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  • Techno-Orientalism

    Imagining Asia in Speculative Fiction, History, and Media

    by David S. Roh, Betsy Huang, Greta A. Niu, Kenneth Hough, Jason Crum, Victor Bascara, Warren Liu, Seo-Young Chu0, Abigail De Kosnik1, Jinny Huh2, Steve Choe3, Se Young Kim4, Dylan Yeats5, Julie Ha Tran6, Kathryn Allan7, Aimee Bahng8, Douglas S. Ishii9, Tzarina T. Prater0, Catherine Fung1, Charles Park2 ...
    Series series Asian American Studies Today
    What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Filipinx American Studies

    Reckoning, Reclamation, Transformation

    by Rick Bonus, Antonio Tiongson Jr., Angelica Allen, Gina Apostol, Nerissa Balce, Victor Bascara, Jody Blanco, Alana Bock, Sony Coranez Bolton0, Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns1, Richard Chu2, Gary Colmenar3, Kim Compoc4, Denise Cruz5, Reuben Deleon6, Josen Diaz7, Robert Diaz8, Vernadette Gonzales9, Theodore Gonzalves0, Anna Guevarra1, Allan Punzalan Isaac2, Martin Manalansan3, Dina Maramba4, Cynthia Marasigan5, Edward Nadurata6, JoAnna Poblete7, Anthony Bayani Rodriguez8, Dylan Rodríguez9, Evelyn Rodriguez0, J. A. Ruanto-Ramirez1, Michael Schulze-Oechtering2, Sarita Echavez-See3, Roy Taggueg4 ...
    This volume spotlights the unique suitability and situatedness of Filipinx American studies both as a site for reckoning with the work of historicizing U.S. empire in all of its entanglements, as well as a location for reclaiming and theorizing the interlocking histories and contemporary trajectories of global capitalism, racism, sexism, and heteronormativity. It encompasses an interrogation of ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Departures

    An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies

    by Yen Le Espiritu, Lan Duong, Ma Vang, Victor Bascara, Khatharya Um ...
    Series Book 3 - Critical Refugee Studies
    Departures supports, contextualizes, and advances the field of critical refugee studies by providing a capacious account of its genealogy, methods, and key concepts as well as its premises, priorities, and possibilities. The book outlines the field's main tenets, questions, and concerns and offers new approaches that integrate theoretical rigor and policy considerations with refugees' rich and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Asian American Literature in Transition, 1930–1965: Volume 2

    Edited by Victor Bascara, Josephine Nock-Hee Park ...
    Series series Asian American Literature in Transition
    This volume is devoted to Asian American Literature between 1930 to 1965, a period of immense social, historical, and cultural transformations that continue to shape the conditions of our world. From the Great Depression to the Second World War to the Civil Rights Movement to landmark immigrations reforms, Asian American literature provides unique and insightful perspectives on these historical ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD

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  • Keywords for Asian American Studies

    Edited by Cathy J. Schlund-Vials, K. Scott Wong, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    Series Book 4 - Keywords
    Introduces key terms, research frameworks, debates, and histories for Asian American StudiesBorn out of the Civil Rights and Third World Liberation movements of the 1960s and 1970s, Asian American Studies has grown significantly over the past four decades, both as a distinct field of inquiry and as a potent site of critique. Characterized by transnational, trans-Pacific, and trans-hemispheric ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History

    Edited by David K. Yoo, Eiichiro Azuma ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    After emerging from the tumult of social movements of the 1960s and 1970s, the field of Asian American studies has enjoyed rapid and extraordinary growth. Nonetheless, many aspects of Asian American history still remain open to debate. The Oxford Handbook of Asian American History offers the first comprehensive commentary on the state of the field, simultaneously assessing where Asian American ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Has the West Lost It?

    A Provocation

    by Kishore Mahbubani ...
    The West's two-century epoch as global powerhouse is at an end. A new world order, with China and India as the strongest economies, dawns. How will the West react to its new status of superpower in decline?In Kishore Mahbubani's timely polemic, he argues passionately that the West can no longer presume to impose its ideology on the world, and crucially, that it must stop seeking to intervene, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Demanding the Impossible

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global financial crisis, populism in Latin America, the rise of China and even the riddle of North Korea. Zizek dazzles readers with his analyses ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Courage of Hopelessness

    Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously

    by Slavoj Žižek ...
    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have admitted to ourselves that our situation is completely hopeless - that the light at the end of the tunnel is in fact the headlight of a train approaching us ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Alien Capital

    Asian Racialization and the Logic of Settler Colonial Capitalism

    by Iyko Day ...
    In Alien Capital Iyko Day retheorizes the history and logic of settler colonialism by examining its intersection with capitalism and the racialization of Asian immigrants to Canada and the United States. Day explores how the historical alignment of Asian bodies and labor with capital's abstract and negative dimensions became one of settler colonialism's foundational and defining features. This ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD