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  • Red Sun

    Swagger, #1

    by Matthew Waite ...
    Series Book 1 - Swagger
    In exotic and turbulent nineteenth century China, a wise-cracking customs official must discard his opium pipe and his nightly companions to find out who murdered his best friend, a search which embroils him in a geopolitical battle between three empires. Our reluctant hero must risk totrure and death to convince a dilettante Emperor and a depraved and despotic Empress to thwart a German-Japanese ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Colonialisms and Queer Politics

    Sexualities, Genders, and Unsettling Colonialities

    Edited by Sonia Corrêa, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Matthew Waites ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
    Across global queer activism and literature from the social sciences and humanities, the impact of empires on the regulation of sexuality and gender is an emergent theme. While there has been a considerable focus on British colonial criminal law, there is a need to investigate and compare the diverse forms of power and control adopted across the histories of European empires. In Colonialisms and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Righteous Fist

    Swagger, #2

    by Matthew Waite ...
    Series Book 2 - Swagger
    When Eight Countries gang up to plunder an aging empire, only a fool would get in their way.The Brits called it the Boxer Rebellion, but the 'Boxers' called themselves YiHeQuan; Righteous Fist, and they faced off against the Eight Nation Alliance, their ambitious plan being to rid China of foreigners. It was going to be a bloodbath.Our hero, however, had better things to do; opium, female ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Queer Mozambique

    From the Mines to the Manas

    by Francisco P V Miguel, Marc Epprecht, Danilo da Silva, Agnaldo Bata, Nicola Biasio, Maria Judite Chipenembe, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, Ditte Haarløv Johnsen, Daria Trentini, Matthew Waites, Agostão José Zitha ...
    Postcolonial Mozambique decriminalized homosexual acts in 2015. This legal reform was not a response to litigation or public pressure, but came from a parliamentary initiative and lobbying by a few organizations. Subsequent public opinion polls show that Mozambique is an outlier in Africa in its relatively tolerant behaviors and attitudes toward non-heterosexual relationships.What are the cultural ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Paving Paradise

    Florida's Vanishing Wetlands and the Failure of No Net Loss

    by Craig Pittman, Matthew Waite ...
    Series series The Florida History and Culture Series
    Florida possesses more wetlands than any other state except Alaska, yet since 1990 more than 84,000 acres have been lost to development despite presidential pledges to protect them.How and why the state's wetlands are continuing to disappear is the subject of Paving Paradise. Journalists Craig Pittman and Matthew Waite spent nearly four years investigating the political expedience, corruption, and ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Queer Asia

    Decolonising and Reimagining Sexuality and Gender

    Edited by J. Daniel Luther, Jennifer Ung Loh ...
    Queer studies is now a rapidly expanding field, as scholars from a variety of disciplines seek to address the long-running marginalisation of queer perspectives and experiences. But there has so far been little effort to unify the study of queer communities outside the West, and much of the current writing views these communities through a narrowly Western lens.Building on the work of the annual ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Supporting Young Transgender Men

    A Guide for Professionals

    by Matthew Waites ...
    There is currently a lack of information available regarding the specific needs of young transgender men, and the barriers that they face. This can lead to professionals having to give generic advice, which may not be appropriate for the situation. Written to address this shortfall, this book provides professionals with the guidance they need to effectively and supportively work with young ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements

    Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites ...
    Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements is the first collection to focus on the contribution sociological approaches can make to analysis of human rights. Taking forward the sociology of human rights which emerged from the 1990s, it presents innovative analyses of global human rights struggles by new and established authors. The collection includes a range of new work addressing issues such as ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights

    Edited by Patricia Hynes, Michele Lamb, Damien Short, Matthew Waites ...
    New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights is a contribution to both sociology and to human rights research, particularly where these are directed towards challenging power relations and inequalities in contemporary societies. It expands and develops the sociology of human rights as a sub-field of sociology and interdisciplinary human rights scholarship. The volume suggests new directions for ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

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    Fear, Desire and Revolutionary Horizons

    by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar ...
    The collapse of neoliberal hegemony in the western world following the financial crash of 2007-8 and subsequent rise of right-wing authoritarian personalities has been described as a crisis of 'the political' in western societies. But the crisis must be seen as global, rather than focusing on the west alone.Pakistan is experiencing rapid financialisation and rapacious capture of natural resources, ... Read more

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  • Strategic Narratives

    Communication Power and the New World Order

    by Alister Miskimmon, Ben O'Loughlin, Laura Roselle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
    Communication is central to how we understand international affairs. Political leaders, diplomats, and citizens recognize that communication shapes global politics. This has only been amplified in a new media environment characterized by Internet access to information, social media, and the transformation of who can communicate and how. Soft power, public diplomacy 2.0, network power – scholars ... Read more

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  • 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

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