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  • Foucault and Genocide

    A Genealogy of the Fantasy of the West

    by Jon Douglas Solomon ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Michel Foucault’s seminal realization that security is a species concept opens a new path for understanding how genocide is fundamentally related to aesthetic ideology. Fueled by the settler colonial imaginary, the logic of “speciation” inevitably acquires a fictional aspect that is an enduring site of potentially catastrophic instability for transitional modernity. The genealogical source of this ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Knowledge Production and Epistemic Decolonization at the End of Pax Americana

    Edited by Naoki Sakai, Jon Solomon, Peter Button ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
    This book critically analyzes the global hegemony of the United States – a hegemony whose innovative aspect consists in articulating postcoloniality to imperial control – in relation to knowledge and knowledge production.Through targeted case studies on the historical relationship between regional areas and the United States, the authors explore possibilities and obstacles to epistemic ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Taiwan Consensus and the Ethos of Area Studies in Pax Americana

    Spectral Transitions

    by Jon Douglas Solomon ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperialism and agency, unipolarity and multipolarity, dominate the intellectual agenda of the day. Pursuing a parallel trajectory that is both epistemic and historical, that is traced out in relation both to Taiwan’s recent history and to the disparate forms ... Read more

    $153.69 CAD

  • Bigger than Ben-Hur

    The Book, Its Adaptations, and Their Audiences

    by Neil Sinyard, Eran Shalev, Jefferson J. A. Gatrall, Hilton Obenzinger, Howard Miller, Thomas J. Slater, Richard Walsh, Ina Rae Hark, David Mayer, Jon Solomon ...
    Series series Television and Popular Culture
    First published in 1880, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ became a best-seller. The popular novel spawned an 1899 stage adaptation, reaching audiences of over 10 million, and two highly successful film adaptations. For over a century, it has become a ubiquitous pop cultural presence, representing a deeply powerful story and monumental experience for some and a defining work of bad taste and false ... Read more

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Freeden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ideology is one of the most controversial terms in the political vocabulary, exciting both revulsion and inspiration. This book examines the reasons for those views, and explains why ideologies deserve respect as a major form of political thinking. It investigates the centrality of ideology both as a political phenomenon and as an organizing framework of political thought and action. It explores ... Read more

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  • Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World

    System, Scale, Culture

    by Richard E. Lee, Franco Moretti ...
    In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein’s world-systems analysis. The renowned sociologist developed his influential critical framework to explain the historical and continuing exploitation of the rest of the world by the West. World-systems analysis reflects Wallerstein ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Language, Capitalism, Colonialism

    Toward a Critical History

    by Monica Heller, Bonnie McElhinny ...
    Heller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism. In the process, they map out a critical history of how language serves, and has served, as a terrain for producing and reproducing social inequalities. The authors ask how, and by ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

    Edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully ...
    This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades.Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections – ... Read more

    $209.99 CAD

  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

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  • Global Modernities

    Edited by Mike Featherstone, Roland Robertson, Scott M Lash ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the `nation state′ and `national sovereignty′. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical issues discussed. ... Read more

    $161.59 CAD

  • Questions of Travel

    Postmodern Discourses of Displacement

    by Caren Kaplan, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Contemporary theory is replete with metaphors of travel—displacement, diaspora, borders, exile, migration, nomadism, homelessness, and tourism to name a few. In Questions of Travel, Caren Kaplan explores the various metaphoric uses of travel and displacement in literary and feminist theory, traces the political implications of this “traveling theory,” and shows how various discourses of ... Read more

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  • Antinomies of Art and Culture

    Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity

    by Antonio Negri, Geeta Kapur, Rosalind Krauss ...
    In this landmark collection, world-renowned theorists, artists, critics, and curators explore new ways of conceiving the present and understanding art and culture in relation to it. They revisit from fresh perspectives key issues regarding modernity and postmodernity, including the relationship between art and broader social and political currents, as well as important questions about temporality ... Read more

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