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  • Zimbabwean Women Writers

    Writing the Nation

    Edited by Esther Mavengano, Collen Sabao, Maurice T. Vambe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in African Literature
    This book is a powerful testament to the transformative force of women’s storytelling in shaping Zimbabwe’s past and present, and in boldly reimagining its future.Spanning the colonial period to the contemporary moment, the book reconfigures the contours of Zimbabwean Literature by challenging dominant narratives and reasserting the significance of women writers’ contributions to national ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Close to the Sources

    Essays on Contemporary African Culture, Politics and Academy

    by Abebe Zegeye, Maurice Vambe ...
    Series series Routledge African Studies
    European and African works have found it difficult to move past the image of Africa as a place of exotica and relentless brutality. This book explores the status and critical relationship between politics, culture, literary creativity, criticism, education and publishing in the context of promoting Africa’s indigenous knowledge, and seeks to recover some of the sites where Africans continue to ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    Series series Beginnings
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  • The Consequences of Modernity

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    In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post-modern world. Rather the distinctive characteristics of our major social institutions in the closing period of the twentieth century express the emergence of a period of 'high modernity,' in which ... Read more

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  • The End Of Capitalism (As We Knew It)

    A Feminist Critique of Political Economy

    by J.K. Gibson-Graham ...
    In the mid-1990s, at the height of academic discussion about the inevitability of capitalist globalization, J. K. Gibson-Graham presented a groundbreaking and controversial argument for envisioning alternative economies. This new edition includes an introduction in which the authors address critical responses to The End of Capitalism and outline the economic research and activism they have been ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom

    by David Harvey ...
    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    Liberty and freedom are frequently invoked to justify political action. Presidents as diverse as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and George W. Bush have built their policies on some version of these noble values. Yet in practice, idealist agendas often turn sour as they confront specific circumstances on the ground. Demonstrated by incidents at Abu Ghraib ... Read more

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  • Space, Place and Gender

    by Doreen Massey ...
    This new book brings together Doreen Massey's key writings on three areas central to a range of disciplines. In addition, the author reflects on the development of these ideas and outlines her current position on these important issues.The book is organized around the three themes of space, place and gender. It traces the development of ideas about the social nature of space and place and the ... Read more

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  • Fortunes of Feminism

    From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

    by Nancy Fraser ...
    Nancy Fraser’s major new book traces the feminist movement’s evolution since the 1970s and anticipates a new—radical and egalitarian—phase of feminist thought and action.During the ferment of the New Left, “Second Wave” feminism emerged as a struggle for women’s liberation and took its place alongside other radical movements that were questioning core features of capitalist society. But feminism’s ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Emotional Logic of Capitalism

    What Progressives Have Missed

    by Martijn Konings ...
    The capitalist market, progressives bemoan, is a cold monster: it disrupts social bonds, erodes emotional attachments, and imposes an abstract utilitarian rationality. But what if such hallowed critiques are completely misleading? This book argues that the production of new sources of faith and enchantment is crucial to the dynamics of the capitalist economy. Distinctively secular patterns of ... Read more

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  • Strange Encounters

    Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    Series series Transformations
    Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community ... Read more

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  • Cartographies of Diaspora

    Contesting Identities

    by Avtar Brah ...
    By addressing questions of culture, identity and politics, Cartographies of Diaspora throws new light on discussions about `difference' and `diversity', informed by feminism and post-structuralism. It examines these themes by exploring the intersections of `race', gender, class, sexuality, ethnicity, generation and nationalism in different discourses, practices and political contexts.The first ... Read more

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  • Feminism and Geography

    The Limits of Geographical Knowledge

    by Gillian Rose ...
    Geography is a subject which throughout its history has been dominated by men; men have undertaken the heroic explorations which form the mythology of its foundation, men have written most of its texts and, as many feminist geographers have remarked, men's interests have structured what counts as legitimate geographical knowledge. This book offers a sustained examination of the masculinism of ... Read more

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