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  • Trash

    by Sylvia Aguilar-Zéleny ...
    Translated by J. D. Pluecker ...
    Trash interweaves the voices of three women with lived connections to the municipal garbage dump of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico.Aguilar Zéleny's Trash shows the complexities of survival and joy, love and violence for three women: a teenager abandoned by her guardian at the dump, a scientist doing research on the residents of the dump, and a transwoman living nearby who is the matriarch of a group of sex ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Defense of Common Life

    The Political Thought of Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar

    by Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar ...
    Translated by JD Pluecker ...
    The essential political and theoretical work of one of Latin America’s most important contemporary theorists.Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar is one of the foremost Latin American political thinkers. From armed Indigenous struggle in the Bolivian altiplano to the contemporary wave of feminist uprisings, Raquel Gutiérrez's life and work have spanned and spurred on some of the most important political ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gore Capitalism

    by Sayak Valencia ...
    Translated by John Pluecker ...
    Series Book 24 - Semiotext(e) / Intervention Series
    An analysis of contemporary violence as the new commodity of today's hyper-consumerist stage of capitalism.“Death has become the most profitable business in existence.”—from Gore CapitalismWritten by the Tijuana activist intellectual Sayak Valencia, Gore Capitalism is a crucial essay that posits a decolonial, feminist philosophical approach to the outbreak of violence in Mexico and, more broadly, ... Read more

    $18.39 CAD

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    Horizontalism and Autonomy in Argentina

    by Marina A. Sitrin ...
    In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming together in order to resist corporate globalization and seek a more positive way forward. These movements are not based on hierarchy; rather than looking to those in power to solve their problems, participants are looking to one another. In certain ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Endangered City

    The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá

    by Austin Zeiderman ...
    Series series Global Insecurities
    Security and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Bogotá, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Words of Passage

    National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants

    by Hilary Parsons Dick ...
    Migration fundamentally shapes the processes of national belonging and socioeconomic mobility in Mexico—even for people who never migrate or who return home permanently. Discourse about migrants, both at the governmental level and among ordinary Mexicans as they envision their own or others’ lives in “El Norte,” generates generic images of migrants that range from hardworking family people to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Tyranny of Common Sense

    Mexico's Post-Neoliberal Conversion

    by Irmgard Emmelhainz ...
    Elucidates how neoliberalism rules all areas of life and operates as a form of common sense, taking Mexico as a case study.As one of the first countries to implement a neoliberal state apparatus, Mexico serves as a prime example of the effects of neoliberal structural economic reform on our sensibility. Irgmard Emmelhainz argues that, in addition to functioning as a form of politico-economic ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • This Is How You Lose Her

    by Junot Díaz ...
    Finalist for the 2012 National Book AwardA Time and People Top 10 Book of 2012Finalist for the 2012 Story PrizeChosen as a notable or best book of the year by The New York Times, Entertainment Weekly, The LA Times, Newsday, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, the iTunes bookstore, and many more...**"Electrifying." –The New York Times Book Review“Exhibits the potent ble... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • The Zapatista Experience

    Rebellion, Resistance, and Autonomy

    by Jérôme Baschet ...
    Translated by Traductores Rebeldes Autónomos Cronopios ...
    An exploration of the Zapatista project, from its conception to the present.On the thirtieth anniversary of the Mayan Indigenous uprising in Chiapas, The Zapatista Experience reconstructs the trajectory of the Zapatista struggle over the last three decades, both in its concrete achievements and in its contributions to the renewal of critical and antisystemic thinking. The Zapatista rebellion has ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Feminist Subversion of the Economy

    Contributions for a Life Against Capital

    by Amaia Pérez Orozco ...
    Translated by Liz Mason-Deese Mason-Deese ...
    The first book by Amaia Pérez Orosco translated into EnglishOne of the leading thinkers on the Spanish left explores the interactions of patriarchy and capitalismConnects theoretical arguments with on-the-ground lived experiencesHow has social reproduction been transformed by a series of environmental and public health crisesPEN Award winning translator of Spanish feminist economic texts Liz Mason ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Designs for the Pluriverse

    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD