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  • An Anthropology of Disappearance

    Politics, Intimacies and Alternative Ways of Knowing

    Edited by Gerhild Perl, Laura Huttunen ...
    Series Book 46 - EASA Series
    All over the world, people disappear from their families, communities and the state’s bureaucratic gaze, as victims of oppressive regimes or while migrating along clandestine routes. This volume brings together scholars who engage ethnographically with such disappearances in various cultural, social and political contexts. It takes an anthropological perspective on questions about human life and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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  • Postcolonialism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert J. C. Young ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both the history and key debates of postcolonialism, and considers its importance as a means of changing the way we think about the world. Robert J. C. Young examines the key strategies that postcolonial ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Crip Times

    Disability, Globalization, and Resistance

    by Robert McRuer ...
    Series Book 1 - Crip
    Contends that disability is a central but misunderstood element of global austerity politics.Broadly attentive to the political and economic shifts of the last several decades, Robert McRuer asks how disability activists, artists and social movements generate change and resist the dominant forms of globalization in an age of austerity, or “crip times.”Throughout Crip Times, McRuer considers how ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Queer and Trans Migrations

    Dynamics of Illegalization, Detention, and Deportation

    by Eithne Luibheid, Karma R. Chavez, Anna Carastathis, Jack Caraves, Ryan Conrad, Katherine Fobear, Monisha Das Gupta, Jamila Hammami, Edward Ou Jin Lee0, Leece Lee-Oliver1, Hana Masri2, Yasmin Nair3, Bamby Salcedo4, Fadi Saleh5, Rafael Ramirez Solorzano6, José Guadalupe Herrera Soto7, Myrto Tsilimpounidi8, Suyapa Portillo Villeda9, Sasha Wijeyeratne0, Ruben Zecena1, AB Brown2, Elif Sari3, Julio Capo Jr.4 ...
    Series series Dissident Feminisms
    More than a quarter of a million LGBTQ-identified migrants in the United States lack documentation and constantly risk detention and deportation. LGBTQ migrants around the world endure similarly precarious situations. Eithne Luibhéid's and Karma R. Chávez’s edited collection provides a first-of-its-kind look at LGBTQ migrants and communities. The academics, activists, and artists in the volume ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
    What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The War on Drugs and the Global Colour Line

    Edited by Kojo Koram ...
    The War on Drugs has led to millions of people dead, displaced and incarcerated. Disproportionately enforced on oppressed races, international drug prohibition has reinforced the colour line across the globe.While laws prohibiting the production, sale and use of particular drugs are presented as politically neutral and objective, this collection reveals the racist impact of the War on Drugs across ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spatializing Culture

    The Ethnography of Space and Place

    by Setha Low ...
    This book demonstrates the value of ethnographic theory and methods in understanding space and place, and considers how ethnographically-based spatial analyses can yield insight into prejudices, inequalities and social exclusion as well as offering people the means for understanding the places where they live, work, shop and socialize. In developing the concept of spatializing culture, Setha Low ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Global Gangs

    Street Violence across the World

    Edited by Dennis Rodgers, Jennifer M. Hazen ...
    Gangs, often associated with brutality and senseless destructive violence, have not always been viewed as inherently antagonistic. The first studies of gangs depicted them as alternative sources of order in urban slums where the state’s authority was lacking, and they have subsequently been shown to be important elements in some youth life cycles. Despite their proliferation there is little ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Borders

    Frontiers of Identity, Nation and State

    by Hastings Donnan, Thomas M. Wilson ...
    Borders are where wars start, as Primo Levi once wrote. But they are also bridges - that is, sites for ongoing cultural exchange. Anyone studying how nations and states maintain distinct identities while adapting to new ideas and experiences knows that borders provide particularly revealing windows for the analysis of 'self' and 'other'. In representing invisible demarcations between nations and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity

    Edited by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Bruno Martins ...
    Series series Epistemologies of the South
    The impasse currently affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity is, to a large extent, a reflection of the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Since the global hegemony of human rights as a language for human dignity is nowadays incontrovertible, the question of whether it can be used in a counter-hegemonic sense remains open. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Global South and Literature

    Edited by Russell West-Pavlov ...
    Series series Cambridge Critical Concepts
    The 'Global South' has largely supplanted the 'Third World' in discussions of development studies, postcolonial studies, world literature and comparative literature respectively. The concept registers a new set of relationships between nations of the once colonized world as their connections to nations of the North diminish in significance. Such relationships register particularly clearly in ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • If Truth Be Told

    The Politics of Public Ethnography

    Edited by Didier Fassin ...
    What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public moment as part and parcel of the research process, the contributors to If Truth Be Told explore the challenges, difficulties, and stakes of having ethnographic research encounter various publics, ranging ... Read more

    $28.99 USD