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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “sheila mcmanus”
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  • Both Sides Now

    Writing the Edges of the North American West

    by Sheila McManus ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    How do borderlands work? How do they maintain their distinctive features in the face of concerted efforts on the part of nation-states to make each of their borderlines into a harsh demarcation? According to most contemporary political discourse and popular perceptions, the two borders of the United States West have little in common but understanding their borderlands’ similarities can help us ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Challenging Borders

    Contingencies and Consequences

    Edited by Paul McKenzie-Jones, Sheila McManus, Julie Young ...
    Borders are known for their paradoxical qualities. Sometimes they are shifting and porous, lines in the sand constituted more by subjective experience than by legal definition; at other times they harden into walls, are heavily securitized, and their primary function becomes keeping the unwanted out. Challenging Borders: Contingencies and Consequences sets out to explore the concrete, complex ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

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  • Ethnicity and Race

    Making Identities in a Changing World

    by Douglas Hartmann, Stephen E. Cornell ...
    Series series Sociology for a New Century Series
    "This book is very well written and clearly organized throughout. It is pitched at upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level race and ethnicity students...in sum, this is an important book, highly recommended to students and faculty alike. The authors draw extensively from classic and contemporary sociological theory throughout the text and maintain a transnational focus in each and every ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Settler Colonial City

    Racism and Inequity in Postwar Minneapolis

    by David Hugill ...
    Revealing the enduring link between settler colonization and the making of modern MinneapolisColonial relations are often excluded from discussions of urban politics and are viewed instead as part of a regrettable past. In Settler Colonial City, David Hugill confronts this culture of organized forgetting by arguing that Minnesota’s largest city is enduringly bound up with the power dynamics of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Feminicide and Global Accumulation

    Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism

    by Susana Draper, Liz Mason-Deese, Silvia Federici, Sheila Gruner ...
    • There is widespread interest in intersectional approaches and voices of BIPOC on issues of violence in society.• The contributors in this book are not just theorizing about gender-based violence but are also on the frontlines of organizing against it.• Silvia Federici is a celebrated feminist, Marxist theorist and author of Caliban and the Witch, Revolution at Point Zero, Witches, Witch-Hunting, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Anti-Capitalism

    by Ezequiel Adamovsky ...
    Translated by Marie Trigona ...
    In Anti-Capitalism, activist and scholar Ezequiel Adamovsky tells the story of the long-standing effort to build a better world, one without an abusive system at its heart. Backed up by arresting, lucid images from the radical artist group United Illustrators, Adamovsky details the struggle against rising corporate power, as that struggle unfolds in the halls of academia, in the pages of radical ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Return of Inequality

    Social Change and the Weight of the Past

    by Mike Savage ...
    A pioneering book that takes us beyond economic debate to show how inequality is returning us to a past dominated by empires, dynastic elites, and ethnic divisions.The economic facts of inequality are clear. The rich have been pulling away from the rest of us for years, and the super-rich have been pulling away from the rich. More and more assets are concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • From Time Immemorial

    Indigenous Peoples and State Systems

    by Richard J. Perry ...
    An examination of the similar patterns inherent in state conquest and incorporation of indigenous peoples in North America, Australia, Asia, and Africa.Around the globe, people who have lived in a place "from time immemorial" have found themselves confronted by and ultimately incorporated within larger state systems. During more than three decades of anthropological study of groups ranging from ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Exotic No More

    Anthropology for the Contemporary World

    Edited by Jeremy MacClancy ...
    "This excellent collection of essays by some of the leading lights of anthropology provides paths from the never more pressing question 'what is to be done?'" —Catherine Lutz, University of North Caroline at Chapel HillIn this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Nations, One Place

    by Martha McCollough ...
    Series series Native Americans: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
    An intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction. Challenging historical views that structure a dichotomy of the colonizers and the colonized, this study ... Read more

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  • First Peoples

    Indigenous Cultures and their Futures

    by Jeffrey Sissons ...
    Series series FOCI
    First Peoples argues, controversially, that far from disappearing in the face of global capitalism, indigenous cultures today are as diverse as they ever were. Rather than being absorbed into a uniform modernity, indigenous peoples are anticipating alternative futures and appropriating global resources for their own, culturally specific needs. For Sissons, however, the traditional and the modern ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD