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  • Ocean as Method

    Thinking with the Maritime

    by Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi, Simi Malhotra, Saarah Jappie ...
    Ocean as Method presents a new way of thinking about the humanities and the social sciences. It explores maritime connections in social and humanistic research and puts forward an alternative to national histories and area studies. As global warming and rising sea levels ring alarm bells across the world, the chapters in the volume argue that it is time to think through oceans to realign ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Cinemas of the Global South

    Towards a Southern Aesthetics

    Edited by Dilip M Menon, Amir Taha ...
    This book engages with the idea of the Global South through cinema as a concept of resistance; as a space of decolonialisation; and as an arena of virtuality, creativity and change. It opens up a dialogue amongst scholars and filmmakers from the Global South: India, Nigeria, Colombia, Brazil, South Africa, and Egypt.The essays in the volume approach cinema as an intertwined process of both ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Changing Theory

    Concepts from the Global South

    Edited by Dilip M Menon ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Souths
    This book is an original, systematic, and radical attempt at decolonizing critical theory. Drawing on linguistic concepts from 16 languages from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words while discussing their conceptual implications for the humanities and the social sciences everywhere. The essays engage in the work of thinking ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Cosmopolitan Cultures and Oceanic Thought

    Edited by Dilip M Menon, Nishat Zaidi ...
    This book imagines the ocean as central to understanding the world and its connections in history, literature and the social sciences. Introducing the central conceptual category of ocean as method, it analyzes the histories of movement and traversing across connected spaces of water and land sedimented in literary texts, folklore, local histories, autobiographies, music and performance. It ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Capitalisms

    Towards a Global History

    Edited by Kaveh Yazdani, Dilip M. Menon ...
    Conventional accounts often conceive the genesis of capitalism in Europe within the conjunctures of agricultural, commercial, and industrial revolutions. Challenging this widely believed cliché, this volume traces the history of capitalism across civilizations, tenth century onwards, and argues that capitalism was neither a monolithic entity nor exclusively an economic phenomenon confined to the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

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  • Global Intellectual History

    Edited by Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Melayu

    The Politics, Poetics and Paradoxes of Malayness

    Edited by Maznah Mohamad, Syed Muhd Khairudin Aljunied ...
    People within the Malay world hold strong but diverse opinions about the meaning of the word Melayu, which can be loosely translated as Malayness. Questions of whether the Filipinos are properly called "Malay", or the Mon-Khmer speaking Orang Asli in Malaysia, can generate heated debates. So too can the question of whether it is appropriate to speak of a kebangsaan Melayu (Malay as nationality) as ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • People of the Maldive Islands

    by Clarence Maloney ...
    This book is an engagingly told cultural historical narrative of the island nation of the Maldive Islands from the earliest references in Indian and European classics. It also narrates the story of the settlement by people from South India and Sri Lanka, and their later conversion to Islam. The second half of the book is an anthropological perspective of life as it was in the mid-1970s, with ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Words in Motion

    Toward a Global Lexicon

    by Itty Abraham ...
    On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societies to highlight the social and political life of words in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The approach is consciously experimental, in that rigorously ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Swahili Port Cities

    The Architecture of Elsewhere

    by Sandy Prita Meier ...
    On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing. Meier understands architecture as more than a way to remake local space. Rather, the architecture ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Indian Ocean

    by Michael Pearson ...
    Series series Seas in History
    In this stimulating and authoritative overview, Michael Pearson reverses the traditional angle of maritime history and looks from the sea to its shores - its impact on the land through trade, naval power, travel and scientific exploration. This vast ocean, both connecting and separating nations, has shaped many countries' cultures and ideologies through the movement of goods, people, ideas and ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Locating Postcolonial Narrative Genres

    Edited by Walter Goebel, Saskia Schabio ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    This volume explores how postcolonial texts have determined the evolution or emergence of specific formal innovations in narrative genres. While the prominence of questions of cultural identity in postcolonial studies has prevented due attention to concerns of literary form and aesthetics, this book gives premium to the literary, aiming to delineate the evolution of specific narrative techniques ... Read more

    $70.99 USD