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  • What to Do with Political Sadness

    And other Essays on Death, Destruction and Hauntology

    by Ghazala Jamil ...
    Have you wondered what happened to the equal and just futures we were told we could look forward to, if only we followed the rules and were ‘reasonable’?Written as a testimony to spectacular and insidious forms of state violence and supremacist ideologies, What to do with Political Sadness evidences destruction and death as the principal instruments which define the horizon of power*.*Combining ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Accumulation by Segregation

    Muslim Localities in Delhi

    by Ghazala Jamil ...
    This work explores the processes of creation and articulation of social identities of Muslims in Delhi. Mapping the landscape of discrimination in Delhi’s neighbourhoods, Jamil tries to see how such fractured geographies are created. We come across people whose sense of belonging to each other is complex, and subject to forces such as regional and class identities instead of an ubiquitous ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Once There Was a City Named Dilli

    by Intizar Hussain ...
    Translated by Ghazala Jamil, Faiz Ullah ...
    The history of Delhi has been told and retold many times. Often the intent is to use history as an ideological tool for staking a claim to the present of the city. In Intizar Husain’s retelling, it is the tale itself that becomes delectable. A popular recital that highlights the forgotten nuances of the story, Once There was a City Named Dilli, is a celebration of the people and culture that made ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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    “One of the few world intellectuals on whom we may rely to make sense out of our existential confusion.”—Nadine GordimerIn this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as by inescapable hatred. Challenging the reductionist division of people by race, religion, and class, Sen presents an inspiring vision ... Read more

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  • Religious Radicalization and Securitization in Canada and Beyond

    Edited by Paul Bramadat, Lorne Dawson ...
    After the terrorist attacks of 9/11, those in London and Madrid, and the arrest of the “Toronto 18,” Canadians have changed how they think about terrorism and security. As governments respond to the potential threat of homegrown radicalism, many observers have become concerned about the impact of those security measures on the minority groups whose lives are “securitized.”In Religious ... Read more

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  • Pluralism and Democracy in India

    Debating the Hindu Right

    Edited by Wendy Doniger, Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    Wendy Doniger and Martha Nussbaum bring together leading scholars from a wide array of disciplines to address a crucial question: How does the world's most populous democracy survive repeated assaults on its pluralistic values? India's stunning linguistic, cultural, and religious diversity has been supported since Independence by a political structure that emphasizes equal rights for all, and ... Read more

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  • The Politics of Self-Expression

    The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

    by Markus Daechsel ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Everyday Peace?

    Politics, Citizenship and Muslim Lives in India

    by Philippa Williams ...
    Series series RGS-IBG Book Series
    Winner of the 2016 Julian Minghi Distinguished Book Award of the Political Geography Specialty Group at the AAGProviding important insights into political geography, the politics of peace, and South Asian studies, this book explores everyday peace in northern India as it is experienced by the Hindu-Muslim community.Challenges normative understandings of Hindu-Muslim relations as relentlessly ... Read more

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  • Border Crossings

    Toward a Comparative Political Theory

    by Fred Dallmayr, Azizah Y. al-Hibri, Yoko Arisaka, John J. Clarke, Ahmet Davutoglu, Manochehr Dorraj, Roxanne L. Euben, Russell Arben Fox, Nancy J. Hirschmann, Robert C. Johansen, Hwa Yol Jung, L H. M. Ling, Thomas Pantham, Chih-Yu Shih ...
    Series series Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
    Comparative political theory is at best an embryonic and marginalized endeavor. As practiced in most Western universities, the study of political theory generally involves a rehearsal of the canon of Western political thought from Plato to Marx. Only rarely are practitioners of political thought willing (and professionally encouraged) to transgress the canon and thereby the cultural boundaries of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Tracking the Media

    Interpretations of Mass Media Discourses in India and Pakistan

    by Subarno Chattarji ...
    This book is about media content analysis in the English language print media in South Asia, with reference to certain contemporary issues. It is written from the perspective of the need to analyze media discourses and the ways in which their circulation creates a ‘common sense’ view of the world. The focus is on English language papers and news magazines; additionally, some Hindi, Urdu, and ... Read more

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  • Religion in the Contemporary World

    A Sociological Introduction

    by Alan Aldridge ...
    In the new edition of this widely praised text, Alan Aldridge examines the complex realities of religious belief, practice and institutions. Religion is a powerful and controversial force in the contemporary world, even in supposedly secular societies. Almost all societies seek to cultivate religions and faith communities as sources of social stability and engines of social progress. They also try ... Read more

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    by Julian C. H. Lee ...
    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Read more

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