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  • Sovereign Bodies

    Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World

    Edited by Finn Stepputat, Thomas Blom Hansen ...
    9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • States of Imagination

    Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State

    by George Steinmetz, Julia Adams ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights—and the idea of human rights itself—is historically specific and contingent.Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Power of Identity

    by Manuel Castells ...
    Series Book 14 - Information Age Series
    In this second volume of The Information Age trilogy, with an extensive new preface following the recent global economic crisis, Manuel Castells deals with the social, political, and cultural dynamics associated with the technological transformation of our societies and with the globalization of the economy.Extensive new preface examines how dramatic recent events have transformed the socio ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The End of the Cognitive Empire

    The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Transitions from Authoritarian Rule

    Tentative Conclusions about Uncertain Democracies

    by Guillermo O’Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, Laurence Whitehead ...
    The foundational text for democratization studies for over 25 years.Political science scholars consider the four-volume work Transitions from Authoritarian Rule to be a foundational text for studying the process of democratization, specifically in those cases where an authoritarian regime is giving way to some form of democratic government. The most important of the four books is without a doubt ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Populism

    Edited by Paul A. Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Pierre Ostiguy, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Populist forces are becoming increasingly relevant across the world, and studies on populism have entered the mainstream of the political science discipline. However, so far no book has synthesized the ongoing debate on how to study the populist phenomenon. This handbook provides state of the art research and scholarship on populism, and lays out, not only the cumulated knowledge on populism, but ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Promise and Perils of Populism

    Global Perspectives

    Edited by Carlos de la Torre ...
    From the protesters in Cairo's Tahrir Square to the Tea Party in the United States to the campaign to elect indigenous leader Evo Morales in Bolivia, modern populist movements command international attention and compel political and social change. When citizens demand "power to the people," they evoke corrupt politicians, imperialists, or oligarchies that have appropriated power from its ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Africa's Contemporary Challenges

    The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral

    Edited by Carlos Lopes ...
    This book reviews Cabral’s intellectual contribution to current debates on race, identity, nation building, democracy, leadership and ethics. The key leader of the national liberation movements of former Portuguese African colonies is considered to be one of their foremost intellectuals the continent has produced. This rare combination of freedom fighter, operational campaigner and astute ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • The Future of Human Rights

    by Upendra Baxi ...
    This book critically examines the contemporary discourses on the nature of 'human rights', their histories, the myths that are embedded in them, and contributes an alternative reading of those histories by placing the concerns and interests of the 'people in struggle and communities of resistance' at centre stage. The work analyses the significance of the United Nations (UN) and the Universal ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Diasporas

    Concepts, Intersections, Identities

    by Jeffrey Lesser, Homi Bhabha, Peter Mandaville, Terrance Lyons, Claire Dwyer, Manuel Vasquez, Jaine Beswick, Karim H Karim, Doctor Daniela Berghahn, Ian Cook, Tariq Modood, Toshio Watanbe, Paul Gilroy, Doctor Larissa Remennick, Gerd Baumann, Professor Martin Baumann, David Richardson, Professor Robin Cohen, Ulirke Meinhof, Sara Wills, Professor Flemming Christiansen, Junior Professor Doctor Kira Kosnick, Doctor Dibyesh Anand, Sanaz Raji, Anastasia Christou, Juan Flores, Madeleine Wong, Professor Russell King, Pnina Werbner, Susheila Nasta, Doctor James Procter, Helen Gilbert, Victoria Bernal, Avtar Brah, Khachig Tololyan, Peggy Levitt, Marie Gillespie, Philip Crang, Mark Johnson, Nicholas Van Hear, Virinder Kalra, Professor Graham Huggan, Steven Vertovec, Vijay Agnew, Simon Turner, Nadje Sadig Al-Ali ...
    Featuring essays by world-renowned scholars, Diasporas charts the various ways in which global population movements and associated social, political and cultural issues have been seen through the lens of diaspora.Wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, this collection considers critical concepts shaping the field, such as migration, ethnicity, post-colonialism and cosmopolitanism. It also examines key ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD