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University of California Press Legitimating the Illegitimate
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
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University of California Press Arab Modernism as World Cinema The Films of
Book SynopsisArab Modernism as World Cinema explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance of Moroccan and Arab film cultures in histories of world cinema. Addressing the legacy of the Nahda or Arab Renaissance of the nineteenth and early twentieth centurywhen Arab writers and artists reenergized Arab culture by engaging with other languages and societiesPeter Limbrick argues that Smihi's films take up the spirit of the Nahda for a new age. Examining Smihi's oeuvre, which enacts an exchange of images and ideas between Arab and non-Arab cultures, Limbrick rethinks the relation of Arab cinema to modernism and further engages debates about the use of modernist forms by filmmakers in the Global South. This original study offers new routes for thinking about world cinema and modernism in the Middle East and North Africa, and about Arab cinema in the world.Trade Review"Weaving together close film analysis, studies of cinematic techniques, and scholarly engagement with a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary material, Limbrick offers an unprecedented window into Smihi’s 'multifaceted and polyphonic' filmography. At the same time, he demonstrates that Arab film culture, when studied in its global ramifications and affinities, reveals an inner complexity that resists systematic and univocal readings, and invites to rethink Arab modernism as a dynamic and multidimensional concept." * Critical Inquiry *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration Introduction: Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, Arab Modernism Chapter One: Radical Realities: Form and Politics in the New Arab Cinema Chapter Two: The Voice of the Arabs: Smihi’s Soundscapes Chapter Three: Kan ya makan: Intertextuality and Arab Modernism Chapter Four: Religion, Secularism, Modernity Chapter Five: For a New Nahda: Gender, Sexuality, and Freedom Notes Filmography Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Transforming Settler States
Book SynopsisIn the past two decades, several settler regimes have collapsed and others seem increasingly vulnerable. This study examines the rise and demise of two settler states with particular emphasis on the role of repressive institutions of law and order. Drawing on field research in Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe, Ronald Weitzer traces developments in internal security structures before and after major political transitions. He concludes that thoroughgoing transformation of a repressive security apparatus seems to be an essential, but often overlooked, precondition for genuine democracy. In an instructive comparative analysis, Weitzer points out the divergent development of initially similar governmental systems. For instance, since independence in 1980, the government of Zimbabwe has retained and fortified basic features of the legal and organizational machinery of control inherited from the white Rhodesian state, and has used this apparatus to neutralize obstacles to the installation of
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University of California Press Swaziland
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University of California Press Fathers Work for Their Sons
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University of California Press Africas Challenge to America
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University of California Press State Politics in Zimbabwe
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University of California Press Religion and Political Culture in Kano
Book SynopsisThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
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University of California Press Human Rights and Reform
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University of California Press Imperial Encore
Book SynopsisIn the 1930s, British colonial officials introduced drama performances, broadcasting services, and publication bureaus into Africa under the rubric of colonial development. They used theater, radio, and mass-produced books to spread British values and the English language across the continent. This project proved remarkably resilient: well after the end of Britain's imperial rule, many of its cultural institutions remained in place. Through the 1960s and 1970s, African audiences continued to attend Shakespeare performances and listen to the BBC, while African governments adopted English-language textbooks produced by metropolitan publishing houses.Imperial Encore traces British drama, broadcasting, and publishing in Africa between the 1930s and the 1980sthe half century spanning the end of British colonial rule and the outset of African national rule. Caroline Ritter shows how three major cultural institutionsthe British Council, the BBC, and Oxford University Pressintegrated their worTrade Review"Imperial Encore presents a deeply-researched and engaging narrative that actively enriches a subject that has for too long been pushed to the outside of imperial historiography." * Twentieth Century British History *"Imperial Encore is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on the afterlives of empire. . . .In lucid prose and with an eye to compelling detail, Ritter has revealed how Britain’s cultural ambitions and institutional power did not simply survive the upheavals of the decolonization era, but thrived in its wake." * Journal of British Studie *"Ritter’s highly-readable study is particularly strong in drawing out specific moments, experiences and voices. . . .Imperial Encore highlights the integral, and ongoing, role of culture to the imperial project and illustrates why we must continue to interrogate those that control, utilise, and exploit these cultural forms today." * Cultural and Social History *Table of ContentsIllustrations Acknowledgments Note on the Text Abbreviations Introduction PART ONE. Cultural Imperialism during the Late Empire 1. Shakespeare in Africa: The British Council and Drama Export 2. "Bringing Books to Africans": Publishing in Colonial East Africa 3. "This Is London . . .": BBC Broadcasting to Colonial Africa PART TWO. Cultural Imperialism after Empire 4. ". . . Calling Africa": Capturing the Cold War Audience 5. Patrons of Postcolonial Culture: British Publishers and African Writers 6. From Culture to Aid to Paid: Cultural Relations after Empire Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
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University of California Press Cinematic Independence
Book SynopsisA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Cinematic Independencetraces the emergence, demise, and rebirth of big-screen film exhibition in Nigeria. Film companies flocked to Nigeria in the years following independence, beginning a long history of interventions by Hollywood and corporate America.The 1980s and 1990s saw a shuttering of cinemas, which were almost entirely replaced by television and direct-to-video movies. However, after 1999, the exhibition sector was revitalized with the construction of multiplexes.Cinematic Independenceis about the periods that straddle this disappearing act: the immediate decades bracketing independence in 1960,and the years after 1999.At stake is the Nigerian postcolony's role in global debates about the future of the movie theater. That it was eventually resurrected in the flashy form of the multiplex is not simply an achievement of commercial real estate, but also a testament to cinema's persistenceit
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University of California Press Sojourners Sultans and Slaves
Book SynopsisIn the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and Slavesmines multinational archives to illuminate the Atlantic reverberations of US mercantile projects, free labor experiments, and slaveholding in western Indian Ocean societies. Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa profile transnational human rights campaigns. They show how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world, revealing the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with liberal contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a cotton queen and courtesans, and fugitive slaves and concubines populates the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of slavery in tTrade Review"This book has brilliantly narrated the politics, ideas and trails of people, especially the subaltern stories, which differed from their Western counterparts in various ways…of great value to the students and researchers of colonial, comparative and diasporic studies." * South Asian Diaspora *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction PART ONE. BETWEEN EMPIRES: A NEW WAY OF TALKING ABOUT SLAVERY, EAST AND WEST 1. Empire, Religious Law, and Slavery by “Free Will” 2. Human Rights from Calcutta through London to Boston PART TWO. ANTISLAVERY EMPIRE VERSUS REPUBLIC OF SLAVEHOLDERS 3. Reverberations: American Overseers, Slavery, and “Free” Cotton Experiments in India 4. The Slave Mistress and the Courtesan: Poverty, Patriarchy, and “Proslavery Maternalism” PART THREE. HOW MIGRATIONS MADE MEANING: IMPERIAL ABOLITION, SLAVE TRADING, AND SUBALTERN SUBJECTS 5. “Domestic” Slavery and Colonial Belonging 6. Rulers, Rebels, and Refugees in Transnational Transit 7. Subaltern Prisms and Meanings of Freedom PART FOUR. AMERICANS IN SULTANATES 8. Business, Sovereignty, and Fugitive Slaves 9. A Yankee Slaveholder, “Black Sultan,” and European Imperialists in the Indian Ocean, 1870–1906 Epilogue. Crossing Slavery’s Interoceanic Boundaries: Reflections Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Peoples of the Middle Niger
Book SynopsisThe Peoples of the Middle Niger This book provides the first comprehensive history of the peoples of the Middle Niger written by an English-speaking scholar. The Island of Gold' was the medieval Muslim and later European name for a fabled source of gold and other tropical riches. Although the floodplain of the Niger river lies far from the goldfields, the mosaic of peoples along the Middle Niger created a wealth of grain, fish, and livestock that supported some of Africa's oldest cities, including Timbuktu. These ancient cities of the region that came to be known as Western Sudan were founded without outside stimulation and their inhabitants long resisted the coercive, centralized state that characterized the origins of earliest towns elsewhere. In this book, Roderick James McIntosh uses the latest archaeological and anthropological research to provide a bold overview of the distant origins of life for the inhabitants of the Middle Niger, and an explanation for theTrade Review"McIntosh's contribution is an immensely scholarly and in some ways a subversive book. The great strength of McIntosh's book is in its implicit demand that we re-examine the comfortable old taxonomies." History Today "A splendid achievement ... this volume sets a new standard of thoroughness in the presentation of West African history." Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African StudiesTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Figures. List of Maps. Preface. 1. Riches Beyond Lucre, The Island of Gold. 2. The Dry Basins of the Middle Niger. 3. Historical Imagination: 4100 BP. 4. Peoples of the Four Live Basins. 5. Historical Imagination: 300 BC. 6. Penetration of the Deep Basins. 7. Historical Imagination: AD 400. 8. Prosperity and Cities. 9. Historical Imagination: AD 1000. 10. The Imperial Tradition. 11. Historical Imagination: AD 1472. 12. Epilogue: Resilience of an Original Civil Society?. Bibliography.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Afrikaners
Book SynopsisThis history of the Afrikaner peoples begins with their arrival in Southern Africa in 1652 and leads up to the present day. The account covers the establishment of the Dutch East India trading post in the Cape, the Great Trek of the 1830s and the democratic elections of 1994.Trade Review"Godfrey Le May is a distinguished political scientist, expert in British constitutional documents, but also in South African politics. He was Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand for many years before moving to Worcester College, Oxford. Few people are better qualified to unpick the fibres of the Afrikaner's history, a history bundled up with the involvement of the British in South Africa. Le May describes the Afrikaner quest for independence and survival elegantly and straightforwardly. his comparison of the Afrikaner choice of survival at Vereeniging in 1902 with de Klerk's choice of survival in 1990 is telling. Afrikaners' history is one of having to yield to force majeure, and it is this sense of having been wronged which has often motivated them even while they were being reviled for the far greater wrongs they visited on the black majority. For at least 200 years, Afrikaners have been aware of their uniqueness, a European people cut off from their roots, living in a continent where they have felt themselves under threat from the indigenous people and from colonial interference. The Afrikaner dream of complete independence to live as they wished, to co-opt the natives, to farm broad acres, to enjoy their exclusivity, has been a powerful element in their folk memory. South Africa was their country: other claimants - the blacks, the British, the missionaries and the adventurer capitalists - were required to acknowledge this truth. The Afrikaner quest for independence from Britain was doomed and their dream of domination of the subcontinent was, from the start, unrealistic. Even dressed up as a science, as the grand apartheid of the Verwoerd years, it was rank nonsense. It could have worked only if it had been accompanied by genuine partition, so there is some irony in the Right's, admittedly faltering, demands for their own homeland now. But the Afrikaners, although they said they wanted to keep apart from the black person in South Africa, really wanted to maintain the old master-servant relationship, in which they took comfort in ways far too complex for the world to understand. So Afrikaners passed the years 1948 to 1990 in the expectation of something which could never be achieved. Yet there have always been two opposing strands in Afrikaner thought, as Le May details, which have competed for dominance. The one strang has been characterised as 'verlig' or enlightened and the other as 'verkramp' or cramped. Le May shows this at work in literature and the arts (Prime Minister Vorster's brother said of an early Andre Brink novel: 'If this is literature, Sunday school is a brothel'); and of course in politics many of the notable opposition leaders have been Afrikaners. It is Le May's thesis that de Klerk's success was the triumph of the enlightened, but none the less achieved in the interest of survival only. Afrikaner politics, hitherto, has never been too scrupulous about the rights or hopes of others. When, in 1994, the Afrikaners were, as Le May says, demoted to a permanent political minority, their great trek of the mind ended. It remains to be seen how they will come to terms with this enormous psychological change. I would guess that they will try to portray themselves as authentic Africans, which after all is what 'Afrikaner' means. To do this they will make common cause with the Coloured people of the Cape. I have only one complaint about Le May's excellent book: it is a little short on detail about how the Afrikaners managed to come round to accepting the changes in South Africa. For example, there is no single reference to Frederik Van Zyl Slabert, one of the architects of the transformation, nor to the now well-documented efforts of some National Party ministers before and during the Kempton Park negotiations. The third force - of the dissenters in the police and military establishment - and its work will undoubtedly colour any future evaluation of the final years of Afrikaner power, but again little information is offered. Nevertheless, if the last chapter is somewhat cursory, this is in every other respect a concise, elegant and perceptive study." Daily Telegraph Table of ContentsList of Plates. List of Maps. A Note on Names. Introduction. 1. Arrivals. 2. Dispersal. 3. Boer Independence Gained and Lost. 4. The First 'Freedom War'. 5. The Second 'Freedom War'. 6. Humiliation and Revival. 7. The Rise of Hertzog. 8. Division and Reunion. 9. The Triumph of Republicanism. 10. Apartheid: Its Variations and its Collapse. Epilogue. Notes. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd South Africa in the Twentieth Century
Book Synopsis* Includes coverage of all the major political events that have shaped the turbulent history of South Africa. * Explores the ways in which power at central government level has been played out on the national stage.Trade Review"An exceptional survey of the political history of South Africa." Times Literary Supplement. "Barber ... has written a detailed, interesting, and accurate analysis of an extraordinary country during an exceptional time" CHOICE. "South Africa in the Twentieth Century is designed to introduce students of contemporary history, politics and international relations to key regions and themes which have dominated discussion of the past century. It does so admirably ... this is a book whose sheer erudition will guarantee it a prominent place on the shelves of anyone wishing to understand South Africa in the twentieth century." Contemporary British History "This book is very accessible and engrossing, but is nevertheless of a high academic standard ... South Africa in the Twentieth Century is a major contribution to the literature on South African politics. It is essential reading not only for any scholar interested in South African politics but also for those with wider interests in questions of national self-identification and the way this affects political behaviour." Progress in Development StudiesTable of ContentsPart I: The Clash of British Imperialism and Afrikaner Nationalism:. 1. Prelude to War: Afrikaner and British Imperial Nationalism. 2. War, Peace and Reconstruction. 3. Afrikaners, Blacks and Reconstruction. Part II: The White Union and Black Reaction:. 4. Responsible Government and the Union. 5. The New Union: White and Black Political Activity. 6. The Great War and its Aftermath. 7. The Pact Government and Segregation 1924-9. 8. From Pact to Fusion: Economic Depression and Black Opposition: 1929-39. Part III: World War II and Apartheid:. 9. World War II and its Aftermath 1939-48. 10. African Nationalism Transformed: 1939-48. 11. The National Party Government 1948-61. 12.African Opposition: Communists, Congress and the Pan Africanist Congress. Part IV: The Wind of Change:. 13. The New Republic, Sharpeville and the Granite Response. 14. Vorster and the Development of the Bantustans. 15. Black Resistance Inside and Outside the Republic. Part V: Renewed Black Challenge: . 16. Soweto and its Aftermath. 17. Reform, Security and White Divisions Under P. W. Botha. 18. The Black Rising: and Answering Fire with Fire. 19. Retreat from the Rubicon: The Failure of Reform. Part VI: Forging the New South Africa:. 20. In Search of a New South Africa. 21. Reaching Agreement: Negotiation, Tension and Violence. 22. Towards the Promised Land. References. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Egyptians
Book Synopsisaeo Offers a wide--ranging overview of Egyptian peoples and their society from origins to the present. aeo Interweaves political narrative with insights into economy and culture, stressing continuities as well as change. aeo Charts internal development alongside external relations especially with other Arab countries and the West.Trade Review"This book provides an excellent introduction to the land of ancientand modern Egypt ... Well written ... The author offers so much detail and excellent information on this fascinating culture that this book ought to be the textbook schools used to present Egypt to students." Francesca JourdanTable of ContentsList of Plates. List of Maps. Series Editor's Preface. Glossary. A Note on Transliteration. The Egyptians: Table of Dates. Introduction. 1. The Land and its People. 2. The Earliest Egyptians. 3. The Era of the Pyramid-builders. 4. The Imperial Age. 5. The Last Pharaohs. 6. Hellenistic Egypt. 7. Roman and Christian Egypt. 8. Islamic Egypt. 9. Modern Egypt. Bibliography. General Index. Index of Ancient Egyptian Terms.
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Harvard University Press That the World May Know
Book SynopsisHow can we prevent future atrocities, and stop the ones that are happening now? This book tells the powerful story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement. Drawing on firsthand accounts from fieldworkers around the world, the book gives a painfully clear picture of the human cost of confronting inhumanity in our day.Trade ReviewThat the World May Know explores the double binds that attract, reward and torment those engaged in human rights and humanitarian work on the front lines of intervention. Because of its combination of interview and literary material, it presents a rich and diverse set of data to the reader. No one has so far written a book quite like this. -- Jacqueline Bhabha, Executive Director, Harvard University Committee on Human Rights StudiesDawes maintains a remarkable balance of tone, searchingly sympathetic yet calmly analytical. -- Steven Poole * The Guardian *Anyone concerned with human rights--with humanity in general--will come away from James Dawes' That The World May Know troubled and well informed...During the last 30 years, Americans have seen images of or read about genocide, torture, and violent political repression in Bosnia, Rwanda, Somalia, Darfur, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Haiti, Nigeria, and Argentina. Dawes' book asks us to think about how stories of atrocity are told, who gets to tell them, how those stories affect us, and ultimately what good they may or may not do. -- Tom Palaima * Texas Observer *
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Harvard University Press Gandhis Printing Press
Book SynopsisWhen Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa began fashioning the tenets of his political philosophy, he was absorbed by a seemingly unrelated enterprise: creating a newspaper, Indian Opinion. In Gandhi’s Printing Press Isabel Hofmeyr provides an account of how this footnote to a career shaped the man who would become the world-changing Mahatma.Trade ReviewReconstructing a little-known episode in Gandhi's life, Hofmeyr places surprising new findings about a particular historical figure in the service of a radically new theory of reading. This ambitious and deeply researched book holds lessons for historians, literary theorists, and anyone interested in reading practices. -- Leah Price, Harvard UniversityThe connection between Gandhi and the lively Indian Ocean world of small printing presses is something that has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians of South Asia and scholars of print culture so far. Hofmeyr explores this crucial space with rare vigor and sophistication. -- Ajay Skaria, University of MinnesotaGandhi was one of history's most avid experimenters. His most audacious forms of utopianism were often nothing more than simple and ingenious experiments. Hofmeyr tells the remarkable story, with elegance and great learning, of how Gandhi imagined a radically different world simply by attending to the potentialities of the printing press. Very few books on Gandhi capture the minutiae and horizons of his world with such riveting intelligence. -- Uday Mehta, City University of New YorkThis slim volume sparks more ideas than are typically generated by a book three times its size. -- John Wilson * Books & Culture *While he was a young attorney in South Africa at the outset of the 20th century, Gandhi was also 'a sometime proprietor' of the press that printed the influential Indian Opinion newspaper, whose production formed, for the burgeoning activist, a crash course in the synthesizing of public opinion, news, and progressive thought. Located on an ashram outside the port city of Durban, the press allowed Gandhi and his cohorts to explore 'new kinds of ethical selves,' bringing together as it did 'different castes, religions, languages, races, and genders.' In Hofmeyr's portrait, Gandhi emerges as a surprisingly keen publicist and media strategist, willing to buck the system (e.g., copyright laws) in the service of social change. She also offers a fascinating take on Gandhi's mode of 'contemplative reading,' one characterized by the merging of the text with a receptive mind via 'pausing and perseverance,' all with an aim of cumulative progress. Indeed, Gandhi read as he led. This thoughtful account is a compelling preview of the colonial subcontinent's development, as well as Gandhi's eventual role as peaceful emancipator of his own country. * Publishers Weekly *Gandhi's espousal of free reproduction of material and repudiation of copyright--consider this throwaway line: 'Gandhi would have been a Wikipedian'--and his theories of slow reading, in which readers ponder and memorize the text and 'labor' for the paper, will provide food for thought in an age of Internet reading. -- Ravi Shenoy * Library Journal *Deepens our understanding of Gandhi in South Africa by giving us a history of his International Printing Press...His sparse, unadorned, direct prose had much to do with his early training in writing for Indian Opinion...The book also reflects on various printed forms--the newspaper, the periodical, the pamphlet--and their significance in not just creating a print culture but also in forging a people and sustaining a movement. The most significant part of the work is a theory of reading that Hofmeyr discerns through her examination of Indian Opinion and the Hind Swaraj (1909). Can one actually create modes of writing (and printing) that, while located within the modern realm, can militate against modernity? She shows that Gandhi consciously tried to cultivate a style of writing that required slow, meditative reading; his purpose was to adjust the act of reading to unhurried bodily rhythms not subject to the fast pace that he considered the chief signifier of the industrial age. He even tried to slow down the process of printing by dispensing with the oil machine that ran the press and instead employed manual labour to run it. In this way, Hofmeyr's elucidation of the manner in which a satyagrahi reads illuminates our understanding of Gandhi's modes of writing and discoursing. -- Tridip Suhrud * The Caravan *Fascinating...Isabel Hofmeyr discusses and analyses the origin and nature of [periodicals published by Gandhi], focusing on Indian Opinion and Hind Swaraj, and shows how their specific nature reflected Gandhian thought. Of particular interest is Hofmeyr's slant towards Gandhi's views on reading, which resonates with our fragmented, frantic age. -- Sanjay Sipahimalani * Sunday Guardian *The author draws us easily into a history that is varied, interesting and little understood. And in understanding philosophers like Thoreau through Gandhiji, one revisits and is astounded by them once more. The book is a welcome addition to readings on the Mahatma. -- Mallika Sarabhai * Indian Express *Beginning in Durban, South Africa, in 1898, Mohandas Gandhi became the guiding hand of a printing press and the multilingual newspaper it produced, Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr provides an account at once charming and erudite of Gandhi's vision of printing and the press in relation to Phoenix, the ashram from which the press largely was operated. She also examines the press in relation to the wider satyagraha movement, Gandhi's unique understanding of the quest for truth, and to Gandhi's thinking about empire, nationalism, race, sovereignty, and self-rule. Gandhi first developed his ideas of satyagraha while working with and for the Indian community in South Africa, and much of his thinking was first communicated in the pages of Indian Opinion. Hofmeyr’s careful study of the literary character of the newspaper dispels the idea that the journalistic format was hurried and thus lacking in care. She provides ample evidence that Gandhi saw the paper as comprised of clippings and articles that needed to be read and reread, slowly and thoughtfully. This attempt to integrate many levels of Gandhi's activity will surprise and reward all readers. -- C. A. Colmo * Choice *Hofmeyr has produced a work so exquisitely engaging and so vitally relevant to our age that anyone who reads enough to be concerned about the future of reading should take up this riveting little book. -- Kapil Komireddi * Daily Beast *
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Harvard University Press Leaving Iberia
Book SynopsisLeaving Iberia examines Islamic legal responses to Muslims living under Christian rule in medieval and early modern Iberia and North Africa, links the juristic discourses on conquered Muslims on both sides of the Mediterranean, and adds a significant chapter to the story of Christian–Muslim relations in the medieval Mediterranean.Trade ReviewThis book masterfully demonstrates that the histories of Iberian-born Muslims, Moriscos, and Muslims living under Christian rule in the Maghreb can benefit from being studied together…Particularly relevant reading to those interested in colonial contexts and resistance to colonial powers. -- Ana Struillou * Journal of Early Modern History *A tour-de-force…[this book] is a magnificent scholarly achievement that will shift the historiographical parameters for studying the Mālikī West…Whether or not historians fully accept all of Hendrickson’s contentions, they are likely to become the new bar against which scholars will measure their research in the future. -- Ari Schriber * Islamic Law and Society *A work of impressive scope…Hendrickson’s research is rigorous and her analysis is incisive…[the author] has produced a book of critical importance to the study of Islamic law and Iberian, North African, and West African history and which contributes meaningfully to interreligious studies and the history of Christian-Muslim relations. -- Ariela Marcus-Sells * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *[Brings] together an unprecedented range of sources, some of them previously unpublished and unstudied, offering a meticulous, deeply informed reinterpretation of those sources that have been most scrutinized. The masterful result should now be considered a first port of call for anyone dealing with these materials…a powerful picture of Islamic law as purposeful yet subject to the vicissitudes of history, creative yet constrained by the expectations and structures of genre, legally cogent yet animated by extra-legal concerns — in short, as deeply human. -- Caitlyn Olson * Al-Qantara *Gets us to consider medieval Spain and Portugal as part of African history, rather than seeing Muslim rule of the Iberian Peninsula as a historically unusual and unique event unrelated to anything else…a rare find…[this book is] an intellectual treat layered with depth and breadth, and should become a go-to text for the study of Islamic law and historical Muslim responses to global events. -- Usman Butt * Middle East Monitor *
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Harvard University Press The Rise and Fall of Arab Presidents for Life
Book SynopsisMonarchical presidential regimes in the Arab world looked as though they would last indefinitely—until events in Tunisia and Egypt made clear their time was up. This is the first book to lay bare the dynamics of a governmental system that largely defined the Arab Middle East in the twentieth century, and the popular opposition they engendered.Trade ReviewEvents have enhanced its timeliness, as it is a kind of obituary for the ‘monarchical presidencies’ of the Arab world. The book looks at the local differences and underlying similarities between the region’s leaders… Owen’s book provides a sharp look at the tyrannies the Arab spring is attempting to sweep away. * The Economist *Owen suggests that like Mafia dons, Arab presidents for life observed one another and learned from one another’s experiences and argues that the Arab League has provided a loose supportive framework for their ambitions. Although the shadows of monarchical presidents will be cast long into the future, Owen is confident that the uprisings have brought their era to an end. * Foreign Affairs *A thoughtful and incisive evaluation of Arab political authoritarianism in all its components. Owen points out the many ways in which Arab Presidents and Kings imitated one another, with Presidential sons following—or attempting to follow—their fathers, and all relying on extensive security services and webs of patronage. His analysis of the personalization of power challenges recent efforts to distinguish Arab monarchies from their Presidential counterparts, and lays bare the internal logic of such personalized security states. As an historian, Owen is sensitive, and admirably transparent, about the limits of our knowledge about the inner workings of these regimes. But his brief discussions of each country effectively convey both the commonalities and differences across the cases. Owen’s highly readable book serves as a fitting requiem for a system of rule which long seemed immovable, has now been exposed in all of its flawed brutality, but seems likely to adapt to new structural conditions rather than simply fade away. * Foreign Policy *In charting with care the rise of Arab presidents for life, Roger Owen has pioneered a new strand in the academic debate on authoritarianism in the Middle East and North Africa. * London Review of Books *Owen, one of the world’s leading historians of the modern Middle East, examines the specific historical reasons that led to the rise of the authoritarian presidents in the post colonial era, but his real interest is how these individuals institutionalized power to become, in practice, dynastic monarchs… Among the host of issues Owen raises, of particular interest are why some Arab countries have gone this route and others not, similarities and differences between kings and presidents, the different kinds of dynastic presidents, comparative succession practices, and the question of Arab exceptionalism vis-à-vis other regions, such as central Africa or post-Soviet central Asia. His meditations on what to expect in the immediate future are judicious, insightful, and wise. This very timely book serves almost as a textbook on recent and current Arab politics. * Choice *No other book solely addresses this topic or examines it with the same scope or historical depth. Highly recommended for anyone interested in current foreign affairs or the history and future of modern Arab states. * Library Journal *Timely… Owen reveals how the Arab Spring demonstrates the inherent contradictions and weaknesses in the regimes, showing how their creation (and fall) resulted from modern political and economic circumstances… This comprehensive and balanced history illuminates the current upheaval. * Publishers Weekly *This book delivers, at precisely the right moment and in the right measure, the historical context needed for understanding the significance of the popular uprisings that are currently transforming the Arab world. In fluid and accessible prose, Roger Owen, the leading historian of the Middle East, demonstrates that the phenomenon of ‘Arab presidents for life’ is a product of modern historical circumstances, not a pre-determined outcome of the ‘Arab mind,’ a ‘tribal’ mentality, or the Islamic faith. The key to Owen’s analysis is what he calls the ‘demonstration effect’: Arab leaders and regimes consciously borrowed from each other’s internal security playbooks in order to solidify their power and prolong their rule. In so doing, they dug their own collective grave.An accessible yet comprehensive review of the political history of the modern Middle East, made all the more relevant by the convulsions of the past year. Owen’s dismantling of the ‘Arab exceptionalism’ argument, which has formed the basis of so many accounts of authoritarian power in the region, is historically and sociologically persuasive. He successfully explains how countries with very different histories have nonetheless produced political systems with such strong resemblances. Thoughtful, full of nuance, and mercifully free of jargon, Owen’s writing carries the reader along at a terrific pace, providing both the grand sweep of history and the focused perspicacity of political analysis.
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Harvard University Press The Black Kingdom of the Nile
Book SynopsisFor centuries, Egyptian civilization has been at the origin of the story we tell about the West. But Charles Bonnet's archaeological excavations have unearthed extraordinary sites in modern Sudan that challenge this notion and compel us to look to black Africa and the Nubian Kingdom of Kush, where a highly civilized state existed 25001500 BCE.Trade ReviewA splendid summary of [Bonnet’s] life’s research…This well-illustrated volume will be of interest to Egyptologists and Nubiologists, as well as a wider audience without expert knowledge…Bonnet’s excavations and his studies, as well as his contributions to the new Kerma site museum discussed in this book, allow a more balanced assessment of this African civilization which has long been hidden in the shadow of Egypt. -- Julia Budka * African Archaeological Review *Bonnet presents the extensive results of his five decades of excavations at Kerma, Sudan…This book’s greatest strength is its highly detailed architectural descriptions that capture the grand scale and extraordinary complexity of the site. For a researcher interested in architecture and urbanism in the Nubian Nile Valley, this volume would be an important and valuable resource. -- Aaron M. de Souza * Journal of Near Eastern Studies *
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Harvard University Press Revolutionary Life
Book SynopsisThe Arab Spring may not have achieved regime change, but the uprising did foster meaningful reforms. Asef Bayat shows how waves of protest transformed ordinary life in farms and factories, souks and schools. In Egypt and Tunisia, women, workers, poor people, and the queer community can credit the Arab Spring with steps toward equality and freedom.Trade ReviewBayat, a sociologist and an acute chronicler of everyday life in the Middle East and North Africa, explores the fate of marginalized people in the uprisings of the Arab Spring. -- Lisa Anderson * Foreign Affairs *Stands out…for its brilliance and lack of sentimentality…Focusing on Egypt and Tunisia, Bayat’s argument is that the events of 2011 set something radical in motion and imposed a new set of social relations onto everyday life. The book is rich with examples of this everyday resistance from both countries. -- Nihal El Aasar * Jacobin *Pioneers an important topic…By diving deeper into overlooked and marginal groups, Bayat reveals the dynamics of ordinary people disregarding individual ideals and participating in something exceptional. Revolutionary Life is a study of the ordinary that is anything but. -- Elizabeth Pipes * Middle East Quarterly *[Bayat] has been a sure-footed observer of revolutions for decades…Although the Arab revolts appear to have largely failed, Bayat argues that even revolutions that do not reach the pinnacle of power leave behind lasting change. -- Ray Takeyh * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *This remarkable book uncovers how mass revolutionary uprisings shape—and are shaped by—the everyday experiences of people from all walks of life. In Revolutionary Life, Asef Bayat has delivered another tour de force. -- Erica Chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard UniversityThrough finely detailed studies of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, highlighting the lives of the poor and subaltern, Bayat illuminates the gap between changing political structures and transforming everyday life that contemporary revolutions everywhere must bridge. He makes an important and timely argument about how, although they did not significantly change state power, the Arab Spring revolutions gave rise to new subjectivities and a new political imaginary, which could be powerful resources for the future. -- Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke UniversityWhile revolutions are mostly made from below, through mass mobilization of ordinary people, they are usually narrated from above. Reversing that perspective, Asef Bayat explains the development of the Arab Spring by analyzing the everyday life of the subaltern. Most innovative for the study of extraordinary moments and their outcomes is the importance he gives to the transformations in people’s subjectivities, expectations, and practices as a trigger for, but also a constraint upon, social and political change. Empirically rich and theoretically provoking, this is a must-read book for all those interested in contentious politics. -- Donatella della Porta, Professor of Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore
£27.86
Princeton University Press Fiscal Disobedience
Book SynopsisRepresents a different approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. This book examines the nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. It argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations.Trade Review"The whole book is a sophisticated essay on how to bring such an area and problematic into focus: the question of regulatory authority in places where it has never been self-evident. As such, it opens up some very important analytical issues, not only for African studies but also for an anthropology of emergent economies worldwide."--Jane I.Guyer, International Journal of African Historical StudiesTable of ContentsAcknowledgments xiii Chapter One: Introduction: An Anthropology of Regulation and Fiscal Relations 1 Chapter Two: Incivisme Fiscal 23 Chapter Three Tax-Price as a Technique of Government 48 Chapter Four Unsanctioned Wealth, or the Productivity of Debt 73 Chapter Five Fixing the Moving Targets of Regulation 100 Chapter Six The Unstable Terms of Regulatory Practice 129 Chapter Seven The Pluralization of Regulatory Authority 151 Conclusion 200 References 207 Index 227
£34.20
Princeton University Press Civilizing Women British Crusades in Colonial
Book SynopsisFocuses on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan between 1920 and 1946. This book suggests that efforts to suppress female circumcision were tied to the continuation of slavery and the rise of commercial cotton growing in Sudan, as well as to concerns about infant mortality and maternal health.Trade Review"Boddy sounds a cautionary note for contemporary interventionists who would flout local knowledge and belief."--Frauen Solidaritat "Anthropologist Boddy scoured the archives in Britain and Sudan to study attempts by British health care workers in northern Sudan to stop or at least redirect female genital cutting, the phrase that now covers female circumcision. But the author cleverly also deals with Sudan's history."--B.M. du Toit, Choice "The book's most important contribution is the documentation of the development of midwifery training schools and their linkage to the control of women's bodies. This is the core of Boddy's argument, and she has done an exceptional job of organizing and presenting the colonial administration's political-cultural imperatives for the development of these schools."--Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, Journal of Middle East Women's StudiesTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Abbreviations xv Glossary xvii Frequently Mentioned Names xxi Chronology of Events Discussed in the Text xxv Introduction 1 Part 1: Imperial Ethos 11 Chapter 1: The Gordon Cult 13 Interlude 1, Zar and Islam 47 Chapter 2: Tools for a Quiet Crusade 52 Interlude 2, Colonial Zayran 77 Chapter 3: "Unconscious Anthropologists" 82 Interlude 3, Spirit Tribes 103 Part 2: Contexts 107 Chapter 4: Domestic Blood and Foreign Spirits 109 Chapter 5: North Winds and the River 128 Chapter 6: Cotton Business 152 Part 3: The Crusades 177 Chapter 7: Training Bodies, Colonizing Minds 179 Chapter 8: Battling the "Barbarous Custom" 202 Chapter 9: Of "Enthusiasts" and "Cranks" 232 Chapter 10: "More Harm than Good" 261 Chapter 11: The Law 285 Chapter 12: Conclusion: Civilizing Women 305 Notes 321 References Cited 373 Index 391
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Enculturated Gene
Book SynopsisIn the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. This title traces how this genetic discourse has blotted from view the roles that Senegalese patients and doctors have played in making sickle cell 'mild' in a social setting.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, American Anthropological Association Winner of the 2011 Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, Royal Anthropological Institute "Duana Fullwiley has produced an extraordinary work that incorporates the insights of anthropology as well as science and technology studies of genetics and race. It is also exceptional in its multi-sited focus on Senegal and France, since many similar studies of genetics have tended to focus on the US and Europe."--Elisha P. Renne, Anthropological Quarterly "The Enculturated Gene is the product of over ten years of research beginning in the late 1990s. The book is stunning in its scope and attention to a full range of issues, from discoveries in the lab to knowledge production in the clinic to global health responses... By elucidating ethnographically the contingencies that have produced the local and global health responses to sickle cell disease, Fullwiley shows us that health policy is as much a product of culture and subjectivity as affective responses to physical and existential pain."--Carolyn Rouse, Medical Anthropology QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Illustrations viii Preface ix Acknowledgments xxv Chapter One: Introduction: The Powers of Association 1 Chapter Two: Healthy Sicklers with "Mild" Disease: Local Illness Aff ects and Population- Level Eff ects 45 Chapter Three: The Biosocial Politics of Plants and People 77 Chapter Four: Attitudes of Care 119 Chapter Five: Localized Biologies: Mapping Race and Sickle Cell Difference in French West Africa 158 Chapter Six: Ordering Illness: Heterozygous "Trait" Suff ering in the Land of the Mild Disease 197 Chapter Seven: The Work of Patient Advocacy 221 Conclusion: Economic and Health Futures amid Hope and Despair 250 Notes 275 References 307 Index 329
£37.80
Princeton University Press King Leopolds Ghostwriter The Creation of
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Shortlisted for the General History Prize, NSW Premier History Awards""Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History""Impeccably documented"---Michael Ledgre-Lomas, London Review of Books"A scholarly contribution that sets new standards for the biographical historiography of international law."---Sebastian M. Spitra, Heidelberg Journal of International Law
£31.50
Princeton University Press Melancholia of Freedom Social Life in an Indian
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied post apartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association "Hansen's analysis of the 'mutual nonrecognition' between citizens of India and African origin and his critical interrogation of the concept of diaspora are especially powerful... The book will be an asset to scholars and students seeking to understand urban South Africa, transnationalism, and religious transformation."--Choice "Hansen's book is definitely a very important one... [S]tudents of segregation, ethnic conflict, urban space, identity, religion, migration, music and cinema will all find something of interest here. More generally, Melancholia of Freedom offers a fascinating insight into the fate of minority groups, and the boundary work they engage in... Hansen's account allows us to better understand the processes through which minorities maintain identity and sociability in difficult contexts."--Juliette Galonnier, booksandideas.net "As depressing as this conclusion is, the author makes a compelling case for his interpretation. He brilliantly weaves the present into the past, and explains convincingly the foundation of anxieties that prevail in Chatsworth."--Surendra Bhana, Journal of Natal and Zulu HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid 3 Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid 9 Melancholia of Freedom 15 Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid 17 Structure of the Book 20 Methods and Material 24 CHAPTER 1 Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa 26 The Asiatic Question 27 The New Hygienic Indian 32 Census et Censura 35 The New Indian Social Body 38 Policing the Internal Frontier 46 Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing 51 CHAPTER 2 Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy 59 From Kinship to Family 59 The New Indian Woman and the Family House 64 Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community 74 "Our Culture" as Embarrassment 77 Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees 79 Class and Charou Names 82 Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere 84 Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning 87 Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy 91 Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound 95 CHAPTER 3 Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition 97 AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates 99 Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" 102 Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu 107 The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text 110 The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 116 Racism's Two Bodies 119 Racial Practice, Indian-Style 123 Africans at Our Doorsteps 127 Somatic Anxieties 131 Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master 136 CHAPTER 4 Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech 142 Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech 145 The House of Delhigoats 151 "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" 155 Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture 160 The Only Good Indian Is a Poor Indian: The ANC and the Indian Townships 163 "All the Way": On the Ways of the Tiger 167 From Tragedy to Comedy: Politics as a Form of Enjoyment 171 CHAPTER 5 Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City 176 The Steel Cages of Modernity 177 Driving while Brown 179 (Auto)mobility in the Postapartheid City 182 Vehicular Vernacular: Visual and Sonic 185 Taxis, Charou-Style 188 Conclusion: "Indianness," African-Style 197 CHAPTER 6 The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires 200 India as an Unwieldy Fetish 201 The Spiritual Homeland 203 Seeking Ancestral Roots 203 Finding Spiritual Truth 207 Catalysts of Modernity 209 Global Desi Dreamscapes: The Revival of Bollywood in South Africa 211 "What Does This Film Make of Me?" 212 Plot Summary 214 Who Are We Indians, After All? 217 Diaspora and the Unwieldy Fetish 220 CHAPTER 7 Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives 223 Hinduism in Translation 226 Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification 228 A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships 231 The Call of Global Hinduism 236 Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past 239 Muslim Durban 240 Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim 247 "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?" 252 Da'wah in the Township 256 Reaching for the Universal 259 CHAPTER 8 The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief 261 The Fragility of the Charou Soul 266 Signs of the Spirit 269 Reconfiguring Patriarchy and Gendered Surveillance 270 On Suits and Sermons 273 Looking like Kentucky ... 277 Race, Gender, Body 282 Between Vessel and Substance: On the Exteriority of the Soul 286 Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" 290 Notes 297 References 325 Index 345
£78.20
Princeton University Press Melancholia of Freedom Social Life in an Indian
Book SynopsisOffers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space.Trade ReviewFinalist for the 2013 Melville J. Herskovits Award, African Studies Association "Hansen's analysis of the 'mutual nonrecognition' between citizens of India and African origin and his critical interrogation of the concept of diaspora are especially powerful... The book will be an asset to scholars and students seeking to understand urban South Africa, transnationalism, and religious transformation."--Choice "Hansen's book is definitely a very important one... [S]tudents of segregation, ethnic conflict, urban space, identity, religion, migration, music and cinema will all find something of interest here. More generally, Melancholia of Freedom offers a fascinating insight into the fate of minority groups, and the boundary work they engage in... Hansen's account allows us to better understand the processes through which minorities maintain identity and sociability in difficult contexts."--Juliette Galonnier, booksandideas.net "As depressing as this conclusion is, the author makes a compelling case for his interpretation. He brilliantly weaves the present into the past, and explains convincingly the foundation of anxieties that prevail in Chatsworth."--Surendra Bhana, Journal of Natal and Zulu HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Preface and Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Under the Gaze: Freedom and Race after Apartheid 3 Freedom and Sovereignty after Apartheid 9 Melancholia of Freedom 15 Between Irrelevance and Irreverence: "Our Culture" after Apartheid 17 Structure of the Book 20 Methods and Material 24 CHAPTER 1 Ethnicity by Fiat: The Remaking of Indian Life in South Africa 26 The Asiatic Question 27 The New Hygienic Indian 32 Census et Censura 35 The New Indian Social Body 38 Policing the Internal Frontier 46 Containing the Bush: Crime and Vigilantes in the Age of Democratic Policing 51 CHAPTER 2 Domesticity and Cultural Intimacy 59 From Kinship to Family 59 The New Indian Woman and the Family House 64 Tongues without Speech: Caste as Language Community 74 "Our Culture" as Embarrassment 77 Cultural Intimacy and Embarrassment: Charous and Lahnees 79 Class and Charou Names 82 Performing in the Gaze: The Indian Public Sphere 84 Joke-Work on a Saturday Morning 87 Comic Belief? Laughter and Cultural Intimacy 91 Charou 4 Eva: Domesticity Lost and Refound 95 CHAPTER 3 Charous and Ravans: A Story of Mutual Nonrecognition 97 AmaKula and amaZulu on the Colonial Estates 99 Durban, January 1949: "The Largest Race Riot in the World" 102 Cato Manor and the Urban Zulu 107 The Indian "1949 Syndrome" as a Social Text 110 The Syndrome Affirmed: Inanda 1985 116 Racism's Two Bodies 119 Racial Practice, Indian-Style 123 Africans at Our Doorsteps 127 Somatic Anxieties 131 Nonrecognition and the Elusive Master 136 CHAPTER 4 Autonomy, Freedom, and Political Speech 142 Local Affairs and the Problem of Indian Speech 145 The House of Delhigoats 151 "Scandals Are the Foundations of the State" 155 Who Speaks for the Community? The Particular as Universalist Gesture 160 The Only Good Indian Is a Poor Indian: The ANC and the Indian Townships 163 "All the Way": On the Ways of the Tiger 167 From Tragedy to Comedy: Politics as a Form of Enjoyment 171 CHAPTER 5 Movement, Sound, and Body in the Postapartheid City 176 The Steel Cages of Modernity 177 Driving while Brown 179 (Auto)mobility in the Postapartheid City 182 Vehicular Vernacular: Visual and Sonic 185 Taxis, Charou-Style 188 Conclusion: "Indianness," African-Style 197 CHAPTER 6 The Unwieldy Fetish: Desi Fantasies, Roots Tourism, and Diasporic Desires 200 India as an Unwieldy Fetish 201 The Spiritual Homeland 203 Seeking Ancestral Roots 203 Finding Spiritual Truth 207 Catalysts of Modernity 209 Global Desi Dreamscapes: The Revival of Bollywood in South Africa 211 "What Does This Film Make of Me?" 212 Plot Summary 214 Who Are We Indians, After All? 217 Diaspora and the Unwieldy Fetish 220 CHAPTER 7 Global Hindus and Pure Muslims: Universalist Aspirations and Territorialized Lives 223 Hinduism in Translation 226 Religious Practices, Hindu Missionaries, and Cultural Purification 228 A Nervous Relationship: Contemporary Hindu Practices in the Townships 231 The Call of Global Hinduism 236 Globalized Islam and the Impurities of the Past 239 Muslim Durban 240 Deculturation and the Invention of the Pure Muslim 247 "Oh Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes-Benz?" 252 Da'wah in the Township 256 Reaching for the Universal 259 CHAPTER 8 The Saved and the Backsliders: The Charou Soul and the Instability of Belief 261 The Fragility of the Charou Soul 266 Signs of the Spirit 269 Reconfiguring Patriarchy and Gendered Surveillance 270 On Suits and Sermons 273 Looking like Kentucky ... 277 Race, Gender, Body 282 Between Vessel and Substance: On the Exteriority of the Soul 286 Postscript: Melancholia in the Time of the "African Personality" 290 Notes 297 References 325 Index 345
£31.50
Princeton University Press The Age of Garvey
Book SynopsisJamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of supporters, both in the United States and abroad. The Age of Garvey presents an expansive global history of the movement that came to bTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."--Rupert Lewis, New West Indian Guide "The Age of Garvey is ambitious in its scope and argument, both of which are made clear by the book's title. Ewing succeeds in making the case for the worldwide nature and significance of Garveyism, bringing to bear his own meticulous original research in Africa, all of the relevant scholarship that is available, and his learned understanding of diversity within the global diaspora. It is hard to imagine a more coherent and informed presentation of this extremely complex and elusive subject."--Mary G. Rolinson, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey 15 Chapter Two The Center Cannot Hold 45 Chapter Three Africa for the Africans! 76 Chapter Four "The Silent Work That Must Be Done" 107 Part Two: The Age of Garvey 127 Chapter Five The Tide of Preparation 129 Chapter Six Broadcast on the Winds 160 Chapter Seven The Visible Horizon 186 Chapter Eight Muigwithania (The Reconciler) 212 Afterword 238 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Index 299
£40.50
Princeton University Press Learning Zulu A Secret History of Language in
Book Synopsis"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elemeTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times "In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language... A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language."--ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction 1 Chapter 1 Learn More Zulu 14 Chapter 2 A Teacher's Novels 49 Chapter 3 Ipi Tombi 74 Chapter 4 100% Zulu Boy 96 Chapter 5 2008 115 Acknowledgments 145 Notes 147 Select Bibliography 183 Index 193
£40.50
Princeton University Press The Age of Garvey
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewWinner of the 2015 Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations "This remarkable book has moved completely away from the stereotyping of Garvey's Africa program as an escapist 'back to Africa' movement. Ewing has enhanced the study of the Garvey movement conceptually and empirically by tracing the networks and pathways of African Garveyism."--Rupert Lewis, New West Indian Guide "The Age of Garvey is ambitious in its scope and argument, both of which are made clear by the book's title. Ewing succeeds in making the case for the worldwide nature and significance of Garveyism, bringing to bear his own meticulous original research in Africa, all of the relevant scholarship that is available, and his learned understanding of diversity within the global diaspora. It is hard to imagine a more coherent and informed presentation of this extremely complex and elusive subject."--Mary G. Rolinson, Nova ReligioTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: The Rise and Fall of Marcus Garvey 13 Chapter One The Education of Marcus Mosiah Garvey 15 Chapter Two The Center Cannot Hold 45 Chapter Three Africa for the Africans! 76 Chapter Four "The Silent Work That Must Be Done" 107 Part Two: The Age of Garvey 127 Chapter Five The Tide of Preparation 129 Chapter Six Broadcast on the Winds 160 Chapter Seven The Visible Horizon 186 Chapter Eight Muigwithania (The Reconciler) 212 Afterword 238 Abbreviations 243 Notes 245 Index 299
£25.20
Princeton University Press Learning Zulu
Book SynopsisTrade Review"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016""Longlisted for the 2017 Alan Paton Award for Non-Fiction, Sunday Times""In this deeply introspective memoir, Sanders focuses on his quest to learn the Zulu language. . . . A valuable resource for history and political science as well as language." * Choice *"Well written and well researched. . . . The book is a good testimony of resistance and survival of the Zulu people, culture, and isiZulu the language."---Shirley Mthethwa-Sommers, African Studies Quarterly
£19.00
Princeton University Press Rabat
Book SynopsisMaking provocative use of the term apartheid," Janet Abu-Lughod argues that French colonial policies in Moroccan cities effectively segregated Moroccans from Europeans. Focusing on Rabat and drawing upon unpublished data from the 1971 census of Morocco, she documents the results of this segregation. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton LegTable of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*List of Figures, pg. xi*List of Illustrations, pg. xiii*A Note on Orthography and Translation, pg. xv*Preface, pg. xvii*Prologue, pg. 3*I. Patterns: The Maghrib in Context, pg. 9*II. Urbanization in North Africa, pg. 30*III. The Origins of Sale and Rabat: False and True Beginnings, pg. 52*IV. A City among Cities, pg. 75*V. Creeping Colonialism, pg. 95*VI. Rabat circa 1900: The Pearl of Morocco, pg. 111*VII. The Origins of Urban Apartheid, pg. 131*VIII. Building the Colonial Edifice, pg. 150*IX. All Done According to the Law, pg. 174*X. The Failure of Planning, pg. 196*XI. Concretizing the Caste City, pg. 216*XII. The Crisis of Decolonization, pg. 239*XIII. Rabat from Caste to Class, pg. 258*XIV. The Factorial Ecology of Rabat-Sale: Methods and Statistical Results, pg. 275*XV. The Spatial Organization of Rabat-Sale in 1971, pg. 305*XVI. Planning the Future, pg. 332*Bibliography, pg. 341*Index, pg. 357
£51.00
Princeton University Press African Businessmen and Development in Zambia
Book SynopsisDrawing on their extensive fieldwork in Zambia, the authors address these central concerns: the social origins and motivations of African entrepreneurs, and the determinants of their success; the impact of government policies on business growth; the relative performance of Zambians in business; and the effects of small business on Zambian society.Table of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*List of Figures, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. From Rhodes to Kaunda, pg. 15*CHAPTER II. Market Trade, pg. 55*CHAPTER III. Small Retail Trade, pg. 89*CHAPTER IV. Challenging Expatriate Entrepreneurs, pg. 119*CHAPTER V. Rural Business Enterprise, pg. 162*CHAPTER VI. Success, Family Patterns, and Life Styles, pg. 204*CHAPTER VII. Policies, Politics, and African Businessmen, pg. 243*CHAPTER VIII. African Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, and Social Change, pg. 275*Appendix I. Conduct of Fieldwork and Interview Schedules, pg. 314*Appendix II. Earnings and Growth Estimates of Businessmen and Traders, pg. 324*Appendix III. Multivariate Analyses of Business Success, pg. 340*References, pg. 362*Subject Index, pg. 373*Author Index, pg. 381*Backmatter, pg. 383
£999.99
Princeton University Press The Tunisia of Ahmad Bey 18371855
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Illustrations, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Note on Translation and the Use of Arabic and Turkish Technical Terms, pg. xiii*Abbreviations Used, pg. xiv*Table of Principal Dates, pg. xv*Introduction, pg. 1*I. Tunisia: Mediterranean, Muslim and Ottoman, pg. 19*II. The Political Class, pg. 41*III. The Web of Government, pg. 93*IV. The Religious Establishment, pg. 146*V ... And the Ruled, pg. 184*Introduction to Part Two, pg. 207*VI. Ahmad Bey, pg. 209*VII. Tunisia and an Encroaching Outside World, pg. 237*VIII. Military Reforms, pg. 261*IX. Marks of Modernity, pg. 313*X. The Fatal Flaw, pg. 335*Conclusion: The Meaning of it all, pg. 353*APPENDIX I. Husaynid Marriage Patterns, pg. 369*APPENDIX II. Provincial Qaids, pg. 372*APPENDIX III. A Note on Population, pg. 375*Glossary, pg. 379*Bibliography, pg. 383*Index, pg. 399
£124.10
Princeton University Press African Businessmen and Development in Zambia
Book SynopsisTable of Contents*Frontmatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*List of Tables, pg. ix*List of Figures, pg. xi*Preface, pg. xiii*Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER I. From Rhodes to Kaunda, pg. 15*CHAPTER II. Market Trade, pg. 55*CHAPTER III. Small Retail Trade, pg. 89*CHAPTER IV. Challenging Expatriate Entrepreneurs, pg. 119*CHAPTER V. Rural Business Enterprise, pg. 162*CHAPTER VI. Success, Family Patterns, and Life Styles, pg. 204*CHAPTER VII. Policies, Politics, and African Businessmen, pg. 243*CHAPTER VIII. African Enterprise, Entrepreneurship, and Social Change, pg. 275*Appendix I. Conduct of Fieldwork and Interview Schedules, pg. 314*Appendix II. Earnings and Growth Estimates of Businessmen and Traders, pg. 324*Appendix III. Multivariate Analyses of Business Success, pg. 340*References, pg. 362*Subject Index, pg. 373*Author Index, pg. 381*Backmatter, pg. 383
£127.50
MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Built on the Ruins of Empire British Military
Book SynopsisDuring the Cold War the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national army from colonial forces. Blake Whitaker examines this process in Kenya and Zambia and how it set the course for the creation of the army in Zimbabwe.Table of Contents Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. King's African Rifles, Independence, and Mutiny 2. The Zambia Army and the Consequences of Poor Policy 3. The Rhodesian Army and the Liberation Forces 4. How Do You Create an Army? British Postconflict Planning 5. The Rise of ZANLA Dominance in the ZNA and the Birth of the Fifth Brigade Conclusion: Military Assistance as a Diplomatic Weapon Notes Bibliography Index
£37.76
LUP - Voltaire Foundation LAfrique du si232cle des Lumi232res savoirs et
Book SynopsisIl s’agissait de comprendre comment des fictions s’enracinaient, en amont, dans des textes qui se donnaient comme des récits de voyages authentiques et comment, en aval, cet imaginaire a pu déterminer des comportements réels, susciter aussi bien le mouvement de colonisation que les combats pour l’émancipation des esclaves.Trade Review'C’est tout l’enjeu de l’ouvrage d’enserrer dans une approche unique la myriade d’images du Noir qui se dégage des textes étudiés. […] Richement illustré, le volume, par ailleurs soigné, est nanti d’une bibliograhie fournie, et d’un double index, lui aussi très utile.'- Etudes littéraires africaines'Produit de chercheurs venus des deux côtés de l’Atlantique […] le volume parcourt quelques voies connues et d’autres plus originales de la geste des Européens en Afrique […]'- Revue de Synthèse, tome 131, 6ème série, n° 2Table of ContentsAvant-propos des éditeursAndrew S. Curran, Pourquoi étudier la représentation de l’Afrique dans la pensée du XVIIIe siècle?I Questions de méthodologieJean-Claude Halpern, Approches de l’Afrique au XVIIIe siècle: un savoir éclatéDavid Diop, La mise à l’épreuve d’un régime de véridiction sur ‘la paresse et la négligence des nègres’ dans le Voyage au Sénégal (1757) d’AdansonCatherine Gallouët, Comment rendre l’Africain intelligible: l’exemple de ZinghaII Histoire et anthropologieThomas Hallier, ‘Chez des nations policées […]’: la présence africaine dans le discours public français du XVIIIe siècleGérard Lahouati, Du bon usage des fétiches: de Brosses, Du culte des dieux fétiches, ou Parallèle de l’ancienne religion de l’Egypte avec la religion actuelle de la Nigritie (1760)Siegfried Huigen, Les aventures d’un Créole du Surinam en Afrique: le récit ethnographique de François Le VaillantJean-Michel Racault, Histoire et enjeux d’un mythe anthropologique: les Quimos de Madagascar à la fin du XVIIIe siècleIII Territoires de la fictionStéphan Pascau, L’Afrique et les peuples exotiques vus par Henri-Joseph Dulaurens (1719-1793)Pierre Cambou, L’Africain dans le conte voltairien: une image à la JanusEmmanuelle Sauvage, Le Noir et le Blanc selon Rétif de La BretonneMichael Taormina, L’Ourika de Claire de Duras: allégorie révolutionnaire, allégorie de la RévolutionIV Savoirs et discours esthétiquesFrancesco Paolo Alexandre Madonia, L’écueil du goût: la laideur des Africains chez les métaphysiciens du BeauPatrick Graille, L’Afrique noire illustrée dans les récits des voyageurs, traducteurs et compilateurs français du XVIIIe siècleNicolas Malais, Un regard impossible? L’Africain dans l’illustration des récits de voyage au XVIIIe siècleAntoine Eche, L’image ethnographique africaine de l’Histoire générale des voyagesMichèle Bocquillon, Portrait de l’Africaine par Stanislas de BoufflersPeggy Davis, La réification de l’esclave noir dans l’estampe sous l’Ancien Régime et la RévolutionRésumesBibliographie généraleIndex
£98.30
Pluto Press Africas Last Colonial Currency
Book SynopsisHow the CFA Franc enabled France to continue its colonies in AfricaTrade Review'For decades, the CFA Franc question has been, for the elite of Francophone Africa, more than a mere taboo subject, a sort of shameful wound. Tongues are starting to loosen, and this book comes at a perfect time' -- Boubacar Boris Diop, Senegalese novelist and essayist'A masterpiece that uncovers, in wonderful detail, the neo-colonial politics behind the CFA Franc. It makes a passionate, convincing case for dismantling the CFA Franc, and will become a classic study in how monetary relationships are intertwined with power and national interest' -- Professor Daniela Gabor, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance, University of the West of England'An impressive read' -- Arndt Hopfmann, Senior Advisor on Economic and Trade Policy at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation'This book makes the CFA Franc's role in the perpetuation of French neo-colonialism in Africa all too visible - thereby adding to the arsenal of knowledge for the decolonization of Africa and African development' -- Anthony Victor Obeng, author of 'Decolonizing Africa and African Development: The Twenty-First Century Pan Africanist Challenge' (Peter Lang AG, 2016)'A fascinating inquiry' -- Olivette Otele, historian, author of 'African Europeans: An Untold History' (Hurst, 2020)'A must read that engages the political economy of the post-colony by taking us back to where it all started: from De Gaulle's neo-colonial independence to Macron's fake colonial currency, showing that the transition is simply imperial domination par excellence' -- Ibrahim Abdullah, Professor of History at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone'Excellent ... it exposes the reality behind that 'invisible weapon' used by France to continue to influence the fate of its former colonies' -- Demba Moussa Dembele, economist and co-author of 'Ending Africa's Monetary Servitude: Who Profits from the CFA Franc?''An excellent book showing that a common currency area between an advanced and a backward region is a mechanism for perpetuating the latter's backwardness and making its products available cheap for the former. A must read for students of development' -- Prabhat Patnaik, Professor Emeritus, Jawaharlal Nehru University'A brilliant book which will be a highly efficient weapon in the fight for the financial sovereignty of the African States and the complete abolition of the CFA' -- Jean Ziegler, Former Professor of Sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris and former Vice-President of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council'A scathing critique of France's most powerful colonial tool in Africa, revealing a radical, yet practical alternative path for African economic and monetary sovereignty' -- Fadhel Kaboub, President of the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity‘Addresses one factor most experts overlook … Pigeaud and Sylla make the case that preservation of the CFA has been an overlooked but crucial motivation for France’ -- ‘The New York Review of Books’‘A crystal-clear dissection of a purposefully opaque economic system … at once exposé, history, and economics explainer’ -- ‘Society and Space’‘An immensely important contribution’ -- ‘Brave New Europe’‘Demolishing the shallow rhetoric surrounding the CFA system, the authors are excellent guides to its political, diplomatic and technical history … offering a book that will be particularly of interest to economic historians, postcolonial theorists and political scientists’ -- ‘LSE Review of Books’Table of ContentsForeword by William F. Mitchell Map Introduction 1. A Currency at the Service of the ‘Colonial Pact’ 2. The CFA System 3. Resistance and Reprisal 4. France in Command 5. At the Service of the Françafrique 6. An Obstacle to Development 7. An Unsustainable Status Quo Epilogue Postface Notes Index
£72.25
Pluto Press Amakomiti
Book SynopsisA fascinating ethnography of the democratic organisation of shack settlements in South AfricaTrade Review'One of the most exciting and provocative books that I've read in a long time, 'Amakomiti' challenges the stereotype of shanty-dwellers as a powerless underclass without social power. Ngwane unveils instead a defiant working-class world with rich traditions of resistance and a genius for self-organization' -- Mike Davis, author of 'Planet of the Slums' (Verso, 2007)'A remarkable book - Ngwane's great achievement is he once more rescues the amakomiti from academic condescension and historical obliteration. Here, he says, is a vision of another world made, run, and governed by working people. 'Amakomiti' is a book everyone should read' -- Leo Zelig, author of 'An Ounce of Practice' (Hoperoad, 2017), and an editor of the 'Review of African Political Economy''A powerfully compelling account of grassroots democracy and forms of self-organisation in shack settlements [that] makes vividly clear the diversity, dynamism, and significance of these committees. Wonderfully illuminating' -- Gillian Hart, Distinguished Professor at Witwatersrand University and author of 'Rethinking the South African Crisis' (University of Georgia Press, 2013)'A work of great erudition and elegance, it writes shack dwellers and their committees into the history of the working class movements and democratic theory' -- Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Chair of Epistemologies of the Global South, University of Bayreuth, Germany'Compelling ... beats powerfully with an urgency for radical social change and democracy from below, fuelled and informed by the hard, daily struggles for housing, land, dignity and justice it makes visible' -- Aziz Choudry, editor of 'The University and Social Justice Struggles Across the Globe' (Pluto, 2020)'A rich and illuminating exploration of how working-class people organise to advance their interests that, thanks to Ngwane's flair for storytelling, is a pleasure to read' -- Alex Callinicos, Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King's College LondonTable of ContentsList of Figures and Tables List of Photos List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Series Preface Preface 1. Introduction: Disrupting Private Land Ownership? 2. ‘The People Cannot Live in the Air’: History of the Squatter Movement in South Africa 3. Amakomiti are Everywhere 4. Fatal Embrace by the ANC in Duncan Village 5. Iinkundla of Nkaneng: The Rural in the Urban Dialectic 6. Thembelihle Settlement: A Vision of Hope 7. Amakomiti: A Vision of Alternatives Postscript: Covid-19 and the Shacks Appendix 1: List of Case Study Interviews Appendix 2: List of Research Tour Interviews and Places Visited Notes Index
£72.25
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Algerian Sketches
Book Synopsis* Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. * This important new volume brings together his key writings on Algeria, where he did his first major fieldwork in the late 1950s and 1960s.Table of ContentsPresentation Bourdieu and Algeria, Bourdieu in Algeria At the Origins of a Singular Ethnosociology Colonization, Culture and Society The Clash of Civilizations Traditional Society’s Attitude towards Time and Economic Behaviour The Internal Logic of Original Algerian Society War and Social Mutations From Revolutionary War to Revolution Revolution in the Revolution War and Social Mutation in Algeria Workers and Peasants in Disarray Uprooted Peasants: Morphological Upheavals and Cultural Changes in Algeria The Algerian Sub-Proletarians Haunted by Unemployment: The Algerian Proletariat and the Colonial System The Making of Economic Habitus The Ethnology of Kabylia The Right Use of Ethnology Dialogue on Oral Poetry in Kabylia A Reflexive Definition of Anthropology Participant Objectivation Return to the Algerian Experience For a Sociology of Sociologists Between Friends For Abdelmalek Sayad Seeing with the Lens: About Photography Appendices Letters to André Nouschi Chronology of Historical Events Map of Investigation Sites Publications of Pierre Bourdieu on Algeria Bibliography
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Algerian Sketches
Book Synopsis* Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential sociologists and anthropologists of the late twentieth century. * This important new volume brings together his key writings on Algeria, where he did his first major fieldwork in the late 1950s and 1960s.Table of ContentsPresentation Bourdieu and Algeria, Bourdieu in Algeria At the Origins of a Singular Ethnosociology Colonization, Culture and Society The Clash of Civilizations Traditional Society’s Attitude towards Time and Economic Behaviour The Internal Logic of Original Algerian Society War and Social Mutations From Revolutionary War to Revolution Revolution in the Revolution War and Social Mutation in Algeria Workers and Peasants in Disarray Uprooted Peasants: Morphological Upheavals and Cultural Changes in Algeria The Algerian Sub-Proletarians Haunted by Unemployment: The Algerian Proletariat and the Colonial System The Making of Economic Habitus The Ethnology of Kabylia The Right Use of Ethnology Dialogue on Oral Poetry in Kabylia A Reflexive Definition of Anthropology Participant Objectivation Return to the Algerian Experience For a Sociology of Sociologists Between Friends For Abdelmalek Sayad Seeing with the Lens: About Photography Appendices Letters to André Nouschi Chronology of Historical Events Map of Investigation Sites Publications of Pierre Bourdieu on Algeria Bibliography
£18.04
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Force of Obedience
Book SynopsisThe events that took place in Tunisia in January 2011 were the spark igniting the uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East, toppling dictators and leading to violent conflict and tense stand-offs. What was it about this small country in North Africa that enabled it to play this exceptional role? This book is a deeply informed account of the exercise of power in Tunisia in the run-up to the revolt that forced its authoritarian ruler, Ben Ali, into exile. It analyses the practices of domination and repression that were pervasive features of everyday life in Tunisia, showing how the debt economy and the systems of social solidarity and welfare created forms of subjection and mutual dependence between rulers and ruled, enabling the reader to understand how a powerful protest movement could develop despite tight control by police and party. For those wishing to understand the extraordinary events unfolding across the Arab world, this rich, subtle and insightful book iTrade Review"A powerful reminder that, to paraphrase President Obama's recent speech, the future of the Arab world will depend on the interactions between street vendors and those in power." LSE Politics Blog "The Force of Obedience is the best book written on Tunisia in the last two decades. The great issues of social thought - legitimacy, political economy, the common good, the public and the private, authority and power, and how "repression" inspires compromises and acquiesence - are brilliantly articulated through a persuasive mix of documents and incisive ethnography. Hibou's book not only offers a key to understanding today's Tunisia; it also offers innovative ways of understanding political developments elsewhere." Dale F. Eickelman, Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College "Hibou's highly original study shows what North Africans revolted against in 2011. Her analysis of the politics of fear and repression in Ben Ali's Tunisia is unrivalled, particularly for her focus on the regime's destabilizing interventions in everyday economic life. This book is destined to become a classic." Keith Hart, Goldsmiths, University of London "Anyone seeking to understand the revolutionary wave that arose in Tunisia and swept across the Arab world in 2011 can begin with this insightful study of the Ben Ali regime and its methods of control. Rejecting simplistic accounts of an omnipotent authoritarian ruler, Béatrice Hibou explains the decentralized, day-to-day mechanisms of repression through which the regime governed. Her careful account of the practices of domination offers not just a history of a defeated political order but a model for understanding the insidious forms of power against which struggles for political freedoms must continue to fight." Timothy Mitchell, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction I. POWER BY CREDIT 1. Bad debts 2. Dependence through debt II. CONSTRICTION AND ADHESION 3. A meticulous grid 4. The normalizing activity of the bureaucratic apparatus III. NEGOTIATIONS AND CONSENSUS: THE FORCE OF 'INSIDIOUS LENIENCIES' 5. Between hidden conflictuality and the permanent search for compromise 6. Negotiated accommodation 7. The outline of the Tunisian security pact IV. DISCIPLINE AND REFORM 8. Reformism: the 'correct training' 9. Reforms in perpetuity: the success of reformism Conclusion
£54.00
John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Force of Obedience
Book SynopsisThe events that took place in Tunisia in January 2011 were the spark igniting the uprisings that swept across North Africa and the Middle East, toppling dictators and leading to violent conflict and tense stand-offs. What was it about this small country in North Africa that enabled it to play this exceptional role? This book is a deeply informed account of the exercise of power in Tunisia in the run-up to the revolt that forced its authoritarian ruler, Ben Ali, into exile. It analyses the practices of domination and repression that were pervasive features of everyday life in Tunisia, showing how the debt economy and the systems of social solidarity and welfare created forms of subjection and mutual dependence between rulers and ruled, enabling the reader to understand how a powerful protest movement could develop despite tight control by police and party. For those wishing to understand the extraordinary events unfolding across the Arab world, this rich, subtle and insightful book iTrade Review"A powerful reminder that, to paraphrase President Obama's recent speech, the future of the Arab world will depend on the interactions between street vendors and those in power." LSE Politics Blog "The Force of Obedience is the best book written on Tunisia in the last two decades. The great issues of social thought - legitimacy, political economy, the common good, the public and the private, authority and power, and how "repression" inspires compromises and acquiesence - are brilliantly articulated through a persuasive mix of documents and incisive ethnography. Hibou's book not only offers a key to understanding today's Tunisia; it also offers innovative ways of understanding political developments elsewhere." Dale F. Eickelman, Lazarus Professor of Anthropology and Human Relations at Dartmouth College "Hibou's highly original study shows what North Africans revolted against in 2011. Her analysis of the politics of fear and repression in Ben Ali's Tunisia is unrivalled, particularly for her focus on the regime's destabilizing interventions in everyday economic life. This book is destined to become a classic." Keith Hart, Goldsmiths, University of London "Anyone seeking to understand the revolutionary wave that arose in Tunisia and swept across the Arab world in 2011 can begin with this insightful study of the Ben Ali regime and its methods of control. Rejecting simplistic accounts of an omnipotent authoritarian ruler, Béatrice Hibou explains the decentralized, day-to-day mechanisms of repression through which the regime governed. Her careful account of the practices of domination offers not just a history of a defeated political order but a model for understanding the insidious forms of power against which struggles for political freedoms must continue to fight." Timothy Mitchell, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction I. POWER BY CREDIT 1. Bad debts 2. Dependence through debt II. CONSTRICTION AND ADHESION 3. A meticulous grid 4. The normalizing activity of the bureaucratic apparatus III. NEGOTIATIONS AND CONSENSUS: THE FORCE OF 'INSIDIOUS LENIENCIES' 5. Between hidden conflictuality and the permanent search for compromise 6. Negotiated accommodation 7. The outline of the Tunisian security pact IV. DISCIPLINE AND REFORM 8. Reformism: the 'correct training' 9. Reforms in perpetuity: the success of reformism Conclusion
£18.99
McGill-Queen's University Press Pressing Interests
Book SynopsisThe first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.Trade Review"Considering the big-picture issues that affect Kenya in its analysis of Africanist literature and literacy in the newspaper publishing sector, Pressing Interests is a sophisticated and informed contribution to Kenya's already rich historiography." James Robert Brennan, University of Illinois
£98.60
McGill-Queen's University Press Pressing Interests The Agenda and Influence of a
Book SynopsisThe first extended history of colonial Kenya's press, 1899-1960s.Trade Review"Considering the big-picture issues that affect Kenya in its analysis of Africanist literature and literacy in the newspaper publishing sector, Pressing Interests is a sophisticated and informed contribution to Kenya's already rich historiography." James Robert Brennan, University of Illinois
£26.99
Cornell University Press Norms in International Relations The Struggle
Book SynopsisApplying a social-constructivist approach to her richly detailed case history, Audie Jeanne Klotz demonstrates that normative standards such as racial equality can serve as much more than a weak constraint on fundamental strategic concerns.Trade ReviewKlotz offers a persuasive argument that in the South African case the moral principle of racial equality influenced policy on a different, often conflicting, level from economic and strategic factors. * Foreign Affairs *The puzzle Audie Klotz seeks to explain is why a large number of international organizations and states adopted sanctions against the Apartheid regime in South Africa despite strategic and economic interests that had fostered strong ties with it in the past. Klotz argues that the emergence of a global norm of racial equality is at the heart of the explanation.... The book fills in important gaps in both regime theory and constructivism.... Klotz demonstrates in a nicely argued section that neoliberal regime analysis shortchanges the role norms play in international politics.... She elaborates three transmission mechanisms that link norms and policy choice: community and identity; reputation and communication; and discourse and institutions.... This is... a foundation upon which other scholars should build. * World Politics *
£45.00
