Colonialism and imperialism Books
Ohio University Press The Krio of West Africa Islam Culture
Book SynopsisSierra Leone’s unique history, especially in the development and consolidation of British colonialism in West Africa, has made it an important site of historical investigation since the 1950s.Trade Review“The Krio of West Africa: Islam, Culture, Creolization, and Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century, is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ [Cole] suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. Indeed, his study focuses not on Christians, but on the hitherto understudied Muslim Krios, a group he portrays as ‘marginalized within the marginalized’ … This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *“…The Krio of West Africa is not only a long-overdue and welcome addition to the historical literature on Sierra Leone, but also a breath of fresh air for treating an important subject located in the longue durée of Sierra Leone’s past rather than privileging the aberration that much of the country’s postcolonial history has been. My prediction is that Cole’s monograph will become a benchmark for studying the complex histories of other indigenous ethnic groups of Sierra Leone.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“Cole’s book is an important contribution to the history of Krio and Sierra Leonean society. … It also contributes to our historical knowledge concerning the spread of Islam in West Africa and the Krio Muslims’ role in it.” * Comparativ *“Cole’s long awaited book… is an engaging history of Sierra Leone that departs from previous scholarship. Taking issue with those who have tended to describe the Krio as essentially a Christian and Westernized ‘ethnic group,’ he suggests that the Krio identity, forged in nineteenth-century Freetown, transcended ethnicity, culture, and even religion. …This informative book fills an important space on the shelves of Sierra Leonean history.” * American Historical Review *
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Ohio University Press Black Skin White Coats Nigerian Psychiatrists
Book SynopsisBlack Skin, White Coats is a history of psychiatry in Nigeria from the 1950s to the 1980s.Trade Review“Black Skin, White Coats contributes to a rich strand of work in the history of psychiatry that highlights—and in fact insists upon—not just the transnational nature of colonial and postcolonial psychiatric discourses, but the fact that these transnational flows traveled in many directions and crossed borders in surprising ways, often bypassing ‘the Metropole’ altogether…[Heaton’s book] will rightfully be regarded as an important contribution to the history of psychiatry in Africa.” * Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences *“The book’s greatest achievement may be its demonstration that the rise and fall of social medicine in the second half of the twentieth century is not merely a story about Europeans and Americans attempting to impose their visions on the rest of the world, but also the story of a collaboration — albeit a tense, tenuous, and limited collaboration — in which Africans actively participated.” * Canadian Journal of History *“An important contribution…Heaton’s Black Skin, White Coats … squarely [addresses] the impact of nationalism and decolonisation on health care in Africa. … [it] uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of ‘Western psychiatry…’” * Contemporary European History *“Based on solid research, Black Skin, White Coats is well written and makes for a good read, and should attract a readership in colonial studies, African history, the history of science and medicine, global studies, and development studies.”“Black Skin, White Coats is clearly written and accessible to readers who are not professional historians. While of interest to scholars of African ethno psychiatry, Heaton’s social and historical account of the period from the late 1940s to early 1980s provides an engaging narrative of the complexities of integrating Western psychiatry into an African society within a very compressed time frame. As such, the book should be of interest to a broad range of social scientists as well as the interested lay reader.” * Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry *“Matthew Heaton’s innovative Black Skin, White Coats is the first full-length history of a national mental health system focusing on the transition between the colonial and postcolonial periods.” * Bulletin of the History of Medicine *“Black Skin, White Coats uses psychiatry as a lens through which to evaluate the continuities and changes of colonialism. It has broad appeal and encourages scholars to move ‘away from an outdated reliance on the development and spread of “Western” psychiatry and towards a theorization of a “global” psychiatry that recognizes a greater diversity of actors.’ As a result, [Heaton’s] methodological approach … is ripe for comparison to different diseases and public health concerns in other contexts.” * Contemporary European History *
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Ohio University Press In Idi Amins Shadow Women Gender and Militarism
Book SynopsisIn Idi Amin’s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women’s complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state.Trade Review“In eight engaging chapters … Alicia Decker traces the complex relationship between Amin’s regime and Uganda’s women, from the early years when women hailed Amin as a liberator to the darkest period when they hoped and prayed for a Tanzanian army invasion. … The question of how Idi Amin’s regime reorganized gender norms is a crucial one for the book. Decker explores the innovations in gender performance that followed Idi Amin’s rise to power. …This is of course just one of the many rich discussion points that the book gifts the reader with. The book makes a substantial addition to the field of African History. It would work well for courses or discussions on military history, military rule in Africa, women and gender courses, feminist history, postcolonial studies, and Cold War studies.” * Canadian Journal of History *“Alicia Decker uses an array of evidence from oral, visual, and written sources. The result is an impressive compilation of case studies that illustrate the different aspects of women’s experiences and the intricate world they navigated.”“Focusing on the lives of women who survived his rule, Alicia Decker's meticulously researched and crisply written study explains not only why but how Amin’s brutality reached the level it did. This is a particularly important contribution, because Ugandan women have been considered marginal to this sociopolitical history. … Throughout the book she demonstrates the methodological and ethical challenges of conducting historical research on a period that still engenders fearful memories, and the book’s appendix and the section titled ‘Methods and Sources’ provide valuable guidelines for future research.” * African Studies Review *“Decker’s study is a fine contribution to histories of militarism in Africa, African gender studies, the study of the state in Africa, and scholarship on Uganda in the 1970s in particular. …[she] provides an excellent example of the possibilities of feminist history writing by placing gender and militarism side-by-side in her study; she also offers a lucid and highly sought-after account of everyday lived experience during an era that continues to be characterized by an architecture of silence in Uganda today.” * Journal of African History *“Unlike most previous publications on Amin that mainly focus on political aspects, this work is a sociopolitical history highlighting the experiences of ordinary Ugandans in general and women in particular. … [It] is an excellent, pioneering masterpiece and Decker [should be] commended for producing such an insightful, readable book.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *“[In Idi Amin's Shadow] should appeal to historians of postcolonial Africa as well as those who study military dictatorships and those interested in gender studies. It is clearly written and although Decker does not shy away from describing the violence inflicted on Ugandans and others, she does not either indulge in gratuitous detail. The combination of a narrative history of Amin’s regime alongside the focus on gender and violence and the many illustrations should make it useful for undergraduate teaching.” * Journal of African Military History *“A subtle, important, theoretically innovative, and elegantly written study that centralizes feminist thinking and shows why it matters.” * Feminist Africa *“In Idi Amin’s Shadow is the first book to extensively explore women’s lives in the ‘shadows’ of military rule in 1970s Uganda. Decker’s book presents an engaging, accessible and welcome examination of women’s ‘complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin’s military state,’ showing how the state’s use of violence offered opportunities as well as threats for women.” * Africa at LSE *"A riveting historical masterpiece." * Nation *
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Ohio University Press An Uncertain Age The Politics of Manhood in
Book SynopsisIn twentieth-century Kenya, age and gender were powerful cultural and political forces that animated household and generational relationships. They also shaped East Africans’ contact with and influence on emergent colonial and global ideas about age and masculinity.Trade Review“Provocative and meticulously researched, Ocobock’s book demonstrates the importance of age and masculinity in Kenyan history. Readers will appreciate the elegant prose and arresting detail of this rigorous narrative history. Ocobock is unquestionably a historian and writer of first rank.”“In Ocobock’s work, intriguing tales about male initiation and other coming-of-age practices show how African youth and elders struggled with colonial officials, missionaries, settlers, and nationalist leaders over the meanings of manhood. His nuanced analysis enriches and expands the history of masculinities.”“In demonstrating the centrality of concerns over age and gender, Ocobock offers a brilliant means of reconceiving Kenyan history beyond the more usual focus on ethnicity. Linking the processes of growing up and state making, he deftly shows how gendered notions of maturity have shaped Kenya’s politics. This superb book will find a wide and appreciative audience.”“With a sure command of the literature, Ocobock argues for the increased importance of gender and generation for historical research.…The core of the book, based on archival material and in-depth interviews, contrasts the colonial era ‘elder state’ to the contemporary postcolonial situation. Although these chapters are informative and detailed, the introductory chapter alone is worth the price of admission’…Summing up: Highly recommended.” * Choice *“Compellingly elucidates that Kenya as a colony was no seamless well-oiled machine, but rather a ‘crowded, cacophonous place’ of religious leaders, judges, wardens, and other authorities who all had frequently competing visions about how to shape age and manhood.” * African Studies Review *
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Ohio University Press To Speak and Be Heard
Book SynopsisThrough detailed archival research, Hanson reveals the origins of Uganda’s strategies for good government—assembly, assent, and powerful gifts—and explains why East African party politics often fail.Trade ReviewIn this thought-provoking new book Holly Hanson has cut clean through the conventional but hated three-part periodization of African historiography—pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial—with its equally unhelpful oppositions of tradition and modernity. With persuasive evidence she shows that Ugandans have for centuries sought consultative, accountable governance, often with institutional checks on the caprice of kings, governors, or presidents. They have long spoken up in public in the conviction that loyalty from below deserves attention from above, and now hope that premodern strategies to secure good governance will help to conjure up a better modernity. -- John Lonsdale, coauthor of Unhappy Valley: Conflict in Kenya and AfricaThis book ‘speaks loudly’ in the hope that it will ‘be heard.’ Holly Hanson successfully demonstrates how in pursuit of a just and moral polity, physical and conceptual spaces created out of people’s presence and actions provided an opportunity through which people can speak to the powerful and expect to be heard. To Speak and be Heard is a prototype of how a blended study of overt ‘spaces’ and ‘speaking’ can reveal larger political engagement and accountability trends in a complex and rapidly changing world. It superbly demonstrates how those trends could be encapsulated and discerningly written about in the twenty-first century. -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, University of Toronto, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in UgandaHolly Hanson weaves into her account of good government a history of inequality, revealing the kind of thing that can make the formula for direct democracy fail to produce the desired results and atrophy. The next challenge is to speak up, be heard, and figure out the obligations that will diminish inequality. Crossing all major periods in Ugandan history, but focused on the last century and a half, this is a landmark book in African history. -- David L. Schoenbrun, author of The Names of the Python: Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930Holly Hanson’s survey has unearthed massive evidence to show that autocracy, one person rule and tyranny did not define African precolonial systems, much as western visitors focused on it or as current media depicts African systems of governance. [Hanson] proves that there were defined mechanisms for the expression … of alternative views of managing society. These views were implemented because there were ample spaces for people to speak and be heard. -- A.B.K. Kasozi, author of The Social Origins of Violence in Uganda, 1964–1985Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: A Long History of Political Voice Chapter 1. Building Polities through Assent, Assembly, and Voice in Ancient East Africa Chapter 2. Incorporating Strangers in the Time of Two Lukikos Chapter 3. Seeking Justice at the Palace and the Lake Chapter 4. The Modernity That Might Have Been: How Ugandans Lost Mechanisms of Accountability in the Transition to Independence Chapter 5. The Pretense of Assent and the Power of Assembly in the Time of Amin Conclusion: The Shape of the Present Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Colonial Fantasies Imperial Realities Race
Book SynopsisUreña Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature and fiction. She analyzes scientific and medical debates to connect medicine, migration, and colonialism, providing an invigorating model for the analysis of Polish history from a global perspective.Trade Review“Stands to revolutionize how scholars conceive of imperial Germany’s eastern domains as well as German-Polish and German-Slavic relations. Of great interest to an interdisciplinary audience that includes specialists of Central Europe, Germany, Poland, migration, imperialism, race, the history of medicine, and African and Latin American studies. Ureña Valerio’s approach and findings are remarkably original and important, and offer an excellent example of how Central European history, and even Polish history, can be written in a global approach and in the context of European colonialism.”“Ureña Valerio’s innovative work addresses what has been missing in recent works on the ‘eastern turn’ and ‘colonial turn’ in German studies: it integrates Polish responses to German colonial projects, both discursive and real. Another valuable contribution is her analysis of eugenics and racial hygiene discourses.”“This highly interesting work brings together the insights of colonial and comparative studies. Ureña Valerio applies them to the Polish-German borderland, or ‘Prussian Poland,’ the subject of which has until now been dominated by traditional monographs seeking to claim the land as either rightfully German or rightfully Polish. Her approach is new and refreshing.”“(Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities) is not only an exceptional addition to the discussion around identity formation and the making of Polishness, but also offers new insights on colonial comparative studies, and an invaluable addition to theories of eugenics and race science in Europe.” * History: The Journal of the Historical Association *
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Ohio University Press Apartheids Black Soldiers Unnational Wars and
Book SynopsisThousands of Black troops served in South Africa’s security forces in Namibia and Angola during apartheid. Bolliger’s new research leads him to reject their common depiction as “collaborators,” challenge the portrayal of the wars in which they fought as struggles for national liberation, and reveal the complexity of South Africa’s military culture.Trade Review“Lennart Bolliger’s exceptionally well-researched monograph on the experiences of Black African soldiers who fought in the war for Namibian independence on the side of apartheid South Africa makes a major contribution to our knowledge of that war and of what happened to those who fought in it. Apartheid’s Black Soldiers is essential reading for anyone concerned with the history of the liberation of Southern Africa and the region’s postliberation politics.” -- Chris Saunders, professor emeritus of historical studies, University of Cape Town“Lennart Bolliger’s book explains with admirable clarity the vexed, troubling history of African soldiers who fought in Southern Africa’s ‘un-national wars’ against liberation armies engaged in the long struggle against colonialism and apartheid. Drawing on a rich collection of oral interviews with the soldiers themselves, Apartheid’s Black Soldiers refuses any easy readings of these soldiers‘ motivations. Instead, Bolliger situates soldiers within the local, regional, and transnational contexts of their recruitment, their basic economic needs, and their interpretations of the immediate political and military circumstances engulfing them. As a result, this book offers key new perspectives on African soldiers who are often described as ‘sellouts’ but whose motivations were far more complicated than that.” -- Michelle R. Moyd, author of Violent Intermediaries: African Soldiers, Conquest, and Everyday Colonialism in German East Africa"Bolliger pays close and careful attention to the military cultures of the different units that made up South Africa’s counterinsurgency spearhead. He also attends to the afterlives of apartheid’s Black soldiers, showing the complex ways they have found a political voice in contemporary Namibia and tried to eke out an existence on the margins of South African society—or on the battlefields of Africa’s never-ending wars. This is an important book, and it will add immeasurably to our understanding of war in southern Africa.” -- Jacob S. T. Dlamini, author of Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National ParkTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Un-national Soldiers in Southern Africa during and after Decolonization 1. “The Ovambos Did Not Take Part in the War against the Germans”: Fractures and Divisions in Colonial Namibia and Southern Angola 2. “We Live between Two Fires”: The Reasons for Joining the Apartheid Security Forces in Northern Namibia, 1975–89 3. “The War Was Very Complicated”: The Formation and Development of 32 Battalion, 1975–84 4. “Every Force Has Its Own Rules”: The Military Cultures of South Africa’s Security Forces in Namibia and Angola 5. “Dictation Comes from the Victor”: The Postwar Politics of Black Former Soldiers in Namibia, 1989–2014 6. “We Are Lost People”: Citizenship and Belonging of Black Former Soldiers in South Africa, 1989 to the Present Conclusion: Un-national Wars of Decolonization and Their Legacies Notes Note on Interviews Conducted by the Author Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press War and Society in Colonial Zambia 19391953
Book SynopsisThe first major study of its kind, this book shows—from a Zambian perspective—how Northern Rhodesia, then a British colony, organized and deployed human, military, and natural resources during the Second World War. New research and oral histories further demonstrate the war’s social and industrial impact on Zambia in the immediate postwar period.Trade Review“In this first comprehensive study of Zambia during the Second World War, Alfred Tembo has produced a text that is both elegantly written and based upon meticulous and well-presented original research. Throughout, Tembo makes seamless linkages between the grand political/strategic levels and the ‘on the ground’ participation in the conflict of this important African colony. The accessibility of its presentation makes this book ideal for academics, historians, and general interest readers alike.” -- Ashley Jackson, professor of imperial and military history, King's College London, and visiting fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford“Alfred Tembo sheds light on how the Second World War affected Zambian society in this excellent study. Based on a close reading of hitherto underutilized Zambian archives, this book is essential reading for students and scholars with an interest in the effects of the war in a colonial context.” -- Andrew Cohen, coauthor of Labour and Economic Change in Southern Africa, c.1900–2000: Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Malawi“Historians, political scientists, economists, and general readers will certainly find this empirical study a treasure trove of information on the important contributions Africans made to the British war effort, not to mention the high price they paid for their participation in a conflict not of their own making.” * H-SAfrica, H-Net Reviews *Making excellent use of neglected Zambian archives, Alfred Tembo surveys the impact of World War II on colonial Zambia, or Northern Rhodesia, as it was then called. * Foreign Affairs *
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Ohio University Press Village Work Development and Rural Statecraft in
Book SynopsisThis detailed and groundbreaking history of rural Ghanaian statecraft details the crucial importance that local village development systems have on regional and national scales.Trade Review“Village Work provides new, critical perspectives on debates about development in both scholarship and practice. By placing the village at the center of development politics, Wiemers challenges conventional understandings of statecraft and humanizes the development process at all levels, detailing the improvisations and inconsistencies that lay behind the promise of ‘progress.’”“Village Work offers a sophisticated analysis of small-scale development projects in rural Ghana while bringing visibility to the ‘hinterland statecraft’ of local communities as they navigated the rising developmentalist states in the twentieth century. Deftly written and superbly argued, Wiemers illuminates the ‘useable fictions’ of rural sameness that government and NGO employees operationalized to justify their homogenizing of villages and rural space across Africa.”“Village Work is a timely and fascinating multilayered history of development in Ghana. Using the village of Kpasenkpe in northern Ghana as the focus, Alice Wiemers has written a penetrating study of the ‘performance’ of development in Africa from the family unit to the village, national, and international levels.”“This is a phenomenal piece of scholarship, which will be of interest to scholars of development, statecraft, and labor in Africa and beyond.” * International Journal of African Historical Studies *
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Ohio University Press Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa
Book SynopsisFrom debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.Trade Review“By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Saheed Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author’s multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography.”“We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto’s tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways."“This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution toward rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum.”
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Ohio University Press Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa The
Book SynopsisFrom debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation impacted aquatic creatures, Saheed Aderinto argues that it is impossible to comprehend the full extent of imperial domination without considering the colonial subjecthood of animals.Trade Review“By embracing nonhuman animals within the historical frame, Saheed Aderinto significantly expands our understanding of the African colonial encounter. With his fresh conceptual analysis, liberated from narrow disciplinary strictures, the author’s multifaceted research is a tour de force set to change the trajectory of African historiography.”“We have missed a major story of empire by failing to understand its operations at the level of species. Saheed Aderinto’s tremendous book challenges us to see Nigeria, colonial subjecthood, and all animals in integrative and provocative new ways."“This book is a wonderful addition to animal-sensitive histories of Africa, offering an important contribution toward rethinking coloniality and postcoloniality by adding the analytic lens of species to a palimpsest of gender, class, and race. Animality and Colonial Subjecthood in Africa reconsiders the history of relations not only between people and animals but also between various groups of people with animals as a fulcrum.”
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Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Carceral Afterlives Prisons Detention and
Book SynopsisThis social and political history analyzes how incarceration, a practice and policy with colonial origins, was central to both the exertion of and challenges to state power in postcolonial Uganda. The book also illustrates the persistent imbrication of prisons, punishment, politics, and struggles for decolonization and freedom across the globe.Trade Review“Katherine Bruce-Lockhart engages in a meticulous analysis of Africa’s postcolonial penal systems through stories of how they were imagined and experienced in Uganda by the confined, workers, and their families. Carceral Afterlives is painstakingly researched, unparalleled on many levels, and a must-read book for anyone interested in postcolonial state politics, global histories of prisons, and confinement. A trailblazer and momentous.” -- Nakanyike B. Musisi, coauthor of Decentralisation and Transformation of Governance in Uganda“Carceral Afterlives demonstrates the centrality of prisons to postcolonial African politics. Using an array of written, oral, and visual sources and an elegant prose, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart provides a fascinating analysis of how prisons, punishment, and politics intertwined in postcolonial Uganda, where the state, whether military or civilian, conceptualized incarceration as a powerful tool for advancing its political agendas by drawing upon a strong colonial legacy of confinement, which in the process turned carceral spaces into sites of resistance and struggle. An impressive work of scholarship, this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on African penal histories and the global history of punishment. A must-read for scholars of East African history as well.” -- Dior Konaté, author of Prison Architecture and Punishment in Colonial Senegal“This is a major contribution to the historiography of postcolonial Uganda, dealing with a topic on which historical research is long overdue. Bruce-Lockhart has provided a richly detailed and authoritative account of prisons and the experience of incarceration under Obote and Amin in particular. In so doing, the author offers new insights into the workings, as well as the dysfunction, of the Ugandan state during the early years of independence.” -- Richard J. Reid, author of A History of Modern Uganda“In her strikingly original book, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart explores how the early rulers of independent Uganda, who had previously denounced colonial prisons as violent and racist instruments of European imperialism, paradoxically redeployed mass detention as an integral arm of the new state. Creatively employing a variety of sources such as memoirs, letters, and journalistic reports, she also captures the voices of prisoners and their political allies who turned prisons into sites of struggle and dissent. Carceral Afterlives constitutes an important contribution to the stimulating new field of transnational prison history.” -- Mary S. Gibson, author of Italian Prisons in the Age of Positivism, 1861–1914“This important book reveals the continuities, adaptations, and negotiations of Ugandan incarceration across the colonial and postcolonial eras. Pieced together from a remarkable range of sources, including oral histories, Katherine Bruce-Lockhart conceptualises the modern prison’s symbolic and penal functions as inherently colonial by highlighting the recursive nature of its purpose, character, and experience. Meticulously researched and elegantly framed, this book sets a new agenda for understanding the historic and transnational influences that inflect incarceration in the modern age.” -- Clare Anderson, author of Convicts: A Global HistoryTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction. Captivity and Freedom in Postcolonial Uganda 1. Colonial “Cinderella”: Prisons and Punishment in the Colonial Period 2. A National Prisons Service 3. Professional Identities and Institutional Imaginaries: Prison Work in the Postcolonial State 4. Detention and Dissent in the Obote I Years 5. “Dungeons,” Disappearance, and Detention: Punishment during the Amin Years 6. State of War: Conflict and Confinement after Amin Conclusion Contested Pasts, Contested Futures Notes Bibliography Index
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Ohio University Press Acholi Intellectuals Knowledge Power and the
Book SynopsisPatrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more politically savvy than previously understood.Trade ReviewA landmark study in African intellectual history. Patrick William Otim’s Acholi Intellectuals puts the acquisition and deployment of erudition and skill at the center of the contradictions and ironies shaping this region’s political-cultural history. In accessible prose and well-chosen detail, Otim demonstrates that complex networks of elder men and women cultivated skill and ambition among a small number of exceptional Africans who reinvented power in a fractious nineteenth century, a short colonial century of administration and bureaucracy, and a later twentieth century of nationalist frictions. -- David Schoenbrun, Northwestern UniversityEngagingly and intimately written, Acholi Intellectuals reveals how Acholi cultivated talent across a broad sweep of nineteenth and twentieth century East African history, and how historical actors both seized the opportunities and navigated the perils that successive political regimes offered. Focused on the lives of healers, war leaders, and royal messengers—who became clerks, translators, converts, writers, and elders—Patrick William Otim has written a masterful study that sets a new standard for the study of exemplary individuals in African history. -- Daniel Magaziner, Yale UniversityPatrick William Otim has written a fascinating, innovative, and meticulously documented account of Acholi history. He shows that intellectuals who played major roles before conquest worked to create an Acholi-inflected version of colonial society. We were mistaken to imagine that the most important post-conquest transformations revolved around chiefs. Instead, people who were already influential in the realm of symbolism and knowledge reimagined and recreated their own society. -- Steven Feierman, University of PennsylvaniaPatrick William Otim’s definitive history of Acholi intellectuals analyzes their embodied knowledge, revealing their centrality in Acholiland’s colonial history. Deeply researched, Otim’s clear, engaging, and imaginative analysis interweaves rich sources and historiographies, yielding fresh critical insights on Acholi intellectuals’ intermediary roles within Acholiland’s politics. -- Michelle Moyd, Michigan State UniversityWith this book, Patrick William Otim becomes a leader in rethinking Uganda’s intellectual history. Drawing deeply from ethnographic and Acholi archival sources, Otim moves us beyond the political terrain of chiefs into the inner worlds of war leaders, royal messengers, public healers, poets, musicians, and aspiring historians. This work also manages to push Ugandan history writing beyond its obsession with kingdoms toward a more inclusive vision of republican history writing. Scholars and students of Ugandan and African political thought owe Otim a tremendous debt of gratitude. -- Jonathon L. Earle, Centre CollegePatrick William Otim’s evidence...refutes the division of African history into precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods....Otim’s work invites historians of Africa to think again about history we thought we knew. -- Holly Elisabeth Hanson, Mount Holyoke College“An important project … an impressive achievement.” -- Joel Cabrita, author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church
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Duke University Press States of Imagination
Book SynopsisThe state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Focusing on the micropolitics of everyday state-making, the contributors examine the mythologies, paradoxes, and inconsistencies of the state through ethnographies of diverse postcolonial practices. They show how the authority of the state is constantly challenged from the local as well as the global and how growing demands to confer rights and recognition to ever more citizens, organizations, and institutionTrade Review“This outstanding volume contains an excellent introductory discussion of current trends of thinking and research on the state. The first-rate articles by a mix of well- and less-known scholars are sophisticated, nuanced, and accessible.”—George Marcus, author of Ethnography Through Thick and Thin“With its wealth of empirical description coming from all parts of the postcolonial world, this book is an immensely valuable contribution to the new ethnography of the state. Hansen and Stepputat have put together a richly varied but carefully organized and theoretically productive set of studies.”—Partha Chatterjee, Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Introduction: States of Imagination / Thomas Blom Hansen and Finn Stepputat I. State and Governance “Demonic Societies”: Liberalism, Biopolitics, and Sovereignty / Mitchell Dean Governing Population: The Integrated Child Development Services Program in India / Akhil Gupta The Battlefield and the Prize: ANC’s Bid to Reform the South African State / Steffen Jensen Imagining the State as a Space: Territoriality and the Formation of the State in Ecuador / Sarah A. Radcliffe II. State and Justice The South African Truth and Reconcilliation Commission: A Technique of Nation-State Formation / Lars Buur Reconstructing National Identity and Renegotiating Memory: The Work of the TRC / Aletta J. Norval Rethinking Citizenship: Reforming the Law in Postwar Guatemala / Rachel Sieder Governance and State Mythologies in Mumbai / Thomas Blom Hansen III. State and Community Before History and Prior to Politics: Time, Space, and Territory in the Modern Peruvian Nation-State / David Nugent Urbanizing the Countryside: Armed Conflict, State Formation, and the Politics of Place in Contemporary Guatemala / Finn Stepputat In the Name of the State? Schools and Teachers in an Andean Province / Fiona Wilson The Captive State: Corruption, Intelligence Agencies, and Ethnicity in Pakistan / Oskar Verkaaik Public Secrets, Conscious Amnesia, and the Celebration of Autonomy for Ladakh / Martijn van Beek Bibliography About the Contributors Index
£27.90
Duke University Press Black Nationalism in the New World
Book SynopsisFrom nineteenth-century black nationalist writer Martin Delany through the rise of Jim Crow, the 1937 riots in Trinidad, and the achievement of Independence in the West Indies, up to the present era of globalization, Black Nationalism in the New World explores the paths taken by black nationalism in the United States and the Caribbean. Bringing to bear a comparative, diasporic perspective, Robert Carr examines the complex roles race, gender, sexuality, and history have played in the formation of black national identities in the U. S. and Caribbean—particularly in Jamaica, Trinidad, and Guyana—over the past two centuries. He shows how nationalism begins as an impulse emanating 'upwards' from the bottom of the social and economic spectrum and discusses the implications of this phenomenon for understanding democracy and nationalism. Black Nationalism in the New World combines geography, political economy, and subaltern studies in readings of noncanoniTrade Review“Robert Carr’s book places at our disposal a virtually unique comparative study of cultural production in the United States and the Caribbean.”—Hortense Spillers, Cornell University“This book is really smart, interesting, and useful—in short, an incredible addition to scholarship in the areas it addresses. It is an outstanding work.”—Wahneema Lubiano, Duke UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1. F(o)unding Black Capital: Money, Power, Culture, and Revolution in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or The Huts of America 2. Of What Use Is History? Blood, Race, Nation, and Ethnicity in Pauline Hopkin’s New Woman 3. From Larva to Chrysalis: Multicultural Consciousness and Anticolonial Revolution in Ralph de Boissière’s Crown Jewel 4. The New Man in the Jungle: Chaos, Community, and the Margins of the Nation-State 5. The Masculinization of Mothering: The Oakland Black Panthers and the Black Body Politic 6. A Politics of Change: Sistren, Subalternity, and the Social Pact in the War for Democratic Socialism 7. Geopolitics/Geoculture: Denationalization in the New World Order Notes Bibliography Index
£27.90
Duke University Press Decolonizing Dialectics
Book SynopsisGeo Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.Trade Review"Theoretically informed and mindful of the correctives real history offers to speculation, this book is a noteworthy contribution to critical social theory and decolonial discourses. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- B. G. Chang * Choice *"Decolonizing Dialectics marks an important contribution to a growing body of literature concerned with decolonizing critical – and, more broadly speaking, political – theory, as well as a worthwhile addition to the works devoted to the dialectical tradition and its critics. In particular, Ciccariello-Maher’s readings of Fanon and Dussel offer a valuable new take on their respective engagements with dialectical thought, and on the complex and fraught relationship that dialectics shares with decolonization, theoretically and practically." -- Michael Elliott * Contemporary Political Theory *"[A] rather unique and sophisticated project that at times leaves the reader breathless from the elegant speed with which it moves through concepts.... [T]his book functions as an opening, by recentering dialectical reason and placing it in service of a radical anti-systemic practice, to successive discussions...." -- Joshua Moufawad-Paul * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Decolonizing Dialectics makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the dialectic of unity and difference and how difference becomes antagonism within and beyond the legacies of colonialism. It is essential reading in the renewal of debate about the philosophy of internal relations and the systematic dialectic." -- Adam David Morton * Progress in Political Economy *"Decolonizing Dialectics’ timeliness lies in the fact that it gives us an approach to these tensions as academics, which exploits their decolonial potential, and affirms, after and through Fanon, their necessary violence, rather than just settle for reciprocity, closure, or another book on dialectics." -- Shona N. Jackson * Antipode *"This clear, well-written and refreshingly forthright book aims to decolonize dialectics and to wield that decolonized dialectics (never, Ciccariello-Maher insists, ‘the dialectic’) as a method to understand and further decolonization. . . . This is an important work best read in the spirit in which it is written: with urgency, anger, hope and a refusal to simply accept what is present." -- David M Bell * Political Studies Review *"The author makes important contributions to the fields of dialectics, Marxism, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies, and he has an aptitude for making tough philosophical questions accessible. Decolonizing Dialectics provides an excellent framework for understanding the major theorists he uses as well as Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and several other scholars." -- Luis M. Sierra * Journal of Global South Studies *"A light-footed and richly textured work, which demonstrates how radically different historical moments can speak to one another; how dialectics animated by a certain mobility and openness might help to explain, and ultimately transcend, the legacies of colonialism and slavery." -- Alex Millen * Journal of American Studies *"Maher’s book is an important effort to redefine the dialectic in a more radical and indeed, violent manner." -- William L. Remley * Anarchist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Ruptures 1 1. Jumpstarting the Class Struggle 23 2. Toward a New Dialectics of Race 47 3. The Decolonial Nation in Motion 75 4. Latin American Dialectics and the Other 103 5. Venezuela's Combatiive Dialectics 123 Spirals 153 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 233
£98.60
Duke University Press Decolonizing Dialectics
Book SynopsisGeo Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.Trade Review"Theoretically informed and mindful of the correctives real history offers to speculation, this book is a noteworthy contribution to critical social theory and decolonial discourses. Recommended. Graduate students through faculty." -- B. G. Chang * Choice *"Decolonizing Dialectics marks an important contribution to a growing body of literature concerned with decolonizing critical – and, more broadly speaking, political – theory, as well as a worthwhile addition to the works devoted to the dialectical tradition and its critics. In particular, Ciccariello-Maher’s readings of Fanon and Dussel offer a valuable new take on their respective engagements with dialectical thought, and on the complex and fraught relationship that dialectics shares with decolonization, theoretically and practically." -- Michael Elliott * Contemporary Political Theory *"[A] rather unique and sophisticated project that at times leaves the reader breathless from the elegant speed with which it moves through concepts.... [T]his book functions as an opening, by recentering dialectical reason and placing it in service of a radical anti-systemic practice, to successive discussions...." -- Joshua Moufawad-Paul * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Decolonizing Dialectics makes an essential contribution to our understanding of the dialectic of unity and difference and how difference becomes antagonism within and beyond the legacies of colonialism. It is essential reading in the renewal of debate about the philosophy of internal relations and the systematic dialectic." -- Adam David Morton * Progress in Political Economy *"Decolonizing Dialectics’ timeliness lies in the fact that it gives us an approach to these tensions as academics, which exploits their decolonial potential, and affirms, after and through Fanon, their necessary violence, rather than just settle for reciprocity, closure, or another book on dialectics." -- Shona N. Jackson * Antipode *"This clear, well-written and refreshingly forthright book aims to decolonize dialectics and to wield that decolonized dialectics (never, Ciccariello-Maher insists, ‘the dialectic’) as a method to understand and further decolonization. . . . This is an important work best read in the spirit in which it is written: with urgency, anger, hope and a refusal to simply accept what is present." -- David M Bell * Political Studies Review *"The author makes important contributions to the fields of dialectics, Marxism, postmodernism, and postcolonial studies, and he has an aptitude for making tough philosophical questions accessible. Decolonizing Dialectics provides an excellent framework for understanding the major theorists he uses as well as Hegel, Marx, Foucault, and several other scholars." -- Luis M. Sierra * Journal of Global South Studies *"A light-footed and richly textured work, which demonstrates how radically different historical moments can speak to one another; how dialectics animated by a certain mobility and openness might help to explain, and ultimately transcend, the legacies of colonialism and slavery." -- Alex Millen * Journal of American Studies *"Maher’s book is an important effort to redefine the dialectic in a more radical and indeed, violent manner." -- William L. Remley * Anarchist Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Ruptures 1 1. Jumpstarting the Class Struggle 23 2. Toward a New Dialectics of Race 47 3. The Decolonial Nation in Motion 75 4. Latin American Dialectics and the Other 103 5. Venezuela's Combatiive Dialectics 123 Spirals 153 Notes 171 Bibliography 219 Index 233
£25.19
Duke University Press Critique of Black Reason
Book SynopsisEminent critic Achille Mbembe reevaluates history and racism, offering a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to show how the conjoining of the biological fiction of race with definitions of Blackness have been and continue to be used to uphold oppression.Trade Review"A very demanding yet incredibly powerful book." * Augsburger Allgemeine *"[I]ncontrovertible reading on the complex dynamic between race and belonging in twenty-first century societies. Though global in reach, the work is primarily infused with insightful analysis and perspectives on the United States, South Africa, and France, spaces in which the historical legacies of slavery, apartheid, and colonialism remain of pertinence to this day, while also being locations in and from which, the author himself has gained particular familiarity as integral components of his intellectual journey and trajectory. . . . [B]rilliant and pioneering. . . ." -- Dominic Thomas * Europe Now *“Critique of Black Reason constitutes an important move in bringing together francophone and anglophone postcolonial thought and is a timely demonstration of the re-invigorating potential of both critical thought and translation.” -- Hannah Grayson * Postcolonial Text *“Achille Mbembe’s Critique de la Raison Nègre . . . [is] a book that you want to shout about from the rooftops, so that all your colleagues and friends will read it. My copy, only a few months old, is stuffed with paper markers at many intervals, suggesting the richness of analysis and description on nearly every page. . . . This is certainly one of the outstanding intellectual contributions to studies of empire, colonialism, racism, and human liberation in the last decade, perhaps decades. . . . A brilliant book.” -- Elaine Coburn * Decolonization *“Critique of Black Reason is an illuminating and brilliant addition to Mbembe’s corpus. It is the kind of book, I suspect, that will become compulsory reading for undergraduate and graduate classes worldwide." -- Manosa Nthunya * The African Independent *"Achille Mbembe is one of the paradoxical optimists who predict the worst without ever losing their faith in the future. . . . Admittedly, slavery has been abolished and colonialism is a thing of the past. But today new forms of alienation have arisen, the Other continues to be stigmatized, and the monster of capitalism reaches for its dream of an limitless horizon. An inevitability? Not necessarily, shoots back this thinker, who invites us to reimagine the geography of the world." -- Maria Malagardis * Libération *"A lucid, thoughtful and sometimes poetic work, with phrases you want to underline on every page. Mbembe is a voice that needs to be heard, in the current discussion about racism and immigration in Europe." -- Peter Vermaas * NRC Handelsblad *"An outstanding intellectual contribution to the state of the art of race scholarship. It is a beautifully written work that begs for every sentence to be quoted. . . . Critique of Black Reason is an inescapable and vital work of race scholarship that animates the reader to imagine new radical possibilities for humanity. As such, the book is the must-read for scholars interested in critical race studies, colonial and postcolonial studies." -- Mante Vertelyte & Morten Stinus Kristensen * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"For me the most important African thinker today, Achille Mbembe has published the Critique of Black Reason. A very great book, encompassing the perspectives of the African continent as well as the political challenges facing the whole world." -- Jean-Marie Durand * Les inrockuptibles *"The book is a must for neoliberal and postmodern theory enthusiasts looking for insights on social constructs and perceptions of race relations. . . . The book is a challenge for the world to shift its thought pattern towards what has been disconnected traditionally as black history, to an incorporated collective human history bearing its roots in black history." -- Mary Abura * Journal of Contemporary African Studies *"Achille Mbembe has returned with a work that will surely prove provocative: Critique of Black Reason. This nod to Kant’s philosophic classic is, however, devilishly well-chosen since this work speaks to the never-ending tendency to place Europe at the world’s 'center of gravity.' Achille Mbembe . . . fights against established ideas and lazy thinking." * Am Magazine *"With characteristic elocution Achille Mbembe in Critique of Black Reason attends to the challenge . . . to write Africa/Blackness in all its manifestations." -- Lwazi Lushaba and Ziyana Lategan * South African Historical Journal *Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction. The Becoming Black of the World 1 1. The Subject of Race 10 2. The Well of Fantasies 38 3. Difference and Self-Determination 78 4. The Little Secret 103 5. Requiem for the Slave 129 6. The Clinic of the Subject 131 Epilogue. There Is Only One World 179 Notes 185 Index 209
£72.25
Duke University Press Empire of Neglect The West Indies in the Wake of
Book SynopsisChristopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.Trade Review"Dexterously brings together a range of long-neglected texts and voices. . . . Empire of Neglect fruitfully adds to critical conversations about shifts in late coloniality in the long nineteenth century and will interest Americanists working in a variety of period subfields." -- Duncan Faherty * American Literary History *"In Empire of Neglect, Christopher Taylor presents a compelling argument that free trade undermined not only the commercial protections the colonists expected but also the social contracts they felt they were owed. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W.T. Martin * Choice *"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study. . . . Simply put, Empire of Neglect is a field-making book. Because it sets itself so resolutely against not only the methodological protocols, but even the typical discursive structures of work explicitly or tacitly aligned with economic liberalism, it is by no means an easy or accessible read. Rather, it insists upon the dissonance that comes with questioning the basic premises of existing Americanist and Victorianist understandings of the Atlantic and the Hemispheric discursive frames. But for that reason, this remarkable piece of scholarship rewards careful reading and rereading, and promises to gradually but inexorably shape all that comes after it." -- Martha Schoolman * Review 19 *"Empire of Neglect is exemplary for the ways it illustrates the worlds of critique and self-fashioning that are opened when we look elsewhere and otherwise." -- Adom Getachew * Small Axe *"In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and neglect? Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect gives that question a hefty dose of historical depth. ... His book will be of interest not only to specialists but also to anyone who is receptive to a set of sensitive reflections on the price that has been paid by any group or region that loses its centrality because the logic of market capitalism has passed it by." -- Theodore Koditschek * Victorian Studies *"Taylor's contribution to the study of liberalism and empire should be widely read, as neglect and abandonment are still matters of heated argument and material consequence in both postcolonial and still-colonial territories around the world." -- René Johnannes Kooiker * Modern Language Quarterly *"[Empire of Neglect] is an important study that, by treating neglect as a political concept deeply connected to British liberalism, has much to say about how some in the Caribbean responded to that new reality." -- Christienna Fryar * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Managing Neglect 1. The Political Economy of Neglect 33 2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica 72 Interregnum: Between Worlds 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives 107 Part Two: Building New Worlds 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children 147 5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction" 187 Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come 229 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 301
£98.60
Duke University Press From the Tricontinental to the Global South
Book SynopsisAnne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental and calls for a revival of the Tricontinental's politics as a means to strengthen racial justice and anti-neoliberal struggles in the twenty-first-century.Trade Review"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is particularly effective in its close reading of cultural texts and thus makes a significant contribution to cultural studies and cultural criticism. In centering Latin American and Black Radical intellectual and artistic traditions in its discussion of left transnational politics, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism, it effectively shifts the focus from Western Marxist traditions to racialized, oppressed, and dispossessed scholar-activists. Africana Studies, Latin American Studies, Ethnic Studies, Black Power studies, and subfields of history, sociology, and political science that focus on power relations, political organizing, and social movements will benefit from this framing." -- Charisse Burden-Stelly * Black Perspectives *"Mahler convincingly argues that movements many readers may be familiar with, such as the Black Panther Party, the Young Lords, and Black Lives Matter, were inheritors of or collaborators in this Tricontinental aesthetic. Reproductions of striking film stills and bold graphic design make the book as visually captivating as it is wonderfully written—modeling the Tricontinental’s commitment to a well-designed revolution." -- Amanda Reid * Public Books *"[A] rich, interdisciplinary history of the Tricontinental. . . . Historians of the United States will find interesting the many links between conceptions of the Global South and of the American South." -- Nico Slate * Journal of American History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is a compelling read and should appeal to a broad range of scholars who are interested in racial transnational social movements, racial capitalism, and the politics of culture in the Americas." -- Juan De Lara * Aztlán *"A conceptually rich examination of the political and aesthetic vocabularies produced by and around the Tricontinental, combining rigorous historical investigation with close formal analysis of works of literature, film, and visual culture. . . . Not only does From the Tricontinental to the Global South offer a long history of resistant politics in which Latin American, Afro-descendant, and African American intellectuals have played a central role, it provides a long view of contemporary understandings of the Global South, which both grounds the concept and gives it renewed critical heft. It is crucial reading for anyone interested in and working on the Global South today." -- Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra * Chasqui *“From the Tricontinental to the Global South is both interesting and challenging. . . . This would be a good book to use in graduate seminars on global history, the history of radicalism, and theory and history. Specialists will appreciate Mahler’s attention to detail and how she employs different types of evidence to analyze a largely forgotten radical movement.” -- Evan C. Rothera * African Studies Quarterly *"This book enriches the oeuvre of contemporary Cold War studies and critiques of neoliberalism. It builds on transnational scholarship that moves the Global South and Third Worldism away from national or regional paradigms to explain oppression and its resistance. … Mahler should be commended for the voluminous material she dissects and for jumping into the thorniness of these overlapping issues." -- John A. Gronbeck-Tedesco * American Historical Review *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South offers an indispensable historical perspective for understanding our tumultuous present; until Mahler releases an updated edition with a Tricontinentalist reading of the immediate post-George Floyd era, readers can only wait in anticipation." -- Daniel Cooper * American Literary History *"From the Tricontinental to the Global South is an outstanding and at times astounding book…. This book is likely to actually reshape the way fields, such as Latinx and postcolonial studies, define their relation to a centrally important but chronologically neglected history. I can imagine many graduate students not only adding this book to their Ph.D. reading lists but rethinking the entire trajectory of their future work because of it." -- Alfred J. López * Modern Fiction Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Beyond the Color Curtain: From the Black Atlantic to the Tricontinental 19 2. In the Belly of the Beast: African American Civil Rights through a Tricontinental Lens 68 3. The "Colored and Oppressed" in Amerikkka: Trans-Affective Solidarity in Writings by Young Lords and Nuyoricans 106 4. "Todos los negros y todos los blancos y todos tomamos café": Racial Politics in the "Latin, African" Nation 160 5. The (New) Global South in the Age of Global Capitalism: A Return to the Tricontinental 200 Conclusion. Against Ferguson? Internationalism from the Tricontinental to the Global South 241 Notes 247 Bibliography 299 Index 329
£75.65
Duke University Press Empire of Neglect
Book SynopsisChristopher Taylor shows why nineteenth-century British West Indian letters were remarkably un-British by exploring how West Indians reoriented their affective, cultural, and political worlds toward the Americas in response to the liberalization of the British Empire and the resulting imperial neglect.Trade Review"Dexterously brings together a range of long-neglected texts and voices. . . . Empire of Neglect fruitfully adds to critical conversations about shifts in late coloniality in the long nineteenth century and will interest Americanists working in a variety of period subfields." -- Duncan Faherty * American Literary History *"In Empire of Neglect, Christopher Taylor presents a compelling argument that free trade undermined not only the commercial protections the colonists expected but also the social contracts they felt they were owed. . . . Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty." -- W.T. Martin * Choice *"A brilliantly conceived and beautifully executed study. . . . Simply put, Empire of Neglect is a field-making book. Because it sets itself so resolutely against not only the methodological protocols, but even the typical discursive structures of work explicitly or tacitly aligned with economic liberalism, it is by no means an easy or accessible read. Rather, it insists upon the dissonance that comes with questioning the basic premises of existing Americanist and Victorianist understandings of the Atlantic and the Hemispheric discursive frames. But for that reason, this remarkable piece of scholarship rewards careful reading and rereading, and promises to gradually but inexorably shape all that comes after it." -- Martha Schoolman * Review 19 *"Empire of Neglect is exemplary for the ways it illustrates the worlds of critique and self-fashioning that are opened when we look elsewhere and otherwise." -- Adom Getachew * Small Axe *"In a world dominated by the competitive logic of free trade, what happens to those groups and places whose diminished profitability consigns them to feelings of abandonment and neglect? Christopher Taylor’s Empire of Neglect gives that question a hefty dose of historical depth. ... His book will be of interest not only to specialists but also to anyone who is receptive to a set of sensitive reflections on the price that has been paid by any group or region that loses its centrality because the logic of market capitalism has passed it by." -- Theodore Koditschek * Victorian Studies *"Taylor's contribution to the study of liberalism and empire should be widely read, as neglect and abandonment are still matters of heated argument and material consequence in both postcolonial and still-colonial territories around the world." -- René Johnannes Kooiker * Modern Language Quarterly *"[Empire of Neglect] is an important study that, by treating neglect as a political concept deeply connected to British liberalism, has much to say about how some in the Caribbean responded to that new reality." -- Christienna Fryar * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part One: Managing Neglect 1. The Political Economy of Neglect 33 2. "Them Worthless Ones": Emancipatory Liberalism in Jamaica 72 Interregnum: Between Worlds 3. Imperial Abandonment and Hemispheric Alternatives 107 Part Two: Building New Worlds 4. Uncle Bolívar's Children 147 5. "A Purely 'Mercial Transaction" 187 Coda. Americas That Were and Americas to Come 229 Notes 239 Bibliography 275 Index 301
£25.19
University of Pittsburgh Press Cuba Between Empires 18781902 Pitt Latin American Series
Book SynopsisIn an unusually powerful book that will appeal to the general reader as well as to the specialist, Louis A. Perez, Jr., recounts the story of the critical years when Cuba won its independence from Spain only to fall in the American orbit.
£45.95
University of Pittsburgh Press Dictating Development
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£37.95
ME - Fordham University Press Empires Wake
Book SynopsisTraces development of Irish literary modernism from the 1920s to the 1990s through the writings of James Joyce, John Millington Synge, Samuel Beckett, Sean O’Faolain, Frank McCourt, and the Blasket Island autobiographers, Tomas O’Crohan and Maurice O’Sullivan. Considers Irish literature in relation to Irish nationalism and aftermath of British empire.Trade Review"In place of of the conventional aesthetic and chronological distinction between Revivalism, Modernism, and Counter-Revivalism (the latter primarily associated with modes of critical realism and naturalism), Quigley skillfully redeploys the conception of "late modernism" developed by Jed Esty to map the relationship between forms of English modernism and imperial decline." -Journal of Postcolonial Writing "A cogent, compelling, and significant intervention into the field of modern Irish literary studies on the one hand, and an intriguing account of the politics of so-called global or transnational modernism on the other. It's a seasoned and sure-handed piece of scholarly work; Quigley writes with force and precision, never skirting issues that require patient excavation and consideration." -- -Jed Esty University of Pennsylvania "Emerging from a recent wave of new modernist scholarship, Mark Quigley's first book, Empire's Wake, is a rich exploration of Irish postcolonial writing and modernist form...Overall, this timely study highlights the critical potential in shifting the parameters of modernism." -Modernism/modernity (Project Muse)
£40.50
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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 *
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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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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.
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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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