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Thea Mercer
Exertions co-editor for Book Reviews
Thea Mercer is a Master of Anthropology graduate from University College Cork (Ireland) and earned an editing certificate from University of Washington (United States). Research interests include creative workers’ methodologies through cross-cultural interdisciplinary modes.
PC
Published: Mar 14, 2025
Book review of Waqas H. Butt's Life Beyond Waste: Work and Infrastructure in Urban Pakistan (2023)
AD
Published: Mar 29, 2025
Book review of Daniel E. Agbiboa's They Eat Our Sweat: Transport Labor, Corruption, and Everyday Survival in Urban Nigeria (2022)
TG
Published: Apr 27, 2025
Book review of Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria's Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility (2024)
HB
Published: Mar 03, 2025
Book review of Chris Hann's Work, Society, and the Ethical Self: Chimeras of Freedom in the Neoliberal Era (2021)
DS
Published: May 15, 2024
Book review of Charlie Eaton’s Bankers in the Ivory Tower: The Troubling Rise of Financiers in US Higher Education (2022)
TP
Published: May 28, 2024
Book review of Christina Lee and Susan Leong's Living with Precariousness (2023)
AS
Published: May 31, 2024
Book review of Sanaa Alimia's Refugee Cities: How Afghans Changed Urban Pakistan (2022)
OB
Published: Mar 09, 2025
Book review of Daivi Rodima-Taylor and Parker Shipton's Land and the Mortgage: History, Culture, Belonging (2022)
JZ
Published: Jun 20, 2024
Book review of Arturo Cifuentes and Ventura Charlin's The Worth of Art: Financial Tools for the Art Markets (2023)
HB
Published: Jul 17, 2024
Book review of Alexandrea J. Ravenelle's Side Hustle Safety Net (2023)
GG
Published: Aug 12, 2024
Book review of Joshua Grace's African Motors: Technology, Gender, and the History of Development (2021)
AJ
Published: Aug 22, 2024
Book review of María L. Cruz-Torres’s Pink Gold: Women, Shrimp, and Work in Mexico (2023)
RS
Published: Oct 02, 2024
Book review of Margaret Jack's Media Ruins: Cambodian Postwar Media Reconstruction and the Geopolitics of Technology (2023)
HE
Published: Oct 13, 2024
Book review of Helen Sampson's Sea-Time: An Ethnographic Adventure (2024)
SK
Published: Oct 22, 2024
Book review of Malcolm Ferdinand's Decolonial Ecology: Thinking from the Caribbean World (2022 English, 2019 French)
JE
Published: Dec 01, 2024
Book review of Viola Thimm's Shopping with Allah: Muslim Pilgrimage in a Globalised World (2023)
ES
Published: Dec 17, 2024
Book review of Jayaseelan Raj's Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt (2022)
DC
Published: Dec 22, 2024
Book review of Johannes Lenhard's Making Better Lives: Hope, Freedom and Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough in Paris (2022)
SR
Published: Jan 29, 2025
Book review of Jamie J. Fader's On Shifting Ground: Constructing Manhood on the Margins (2024)
FK
Published: Feb 02, 2025
Book review of Sian Lazar's How We Struggle: A Political Anthropology of Labour (2023)
ND
Published: Feb 24, 2025
Book review of Chris Hann and Jonathan Parry's Industrial Labor on the Margins of Capitalism: Precarity, Class, and the Neoliberal Subject (2022)
