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  • Postcolonial Sociology

    by Julian Go ...
    Series Book 24 - Political Power and Social Theory
    Postcolonial theory has enjoyed wide influence in the humanities but for social science, and in particular sociology, its implications remain elusive. This special volume brings together leading sociologists to explore the concept of "postcolonial sociology," with brand new postcolonial readings of canonical thinkers like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Robert Park. Chapters consider ... Read more

    $218.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory

    by Julian Go ...
    Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social sciences for their Euro-centric focus. However, in Postcolonial Thought and Social Theory, Julian Go attempts to reconcile the two seemingly contradictory fields by crafting a postcolonial social science. Contrary to claims that social science is incompatible ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Perverse Politics?

    Feminism, Anti-Imperialism, Multiplicity

    by Julian Go ...
    Series Book 30 - Political Power and Social Theory
    In this special issue, we address what we refer to as 'perversity of the political' or 'perverse politics': namely, the assumptions political theory and movements, and in our specific case feminism, often make on behalf of their subjects, and how their subjects, in return, perform individual and collective contrariness, unruliness and resistance to what is expected or desired from their ... Read more

    $169.99 CAD

  • Patterns of Empire

    The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present

    by Julian Go ...
    Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American empire is unique, Patterns of Empire shows how the policies, practices, forms and historical dynamics of the American empire repeat those of the British, leading up to the present climate of economic decline, treacherous ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Policing Empires

    Militarization, Race, and the Imperial Boomerang in Britain and the US

    by Julian Go ...
    The police response to protests erupting on America's streets in recent years has made the militarization of policing painfully transparent. Yet, properly demilitarizing the police requires a deeper understanding of its historical development, causes, and social logics. Policing Empires offers a postcolonial historical sociology of police militarization in Britain and the United States to aid that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • American Empire and the Politics of Meaning

    Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism

    by Julian Go, Julia Adams, George Steinmetz ...
    Series series Politics, History, and Culture
    When the United States took control of the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the wake of the Spanish-American War, it declared that it would transform its new colonies through lessons in self-government and the ways of American-style democracy. In both territories, U.S. colonial officials built extensive public school systems, and they set up American-style elections and governmental institutions. ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803–1898

    by H. W. Brands, Christina Duffy Burnett, David P. Currie, William W. Freehling, Julian Go, Mark A. Graber, Paul Kens, Gary Lawson, Peter S. Onuf, Efrén Rivera Ramos, Guy Seidman ...
    The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Imperial Entanglements of Policing

    Edited by Julian Go, Stuart Schrader ...
    In recent years, people across the world have protested the violence of policing and its intrusion into everyday lives, and the close timing of these global movements is no coincidence. As Imperial Entanglements of Policing shows, a central reason for the remarkable similarities of policing around the globe is empire. Across the entire sweep of modern policing, there have been strong, mutual ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Anticolonialism and Social Thought

    Edited by Anaheed Al-Hardan, Julian Go ...
    Series series LSE International Studies
    Not only did the anticolonial movements of the past two centuries help bring down the global order of colonial empires, they also produced novel, innovative and vital social thought. Anticolonialism has been largely ignored in conventional Europe-centered social thought and theory, but this book shows how our sociological imagination can be expanded by taking challenges to colonialism and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Global Historical Sociology

    Edited by Julian Go, George Lawson ...
    Bringing together historical sociologists from Sociology and International Relations, this collection lays out the international, transnational, and global dimensions of social change. It reveals the shortcomings of existing scholarship and argues for a deepening of the 'third wave' of historical sociology through a concerted treatment of transnational and global dynamics as they unfold in and ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Postcolonial Sociologies

    A Reader

    Edited by Julian Go ...
    Series Book 31 - Political Power and Social Theory
    Postcolonial theory has mostly been confined to literary studies and the humanities, but it has been slowly making its way into social science. This is a welcome development but poses new challenges. How can postcolonial thought be most fruitfully translated and incorporated into sociology? This special volume brings together leading sociologists to offer some answers and examples. The chapters ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Decentering Social Theory

    Edited by Julian Go ...
    Series Book 25 - Political Power and Social Theory
    Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. A continuation of PPST's previous volume on "Postcolonial Sociology," this volume, "Decentering Social Theory," questions old categories, advances new postcolonial themes in social science, and ... Read more

    $203.99 CAD