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Besieged by sanctions: everyday encounters with economic warfare brings together sixteen original contributions examining Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Nicaragua, North Korea, Palestine, South Africa, ...
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  • 16 February 2027
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As Euro-American foreign policy relies increasingly on economic sanctions, Everyday Encounters with Economic Sanctions gathers scholarship from around the world to bring insights and critical analyses to the study of sanctions as foreign policy and their impacts on targeted countries. As sanctions affect more societies globally and for protracted periods, this volume argues for the humanistic study of sanctions that understands them as political and economic regimes of power that affect not only governments and institutions, but ordinary people in myriad ways. The volume aims to broaden and deepen scholarly knowledge of sanctions by gathering empirical, research-focused essays from international scholars working in sanctioned countries. In doing so it seeks to define the contours of a humanistic study of sanctions, with contributors bringing expertise in sanctions, international law, international relations, foreign policy, diplomacy, neoliberalism, and globalization to bear on how individuals in sanctioned societies experience them.
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Price: $150.00
Pages: 344
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 16 February 2027
ISBN: 9781807072438
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political economy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Anthropology, International relations
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Narges Bajoghli, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Johns Hopkins-SAIS, is an award-winning anthropologist, scholar, and filmmaker. Her book, Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic, received the 2020 Margaret Mead Award and other recognitions. She has co-authored How Sanctions Work: Iran and the Impact of Economic Warfare and directed the documentary “The Skin That Burns.”

Arzoo Osanloo, Professor in the Department of Law, Societies, and Justice at Princeton University, is a legal anthropologist. Her books include the award-winning Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims’ Rights in Iran and The Politics of Women’s Rights in Iran. She is also the co-editor with Cabeiri deBergh Robinson of Care in a Time of Humanitarianism: Stories of Refuge, Aid, and Repair in the Global South.

Introduction: Sanctions from below or why we need a humanistic study of sanctions – Narges Bajoghli and Arzoo Osanloo

Part I: Sanctions and sovereignty: Unmasking the imperial agenda

1. The mythology of economic sanctions – Joy Gordon
2. Sanctions against Nicaragua: The geopolitical imaginary and the politics of breakdown – David Cooper
3. The siege economy: Elite competition and the lobbying power behind sanctions – Narges Bajoghli

Part II: Debunking the myth of ‘just’ sanctions: Ethnographic insights into targeting and impact

4. Targeting the targeters: An agenda for the anthropology of sanctions-making – Joshua L. Mayer
5. El bloqueo & la revolución: Cuban representations of the US embargo –João Filipe Gonçalves
6. The materiality of the United States’ ‘targeted’ sanctions on Zimbabwe– Grasian Mkodzongi
7. If not sanctions, then what? How the world grapples with the political situation in South Sudan – Jok Madut Jok

Part III: Contested grounds: Sanctions and their socio-political repercussions

8. Resistance from below, solidarity from above: Gaza solidarity through a South African prism – Ran Greenstein
9. The ambiguity of punishment: On targeted US sanctions in South Sudan – Zachary Mondesire
10. Spectral sanctions and technologies of grievance: An anthropology of geopolitics in Venezuela –Matt Wilde
11. Politics of the blacklist: Sanctions, finance, and asphyxiatory violence in Palestine – Lisa Bhungalia

Part IV: Enduring sanctions: Local realities and global politics

12. Food, money, and everyday life in sanctioned Cuba – Hanna Garth and Mrinalini Tankha
13. Nothing is normal here: The crisis of value in under-sanctioned Iran – Ehsan Lor Afshar
14. Sanctions by design: Material and affective conditions of being under an economic siege – Arzoo Osanloo
15. Tangled threats: Unintended impacts of sanctions on everyday North Koreans –Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings
Conclusion: Towards an anthropology of sanctions