture and PTSD: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective (hc 2015, pb 2019, eb 2015)

Honwana, Child Soldiers in Africa (pb 2007, eb 2011)

Hromadžić, Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-Making in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina (hc 2015, eb 2015)

Jensen/Ronsbo, Histories of Victimhood (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Jok, War and Slavery in Sudan (pb 2001, eb 2010)

Maček, Sarajevo Under Siege: Anthropology in Wartime (pb 2011, eb 2016)

Menon, Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (pb 2012, eb 2011)

Moodie, El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy (pb 2012, eb 2011)

Moran, Liberia: The Violence of Democracy (pb 2008, eb 2013)

Navaro/Biner, Reverberations: Violence Across Time and Space (hc Oct 2021, eb Oct 2021)

Neofotistos, The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia (hc 2012, eb 2012)

Neuman, Settling Hebron: Jewish Fundamentalism in a Palestinian City (hc 2018, eb 2018)

Nordstrom, A Different Kind of War Story (pb 1997)

Ochs, Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Peteet, Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps (pb 2009, eb 2011)

Pettigrew/Gellner, Maoists at the Hearth: Everyday Life in Nepal's Civil War (hc 2013, eb 2013)

Redeker Hepner, Soldiers, Martyrs, Traitors, and Exiles: Political Conflict in Eritrea and the Diaspora (pb 2011)

Robben, Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina (pb 2007, eb 2010)

Robben, Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War (pb 2011, eb 2010)

Skidmore, Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (pb 2004, eb 2012)

Sluka, Death Squad: The Anthropology of State Terror (pb 1999, eb 2010)

Stølen, Guatemalans in the Aftermath of Violence: The Refugees' Return (hc 2007)

Sur, Jungle Passports: Fences, Mobility, and Citizenship at the Northeast India-Bangladesh Border (hc Jun 2021, pb Jun 2021, eb Jun 2021)

Thiranagama/Obeyesekere, In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka (pb 2013, eb 2011)

Weiss, Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (hc 2014, eb 2014)

Wiegink, Former Guerrillas in Mozambique (hc 2020, eb 2020)

Wilson, Sovereignty in Exile: A Saharan Liberation Movement Governs (hc 2016, eb 2016)

Wright, The Israeli Radical Left: An Ethics of Complicity (hc 2018, eb 2018)