Colonialism and imperialism Books
Fordham University Press Hating Empire Properly
Book SynopsisDiscusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.Trade Review"Hating Empire Properly will be praised by political philosophers as well as literary critics for its brilliant 'solution' of the Edmund Burke 'problem': how could a 'liberal' on America and India also be a'conservative' on France? How can we grasp Denis Diderot's defense of colonial commerce alongside his denunciations of empire? Neither apologia nor jeremiad,Agnani's compelling study of the Enlightenment shows subtle consistencies where previous critics could only see contradiction." -- -Srinivas Aravamudan author of Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel "Agnani argues convincingly that Enlightenment historiography is imperial historiography; that is, it derives the terms of its understanding of historical transitions and epochal events (in Europe as elsewhere) from the history of empires, past and present. Agnani focuses on Diderot and Burke, but his carefully-crafted analyses of the energy and limits of their anti-colonialist writing illuminate the wider field of colonial discourse studies." -- -Suvir Kaul University of Pennsylvania "What should it mean to hate empire,properly? What modes of conceptual critique, what ethos of engagement, what attitude to the modern, should we adopt? In this learned and deftly argued book, Sunil Agnani offers us a revised picture of the conceits of Europe's self-consciousness of empire by holding up the internal anticolonial mirror of Diderot and Burke. If Enlightenment is neither single nor seamless, neither a choice nor a prison, what Agnani's reading underscores is the truth of the dictum that, for its conscripts anyway, the only way out is through." -- -David Scott Columbia University "Agnani offers wonderfully nuanced readings of two profound and vexing 18th-century thinkers-Diderot and Burke.Agnani refuses, just as Diderot and Burke did, to be defined and constrained by shallow distinctions that have so often marked our view of the Enlightenment, its critics and their relationship to European imperialism. This is a work of sustained subtlety and intelligence." -- -Uday S. Mehta City University of New York ". . he [Agnani] offers a fresh textual analysis of a selection of colonial writings by Diderot and Burke." -Anita Rupprecht, University of BrightonTable of ContentsPrologue: Enlightenment, Colonialism, Modernity Introduction: Companies, Colonies and their Critics Part I Denis Diderot: The Two Indies of the French Enlightenment Chapter 1: Doux Commerce, Douce Colonisation: Consensual Colonialism in Diderot's Thought Chapter 2: On the Use and Abuse of Anger for Life: Ressentiment and Revenge in the Histoire des deux Indes Part II Edmund Burke: Political Analogy and Enlightenment Critique Chapter 3: Between France and India in 1790: Custom and Arithmetic Reason in a Country of Conquest Chapter 4: Jacobinism in India, Indianism in English Parliament Chapter 5: Atlantic Revolutions and their Indian Echoes: The Place of America in Burke's Asia Writings (a) Reflections on the Revolution in Saint Domingue/Haiti (b) Compensation in the East, or, from Virginia to Hindostan Epilogue Hating Empire Properly: European Anticolonialism at its Limit
£59.40
Fordham University Press The Peoples Right to the Novel
Book SynopsisThis study offers a literary history of the war novel in Africa and argues for the genre’s distinct contribution to the literary culture of the continent. The war novel is a form of people’s history that participates in a political struggle for the rights of the dispossessed.Trade Review"Tackling the difficult and urgent issue of wars in Africa and their representation by insider-authors, Coundouriotis's text will provoke debate and raise interest in a rich but still under-researched field of study by means of wide ranging, trenchant analyses." -- -Annie Gagiano Professor Emeritus, Stellenbosch University "In powerful readings of a vast literature of war in Africa, with impeccable scholarship and painstaking attention to historical detail, Eleni Coundouriotis has reconstructed a history of the African novel from below, a history that puts "the people" and their political and literary claims of rights to representation--both in the postcolonial state and its national literature--at the center of the story. The book adds vital new perspectives on the interdependent developments of humanitarian thinking and Naturalism, adding necessary nuance to our understanding of the relationships among literature, human rights, and humanitarianism." -- -Joseph R. Slaughter Columbia University "Eleni Coundouriotis's latest book so exudes theoretical newness that one reads even the bibliography with pencil at the ready." -African Affairs "The People's Right to the Novel combines a clear thesis with a painstaking and perceptive discussion of the individual authors and their works." -- -Wendy Griswold Northwestern UniversityTable of ContentsList of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction: Naturalism, Humanitarianism, and the Fiction of War 1. "No Innocents and No Onlookers": The Uses of the Past in the Novels of Mau Mau 2. Toward a People's History: The Novels of the Nigerian Civil War 3. "Wondering Who the Heroes Were": Zimbabwe's Novels of Atrocity 4. Contesting the New Authenticity: Contemporary War Fiction in Africa Afterword Notes Works Cited Index
£48.60
Fordham University Press Divine Enjoyment A Theology of Passion and
Book SynopsisThis book’s relational theology analogically unfolds a view of a God of enjoyment whose exuberant passion contains the traces of suffering, yearning, permeability, intensity, and impropriety. God, in affectively embracing all living beings, takes on their form, and in incarnating the divine self as hospitable pleasure, vivifies the cosmos.Trade Review"Elaine Padilla's book offers a breath of fresh air into a theological discourse that often dwells on suffering and survival, ignoring our desire and attempts to achieve enjoyment. Her theology of enjoyment emphasizes reciprocal and communal relations between God and God's creation. Padilla's poetic, erotic, and aesthetic approach expands theological language about the sacred and offers an alternative metaphysics infused with passion and pleasure." -- -Michelle Gonzalez Maldonado University of Miami "Brimming with laughter, subversion, and fiesta, Divine Enjoyment leads us with utter grace in a new theological dance. Attentive to the open wounds of human suffering precisely as open ends of a boundless passion, Elaine Padilla has with stunning lucidity and erudition opened a cosmos of erotic splendor, enjoyed by a God of utter permeability and care. Here-with the most sensitive polyamory-Aquinas, Whitehead, Maduro, Marion, and Althaus Reid form with her a carnivalesque ensemble, inviting philosophical theology to its own most vibrant becoming." -- -Catherine Keller author of The Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (forthcoming) "Padilla's constructive proposal of a theology of a passionate and exuberant God- the God of eros, desire, compassion, suffering, love, and self-transformation- will resonate deeply with contemporary readers of diverse religious persuasions. The book is a highly erudite and breathtakingly creative synthesis of classical theological works. It transforms and enriches our understanding of who God is in a way totally unexpected. It is no doubt one of the best books on God by the younger American theologians." -- -Peter Phan Georgetown UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. Pain: Groans and Birth Pangs of the Divine Enjoyment 2. Yearning: Traces of the Divine Erotic Existence in the Cosmos 3. Permeability: The Open Wounds of the Lovers' Flesh 4. Intensity: Passionate Becomings of the Divine Complex 5. Impropriety: Incarnations of Carnivalesque Passion and Open-Ended Boundaries Notes Selected Bibliography Index
£21.59
Fordham University Press Europe and Empire
Book SynopsisThe European Union and the single currency have given Europe more stability than it has known in the past thousand years, yet Europe seems to be in perpetual crisis about its global role. The many European empires are now reduced to a multiplicity of ethnicities, traditions, and civilizations. Europe will never be One, but to survive as a union it will have to become a federation of islands both distinct and connected.Though drawing on philosophers of Europe's past, Cacciari calls not to resist Europe's sunset but to embrace it. Europe will have to open up to the possibility that in few generations new exiles and an unpredictable cultural hybridism will again change all we know about the European legacy. Though scarcely alive in today's politics, the political unity of Europe is still a necessity, however impossible it seems to achieve.Trade Review"Europe and Empire is both timely and insightful. Politician, activist, philosopher and teacher, Massimo Cacciari explores both the hopes and possibilities of a nascent European Union as well as its current demise as a serious world power. What do the idea and reality of Europe hold for philosophy, politics and globalization? This is the central question of the essays of this volume. With great erudition, rich political insight and sharp critical analysis, Cacciari leads readers to a deeper understanding of the aspirations and failures of Europe, all from a deeply philosophical perspective: Europe in its "evening light" must learn to see itself through the "insufficiency" of its own self-definitions, a project similar to the negative theology of thinkers like Nicholas of Cusa. Cacciari calls us to think Europe as an unpolitical community." -- -Antonio Calcagno King's University College, London, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: Massimo Cacciari's Genealogy of Europe Alessandro Carrera Part I: Thinking Europe 1. Thinking Europe 2. Europeanism 3. Two German Speeches: The "Second Thought" The Language of Europe 4. Europe or Philosophy 5. Europe or Christianity Part II: The Idea of Empire 6. What Is Empire? 7. The Myth of the Growing City 8. Digressions on Empire and the Three Romes 9. More on the Idea of Empire 10. Empire and Katechon: a Question of Political Theology (From Paul, 2 Thessalonians 2) Part III: Title TK 11. The Europe of Maria Zambrano 12. We Cannot Only Call Ourselves Judeo-Christians. A Conversation with Jacques Le Goff Notes Bibliography Articles Included in This Volume Works Cited Index of Names
£23.39
Fordham University Press The Alchemy of Empire
Book SynopsisThe Alchemy of Empire unravels the non-European origins of Enlightenment science. Focusing on the abject materials of empire-building, this study traces the genealogies of substances like mud, mortar, ice, and paper, and forms of knowledge like inoculation, arguing that East India Company employees deployed the paradigm of alchemy in order to make sense of the new worlds they confronted.Trade Review"An intriguing book that brings together an array of literary and non-literary texts dealing with eighteenth-century British response to South Asian techne. Sudan is a significant voice in global eighteenth-century studies as well as a leading critic of Anglo-Indian Relations." -- -Robert Markley University of IllinoisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Mud, Mortar, and Empire 1. The Alchemy of Empire 2. Mortar and the Making of Madras 3. Ice and the Production of British Climate 4. Inoculation and the Limits of British Imperialism 5. "Plaisters," Paper, and the Labor of Letters Conclusion Notes Works Cited
£19.79
Fordham University Press The Transcontinental Maghreb
Book SynopsisThrough close readings of literary and cultural texts, proposes to recalibrate readings of Francophone Maghrebi literature and their critical methodologies in light of Mediterranean Studies.Trade Review"Impressively up to date and beautifully written, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of French and Francophone Studies, postcolonial studies, the growing field of Mediterranean studies, and transcultural approaches to memory. Talbayev gives lucid overviews of these areas, while proposing her own distinctive models for thinking about transcontinental connections in a global age." -- -Debarati Sanyal University of California, Berkeley
£19.79
Fordham University Press Postcolonial Bergson
Book SynopsisAt a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.Table of ContentsForeword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea | vii John E. Drabinski Introduction | 1 1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor | 21 2 Senghor’s African Socialism | 37 3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad | 57 4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism | 77 Conclusion | 95 Acknowledgments | 99 Notes | 101 Index | 117
£18.89
Fordham University Press Postcolonial Bergson
Book SynopsisAt a moment of renewed interest in Bergson’s philosophy, this book, by a major figure in both French and African philosophy, gives an expanded idea of the political ramifications of Bergson’s thought in a postcolonial context.Table of ContentsForeword: Locating the Postcolonial Idea | vii John E. Drabinski Introduction | 1 1 Bergsonism in the Thought of Léopold Sédar Senghor | 21 2 Senghor’s African Socialism | 37 3 Bergson, Iqbal, and the Concept of Ijtihad | 57 4 Time and Fatalism: Iqbal on Islamic Fatalism | 77 Conclusion | 95 Acknowledgments | 99 Notes | 101 Index | 117
£70.20
Fordham University Press Decadent Orientalisms
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Orientalist Decadence | 1 Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire 1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda | 31 2. Al-Shidyaq’s Decadent Carnival | 52 3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style | 68 Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence 4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria | 97 5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning | 118 6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s “Walking Cure” and the Immigrant Body in France | 136 Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity | 159 Acknowledgments | 173 Notes | 177 Select Bibliography | 203 Index | 215
£25.19
Fordham University Press Decadent Orientalisms The Decay of Colonial
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsIntroduction: Orientalist Decadence | 1 Part I: (Dis)integrating Semitism: French and Arabic in the Twilight of the Ottoman Empire 1. French Decadence, Arab Awakenings: Figures of Decay in the Nahda | 31 2. Al-Shidyaq’s Decadent Carnival | 52 3. From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style | 68 Part II: Working Through Postcolonial Decadence 4. Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria | 97 5. Algerian Women and the Invention of Literary Mourning | 118 6. Virtual Secularization: Abdelwahab Meddeb’s “Walking Cure” and the Immigrant Body in France | 136 Conclusion: Toward a Contrapuntal Double Critique of Colonial Modernity | 159 Acknowledgments | 173 Notes | 177 Select Bibliography | 203 Index | 215
£89.10
Fordham University Press Infrapolitics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition | ix Exergue. On Jacques Derrida’s Glas: A Possible Second Moment in Deconstruction | 1 1. The Last God: María Zambrano’s Life without Texture | 9 2. The Wolf’s Hide: Ontotheological Militancies | 25 3. Infrapolitical Distance: A Second Note on the Concept of Distance in Felipe Martínez Marzoa | 50 4. Infrapolitics and the Politics of Infrapolitics | 63 5. The Absolute Difference between Life and Politics | 85 6. A Politics of Separation: An Alternative Politicity | 114 7. Infrapolitical Derrida: The Ontic Determination of Politics beyond Empiricism | 152 8. A Negation of the Anarchy Principle | 170 9. On the Illegal Condition in the State of Extraction: How Not to Be an Informant | 183 Notes | 197 Works Cited | 213 Index | 223
£73.95
Fordham University Press Infrapolitics
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsPreface to the English-Language Edition | ix Exergue. On Jacques Derrida’s Glas: A Possible Second Moment in Deconstruction | 1 1. The Last God: María Zambrano’s Life without Texture | 9 2. The Wolf’s Hide: Ontotheological Militancies | 25 3. Infrapolitical Distance: A Second Note on the Concept of Distance in Felipe Martínez Marzoa | 50 4. Infrapolitics and the Politics of Infrapolitics | 63 5. The Absolute Difference between Life and Politics | 85 6. A Politics of Separation: An Alternative Politicity | 114 7. Infrapolitical Derrida: The Ontic Determination of Politics beyond Empiricism | 152 8. A Negation of the Anarchy Principle | 170 9. On the Illegal Condition in the State of Extraction: How Not to Be an Informant | 183 Notes | 197 Works Cited | 213 Index | 223
£22.79
University of Hawai'i Press Colonialism Maasina Rule and the Originsof
Book SynopsisThis book is a political history of the island of Malaita in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate from 1927, when the last violent resistance to colonial rule was crushed, to 1953 and the inauguration of the islandâs first representative political body, the Malaita Council. At the bookâs heart is a political movement known as Maasina Rule, which dominated political affairs in the southeastern Solomons for many years after World War II. The movementâs ideology, kastom, was grounded in the determination that only Malaitans themselves could properly chart their future through application of Malaitan sensibilities and methods, free from British interference. Kastom promoted a radical transformation of Malaitan lives by sweeping social engineering projects and alternative governing and legal structures. When the government tried to suppress Maasina Rule through force, its followers brought colonial administration on the island to a halt for several years through a labour strike and mass
£44.25
University of Hawai'i Press Building a Heaven on Earth Religion Activism and
Book SynopsisExamines the progressive drives by religious groups to contest standard conceptions of modernity and forge a heavenly kingdom on the Korean peninsula to relieve people from fierce ruptures in their everyday lives. The results of this study will reconfigure the debates on colonial modernity, the origins of faith-based socialactivism in Korea, and the role of religion in a modern world.
£60.00
University of Hawai'i Press Saving Buddhism The Impermanence of Religion in
Book SynopsisExplores the dissonance between the goals of the colonial state and the Buddhist worldview that animated Burmese Buddhism at the turn of the twentieth century. Saving Buddhism contributes to ongoing studies of colonialism, nation, and identity in Southeast Asian studies by working to denaturalize nationalist histories.Trade ReviewThe power of this book comes from how it explicates the work of Burmese Buddhists in redefining religion in the colonial period. Turner shows us how to look behind the curtain of scholarship proclaiming the all-powerful colonial Oz to find that it was not only British authorities and European scholars who were grappling to control religion, but also Burmese Buddhists."" - Marginalia
£22.36
University of Hawai'i Press The Uprooted Race Children and Imperialism in
Book SynopsisFor over a century French officials in Indochina systematically uprooted métis children - those born of Southeast Asian mothers and white, African, or Indian fathers - from their homes. The Uprooted offers an in-depth investigation of this child-removal program: the motivations behind it, reception of it, and resistance to it.
£22.36
University of Missouri Press A Tale of Two Colonies
Book SynopsisBernhard links Virginia and Bermuda in a series of unintended consequences resulting from natural disaster, ignorance of native cultures, diplomatic intrigues, and the fateful arrival of the first Africans in both colonies. Written for general as well as academic audiences.Trade ReviewIf her title invokes Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities (1859), the allusion is apt. She links the two colonies in a tale of death and resurrection and compares them, often highlighting Virginia's greater struggles."" - The Journal of Southern History""Drawing on new research and her own extensive knowledge of early Virginia and Bermuda, Virginia Bernhard elucidates the colonies' interwoven histories. Along the way, she solves many of the conundrums that have long perplexed scholars and general readers. This is a rich, lively, and reliable narrative and an important contribution to Atlantic studies."" - Alden T. Vaughan, author of Transatlantic Encounters: American Indians in Britain, 1500–1776""Virginia Bernhard, who has previously published an outstanding book about slavery on Bermuda, offers the reader a gripping story. She relates the fascinating tale of these two critical locales in England's early efforts to build a successful colonial empire. I found myself eagerly turning the pages, particularly because she skillfully guides the reader back and forth between the two colonies, revealing how so many of the people involved were instrumental to both settlements. Her portrayal of the intrigue, the rapid development of factional disputes on both Bermuda and at Jamestown, is well done. The focus is properly on the personalities and how individual decisions made a significant difference."" - Larry Gragg, author of The Quaker Community on Barbados: Challenging the Culture of the Planter Class""Many in Bermuda and Virginia, the sites of England's first and second colonies in what became the vast British Empire, and beyond will welcome the appearance of A Tale of Two Colonies. The interaction of the settlers on the edge of a vast continent and in a remote, uninhabited island is a fascinating story that Professor Bernhard, with her long experience of both places and their records, has rendered in delightful and highly readable volume."" - Edward Harris, MBE, National Museum of Bermuda
£31.30
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. Magdalena de Cao
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Cornell University Press Vietnam and the West
Book SynopsisThis sound interpretation of Vietnamese cultural attitudes contends that a major reason for American difficulties in Viet-Nam has been the failure to appreciate how wide the gulf is between Viet-Nam and the West. Professor Smith first describes Vietnamese political and social traditions and shows how they were challenged by the West after 1858. He examines Viet-Nam''s search for independence and modernization in the first half of this century, contrasts the two governments of the partitioned country during the years 1954-1963, and stresses the critical need to reassess attitudes toward Viet-Nam. His sophisticated, ambitious survey of Viet-Nam history will have a lasting value that sets it apart from the scores of ephemeral books on this country.Trade ReviewVietnam and the West is a smart, ambitious... collection.... [that] manages to unearth nuanced historical nuggets complicating the internal/external binaries and domestic/foreign relationship perceptions of nearly all previous Vietnamese historical scholarship. * South East Asian Research *
£97.20
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press I Will Live for Both of Us A History of Colonialism Uranium Mining and Inuit Resistance
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£52.50
MP-MTB University of Manitoba Press Inventing the Thrifty Gene The Science of
Book SynopsisExamines the relationship between science and settler colonialism through the lens of ‘Aboriginal diabetes’ and the thrifty gene hypothesis, which posits that Indigenous peoples are genetically predisposed to type-II diabetes and obesity due to their alleged hunter-gatherer genes.
£21.56
Ohio University Press African Intellectuals and Decolonization
Book SynopsisDecades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.Trade Review“A knowledge of old school Black intellectualism in the Americas and Africa may serve as a prerequisite to these readings, but one can still enjoy this work without a prior awareness of the history. This book is must for all aspiring and functional Black intellectuals!” * Examiner.com *
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Ohio University Press The Boy Is Gone Conversations with a Mau Mau
Book SynopsisA story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century’s most dramatic transformations.Trade Review“The important work of recording Kenyan voices is brought to bear in Huttenbach’s excellent compilation: the General’s retelling of the Mau Mau period is highly vivid and complex.” * Focus on the Horn *“Those of us who teach African history are always looking for accessible and engaging books to assign our students. Africa is a vast unknown to most American college students. Most of us have developed strategies of easing them into the subject gently. Huttenbach’s book will fit the bill.”“Thambu’s account of the Mau Mau conflict—the central focus of the book—is unique among all the memoirs written by former Mau Mau: it is the only one authored by a non- Kikuyu African. …[It] has the potential to reshape the way we think about Mau Mau in Meru, and more broadly, outside Kikuyuland.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Laura Lee did what every one of us in the African history field has always wanted to do. She actually lived with the family of her subject. They ate together, worked together (picking tea), stayed together. There is simply no better way for a White outsider to penetrate the core of Meru history.”“This [is] a well-researched book that narrates the life history of a dignified freedom fighter without Western bias.” * Diaspora Messenger *“[Huttenbach and Thambu’s] touching and in the end profound relationship across age, geography, and gender formed the basis of this engaging book, a permanent record of the life and adventures of an African leader set down with grace, intelligence, affection, and style. A valuable contribution to anthropology, life history, and African studies and a recommended read for anyone interested in the modern transformation of African life.”“Laura Lee Huttenbach’s The Boy Is Gone is Japhlet Thambu’s story of the brave Kenyans who went ‘into the forest’ as the Mau Mau to battle the colonial forces of oppression in the mid-twentieth century, and his unsparing tale, told with admirable restraint, puts us at the white-hot center of a people’s struggle against economic repression and cultural abasement. Mr. Thambu speaks eloquently in a simple, clear, and unsentimental language that tells a powerful political story and a heartfelt personal story of a husband, father, and businessman motivated by peace, love, and reconciliation.”“…The saga of the General’s passage from boy to man is a tale of two civilizations caught in the creative and destructive form of contact we call colonialism…. Anyone wishing to broaden their understanding of what lies beneath the veil of stereotypes and Hollywood distortions of Africa, or who would enjoy meeting a character of uncommon intellect and grace, should read this book.”“Laura Lee Huttenbach’s debut, The Boy Is Gone: Conversations with a Mau Mau General, is a unique first-hand account of cultural lineage, revolutionary awakening and dogged perseverance told in the voice Japhlet Thambu, a man who seems to have fit several lifetimes into the span of one. It is an essential testimony to those seeking to understand modern-day Kenya.”“The General’s story … will meet scholarly tests but will enchant a much wider audience … and will inform and broaden the views of western readers about Kenya’s important anti-colonial Mau Mau movement at a time when all Americans, through President Obama, have a need to know more about that country’s history.”
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Ohio University Press Passionate Revolutions The Media and the Rise
Book SynopsisPassionate Revolutions examines the role of political emotions and media in the rise and fall of the Marcos regime. Focusing on the sentimental stories and melodramatic cultural politics of the press and cinema, Espiritu discusses how aesthetics helped secure the dictator’s control and fuel the popular struggles that led to his overthrow.Trade Review“Espiritu makes a major contribution to media studies by combining sensitivity to political-economic forces and political machinations with a suggestive investigation of a layer not often discussed in media studies: the national imaginary.”“Espiritu’s grasp of the uses of cinema in Philippine political theatre, narrated in its breathtaking scope and absurdity, is this challenging and ambitious book’s greatest strength.”“It has almost become a truism that Philippine traditional politics is infused with, and even fueled by, emotion.…A comprehensive history of this phenomenon is still waiting to be written, but Talitha Espiritu’s Passionate Revolutions is a good place to begin.…Drawing … generally from the ‘affective turn’ in cultural studies, Espiritu argues for a more categorical consideration of the emotive dimension of this era—a theme that is only implicitly broached (though nevertheless almost always present) in most other standard accounts.” * Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde *
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Ohio University Press Dedan Kimathi on Trial Colonial Justice and
Book SynopsisLong thought lost, hidden, or destroyed, the transcript of Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary Dedan Kimathi’s 1956 trial during British colonial rule unsettles an already controversial event in Kenya’s history and prompts fresh examinations of its reverberations in the postcolonial present.Trade Review“Had Julie MacArthur produced a volume containing simply the text of Kimathi’s trial that achievement alone would have been worthy of high praise. To bring together the additional documents presented here – and garner the participation and resultant scholarship of these contributors – is an extraordinary accomplishment. Faculty might assign Dedan Kimathi on Trial in the undergraduate classroom, but perhaps most importantly, it will be read and fiercely argued over in Kenya.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[This] publication accords Kenya and the world yet another moment of serious reflection and stock taking in revisiting one of Africa’s most compelling moments in the history of resistance against colonialist and imperialist injustice.”“The scholarly reflections brought together in this volume reveal the deep historical significance of figures like Kimathi, the moral lessons we can learn from the past, and the continuing relevance of the struggle for independence in Kenya today.”“With the proceedings and exhibits of Kimathi’s show trial produced in gripping detail, and essays showing why this trial mattered far beyond a Nyeri courtroom in 1956, MacArthur superbly situates Kimathi’s fate amidst African resistance to crumbling empire.”
£62.90
Ohio University Press Dedan Kimathi on Trial
Book SynopsisLong thought lost, hidden, or destroyed, the transcript of Mau Mau anticolonial revolutionary Dedan Kimathi’s 1956 trial during British colonial rule unsettles an already controversial event in Kenya’s history and prompts fresh examinations of its reverberations in the postcolonial present.Trade Review“Had Julie MacArthur produced a volume containing simply the text of Kimathi’s trial that achievement alone would have been worthy of high praise. To bring together the additional documents presented here – and garner the participation and resultant scholarship of these contributors – is an extraordinary accomplishment. Faculty might assign Dedan Kimathi on Trial in the undergraduate classroom, but perhaps most importantly, it will be read and fiercely argued over in Kenya.” * Canadian Journal of African Studies *“[This] publication accords Kenya and the world yet another moment of serious reflection and stock taking in revisiting one of Africa’s most compelling moments in the history of resistance against colonialist and imperialist injustice.”“The scholarly reflections brought together in this volume reveal the deep historical significance of figures like Kimathi, the moral lessons we can learn from the past, and the continuing relevance of the struggle for independence in Kenya today.”“With the proceedings and exhibits of Kimathi’s show trial produced in gripping detail, and essays showing why this trial mattered far beyond a Nyeri courtroom in 1956, MacArthur superbly situates Kimathi’s fate amidst African resistance to crumbling empire.”
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Overseas Empire 1879 1999
Book SynopsisA Timely Look Back at the Era That Shaped Our World Thousands of years of recorded history show that the main way in which human societies have been organized is as empires. Today, the evidence of recent European overseas empire's lasting effects is all around us: from international frontiers and fusion cuisine to multiplying apologies for colonial misdeeds. European Overseas Empire, 1879-1999: A Short History explores the major events in this critical period that continue to inform and affect our world today. New access to archives and a renewed interest in the most recent era of European overseas empire building and the decolonization that followed have produced a wealth of fascinating information that has recharged perennial debates and shed new light on topics previously considered settled . At the same time, current events are once again beginning to echo the past, bringing historical perspective into the spotlight to guide our actions going forward.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 The Nineteenth-Century Context 11 2 The Civilizing Mission and the Race for Empire, 1879–1902 33 3 Resistance and Consolidation, 1902–1912 67 4 Empires at War, 1912–1922 87 5 The Colonial Era, 1922–1931 109 6 World War II, 1931–1945 131 7 Unfinished and Finished Empires, 1945–1958 153 8 Decolonization’s Second Wave, 1958–1975 181 9 Empire After Imperialism: 1975–1999 and Beyond 201 Index 223
£70.16
John Wiley and Sons Ltd European Overseas Empire 1879 1999
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsList of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements ix List of Abbreviations xi Introduction 1 1 The Nineteenth-Century Context 11 2 The Civilizing Mission and the Race for Empire, 1879–1902 33 3 Resistance and Consolidation, 1902–1912 67 4 Empires at War, 1912–1922 87 5 The Colonial Era, 1922–1931 109 6 World War II, 1931–1945 131 7 Unfinished and Finished Empires, 1945–1958 153 8 Decolonization’s Second Wave, 1958–1975 181 9 Empire After Imperialism: 1975–1999 and Beyond 201 Index 223
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Johns Hopkins University Press Britain and Africa
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1965. This book is about the association between Britain and Africa. The book begins with the British entry into Africa and the Indian Ocean and the establishment of the principal foci of power before 1914. The book next treats the quarter century from the First World War until the outbreak of the Second. The book then discusses the period of the Second World War, its aftermath, and the time period contemporaneous with the book's publication. The author's personal experiences and observations shortly before and during the Second World War in different parts of Africa convinced him at the time that the years 19391945 marked a decisive watershed. After the historical chapters, the author examines the three major zones of contemporary sub-Saharan Africa. The final chapter considers the major international associations of which Britain is a member and with which it operates in African affairs in the aftermath of colonialism.Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionChapter 1. Britain and Africa before 1914: Establishment of the Foci of PowerChapter 2. Britain and Africa 1914—39: War and Trusteeship Chapter 3. Britain and Africa 1939—64: Bases and BridgeheadsChapter 4. Britain and Southern AfricaChapter 5. Britain and West AfricaChapter 6. Britain and Eastern AfricaChapter 7. Britain and Independent Africa: Partnership—The Uncompleted TaskPostscriptIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
Book SynopsisUnsettled Solidarities examines contemporary Asian and Indigenous cross-representations within different settler states in the Américas. Quynh Nhu Le looks at literary works by both groups alongside public apologies, interviews, and hemispheric race theories to trace cross-community tensions and possibilities for solidarities amidst the uneven imposition of racialization and settler colonization. Contrasting texts such as Maxine Hong Kingston's China Men with Gerald Vizenor's Hiroshima Bugi, and Karen Tei Yamashita's Through the Arc of the Rain Forest with Leslie Marmon Silko's Almanac of the Dead, among others, Le reveals how settler colonialism persists through the liberal ideological structuring or incorporation of critical and political resistance. She illuminates the tense collisions of Asian and Indigenous movements from the heroic/warrior traditions, reparations and redress, and transnational/cross-racial mobilization against global capital to mixed-race narratives.Reading the
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Temple University Press,U.S. Unsettled Solidarities
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University of Toronto Press Empire and Nations
Book SynopsisEmpire and Nations was written in tribute to the accomplishments of Frederic Hubert Soward – teacher, scholar, and administrator – who for forty-two years served in the Department of History at the University of British Columbia. Throughout his career he has made significant contributions to international understanding and the study of international relations through his writings, public lectures, and participation in international organizations and conferences.The volume consists of essays by fourteen outstanding contributors, all of whom are former students or associates of Professor Soward. The essays have as their common subject the nations that evolved within the British Empire and found, or are finding, their place in the world. Papers written by John Conway, Harvey L. Dyck, G.P. de T. Glazebrook, Edward D. Greathed, John W. Holmes, R.A. MacKay, Norman A.M. MacKenzie, Kenneth A. MacKirdy, H. Blair Neatby, and Peter B. Waite develop the subject fro
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Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
£62.99
Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
£23.74
Bristol University Press Decolonising Social Work in Finland
Book SynopsisIntroduction and Chapter 10 available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book examines the contemporary social care realities and practices of Finland, a small nation with a history enmeshed in social relations as both coloniser and colonised. Decolonising Social Work in Finland: Interrogates coloniality, racialisation and diversity in the context of Finnish social work and social care. Brings together racialised and mainstream White Finnish researchers, activists and community members to challenge relations of epistemic violence on racialised populations in Finland. Critically unpacks colonial views of care and wellbeing. It will be essential reading for international scholars and students in the fields of Social Work, Sociology, Indigenous Studies, Health Sciences, Social Sciences and Education.
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Duke University Press Colonial Transactions
Book SynopsisIn Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use ofhuman organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as 'transactions.' Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon.Trade Review". . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa." -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *"Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa." -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review *"Bernault’s book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention." -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text *“A well-documented scholarly work enriched with an elegant style…. With this new book, Florence Bernault makes an invaluable contribution to African cultural anthropology by proposing an innovative approach to witchcraft that transcends the nativist paradigm and explores the intersecting third space of mutual influences (colonized/colonizers) from which arose the creolized spiritual landscape of postcolonial Gabon.” -- Marc Mvé Bekale * African Studies Review *“Florence Bernault offers an original and refreshing history of European-African colonial encounters in Gabon, Equatorial Africa. She does so by using a wealth of sources.... [Colonial Transactions] will appeal to scholars of colonialism in Africa and beyond, and to anyone interested in African spirituality and modernity.” -- Ndubueze L. Mbah * Journal of African History *“Bernault’s conception of colonialism as a transaction . . . does much to reconfigure understandings of power under colonialism. . . . [Colonial Transactions] should be read widely not just by scholars of history and gender but also by anthropologists and others interested in African studies or colonialism, more broadly.” -- Avenel Rolfsen * Gender & History *“Colonial Transactions expands our knowledge and refines our understanding of the two themes that stand at its center – witchcraft and colonialism. . . . No future research about witchcraft or about colonial relations will be able to ignore this fascinating and eye-opening book.” -- Ruth Ginio * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph 27 2. The Double Life of Charms 69 3. Carnal Fetishism 96 4. The Value of People 118 5. Cannibal Mirrors 138 6. Eating 168 Conclusion 194 Notes 205 Bibliography 293 Index 321
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Duke University Press Colonial Transactions
Book SynopsisIn Colonial Transactions Florence Bernault moves beyond the racial divide that dominates colonial studies of Africa. Instead, she illuminates the strange and frightening imaginaries that colonizers and colonized shared on the ground. Bernault looks at Gabon from the late nineteenth century to the present, historicizing the most vivid imaginations and modes of power in Africa today: French obsessions with cannibals, the emergence of vampires and witches in the Gabonese imaginary, and the use ofhuman organs for fetishes. Struggling over objects, bodies, agency, and values, colonizers and colonized entered relations that are better conceptualized as 'transactions.' Together they also shared an awareness of how the colonial situation broke down moral orders and forced people to use the evil side of power. This foreshadowed the ways in which people exercise agency in contemporary Africa, as well as the proliferation of magical fears and witchcraft anxieties in present-day Gabon.Trade Review". . .This should be a key text for African studies and certainly for any collection centered on West and Central Africa." -- J. R. Kenyon * Choice *"Bernault's ability to trace . . . imaginaries throughout centuries of thought and praxis in both France and Gabon make this book a valuable addition to the historiography of west Africa." -- Amanda Ford * International Social Science Review *"Bernault’s book fills a void in many ways, providing an English-speaking audience with one among the very few in-depth studies out there on a nation and its people that certainly merit more attention." -- Cheryl Toman * Postcolonial Text *“A well-documented scholarly work enriched with an elegant style…. With this new book, Florence Bernault makes an invaluable contribution to African cultural anthropology by proposing an innovative approach to witchcraft that transcends the nativist paradigm and explores the intersecting third space of mutual influences (colonized/colonizers) from which arose the creolized spiritual landscape of postcolonial Gabon.” -- Marc Mvé Bekale * African Studies Review *“Florence Bernault offers an original and refreshing history of European-African colonial encounters in Gabon, Equatorial Africa. She does so by using a wealth of sources.... [Colonial Transactions] will appeal to scholars of colonialism in Africa and beyond, and to anyone interested in African spirituality and modernity.” -- Ndubueze L. Mbah * Journal of African History *“Bernault’s conception of colonialism as a transaction . . . does much to reconfigure understandings of power under colonialism. . . . [Colonial Transactions] should be read widely not just by scholars of history and gender but also by anthropologists and others interested in African studies or colonialism, more broadly.” -- Avenel Rolfsen * Gender & History *“Colonial Transactions expands our knowledge and refines our understanding of the two themes that stand at its center – witchcraft and colonialism. . . . No future research about witchcraft or about colonial relations will be able to ignore this fascinating and eye-opening book.” -- Ruth Ginio * Middle Ground Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ix Introduction 1 1. A Siren, an Empty Shrine, and a Photograph 27 2. The Double Life of Charms 69 3. Carnal Fetishism 96 4. The Value of People 118 5. Cannibal Mirrors 138 6. Eating 168 Conclusion 194 Notes 205 Bibliography 293 Index 321
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Duke University Press Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history.Trade Review“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times *“Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” -- Minkah Makalani, author of * In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 *Table of ContentsEditor's Note vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James xi Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution Introduction | 1977 Edition 5 Part I 1. The Myth 23 2. The Masses Set the Stage 33 3. The People in 1947 41 4. The Revolution in Theory 50 5. The Men on the Spot 65 6. The People and the Leader 76 7. Positive Action 104 8. The Party under Fire 113 9. The Tip of the Iceberg 124 Part II 1. Government and Party 135 2. 1962: Twenty Years After 149 3. Slippery Descent 152 4. Lenin and the Problem 158 5. “ . . . Always out of Africa” 179 Appendix 1 | Correspondence, 1957 189 Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James 189 Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman 190 Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee 191 Appendix 2 | “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe—A Necessary Introduction,” 1964 199 Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James 199 Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now” 200 Notes 221 Index 229
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Duke University Press Militarization
Book SynopsisMilitarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the Readerprobes militarism''s ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people. In collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David VineTrade Review“This wonderfully innovative, distinctive, and timely book has the additional value of taking an anthropological approach to militarism. Its editors have been among the key actors in crafting sharp and valuable critiques of the creeping militarization of their disciplines, particularly as practiced by U.S.-based scholars. This volume offers some of the most cogent explorations of the many-layered workings of militarism.” -- Cynthia Enloe, author of * Globalization and Militarism *“Militarism's reach extends far beyond the weapons and armed police and soldiers prowling our streets and deployed around the world, as its rhetoric normalizes violence and war. This deeply intersectional collection insists on the vantage point of militarism's victims, historically and today, while exposing those who profit from it. This volume provides an astonishingly comprehensive introduction to the globalized systems threatening not only individuals, but whole nations, peoples, and cultures, all captured by a profoundly militarized United States.” -- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, author of * Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror *“At just over 400 pages, including a very useful twenty-seven-page bibliography, [Militarization] reflects an enormous and dedicated effort. . . . The book offers us a path to think past our disciplinary fetishization of the lone wordsmith in knowledge production.” -- Keith Brown * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“The editors bring a compelling and timely ethic of demilitarization to our discipline. . . . The volume’s strength is its comprehensive coverage and intersectional, multidisciplinary approach to militarization and its impacts.” -- Leah Zani * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsEditors' Note xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction / Roberto J. González and Hugh Gusterson 1 Section I. Militarization and Political Economy Introduction / Catherine Lutz 27 1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending / John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney 29 1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D. Eisenhower 36 1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism / William Astore 38 1.4. Violence, Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa / Daniel Hoffman 42 1.5. Women, Economy, War / Carolyn Nordstrom 51 Section II. Military Labor 2.1. Soldiering as Work: The All-Volunteer Force in the United States / Beth Bailey 59 2.2. Sexing the Globe / Sealing Cheng 62 2.3. Military Monks / Michael Jerryson 67 2.4. Child Soldiers after War / Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig 71 2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire / Paul H. Kratoska 73 2.6. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry / P. W. Singer 76 Section III. Gender and Militarism Introduction / Katherine T. McCaffery 83 3.1. Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War / Kimberly Theidon 85 3.2. The Compassionate Warrior: Wartime Sacrifice / Jean Bethke Elshtain 91 3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia / Lesley Gill 95 3.4. One of the Guys: Military Women and the Argentine Army / Máximo Badaró 101 Section IV. The Emotional Life of Militarism Introduction / Catherine Lutz 109 4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 111 4.2. Fear as a Way of Life / Linda Green 118 4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival / Robert Jay Lifton (Interviewed by Harry Kreisler) 127 4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Governmental Films on Nuclear Testing / Joseph Masco 130 Section V. Rhetorics of Militarism Introduction / Andrew Bickford 141 5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 143 5.2. The "Old West" in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country / Stephen W. Silliman 148 5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War / Naoko Shidusawa 154 5.4. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz 157 5.5. Nuclear Orientalism / Hugh Gusterson 163 Section VI. Militarization, Place, and Territory Introduction / Roberto J. González 167 6.1. Making War at Home / Catherine Lutz 168 6.2. Spillover: The U.S. Military's Sociospatial Impact / Mark L. Gillen 175 6.3. Nuclear Landscapes: The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy / Barbara Rose Johnston 181 6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet 186 6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor / Jason de León (Interviewed by Micheline Aharońian Marcom) 192 Section VII. Militarized Humanitarianism Introduction / Catherine Besteman 197 7.1. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories / Mariella Pandolfi 199 7.2. Armed for Humanity / Michael Barnett 203 7.3. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War / Anne Orford 208 7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? / Mahmood Mamdani 212 7.5. Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Presponsibility to Protect / Chowra Makaremi 218 Section VIII. Militarism and the Media Introduction / Hugh Gusterson 223 8.1. Pentagon Pundits / David Barstow (Interview by Amy Goodman) 224 8.2. Operation Hollywood / David L. Robb (Interviewed by Jeff Fleischer) 230 8.3. Discipline and Publish / Mark Pedelty 234 8.4. The Enola Gay on Display / John Whittier Treat 239 8.5. War Porn: Hollywood and War, from World War II to American Sniper / Peter van Buren 243 Section IX. Militarizing Knowledge Introduction / David H. Price 249 9.1. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings 251 9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology / Ellen Herman 254 9.3. Scientific Colonialism / Johan Galtung 259 9.4. Research ni Foreign Areas / Ralph L. Beals 265 9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education / Henry A. Giroux (Interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou) 270 Section X. Militarization and the Body Introduction / Roberto J. González 275 10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body / Hugh Gusterson 276 10.2. The Structure of War: The Juxtaposition of Injuried Bodies and Unanchored Issues / Elaine Scarry 283 10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter / Kenneth Ford and Clark Glymour 291 10.4. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua / James Quesada 296 Section XI. Militarism and Technology Introduction / Hugh Gusterson 303 11.1. Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 / Noel Perrin 305 11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society / Joseph Masco 307 11.3. Militarizing Space / David H. Price 316 11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age: Understanding Mental Illness among Military Drone Personnel / Alex Edney-Browne 319 11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs: "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion" / H. Patricia Hynes 324 11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation / Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright 328 11.7. The Scientists' Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots / International Committee for Robot Arms Control 329 Section XII. Alternatives to Militarization Introduction / David Vine 333 12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity / Margaret Mead 336 12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology / Leslie E. Sponsel 339 12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response / Catherine Lutz 344 12.4. Down Here / Julian Aguon 347 12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency / Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and David H. Price 349 12.6. Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities / Rebecca Solnit 350 References 355 Contributors 383 Index 389 Credits 403
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Duke University Press Theft Is Property
Book SynopsisRobert Nichols reconstructs the concept of dispossession as a means of explaining how shifting configurations of law, property, race, and rights have functioned as modes of governance, both historically and in the present.Trade Review“Theft Is Property! is an intellectually riveting and necessary critical consideration of the genealogy of dispossession as it is used to different ends by Indigenous scholars and activists and within Marxist critiques of capitalism and labor. Its emphasis on the normativity of dispossession as a recursive theft into property formation that explains the structural formation of settler colonialism will be a central text in shaping discussions around why Indigenous critique matters beyond identity politics.” -- Jodi A. Byrd, author of * The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism *“In this extraordinary work of political theory, Robert Nichols offers a wholesale revision of the conceptual problematic of dispossession in light of the history of settler colonialism and in a context of contemporary Indigenous resurgence. Through sustained engagements with critical race theory, Marxism, and feminism, Nichols forcefully reanimates the moral sense and political understanding of Indigenous dispossession as a recursive process by which proprietary claims of settlers have been constituted and Indigenous subjects simultaneously made bereft of something they never claimed to own—a transformation of theft into property. This profound and pathbreaking work will change the conversation across several fields.” -- Nikhil Pal Singh, author of * Race and America’s Long War *"Nichols’ book certainly adds to the scholarly literature about the subjects of property, dispossession, slavery, and the resistance of the various people affected to the injustices done to them. The book is timely: this is the right moment in history for such a book to appear. . . . The book is highly recommended." -- John T. Sneed * International Social Science Review *"Theft is Property! will prove an important and influential book. It is an exemplary work of political theory, which makes its political and methodological arguments with exceptional clarity and precision. The dialogue Nichols stages, drawing from anarchism, Marxism, critical race theory, and feminism alongside Indigenous political thought, is sure to have a wide-ranging impact across multiple fields. Most significantly, Theft is Property! will prove a landmark text in studies of dispossession and counterdispossession, centering Indigenous scholarship and activism while elaborating a broader problematic that requires further attention and investigation." -- Christopher Balcom * Contemporary Political Theory *"Nichols’s historically grounded text is essential reading for anyone seeking a broader critical understanding of dispossession at the intersection of contract law, land seizure, and class warfare." -- Caitlin Simmons * Western American Literature *"With incredible precision, dexterity, and clarity, Theft is Property! leaves us with the diverse modalities of dispossession in relation to bodily integrity and selfhood as well as land and the nonhuman world—which far exceed the discrete parameters of property and territory." -- Iyko Day * American Quarterly *"Theft is Property! is an act of expressive insurgency.… This is a complex and deeply layered book that will repay multiple readings." -- Shane Chalmers * Theory & Event *"Theft Is Property! quietly but decidedly calls us to collective action and expressive insurgency, laying the groundwork for multigenerational, transnational struggles of counter-dispossession." -- Sandy Grande * Political Theory *"For those of us outside of the field of political/critical theory, Nichols’s Theft Is Property! is an important reminder of the instability of core critical concepts and the advantages of putting them into dialogue with the conditions of their specific contexts." -- Rita M. Palacios * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. That Sole and Despotic Dominion 16 2. Marx, after the Feast 52 3. Indigenous Structural Critique 85 4. Dilemmas of Self-Ownership, Rituals of Antiwill 116 Conclusion 144 Notes 161 Bibliography 203 Index 225
£72.25
Duke University Press Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history.Trade Review“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times *“Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” -- Minkah Makalani, author of * In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 *Table of ContentsEditor's Note vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James xi Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution Introduction | 1977 Edition 5 Part I 1. The Myth 23 2. The Masses Set the Stage 33 3. The People in 1947 41 4. The Revolution in Theory 50 5. The Men on the Spot 65 6. The People and the Leader 76 7. Positive Action 104 8. The Party under Fire 113 9. The Tip of the Iceberg 124 Part II 1. Government and Party 135 2. 1962: Twenty Years After 149 3. Slippery Descent 152 4. Lenin and the Problem 158 5. “ . . . Always out of Africa” 179 Appendix 1 | Correspondence, 1957 189 Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James 189 Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman 190 Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee 191 Appendix 2 | “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe—A Necessary Introduction,” 1964 199 Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James 199 Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now” 200 Notes 221 Index 229
£19.79
Duke University Press The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.Trade Review“In this fascinating study of complex psychosomatic responses in modernist Indian literature, Neetu Khanna shows how the attempt on the part of Marxist writers associated with the Progressive Writers' Association to ‘think with the visceral’ repeatedly brought them to questions of time. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization makes a striking and original contribution to the study of affect and anticolonial politics, deepening our understanding of ‘corporeal aesthetics.’” -- Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago“Neetu Khanna's turn to the visceral aesthetics of anticolonial struggles is timely in its call for a renewed attention to the affective logics of revolutionary writings. Such a calibration directly confronts critical disavowal of multiple visceral archives that are so central to the Marxist consciousness of colonial and postcolonial thinkers. Khanna's introduction of ‘colonial affect’ in this provocative book makes an important contribution to affect studies.” -- Anjali Arondekar, author of * For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India *"Visceral Logics challenges scholars of African and African-American literatures to carry out similar investigations. . . . Students of postcolonialism will find the book exceptionally rewarding." -- Fouad Mami * Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies *“Visceral Logics is a rich contribution to the fields of affect, performance, postcolonial and feminist theory. It is, too, a beautiful book, pulsing with the revolutionary spirit it traces. . . . Khanna reminds of the radical stakes of everyday feeling, embodied performance, and in turn, of literary study, as a political praxis of close reading.” -- Sadie Barker * Women & Performance *“[The Visceral Logics of Decolonization] possesses political and theoretical implications that deserve to reach a wide audience in postcolonial studies, affect studies, and literary studies more generally.” -- Christopher Lee * Science & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization 1 1. Agitation 35 2. Irritation 60 3. Compulsion 85 4. Evisceration 109 Coda. Explosion 132 Notes 151 Bibliography 161 Index 175
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Duke University Press The Visceral Logics of Decolonization
Book SynopsisFocusing on the work of a Marxist anticolonial literary group active in India between the 1930s and 1950s, Neetu Khanna rethinks the project of decolonization by showing how embodied and affective responses to colonial subjugation provide the catalyst for developing revolutionary consciousness.Trade Review“In this fascinating study of complex psychosomatic responses in modernist Indian literature, Neetu Khanna shows how the attempt on the part of Marxist writers associated with the Progressive Writers' Association to ‘think with the visceral’ repeatedly brought them to questions of time. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization makes a striking and original contribution to the study of affect and anticolonial politics, deepening our understanding of ‘corporeal aesthetics.’” -- Sianne Ngai, University of Chicago“Neetu Khanna's turn to the visceral aesthetics of anticolonial struggles is timely in its call for a renewed attention to the affective logics of revolutionary writings. Such a calibration directly confronts critical disavowal of multiple visceral archives that are so central to the Marxist consciousness of colonial and postcolonial thinkers. Khanna's introduction of ‘colonial affect’ in this provocative book makes an important contribution to affect studies.” -- Anjali Arondekar, author of * For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India *"Visceral Logics challenges scholars of African and African-American literatures to carry out similar investigations. . . . Students of postcolonialism will find the book exceptionally rewarding." -- Fouad Mami * Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies *“Visceral Logics is a rich contribution to the fields of affect, performance, postcolonial and feminist theory. It is, too, a beautiful book, pulsing with the revolutionary spirit it traces. . . . Khanna reminds of the radical stakes of everyday feeling, embodied performance, and in turn, of literary study, as a political praxis of close reading.” -- Sadie Barker * Women & Performance *“[The Visceral Logics of Decolonization] possesses political and theoretical implications that deserve to reach a wide audience in postcolonial studies, affect studies, and literary studies more generally.” -- Christopher Lee * Science & Society *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Visceral Logics of Decolonization 1 1. Agitation 35 2. Irritation 60 3. Compulsion 85 4. Evisceration 109 Coda. Explosion 132 Notes 151 Bibliography 161 Index 175
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Duke University Press Elementary Aspects of the Political
Book SynopsisIn Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of 'the political' from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, the idea, and the people. She examines selfhood in light of precolonial Indic traditions of renunciation and realpolitik; action in the constitutive tension between traditional conceptions of karma and modern ideas of labor; the idea of equality as it emerges in the dialectic between spirituality and economics; and people in the friction between the structure of the political party and the atmospherics of fiction and theater. Throughout, Banerjee reasserts the historical specificity of political thought and challenges modern assumptions about the universality, primacy, anTrade Review“A brilliantly original study of the relation between philosophical ideas and political practice, this book by Prathama Banerjee explores how key ideas drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Western traditions have shaped the field of the political in India. While analyzing the complex and often ambiguous relations of the political with religion, economy, literature, theater, and art, she gives us many surprising new insights into such canonical thinkers as Bankim, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Iqbal, and Ambedkar.” -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University“Simultaneously a contribution to history and to political theory, this insightful reading opens up a striking vantage point from which to explore the implications of the now-global concepts of political subjecthood, political action, political ideology, and "people." Prathama Banerjee's book exemplifies what it means when we say that postcolonial theory can redefine the very terms of political theory. In sum, this is a landmark work of immense originality and brilliance.” -- Ajay Skaria, author of * Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance *“Elementary Aspects of the Political is not just about claiming or defining a non-European political theory, but aims to create new ways of thinking about politics.... Banerjee offers a framework that anyone interested in building political theory anew, regardless of regional expertise, may wish to consider.” -- Whitney Russell * PoLAR *“Banerjee provides a sophisticated contribution to long-standing debates regarding ‘the political’ that is grounded in histories from the Global South.... She shows the powerful aesthetic possibilities in political theorizing and acting across any number of borders that have traditionally delimited and reified particular conceptions of the political.” -- Stuart Gray * Perspectives on Politics *“There is much more to be said about this ambitious and erudite text. . . . By opening up the conceptual history of the political, Banerjee’s important book establishes itself as one that will be debated for a long time. It marks a new point of departure for thinking about the relations between postcolonial and decolonial history and philosophy.” -- Rochona Majumdar * History and Theory *“This extraordinarily nuanced book sets aside an older and rather tired trope of the critique of Eurocentric categories and embarks on a robust enterprise of generating a mode of thinking from the Global South. What is made clear throughout [Elementary Aspects of the Political] are the different genealogies, vocabularies, and histories that go into the thinking of the idea of ‘the political.’” -- Thomas Biebricher * Political Theory *
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Duke University Press Hindutva as Political Monotheism
Book SynopsisIn this genealogy of Hindu right-wing nationalism, Anustup Basu connects Carl Schmitt's notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, illustrating how Western and Indian theorists imagined a single Hindu political and religious people.Trade Review“Hindutva as Political Monotheism is an original, important book, brilliant in its juxtaposition of major strands of European Enlightenment thought and Indian nationalist thought.” -- Peter van der Veer, author of * The Value of Comparison *“A project of impressive intellectual scope and reach, based on erudition across a number of fields and archives. Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a much-awaited and timely study of Hindu nationalism that both extends the scope of well-worn historical terrain and reconfigures it through an utterly fresh conceptual lens. Given the present attempt to transform India’s democratic republic into a Hindu state, it could not have come at a more appropriate time. It will be an invaluable aid in understanding the contemporary situation in historical terms.” -- Aamir Mufti, author of * Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures *"A powerful, erudite, and timely study of the historical formations and contemporary manifestations of Hindu nationalism in India.... The laudable interdisciplinarity of the book and its rich archive of literature, film, and new media provide compelling and diverse entry points for a wide range of readers.” -- Manav Ratti * South Asian Review *“Basu’s monograph is a path-breaking attempt to trace [Hindutva’s] genealogy as a political monotheism.... Hindutva is an eclectic and multidimensional work that makes major interventions in multiple knowledge-fields.” -- Amit R. Baishya * Boundary 2 *“Anustup Basu’s monograph, Hindutva as Political Monotheism, presents a hitherto underutilized lens of analysis. The book extends the works of political theorist Carl Schmitt on the monotheistic imperative found in the European theorizations of religious and ethnocentric nationhood, to India’s history with ethnonationalism. . . . [It] does an excellent job of tracing [Hindutva’s] origins.” -- Iman Fathima Sheik Abdullah * Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society *“Anustup Basu takes a researcher’s perspective and approaches the topic with academic rigor and passion, thereby contributing immensely to the study of the subject of Hindutva. . . . Elaborately designed, the text invites readers to delve deeper into the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural environment of contemporary India and with greater awareness address and encounter the fascistic structures of Hindutva 2.0.” -- Swapna Gopinath * Cultural Politics *"An original and erudite book, Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a tour de force in critical interpretation: it constructs an intellectual genealogy of Hindu religious philosophy, tracking its steady politicization from the late nineteenth century to the present-day." -- Bishnupriya Ghosh * Boundary 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Questions Concerning the Hindu Political 11 2. The Hindu Nation as Organism 28 3. The Indian Monotheism 89 4. Hindutva 2.0 as Advertised Monotheism 150 Notes 209 Bibliography 251 Index
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Duke University Press The Colonizing Self
Book SynopsisColonizers continuously transform spaces of violence into spaces of home. Israeli Jews settle in the West Bank and in depopulated Palestinian houses in Haifa or Jaffa. White missionaries build their lives in Africa. The descendants of European settlers in the Americas and Australia dwell and thrive on expropriated indigenous lands. In The Colonizing Self Hagar Kotef traces the cultural, political, and spatial apparatuses that enable people and nations to settle on the ruins of other people''s homes. Kotef demonstrates how the mass and structural modes of violence that are necessary for the establishment and sustainment of the colony dwell within settler-colonial homemaking, and through it shape collective and individual identities. She thus powerfully shows how the possibility to live amid the destruction one generates is not merely the possibility to turn one''s gaze away from violence but also the possibility to develop an attachment to violence itself. Kotef thereby offers a Trade Review“Hagar Kotef has written a fierce, rigorous, intimate, unrelenting, account of settler colonialism. We who make our homes on stolen land live in the crevices of all-too-concrete structures of oppression. We turn our faces to the wall. Kotef faces what we too often ignore. This may be harshest in Israel where Kotef's book is set, but the import of the work goes beyond that site. Perhaps all homes are built on cruel exclusions and indefensible claims. Perhaps all homes shelter cruelties. Hagar Kotef's ability to raise these unsettling questions is admirable for its intellectual clarity and its courage.” -- Anne Norton, author of * On the Muslim Question *“An incredibly detailed and engaging study that illustrates Palestinian erasure from within the settler consciousness, the book brings forth an understanding from within that does much to bring the Palestinian trauma to the fore.” * Middle East Monitor *“The Colonizing Self is an incisive book about the dispossessor. In lyrical prose and through wide-ranging source material, Hagar Kotef traces the constitutive violence of settler colonialism.... Kotef’s book alerts us to the task of uprooting desires that secure settler colonialism.” -- Derek S. Denman * Political Theory *“Two intuitions inform this book about the Israeli ‘colonizing self ‘: one is about home, the other about violence. Taken together, these two intuitions converge on the understanding of the specific ways in which the settler’s identity consolidates, which is a crucial question and has been overlooked by scholars so far.” -- Lorenzo Veracini * Journal of Palestine Studies *“The ongoing challenge of decolonization . . . will inevitably require an unsettling of the very notion that the colonizer possesses a single self. Kotef ’s book is a critical milestone in this endeavor.” -- Noam Leshem * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Home 1 Theoretical Overview: Violent Attachments 29 Part I. Homes Interlude. Home/Homelessness: A Reading in Arendt 55 1. The Consuming Self: On Locke, Aristotle, Feminist Theory, and Domestic Violences 73 Epilogue. Unsettlement 109 Part II. Relics Interlude. A Brief Reflection on Death and Decolonization 127 2. Home (and the Ruins That Remain) 137 Epilogue. A Phenomenology of Violence: Ruins 185 Part III. Settlement Interlude. A Moment of Popular Culture: The Home of MasterChef 203 3. On Eggs and Dispossession: Organic Agriculture and the New Settlement Movement 215 Epilogue. An Ethic of Violence: Organic Washing 251 Conclusion 261 Bibliography 267 Index 293
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Duke University Press Elementary Aspects of the Political
Book SynopsisIn Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of 'the political' from the perspective of the global South. Drawing on Indian and Bengali practices and philosophies from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Banerjee identifies four elements of the political: the self, action, the idea, and the people. She examines selfhood in light of precolonial Indic traditions of renunciation and realpolitik; action in the constitutive tension between traditional conceptions of karma and modern ideas of labor; the idea of equality as it emerges in the dialectic between spirituality and economics; and people in the friction between the structure of the political party and the atmospherics of fiction and theater. Throughout, Banerjee reasserts the historical specificity of political thought and challenges modern assumptions about the universality, primacy, anTrade Review“A brilliantly original study of the relation between philosophical ideas and political practice, this book by Prathama Banerjee explores how key ideas drawn from Hindu, Buddhist, Islamic, and Western traditions have shaped the field of the political in India. While analyzing the complex and often ambiguous relations of the political with religion, economy, literature, theater, and art, she gives us many surprising new insights into such canonical thinkers as Bankim, Aurobindo, Gandhi, Iqbal, and Ambedkar.” -- Partha Chatterjee, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University“Simultaneously a contribution to history and to political theory, this insightful reading opens up a striking vantage point from which to explore the implications of the now-global concepts of political subjecthood, political action, political ideology, and "people." Prathama Banerjee's book exemplifies what it means when we say that postcolonial theory can redefine the very terms of political theory. In sum, this is a landmark work of immense originality and brilliance.” -- Ajay Skaria, author of * Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance *“Elementary Aspects of the Political is not just about claiming or defining a non-European political theory, but aims to create new ways of thinking about politics.... Banerjee offers a framework that anyone interested in building political theory anew, regardless of regional expertise, may wish to consider.” -- Whitney Russell * PoLAR *“Banerjee provides a sophisticated contribution to long-standing debates regarding ‘the political’ that is grounded in histories from the Global South.... She shows the powerful aesthetic possibilities in political theorizing and acting across any number of borders that have traditionally delimited and reified particular conceptions of the political.” -- Stuart Gray * Perspectives on Politics *“There is much more to be said about this ambitious and erudite text. . . . By opening up the conceptual history of the political, Banerjee’s important book establishes itself as one that will be debated for a long time. It marks a new point of departure for thinking about the relations between postcolonial and decolonial history and philosophy.” -- Rochona Majumdar * History and Theory *“This extraordinarily nuanced book sets aside an older and rather tired trope of the critique of Eurocentric categories and embarks on a robust enterprise of generating a mode of thinking from the Global South. What is made clear throughout [Elementary Aspects of the Political] are the different genealogies, vocabularies, and histories that go into the thinking of the idea of ‘the political.’” -- Thomas Biebricher * Political Theory *
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Duke University Press Hindutva as Political Monotheism
Book SynopsisIn Hindutva as Political Monotheism, Anustup Basu offers a genealogical study of Hindutva—Hindu right-wing nationalism—to illustrate the significance of Western anthropology and political theory to the idea of India as a Hindu nation. Connecting Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt''s notion of political theology to traditional theorems of Hindu sovereignty and nationhood, Basu demonstrates how Western and Indian theorists subsumed a vast array of polytheistic, pantheistic, and henotheistic cults featuring millions of gods into a singular edifice of faith. Basu exposes the purported “Hindu Nation” as itself an orientalist vision by analyzing three crucial moments: European anthropologists’ and Indian intellectuals’ invention of a unified Hinduism during the long nineteenth century; Indian ideologues’ adoption of ethnoreligious nationalism in pursuit of a single Hindu way of life in the twentieth century; and the transformations of this project in thTrade Review“Hindutva as Political Monotheism is an original, important book, brilliant in its juxtaposition of major strands of European Enlightenment thought and Indian nationalist thought.” -- Peter van der Veer, author of * The Value of Comparison *“A project of impressive intellectual scope and reach, based on erudition across a number of fields and archives. Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a much-awaited and timely study of Hindu nationalism that both extends the scope of well-worn historical terrain and reconfigures it through an utterly fresh conceptual lens. Given the present attempt to transform India’s democratic republic into a Hindu state, it could not have come at a more appropriate time. It will be an invaluable aid in understanding the contemporary situation in historical terms.” -- Aamir Mufti, author of * Forget English! Orientalisms and World Literatures *"A powerful, erudite, and timely study of the historical formations and contemporary manifestations of Hindu nationalism in India.... The laudable interdisciplinarity of the book and its rich archive of literature, film, and new media provide compelling and diverse entry points for a wide range of readers.” -- Manav Ratti * South Asian Review *“Basu’s monograph is a path-breaking attempt to trace [Hindutva’s] genealogy as a political monotheism.... Hindutva is an eclectic and multidimensional work that makes major interventions in multiple knowledge-fields.” -- Amit R. Baishya * Boundary 2 *“Anustup Basu’s monograph, Hindutva as Political Monotheism, presents a hitherto underutilized lens of analysis. The book extends the works of political theorist Carl Schmitt on the monotheistic imperative found in the European theorizations of religious and ethnocentric nationhood, to India’s history with ethnonationalism. . . . [It] does an excellent job of tracing [Hindutva’s] origins.” -- Iman Fathima Sheik Abdullah * Journal of Muslim Philanthropy & Civil Society *“Anustup Basu takes a researcher’s perspective and approaches the topic with academic rigor and passion, thereby contributing immensely to the study of the subject of Hindutva. . . . Elaborately designed, the text invites readers to delve deeper into the sociopolitical, religious, and cultural environment of contemporary India and with greater awareness address and encounter the fascistic structures of Hindutva 2.0.” -- Swapna Gopinath * Cultural Politics *"An original and erudite book, Hindutva as Political Monotheism is a tour de force in critical interpretation: it constructs an intellectual genealogy of Hindu religious philosophy, tracking its steady politicization from the late nineteenth century to the present-day." -- Bishnupriya Ghosh * Boundary 2 *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Questions Concerning the Hindu Political 11 2. The Hindu Nation as Organism 28 3. The Indian Monotheism 89 4. Hindutva 2.0 as Advertised Monotheism 150 Notes 209 Bibliography 251 Index
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