Keisha Wiel (2023) demonstrates the power imbalance that occurs when a government enforces a specific language on its multilingual population, particularly when the preferred language was introduced by colonization.

Anthropologist, Asale Angel-Ajani, states her main argument that “discourses on crime and on who commits it are saturated with the language of citizenship, social class, gender, and race” (Angel-Ajani 2003, 48).

Drawing on ethnographic research of the Japanese popular culture ‘kawaii’, Sharon Kinsella’s (1995) “Cuties in Japan” explores and critically analyzes how the permeation of “cuteness” into various aspects of Japanese society functions in relation to gender roles, consumer culture, and identity formation.

In “‘I Will Never Forgive Him’: Blame, Precarious Kinship, and Illness in Low‐income Urban India,” Lesley Branagan (2024) aims to examine and illuminate the role of blame within kinship relationships, mainly through the lens of women experiencing serious or chronic illness in Delhi, India.

“Silicon Utopias: The Making of a Tech Startup Ecosystem in Manchester (UK)” by Richard Pfeilstetter (2017) dissects the public perception and government’s role in the promotion of tech startups in Manchester, UK.