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Book SynopsisIn The Conquest of a Continent, the historian W. Bruce Lincoln details Siberia''s role in Russian history, one remarkably similar to that of the frontier in the development of the United States.... It is a big, panoramic book, in keeping with the immensity of its subject.Chicago TribuneLincoln is a compelling writer whose chapters are colorful snapshots of Siberia''s past and present.... The Conquest of a Continent is a vivid narrative that will inform and entertain the broader reading public.American Historical ReviewThis story includes Genghis Khan, who sent the Mongols warring into Russia; Ivan the Terrible, who conquered Siberia for Russia; Peter the Great, who supported scientific expeditions and mining enterprises; and Mikhail Gorbachev, whose glasnost policy prompted a new sense of ''Siberian'' nationalism. It is also the story of millions of souls who themselves were conquered by Siberia.... Vast riches and great misery, often intertwined, mark this region.The Wall Street Jo

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Book SynopsisIn the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant post-colonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish ""colonial legacy"".Trade Review"In Crafting a Republic for the World: Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia, Lina del Castillo offers a glimpse into the process of transforming Colombia into an Andean-Atlantic nation."—Sharika D. Crawford, Latin American Research Review"This ambitious and invigorating book will incite discussion for years to come. It sets an important precedent for describing nineteenth-century Latin America as a period of immense political, economic, scientific, and even cultural creativity rather than as a period consumed by caudillismo, corruption, and political fragmentation. . . . The book is tremendously successful."—Fidel J. Tavárez, Journal of Interdisciplinary History“This is the rare scholarly work that will make valuable contributions to not just one but three historical fields: the political history of republicanism, the cultural history of nineteenth-century mentalités, and the global history of science.”—James E. Sanders, professor of history at Utah State University“Lina del Castillo’s work deepens our understanding of nineteenth-century Latin America as part of the vanguard of democracy.”—Rebecca Earle, professor of history at the University of Warwick“Deeply researched and innovative, Crafting a Republic for the World shows how nineteenth-century Colombians invented the notion of colonial legacies and how this notion was essential to the creation of a new science of republicanism. An inspiring account of how ideas about the past shape politics and policy!”—Marixa Lasso, associate professor of history at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia“According to Del Castillo’s sharp and provocative analysis, Colombia’s oft-cited ‘colonial legacy’ was actually a nineteenth-century construct, one that has far outlived its early republican creators as an explanatory framework for all that is wrong with modern Latin America. Crafting a Republic for the World will spark scholarly debate by forcing us to rethink this legacy.”—Nancy Appelbaum, professor of history at Binghamton University, SUNYTable of ContentsList of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments Introduction: Postcolonial Inventions of Spanish American Colonial Legacies Chapter 1. Gran Colombian Print Culture and the Erasure of the Spanish Enlightenment Chapter 2. A Political Economy of Circulation Chapter 3. Calculating Equality and the Postcolonial Reproduction of the Colonial State Chapter 4. Political Ethnography and the Colonial in the Postcolonial Mind Chapter 5. Constitutions and Political Geographies Harness Universal Manhood Suffrage Chapter 6. Civic Religion vs. the Catholic Church and the Ending of a Republican Project Conclusion: A Continental Postcolonial Colombia Challenges the Latin Race Idea Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAt a time when more people than ever are being constrained to move for political, economic, and environmental reasons, this book provides a new political theory of migration, one based on the social primacy of movement.Trade Review"Nail provides an innovative conceptual framework that disaggregates and contextualises social motions and movements throughout Western history. Beyond the originality of the kinopolitic theory, the real contribution is the focus on migrant's conditions that are too often neglected in the field of migration studies." -- Betty Rouland * Geopolitics *"Nail focuses on numerous ways that social and political developments can be viewed as a history of migrants . . . Nail concludes that migration is not derivative within a static framework but is primary to a history of society. Nail's book is a novel approach to history and political theory." * E.R. Gill CHOICE *"In this powerful book, Thomas Nail forces us to think migration from the perspective of movement and so builds both a theoretical argument and a political intervention. A bold and provocative engagement with one of the world's most pressing contemporary issues." -- Stuart Elden * University or Warwick *"Hardly a day goes by without some reference in the media to the "problem" of migration. In offering a theoretical account of the figure of the migrant throughout history, Thomas Nail's book thus performs an important service for the interdisciplinary study of one of the most important subjects of our century. Carefully argued, well informed, hugely ambitious, and analytically precise, it will become a standard reference for years to come." -- Tim Cresswell * Northeastern University *Table of ContentsContents and AbstractsIntroduction chapter abstractThe Introduction lays out the objectives of the book as a whole. Given the contemporary importance of migration, this book develops a political theory of the migrant. In particular, the aim is to overcome two problems: the migrant has been predominantly understood from the perspective of stasis and the state. If we want to develop a political theory of the migrant itself and not of the migrant as a failed citizen, we need to reinterpret the migrant first and foremost according to its own defining feature: its movement. This allows us to conceptualize the emergence of the historical conditions that give rise to the different types of social expulsion that define the migrant and to diagnose the capacity of the migrant to create an alternative to its social expulsion. 1The Figure of the Migrant chapter abstractThis chapter defines "the figure of the migrant" as a political concept that identifies the common points where mobile figures are socially expelled or dispossessed as a result, or as the cause, of their mobility. The movement of the migrant is thus not simply from A to B but the constitutive condition for the qualitative transformation of society as a whole. This chapter defines the migrant as a figure, which is not a fixed identity or specific person but a mobile social position. One becomes a figure when one occupies this position and may do so to different degrees, at different times, and in different circumstances. The figure of the migrant, for example, is like a social persona that bears many masks (the nomad, barbarian, vagabond, proletariat) depending on the relative social conditions of expulsion. 2Kinopolitics chapter abstractThe history of the migrant is the history of social motion. This chapter defines and lays out the logical structure of social motion or "kinopolitics," the politics of movement. Instead of analyzing societies as primarily static, spatial, or temporal types of entities, kinopolitics or social kinetics understands them primarily as "regimes of motion." Societies are always in motion: directing people and objects, reproducing their social conditions (periodicity), and striving to expand their territorial, political, juridical, and economic power through diverse forms of expulsion. This chapter introduces three key concepts to understanding social motion: flow, junction, and circulation. In this way, it is possible to identify something like a political theory of movement. In particular, this chapter argues that the migrant is defined by two intertwined social motions: expansion and expulsion. 3Centripetal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first type of social expansion by expulsion: centripetal force. The first historically dominant type of expansion by expulsion can be described as a centripetal social force because its dominant motion is inward—toward the creation of the first stable social centers on the earth's center-less surface. Since centripetal social force is primarily concerned with accumulation, territorial expulsion remains an indirect phenomenon. Nomads were not first expelled because they were foreigners or social inferiors. Rather, the type of expulsion proper to territorial kinopower creates a centripetal remainder: leftovers—that which is not territorially accumulated. The figure of the nomad is simply expelled because there are not enough territorial flows left over for them, and they are in the way. 4Centrifugal Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second type of social expansion by expulsion: centrifugal force. This force emerges historically alongside the ancient empires of Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Political or centrifugal kinopower expands the curved movements of territorial control into a completely enclosed circle, brings all its stock into a shared resonance around a central axis, and radiates outward. It adds to the system of curved, centripetal expansion a system of concentric, centrifugal expansion and produces a new figure of the migrant: the barbarian. Territorial kinopower expands by creating a stock and expels only certain plants, animals, and people (nomads) as an indirect consequence: as an unaccumulated, aterritorial remainder. 5Tensional Force chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third type of social expansion by expulsion: tensional force. This force emerges historically alongside the feudal societies of medieval Europe. This type of kinopower is "juridical" in the kinetic sense in which law binds the movement of social beings to one another and to a certain social condition or territory. Tensional migratory expulsion occurs when these juridical linkages are severed and release a social flow: vagabondage. However, just as easily as this network of juridical linkages can be dissolved, so the links can be reassembled into new circuits. Internally, juridical kinopower expels peasants and debtors from their legal right to the land and expands legal power by criminalizing them as vagabonds. Externally, juridical kinopower expels foreign peoples through war, colonialism, and kidnapping and expands its legal power by colonial legislation: the encomienda. 6Elastic Force I chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. This type of kinopower comes to dominance during the sociohistorical period between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries and can be kinopolitically defined by the emergence of a newly dominant force of social motion: elasticity. This elastic force is a specifically "economic" type of kinopower in the sense that economics strives for the free arrangement and movement of things to and fro with a minimum of territorial, political, or juridical restrictions and with a maximum of equilibrium. The migrant proletariat is the spectrum of the proletariat that is economically expelled as a mobile social surplus. This chapter and the next analyze the specific social technologies of expulsion and mobilization that give rise to a variety of such migrant proletarian subjects and expand economic kinopower, including enclosures, capitalism, and eighteenth-century workhouses. 7Elastic Force II chapter abstractThis chapter continues to analyzes the fourth type of social expansion by expulsion: elastic force. Not only is a migrant proletariat created through an intensive expulsion—enclosures, capitalist valorization, and workhouses—in order to increase competition and production, but it is also produced through an extensive expulsion via penal transportation, emigration, and denationalization. The chapter describes the forms of external expansion by expulsion in their intensive forms (the Atlantic slave trade) and their extensive forms (British colonialism in Ireland and North America). 8Pedetic Force chapter abstractThe migrant has many different figures. The nomad, the barbarian, the vagabond, and the proletariat are only four major ones. Not only does each figure of the migrant emerge under different historical and social conditions of expansion and expulsion, but each figure also invents a form of kinetic power of its own that poses an alternative to social expulsion. Although each of the figures of the migrant deploys this force in its unique way, each is also the social expression of a more general "pedetic" social force. This chapter briefly outlines the concept of pedetic social force that is deployed by the four figures of the migrant analyzed in the following chapters of Part 3. 9The Nomad chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the first figure of pedetic social force: the nomad. The nomad is not simply the result of a primary territorial, centripetal expulsion. Early hunter-gathers were not simply left out from territorial society; they also actively left it and invented an entirely different form of social motion. Hunter-gathers moved to the mountains and cultivated the newly discovered art of animal raising. In cultivating this art so exclusively, they had to invent a form of social motion most conducive to it. Nomadism oscillates continually by following the earth's flows wherever they may go, without centripetal capture or accumulation. Nomadism also deploys a transportation of social kinetic disturbances: waves. The nomads' kinetic wave is a mass or common phenomenon that links them by force without producing a division in their motion. Finally, nomadism creates a social pressure against territorial barriers. 10The Barbarian chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the second figure of pedetic social force: the barbarian. The barbarian, like the nomad, is not merely the result of a kinetic expulsion. Barbarians also invent their own form of social motion that functions in a pedetic way. Just as "barbarian" in the ancient world was often etymologically or literally the word for the "slave by nature," it is not surprising that the ancient art of pedesis appears most predominantly in the oscillations, waves, and social pressures of refugees and slave revolts. 11The Vagabond chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the third figure of pedetic social force: the vagabond. The vagabond is not only the criminalized migrant expelled by the tensional force of law as the tramp, the debtor, the beggar, the pauper, the vagrant, the heretic, the witch, the Jew, the minstrel, the foreigner, the homeless. The vagabond, from the Latin vagus, meaning "to wander," from the Latin proprius, meaning "one's own way," is also the migrant whose free wandering has its own techniques of pedetic force found in the kinetic counterpower of rebellion: the direct battle with the forces of expulsion. 12The Proletariat chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the fourth figure of pedetic social force: the proletariat. The proletariat is not only a migratory surplus expelled by the elastic force of the economy; the proletariat also breaks free from the driving forces of oscillation (profit, equilibrium, competition, etc.). In other words, the proletariat responds to elastic force with a pedetic force of its own. This pedetic force is defined by the free oscillation of social movements, the wave of protests, communes, and the pressure of the strike in its various forms: the barricade, the labor strike, the hunger strike, the boycott, and others. 13Centripetal Force and Land Grabbing chapter abstractThe aim of the final part of this book is to deploy a hybrid theory of kinopolitical analysis to the increasingly complex phenomenon of contemporary migration. The history of the migrant this book has traced so far is not simply a history of the past; it is also a history of the present in which all of the historical conditions and figures of the migrant return and mix. This chapter describes the reemergence of centripetal social force seen in contemporary Mexico-US migration. While unquestionably mixed with several other types of social motion, centripetal force in its most basic form remains a crucial condition for the expulsion of the Mexican people and the expansion of US and private power. Today, we call this "land grabbing." This chapter describes two major periods of centripetal accumulation in Mexico: the Porfiriato and neoliberalism. 14Centrifugal Force and Federal Enforcement chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of centrifugal social force in Mexico-US migration. There are several ways centrifugal power operates through federal power in Mexico and the United States to expand its reach and expel migrants. The centrifugal force of the Mexican state expands its centralized force by the direct expulsion of indigenous farmers from public lands and the reappropriation of their labor by other means. It also uses direct police and military violence to expel migrants. When peasants will not migrate or sell their land "voluntarily" to these state-sponsored mega-projects, a centrally directed police and military force is sent out from the city to directly expel people from the territory. Finally, Mexico and the United States treat migrants as naturally inferior and depoliticized barbarians. 15Tensional Force and Illegal People chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of tensional social force in Mexico-US migration. Contemporary tensional force is created by the rise of multiple legal powers: international, supranational, humanitarian, and corporate law that now poses entirely new limitations on the executive power of sovereign governments. Today's tensional forces that bind social motions, although no longer feudal, still take the form of a vast network of legal contracts binding at every level of society, that is, between individuals, local law, states, nations, and other non-state international organizations. This is accomplished in several ways: the reform of the countryside in Mexico, the North American Free Trade Agreement, Free Trade Zones and maquiladoras, the criminalization of labor in the United States, and the detention and expulsion of migrants in the United States. 16Elastic Force and Neoliberalism chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes the use of elastic social force in Mexico-US migration. Elastic force expands and expels not by creating and breaking juridical tensions between social motions but by creating and redistributing a surplus of motion elsewhere. As long as a society is capable of producing and mobilizing its surplus and deficits, it will be able to pursue equilibrium and hopefully expand. Thus, elasticity expands and expels, not from the outside to the center (centripetally), nor from the center to the outside (centrifugally), nor by rigid links between centers (tension), but rather by the redistribution of a surplus wherever it is needed. This accomplished in several ways: the redistribution of surplus in Mexico, privatization, guest-worker programs, and undocumented migrant workers. 17Pedetic Force and Migrant Power chapter abstractThis chapter analyzes four types of contemporary migrant counterpower in the case of Mexico-US migration. Just as contemporary migration is produced by the forces of social expansion and expulsion, so it is also defined by the pedetic counterforces of oscillation, waves, and pressure. Social pedesis is the irregular movement of a collective body: a social turbulence. It is the force of motion of the social figure who moves outside the dominant forms of social motion: the migrant. This is expressed in four contemporary figures of Mexico-US migration: the nomadic seasonal worker, the barbarian invader, the vagabond rebel, and the proletarian occupier. Conclusion chapter abstractThe Conclusion recapitulates the main problems and consequences of the movement-oriented theory of the migrant presented throughout the book. Additionally, it highlights three major areas where further work is necessary. First, future work is necessary to analyze the kinopolitical technologies presented in this book (and others) according to their full historical and kinetic mixture or hybridization—which this book has presented only in their relative isolation. Second, many other major and interesting areas of contemporary migration remain to be analyzed with this framework, such as the landless peasant movement in Brazil, the recent home foreclosure process happening around the world, the recent land grabs and expulsions in Cambodia, and the sans-papiers (without papers) struggle in France. Third, future work is needed to examine additional figures of the migrant, such as tourists, commuters, diplomats, and business travelers, with respect to their degrees of expulsion and movement.

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Book SynopsisFocuses on women and households as significant productive units of global production systems and brings gender and social reproduction into the theoretical center of global commodity and value chain analysis.Trade Review"A collective project between Virginia Tech and SUNY Binghamton, original essays from both novice researchers and senior scholars use ethnographic, archival, and some social survey data to provide alternatives to neoclassical and neoliberal economic analysis . . . Recommended." -- G. M. Massey * CHOICE *"[B]oth the analysis and case studies brought together in this book are based on strong scholarly research. Combined, they provide important insights into key aspects of the gendered dimensions of commodity chains, and rightly establish gender as central to the analysis. For those in accord with a World Systems perspective, the book is a must read that will provide a foundation for future investigation. For those with differing perspectives on gender, development, and global value chains, this is a thought-provoking book that will help to stimulate much needed future debate and research." -- Stephanie Ware Barrientos"Work on gender, while very difficult because of the resistance, is also very urgent. We have, as the saying goes, not a minute to lose, which is why this book constitutes an important contribution not merely to the social sciences but to the larger world political scene." * From the foreword by Immanuel Wallerstein *"This is a genuinely exciting collection that fills a critical need. Gendered Commodity Chains contains interesting empirical case studies, as well as probing conceptual pieces that synopsize larger bodies of recent research—and then push the envelope much further! It will be an invaluable addition to course readings in fields including development studies, comparative sociology, international studies, political economy, and feminist studies, and a must for academic libraries." -- David A. Smith, University of California * Irvine *"Wilma Dunaways's Gendered Commodity Chains: Seeing women's Work and Households in Global Production is a stunning collaboration that will inspire further conceptual work and research in fields as diverse as anthropology, economics, development studios, sociology, and geography. The prose is crystal clear, accessible, and compelling." -- Altha J. Cravey * American Journal of Sociology *"Wilma A. Dunaway's edited volume contributes to the fields of economics, development, and gender studies by drawing attention to fundamental features of the capitalist system that have long exploited women . . . Dunaway superbly describes how women's unpaid labor and home-based production lowers the value of labor power, cheapens wage rates, externalized costs to households, and creates levels of exploitation to the direct benefit of capitalists . . . Dunaway's volume provides a pivotal contribution to the study of commodity chains by exposing how capitalists externalize hidden costs to women's uncompensated and inequitable reproductive and productive labor with direct ramifications on the sustainability of households. Communities, local economies, and ecosystems worldwide." -- Nicole Coffey Kellett"This volume enters uncharted territory. As well as a range of sectors and geographical case studies, it provides a far-reaching theoretical reappraisal of the significance of women's work—both paid and unpaid, hidden and visible—to the accumulation of capital and the social reproduction systems that underlie the accumulation of capital. Unmissable." -- Professor Ruth Pearson * University of Leeds *"From theoretical and methodological analysis to empirical work, this volume fills a vacuum in commodity chain studies to show how 'gender is everywhere.' Gendered Commodity Chains will be of great use for teaching and research, with many policy implications and suggestions for future research." -- Lourdes Benería * Cornell University *

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Book SynopsisFollows three centuries of human efforts to inhabit and control the lower Mississippi River delta, the vast watery flatlands spreading across much of southern Louisiana. Adam Mandelman finds that people's use of technology to tame unruly nature in the region has produced interdependence with - rather than independence from - the environment.Trade ReviewThe Place with No Edge documents and interprets the environmental history of the Mississippi Delta in a way that also sheds light on the broader topic of human/environment interaction over time. Mandelman lays out the story of people reorganizing their environment, and in the process succumbing to the erroneous conclusion that they had managed to conquer and control nature in a more or less permanent way.

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Book SynopsisOriginally published by the U.S. Army to provide an overview of the terrain, tribes, history, and course of the war for American troops, Afghanistan Declassified provides an essential background to the war in Afghanistan as well as offering a vivid account of the country's people, history, and geography.Trade Review"Williams's work adds personal experience and his deep knowledge of the culture and history of the country as he travels it, describing historical sites, a colorful, friendly people, and their sometimes friendly leaders." * Publishers Weekly *"A useful, well-written, and well-researched primer on Afghanistan." * Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda *"[Afghanistan Declassified's] style, depth, and anecdotes make it a substantially better read than many other surveys of the country. . . . For what it sets out to do, it succeeds very well." * Ronald Neumann, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan *Table of ContentsContents Preface Introduction Part I. The Basics Chapter 1. The Ethnic Landscape Chapter 2. Extreme Geography Part II. History Lessons Chapter 3. Creating the Afghan State Chapter 4. Soviet Rule, the Mujahideen, and the Rise of the Taliban Chapter 5. The Longest War: America in Afghanistan Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisIn Locked In, Locked Out, Zaire Zenit Dinzey-Flores examines four communities in Ponce, Puerto Rico, showing how gates-in both physical and symbolic ways-distribute power, reroute movement, sustain social inequalities, and cement boundary lines of class and race.Trade Review"An elegant, unflinching dissection of the way gated housing in Puerto Rican communities produce and reinforce the symbolic and physical inequalities of our neoliberal era. In this far-ranging and original work, Dinzey-Flores maps out the zones of exclusion that are proliferating throughout our built spaces and which threaten our communal future." * Junot Díaz *"Riveting and beautifully written. Dinzey-Flores has given us a true ethnography of power and a must-read for understanding the making of race and class through social policy in Puerto Rico as well as urban societies more generally." * Arlene Davila, author of Barrio Dreams: Puerto Ricans, Latinos, and the Neoliberal City *Table of ContentsPreface Prologue. The Native Outsider Chapter 1. Fortress Gates of the Rich and Poor: Past and Present Chapter 2. Cachet for the Rich and Casheríos for the Poor: An Experiment in Class Integration Chapter 3. "Precaution: Security Knives in the Gates" Chapter 4. Community: Where Rights Begin and End Chapter 5. The Secret Gardens Chapter 6. Neighbors More Remote than Strangers Epilogue. The Gated Library Methodology Notes Index Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisToronto describes the diverse and remarkable transformations that have occurred in the urban landscapes of Toronto, especially over the last fifty years as it has grown from a provincial industrial city into multicentered, multicultural, world-city region that is one of the largest metropolitan areas in North America.Trade Review"U.S. urbanists are busy looking to Shanghai for the model of the coming metropolis. Edward Relph's study suggests that they should avoid the long plane trip and check out Toronto." * Carl Abbott, Portland State University *"A brilliant and much-needed book about Toronto! Published at a critical time in the history of the Canadian metropolis, Ted Relph's volume explains Toronto both to itself and to the world." * Roger Keil, York University *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Urban Transformations Chapter 2. Confused Identities Chapter 3. Shaping the Old City Chapter 4. The Ascendancy of Metropolitan Toronto Chapter 5. A Post-suburban Skyscraper City Chapter 6. Diversity in the Outer Suburbs Chapter 7. Polycentricity Chapter 8. Globally Connected and Locally Divided Chapter 9. Containing Growth Chapter 10. A City for Everybody Notes Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Impressive and compelling. The historical, political, and ecological perspectives? offered in The Tragedy of the Commodity are vital to understanding the link between the 'tragedy' inherent in many 'common property' situations." -- Bonnie McCay * author of The Question of the Commons and Oyster Wars and the Public Trust *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a timely, readable, comprehensive, and critical guide to what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and its creatures and what can be done to recreate this necessary relationship. A must read for anyone interested in knowing what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and how to go about changing it for the better." -- Dean Bavington * author of Managed Annihilation *"Consider[s] some of the most brutal aspects of the effects of capitalism in the process of turning every part of nature and every aspect of people's lives within it into something salable … The Tragedy of the Commodity also makes clear that to stop this destruction our society has to be organised in a completely different way and we have relatively little time to achieve it." * International Socialism *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a fantastic piece of literature that should be a staple book for graduate courses in environmental sociology." * Human Ecology Review *"A crucially important contribution to the discussions on the future of our oceans and our relationship to them." * Journal of Agrarian Change *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is an important step toward situating commons governance and ecological crises within a critique of the political economy of capitalism. " * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface1 Sea Change2 Human Ecology, Social Metabolism, and the Tragedy of the Commodity3 Managing a Tragedy4 From Tuna Traps to Ranches5 From Salmon Fisheries to Farms6 A Sea of Commodities7 Healing the RiftsNotesIndex

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Trade Review"Impressive and compelling. The historical, political, and ecological perspectives? offered in The Tragedy of the Commodity are vital to understanding the link between the 'tragedy' inherent in many 'common property' situations." -- Bonnie McCay * author of The Question of the Commons and Oyster Wars and the Public Trust *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a timely, readable, comprehensive, and critical guide to what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and its creatures and what can be done to recreate this necessary relationship. A must read for anyone interested in knowing what is wrong with our relationship with the sea and how to go about changing it for the better." -- Dean Bavington * author of Managed Annihilation *"Consider[s] some of the most brutal aspects of the effects of capitalism in the process of turning every part of nature and every aspect of people's lives within it into something salable … The Tragedy of the Commodity also makes clear that to stop this destruction our society has to be organised in a completely different way and we have relatively little time to achieve it." * International Socialism *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is a fantastic piece of literature that should be a staple book for graduate courses in environmental sociology." * Human Ecology Review *"A crucially important contribution to the discussions on the future of our oceans and our relationship to them." * Journal of Agrarian Change *"The Tragedy of the Commodity is an important step toward situating commons governance and ecological crises within a critique of the political economy of capitalism. " * International Journal of Comparative Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface1 Sea Change2 Human Ecology, Social Metabolism, and the Tragedy of the Commodity3 Managing a Tragedy4 From Tuna Traps to Ranches5 From Salmon Fisheries to Farms6 A Sea of Commodities7 Healing the RiftsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisLike many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.Trade Review"Strong, innovative, and timely, From Workshop to Waste Magnet beautifully demonstrates the necessity of understanding the dynamism of environmental inequality struggles. A truly important and ambitious book." -- David N. Pellow * University of California, Santa Barbara *"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental inequality in Philadelphia. A critically important must-read for all those concerned with environmental justice." -- Daniel Faber * Northeastern University *“A richly layered study of hazardous waste and its many discontents … Sicotte's book offers a model multicausal analysis of environmental burdening. At one level, she shows that environmental burdens are spread across Philadelphia in ways that might encourage activists, business leaders, and politicians to work together and address common problems. At another level, she challenges scholars to refine their analyses of environmental justice in ways that highlight the intersection of class, ethnicity, and race. It is a timely and rewarding book." * H-Pennsylvania *"Booming postindustrial neighborhoods often overlook polluted past" by Patrick Sisson * Curbed *"Justice in Chester" documentary, WITF Harrisburg (PBS affiliate), interview with Diane Sicotte * Justice in Chester *Table of ContentsContents List of FiguresList of MapsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 20102 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 19695 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 19706 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality AppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisLike many industrialized regions, the Philadelphia metro area contains pockets of environmental degradation. However, other neighbourhoods within and around the city are relatively pristine. This eye-opening book reveals that such environmental inequalities did not occur by chance, but were instead the result of specific policy decisions that served to exacerbate endemic classism and racism.Trade Review"Strong, innovative, and timely, From Workshop to Waste Magnet beautifully demonstrates the necessity of understanding the dynamism of environmental inequality struggles. A truly important and ambitious book." -- David N. Pellow * University of California, Santa Barbara *"From Workshop to Waste Magnet provides a rich analysis of how structures of class power and white privilege are the root causes of environmental inequality in Philadelphia. A critically important must-read for all those concerned with environmental justice." -- Daniel Faber * Northeastern University *“A richly layered study of hazardous waste and its many discontents … Sicotte's book offers a model multicausal analysis of environmental burdening. At one level, she shows that environmental burdens are spread across Philadelphia in ways that might encourage activists, business leaders, and politicians to work together and address common problems. At another level, she challenges scholars to refine their analyses of environmental justice in ways that highlight the intersection of class, ethnicity, and race. It is a timely and rewarding book." * H-Pennsylvania *"Booming postindustrial neighborhoods often overlook polluted past" by Patrick Sisson * Curbed *"Justice in Chester" documentary, WITF Harrisburg (PBS affiliate), interview with Diane Sicotte * Justice in Chester *Table of ContentsContents List of FiguresList of MapsList of Tables Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Measuring Environmental Inequalities in the Philadelphia Area in 20102 Theorizing Urban Environmental Inequality3 The Rise of Industrial Philadelphia4 Environmental Inequality from 1950 to 19695 From Workshop to Waste Magnet: Environmental Burdening After 19706 Intersectionality and Environmental Inequality in the Philadelphia Region7 Toward a “Rustbelt” Theory of U.S. Environmental Inequality AppendixNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisMoves beyond the stereotypes that conflate arranged marriages with forced marriages. Using in-depth interviews and participant observations, this book assembles a rich and diverse array of everyday marriage narratives and trajectories and highlights how considerations of romantic love are woven into traditional arranged marriage practices.Trade Review"Marriage never went out of fashion, certainly among South Asians, though its forms, culture, and politics were never static. Learning to Love gives us a fine grained narration of fluid, changing practices and negotiations shaping ‘arranged marriage’ and intimacy through the voices of two generations of British Indians. Raksha Pande uncovers their making of culture, tradition, choice, modernity, and claims to citizenship contesting the stereotypes that prevail in the ‘west’." -- Rajni Palriwala * co-editor of Marrying in South Asia: Shifting Concepts, Changing Practices in a Globalising World *"Amidst rising anti-immigrant sentiment, Learning to Love is a welcome intervention into entrenched, nationalist discourses of ‘arranged marriage’ that present it as anachronistic and utterly different from love marriage. Pande highlights the hopes and strategies of British-Indians, young and old, who talk of ‘rishta,’ matchmaking, intergenerational negotiation, modernity, and falling in love with the right person. A breath of fresh air!" -- Meena Khandelwal * author of Women in Ochre Robes *"Theoretically robust, lucid in style, and presented in an accessible manner. It is a welcome addition to the literature on marriage and spousal selection in general and diasporic marriages in particular. It will be of interest to scholars in the domain of geography, social anthropology, sociology, and gender studies working on questions of diaspora, marriage migration, and (informal) citizenship and anyone interested in the theme of marriage and transnational lives." * Gender, Place & Culture *Table of ContentsSeries Foreword by Péter Berta Preface and Acknowledgments 1 The Politics of Marriage and Migration in Postcolonial Britain 2 Becoming Modern and British: Enacting Citizenship through Arranged Marriages 3 Continuing Traditions as a Matter of Arrangement 4 Becoming a “Suitable Boy” and a “Good Girl” 5 Learning to Love 6 The Ties That Bind: Marriage, Belonging, and Identity 7 Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisIn recent years, Detroit has been touted as undergoing a renaissance, yet many people have been left behind. Drawing on action research and counter-cartography, A People's Atlas of Detroit aims to both chart and help build movements for social justice in the city.Trade ReviewA People's Atlas of Detroit is a remarkable achievement. Not only is Detroit one of the most important cities to understand, but this book includes a multiplicity of forms of knowledge, which, when woven together, tell a powerful story. A People's Atlas of Detroit offers a new model and standard for critical urban geography. This book not only works to understand the many ways Detroit has come to help establish the urban fabric of the United States, but does so through a deeply embodied and popular mode of analysis that feels generative well beyond the specifics of the city itself. Detroit organizing has always been among the smartest, sharpest, and innovative work throughout people's history. This is a project that provides more evidence of this fact-a thoughtful, important resource developed by the people in the very best tradition of community-led and -centered research and analysis. A People's Atlas of Detroit proves once again that if we seek to understand a place, we must break with the extractive practice of traditional 'research' and listen to the people who make it what it is.

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Book SynopsisThe essays collected in this volume apply queer theory in a consideration of the human body as a vehicle for understanding relationships between people and place. The book examines the body as an entity constructed by gender, sexuality, race, class, nationality and disability.Table of Contents- "Upstairs/Downstairs - Place Matters, Bodies Matter," Jon Binnie, Robin Peace, and Robyn Longhurst; - "Trim, Taught, Terrific, and Pregnant," Robyn Longhurst; - "Producing Lesbians: Canonical Properties," Robin Peace; - "(Dis)Comforting Identities," Ruth Holliday; - "Fragments for a Queer City," David Bell; - "The Erotic Possibilities of the City," Jon Binnie

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Book SynopsisTraces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Acronyms Map of the 2011 Syntagma Square occupation Introduction The Future Will Be Better Tomorrow 1. Modernizing Greece From Barbershops to Hair Salons 2. "Waking Up" Spatialized Crises and Unthought-Of Experiences 3. Aspiring the Utopian The Alter-Politics of Radical Imagination 4. Challenging the Dystopian The Anti-Politics of Demystification 5. Paradoxes of Emancipation Between Resistance and Reproduction 6. Toward an Alter-Neoliberal Critique Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTraces the formation of political subjectivity in times of crisis, by attending to the 2011 occupation of Syntagma Square in Athens: the heart of the Greek anti-austerity movement. Dimitris Soudias conceives of the Syntagma Square occupation as a lens through which we can critically engage with broader theoretical and political issues.

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Book SynopsisEssays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography. Geography/ Cultural StudiesEssays that point to the emergence of a critical humanist geography. A fresh and far-ranging interpretation of the concept of place, this volume begins with a fundamental tension of our day: as communications technologies help create a truly global economy, the very political-economic processes that would seem to homogenize place actually increase the importance of individual localities, which are exposed to global flows of investment, population, goods, and pollution. Place, no less today than in the past, is fundamental to how the world works. The contributors to this volume-distinguished scholars from geography, art history, philosophy, anthropology, and American and English literature-investigate the ways in which place is embedded in everyday experience, its crucial role in the formation of group and individual identity, and its ability to reflect and reinforce power relations. Th

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Book SynopsisAn engaging collection that explores the politics of material objects.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements The Stuff of Politics: An Introduction Bruce Braun and Sarah Whatmore Part I. Rematerializing Political Theory: Things Forcing Thought 1. Including Nonhumans in Political Theory: Opening Pandora's Box? Isabelle Stengers 2. Thing-Power Jane Bennett 3. Materiality, Experience, and Surveillance William E. Connolly Part II. Technological Politics: Affective Objects and Events 4. Materialist Politics: Metallurgy Andrew Barry 5. Plastic Materialities Gay Hawkins 6. Halos: Making More Room in the World for New Political Orders Nigel Thrift Part III. Political Technologies: Public (Dis)Orderings 7. Frontstaging Nonhumans: Publicity as a Constraint on the Political Activity of Things Noortje Marres 8. The Political Technology of RU486: Time for the Body and Democracy Rosalyn Diprose 9. Infrastructure and Event: The Political Technology of Preparedness Andrew Lakoff and Stephen J. Collier 10. "Faitiche"-izing the People: What Representative Democracy Might Learn from Science Studies Lisa Disch Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisFires on the Border takes up questions of labor and community organizing—its “affect-culture”—on Mexico’s northern border from the early 1970s to the present day. Through these campaigns, Rosemary Hennessy illuminates the attachments and identifications that motivate people to act on behalf of one another and that bind them to a common cause. Trade Review"Fires on the Border addresses a clear gap in the scholarship on transnational movements and organizing along the Mexico-U.S. divide: the role of sexuality in the creation of affective bonds within social alliances and political networks that span the grassroots to the transnational. In this timely, excellent book, Rosemary Hennessy incorporates a political economic analysis in her discussion of affective alliances in social movements (binational and/or transnational) among workers affected by the maquiladora industry." —Melissa W. Wright, author of Disposable Women and Other Myths of Global CapitalismTable of ContentsContentsIntroductionI. History, Affect, Representation1. Labor Organizing in Mexico's Entangled Economies2. The Materiality of Affect3. Bearing WitnessII. Sex, Labor, Movement4. Open Secrets5. The Value of a Second Skin6. Feeling Bodies, Jeans, Justice7. The North-South EncuentrosIII. The Utopian Question8. Love in the CommonAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Answer the Call takes on the investigation of call centers in India and uses that case study to help us to theorize, in more supple and nuanced ways, the multiple shifts in consciousness and social imaginaries that contemporary globalizing forces enable." —Jane Desmond, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign "This engagingly written book is an innovative analysis of the work that is done in call centers in India. The authors offer a careful academic examination of the time-virtual space issues connected to workers at these centers by asking readers to think about call-center work as a form of migration. The book draws on a number of disparate academic areas, demonstrating the strengths and necessity of interdisciplinary thinking in the social sciences. Readers will never think about call centers in the same way again." —Kum-Kum Bhavnani, University of California, Santa Barbara"A very relevant and timely work that addresses the issues of inclusion and exclusion in relation to globalization."—CHOICE "The persistence of call centers and India’s active participation in the global market make Answer the Call highly relevant for understanding of these communities."—Oral History Review"An important inquiry into how conceptions of national identity, the nation-state, and the borders between them are still present and defended in a globalized context."—Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContentsPreface: On the GroundAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Answering the Call1. The Rhythm of Ambition: Power Temporalities and the Production of the Call Center Agent in U.S. Popular Culture2. “I Used to Call Myself ‘Elvis’”: Suspended Mobilities in Indian Call Centers3. “I Interact with People from All Over the World”: The Politics of Virtual Citizenship4. “I’m Going to Sing It the Way Eminem Sings It”: India’s Network GeographyConclusion: Returning the Call NotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Strong, provocative, and insightful. . . John Hultgren advances the field theoretically through his critique and integration of competing perspectives on sovereignty in environmental politics."—John M. Meyer, author of Engaging the Everyday: Environmental Social Criticism and the Resonance Dilemma"The premise is interesting, and the book is well researched and written."—CHOICE"Highly recommended. Border Walls Gone Green deserves to be read and appreciated."—Environmental History"A valuable contribution to our understanding of the politics surrounding immigration, environmentalism, sovereignty, and their inter- section."—Perspective on Politics"Raises stimulating and provocative questions about the links between nature and sovereignty, prompting the reader to think anew about the racialized logics and histories of American environmentalism."—New Political ScienceTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction: Earth Day Exclusions1. We Have Always Been Restrictionists2. Naturalizing Nativism3. The Challenge of Eco-Communitarian Restrictionism4. Responding to Restrictionism5. Toward an Environmental Political Theory of MigrationConclusion: Tear Down Those WallsAcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book Synopsis"Alison Mountz traces the global chain of remote detention centers used by states of the Global North to confine migrants fleeing violence and poverty, using cruel measures that, if unchecked, will lead to the death of asylum as an ethical ideal"--Trade Review"In this clear and compelling account, Alison Mountz draws on a range of conceptual tools and original research in island detention sites around the world to map the death of asylum. While much of the news is bad, the final chapters suggest ways forward, reminding us of the possibility and impact of resistance. This is urgent and necessary reading for everyone concerned with contemporary politics and practices of migration control."—Mary Bosworth, University of Oxford"A brilliant account of the recent evolution of the asylum system at a global level, The Death of Asylum is informed by a single cohesive current of groundbreaking theoretical analysis. One of the most important and urgent books about forced migration ever written."—Michael Collyer, University of Sussex"A critical contribution to various debates on how geography can be used by state actors to protect their specific and rivalrous interests."—LSE Review of Books"In its rich blend of empirical data, historical and contemporary detail, and insightful analysis, this is an essential book which deserves to become a classic of migration studies."—Race & ClassTable of ContentsContentsAsylum: An ObituaryPreface: On DeathAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Mapping Death in the Enforcement ArchipelagoAcronymsI. State Mobilities, Physical Death1. Externalizing Asylum: A Genealogy2. The Border Becomes the IslandII. Shrinking Spaces, Ontological Death3. The Island within the Archipelago4. Remote Detention: Proliferating Patterns of Isolation and ConfinementIII. Hidden Geographies, Political Death5. Mobilizing Islands to Restrict Asylum Onshore in Canada (or the Death of Asylum, Even in Canada)6.The Struggle: Countering Death with the Life of ActivismConclusionsNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"With rapidly shifting digital technologies, geo-surveillance, everyday cartography, privatized georeferenced data, and neoliberalization, New Lines offers a reflexive reassessment of the scholarly praxis of critical GIS, an increasingly anachronistic term. Attentive also to contemporary philosophical debates, Matthew W. Wilson’s lively and ambitious manifesto pushes the reader to re-examine everything they thought they knew about the topic."—Eric Sheppard, author of Limits to Globalization: The Disruptive Geographies of Capitalist Development"This elegantly argued book offers a brilliantly original perspective on the many ‘troubles’—technical, epistemological, cultural, and political—associated with the contemporary proliferation of digital mapping systems. For anyone interested in understanding the rapidly changing sociohistorical, technological and institutional contexts in which cartographic practice occurs, Matthew W. Wilson’s New Lines will provide a foundational source of insight, wisdom, inspiration, and provocation."—Neil Brenner, Harvard University"The book is an important provocation for any mapmaker, cartographer, and spatial thinker. Ultimately, the book is a required read – even if only for the history alone – for any map user."—Rhizomes "New Lines reinvigorates some of the discussions that GIScience scholars have debated for decades by presenting material that is substantial without being impenetrable." —Cartographic PerspectivesTable of ContentsContentsPrefaceIntroduction: But Do You Actually Do GIS? 1. Criticality: The Urgency of Drawing and Tracing2. Digitality: Origins, or the Stories We Tell Ourselves3. Movement: Strange Concepts and the Essentially Subjective4. Attention: Memory Support and the Care of Community5. Quantification: Counting on Location-Aware Futures6. A Single Point Does Not Form a LineAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

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Book SynopsisTells how a grassroots movement led primarily by women shaped Alabama's environmental consciousness. A Movement of the People is a detailed history of the Alabama Environmental Quality Association (AEQA). The AEQA helped to establish groundbreaking environmental protection and natural resource preservation policies for the state and the region.Trade ReviewAn interesting and unique perspective on environmentalism in Alabama. A valuable addition to the history of Alabama's environmental movement."" - Robert W. Hastings, author of The Lakes of Pontchartrain: Their History and Environments and recipient of the 2015 Special Service Award of the National Sierra Club""This book documents the process by which lay people affected public policy in an important area for the state of Alabama. I found it interesting reading and accurate from my view of the movement."" - Milla D. Boschung, dean of the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Alabama

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Book SynopsisStarting with the premise that suburban films, residential neighbourhoods, chain restaurants, malls, and megachurches shape and materialize the everyday lives of residents and visitors, Greg Dickinson offers a rhetorically attuned critical analysis of contemporary American suburbs and the good life' their residents pursue.

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Book SynopsisAge of Concrete is a history of the making of houses and homes in the subúrbios of Maputo (Lourenço Marques), Mozambique, from the late 1940s to the present. Often dismissed as undifferentiated, ahistorical slums, these neighborhoods are in fact an open-air archive that reveals some of people's highest aspirations. At first people built in reeds. Then they built in wood and zinc panels. And finally, even when it was illegal, they risked building in concrete block, making permanent homes in a place where their presence was often excruciatingly precarious.Unlike many histories of the built environment in African cities, Age of Concrete focuses on ordinary homebuilders and dwellers. David Morton thus models a different way of thinking about urban politics during the era of decolonization, when one of the central dramas was the construction of the urban stage itself. It shaped how people related not only to each other but also to the colonial state and later to the independent staTrade Review“Morton’s argument, delivered with passion and power, gives life to a nuanced, deeply personal understanding of how ordinary residents of disadvantaged urban communities not only make their neighborhoods—they reframe the everyday political order. The stories he tells resonate across the continent.”

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Book SynopsisSituating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.Trade Review“Rather than examining sleeping sickness controls relational (or reactive) to colonial interventions, Weber instead puts Africans’ understandings of the problem, in all their complex diversity, at centre stage…. The result is a book which is both sensitive and remarkable. Setting the bar to new heights, this book does an excellent job of effectively decentralising the western historical narratives that so many of us have tacitly absorbed, and perpetuated, for so long.” * European Journal for the History of Medicine and Health *“Striking a deft balance between historical analysis and training historical attention to contemporary global health endeavors in Africa, Webel makes a substantial, original contribution to the history of science and medicine in Africa, the relationship between public health and politics in early colonial Africa, and African history more broadly.”“Reading Mari Webel’s history of sleeping sickness control in German colonial East Africa in a time of global pandemic feels disturbingly relevant.” * H-Net/H-Africa *

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Book SynopsisThis analysis of culture and nationalism in the Casamance—home of the longest-running conflict on the African continent—considers colonialism, cartography, agriculture, religion, forests, education, and sports history to explain and analyze the complex identities that have driven the separatist movement as well as the Senegalese nation.Trade ReviewThe Casamance conflict has been the object of multiple books by scholars from diverse disciplines but Mark Deets’s book stands out as one the most insightful. Deets has performed a tour de force by carving out a unique niche in the crowded field of what one might call 'Casamance conflict studies.' Eschewing ethnicity, state centered, and elite driven approaches that inform most research on the Casamance rebellion, Deets zooms in on those he calls “ordinary casamançais” and their responses to the nationalist discourse of Western educated urbanized separatist leaders. Another strength of this book is its focus on space making and its exploration of the entanglement between place and nationalist imaginings, delineating conflicting mapping and counter-mapping of Casamance geographies that reflect clashing invented postcolonial identities. A Country of Defiance is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the Casamance conflict. It’s a well-researched and accessible book that should figure prominently in the library of anybody interested in the postcolonial history of Senegal. -- Cheikh Anta Babou

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Book SynopsisA historiographical analysis of human geography and a social history of nationalist separatism and cultural identity in southern Senegal.This book is a spatial history of the conflict in Casamance, the portion of Senegal located south of The Gambia. Mark W. Deets traces the origins of the conflict back to the start of the colonial period in a select group of contested spaces and places where the seeds of nationalism and separatism took root. Each chapter examines the development of a different piece of the still unrealized Casamançais nation: river, rice field, forest, school, and stadium. Each of these locations forms a spatial discourse of grievance that transformed space into place, rendering a separatist nation from the pieces where a particular Casamançais identity emerged. However, not every Casamançais identified with these spaces and places in the same way. Many refused to tie their beloved culture and landscape to the project of separatism, revealing a layer ofTrade ReviewThe Casamance conflict has been the object of multiple books by scholars from diverse disciplines but Mark Deets’s book stands out as one the most insightful. Deets has performed a tour de force by carving out a unique niche in the crowded field of what one might call 'Casamance conflict studies.' Eschewing ethnicity, state centered, and elite driven approaches that inform most research on the Casamance rebellion, Deets zooms in on those he calls “ordinary casamançais” and their responses to the nationalist discourse of Western educated urbanized separatist leaders. Another strength of this book is its focus on space making and its exploration of the entanglement between place and nationalist imaginings, delineating conflicting mapping and counter-mapping of Casamance geographies that reflect clashing invented postcolonial identities. A Country of Defiance is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the origins of the Casamance conflict. It’s a well-researched and accessible book that should figure prominently in the library of anybody interested in the postcolonial history of Senegal. -- Cheikh Anta Babou

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Book SynopsisOffers a survey of different strands of ecological schools of thought, discusses their implications for the larger political sphere, and advances a three-dimensional concept of politics that emphasises ethics and discourse, as well as strategy. This title is suitable for those interested in environmental and public policy, and social activism.Trade Review“A clear and major advance. . . . The Promise of Green Politics represents a new generation of green political thought that moves beyond earlier texts, which were mostly concerned with staking out the territory. Torgerson tackles many—perhaps most—of the key issues and questions left hanging by others and does so in sophisticated and convincing fashion.”— John Dryzek, author of The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses“A detailed and penetrating exploration of the relationship between the means and the ends in green politics. Torgerson offers a fresh synthesis of, and new angle on, many of the ongoing environmental debates, from sustainable development and ecological modernization to questions of political strategy and lifestyle.”— Robyn Eckersley, author of Environmentalism and Political Theory: Toward an Ecocentric ApproachTable of ContentsContents: Preface What is green politics? Strategic perplexities The greening of public discourse Green dissent & policy professionalism Comedy & tragedy in green politics The ethical connection The green public sphere Green politics & public life Notes; References; Index

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Book SynopsisAn ethnography on the meaning of virtue amongst the Kallar people of rural southern India, who were considered to be a criminal caste by the British colonizers.Trade Review“Crooked Stalks is comprehensive, theoretically-sophisticated, and persuasively argued. Scholars and students interested in South Asian agrarian history, ethics, development issues, and agrarian thought will find this book compelling.” -- A. Whitney Sanford * Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics *“Crooked Stalks might be read for the sheer lyrical quality of its prose. It draws from two distinct philosophical traditions, and has borrowed from Tamil cinema, something that greatly adds value to a book set in Tamil Nadu, where cinema, ideology and politics have been incestuously bound together in the twentieth century. The book is richly footnoted, comes with a fine glossary and an exhaustive index. It is a product of hard work and has taken good shape in the hands of an anthropologist who has kept his feet on the ground without building an ivory tower of theory and methods around his work.” -- R. Venkat Ramanujam Ramani * Book Review *“Anand Pandian’s beautifully written Crooked Stalks is animated by a deep engagement with the moral life of an erstwhile classified, condemned and policed ‘criminal tribe’: the Piramalai Kallars of the Cumbum valley of south India. . . . [R]eading Crooked Stalks filled this reader with both pleasure, as she got a rare and beautifully written insight into the life of a people, as well as a sense of deep foreboding as to the future of marginalized communities in South Asia.” -- Annu Jalais * Pacific Affairs *“[Crooked Stalks] is a fascinating and insightful study. . . . Its strengths are numer¬ous. . . . [Pandian’s] insistence that the self-awareness of savagery among the Kallar is an instrument of self-transformation is an important extension of Elias’s seminal work on the history of manners.” -- Satadru Sen * Environment and History *“Anand Pandian’s poetically composed book about the Piranmalai Kallars in the Cumbum Valley in southern Tamil Nadu is a timely addition to this genealogy of theorising. It represents an important intervention that opposes the tendency to prioritise structure, power and interest over considerations of the ethical dimensions of culture in the anthropology of India. This is one of the first analyses of how actors themselves ruminate on an ethical life, firstly by defining how it is that they ought to live and, secondly, by postulating pragmatic means through which to live as they ought to.” -- Indira Arumugam * Contemporary South Asia *“Anand Pandian . . . skilfully piece[s] together a coherent, well-grounded, nuanced, and highly relevant work that is, moreover, so well written that you may find yourself wanting to read the book thoroughly and carefully, cover to cover. . . Pandian’s own achievement, in Crooked Stalks, is surely one of the best and most important works on the anthropology of the Tamil people published during the last hundred years, and it certainly will form part of the canon of the subject for decades to come.” -- James Frey * Itinerario *“Pandian is a virtuous ethnographer, a civil participant in multiple traditions. . . . Pandian’s concerns are profoundly demotic, and as such they constitute a salutary reminder of what, as anthropologists, we might offer to wider conversations about what it is to lead a good life. Because the horizon of improvement is often so important to our interlocutors, it is ethically necessary for us to treat local dreams of development with the dignity they deserve. . . . There should be nothing shocking in such a stirringly anthropological call to arms, but this is but one of many things we always knew but had forgotten until reminded by this supremely thoughtful book.” -- Jonathan Spencer * Cultural Anthropology *“In this elegantly written and beautifully crafted book, Anand Pandian explores the connections between ways of making a living and the ways in which people make themselves as moral beings. . . . Crooked Stalks builds on and extends a rich vein of research on Tamil culture and on the colonial history of India. It is particularly illuminating in regard to the study of colonial governmentality and in general is a first-class study in the anthropology of morality, deserving of a wide readership.” -- John Harriss * American Anthropologist *“Overall, Crooked Stalks provides a rich account of the lives of Piramalai Kallars in Tamil Nadu. . . . The subjects of the book are as vivid, lively and dynamic as landscapes, dams, schools, state institutions, parrots, monkeys, oxen, and cows. These lively subjects are examined in the contexts of nature, civility, oppression, colonialism, power, knowledge and hegemony. . . . Let’s hope that the book will be used by scholars, anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and students working on colonial south India as a source to understand the power-politics and hegemonic impositions of law and order and civility in India and other post-Colonial lands.” -- Vineeth Mathoor * Anthropology Review Database *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xv Introduction 1 1. "A Rough Spade for a Rugged Landscape": On Savage Selves and More Civil Places 31 2. "What Remains of the Harvest When the Fence Grazes the Grop?": On the Proper Violence of Agrarian Citizenship 65 3. "The Life of the Thief Leaves the Belly Always Boiling": On the Nature and Restraint of the Criminal Animal 101 4. "Millets Sown Yield Millets, Evil Sown Yields Evil": On the Moral Returns of Agrarian Toil 141 5. "Let the Water for the Paddy Also Irrigate the Grass": On the Sympathies of an Aqueous Self 181 Epilogue 221 Notes 241 Glossary 283 Bibliography 289 Index 309

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Book SynopsisBased on in-depth ethnographic research in Cairo and Rio de Janeiro, Paul Amar describes new forms of governance emerging in the Global South, partly in opposition to neoliberalism.Trade Review"The Security Archipelago is a singular book by a unique scholar. Paul Amar works in English, Arabic, and Portuguese, and he studies security regimes in a comparative framework encompassing the Middle East, North and South America, and Europe. Combining research that he has done in Brazil and Egypt on the emergence of new forms of security and new grammars of protest politics with the unfolding stories of an economic boom in Brazil and political change in Egypt, Amar has written an up-to-the-moment account of the 'human-security state' and its opponents."—Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure"The Security Archipelago accomplishes several theoretical and methodological feats through his combination of archival, ethnographic, and fieldwork research.... The Security Archipelago is a necessary read for anthropologists interested in the Middle East, South America, transnational anthropology, urban studies, securitization studies, studies of the state, and, finally, feminist and queer theory." -- Maya Mikdashi * American Anthropologist *"This book is overwhelming in the best way possible, combining ethnography with theoretical finesse. His chapters draw upon and speak within and between the fields of political anthropology, comparative political studies, critical security studies, queer studies, urban development, political economy, peace studies, and feminist International Relations." -- Meghana Nayak * International Studies Review *"An extraordinary book that revolutionizes the way to think about security, undermines conventional wisdom, and offers us a wonderfully lucid study of an obscure subject-matter, including detailed inquiry into state/society relations in Egypt and Brazil. Among many contributions is the brilliant depiction of the evolving interface between state security (its visible and invisible apparatus) and people subject to its control, including a fascinating account of the sexualization of politics as an emergent dimension of both oppression and resistance. A must-read!"—Richard Falk, coauthor of The Path to Zero: Dialogues on Nuclear Dangers“Amar’s analysis of the politics and culture of the human-security state provides an alternative and declining history of neoliberalism. . . . He pushes critical security studies forward when he questions whether decisions to disregard the Global South contribute to the field’s tendency to legitimate securitization.” -- Jaime Madden * Powerlines *“Amar traces the contradictory contours of state power, more interested in its own survival than that of its citizens. Especially for scholars of the changing global status of gender and sexuality, this is a book which expands the scope of the field.” -- Constance G. Anthony * New Political Science *"The book puts forth numerous ground-breaking arguments that will enable its readers to rethink the very nature of contemporary neoliberal governance, humanitarianism, and the relation between the global North and global South. It speaks very clearly to contemporary political struggles surrounding state security logics, militarism, sexuality, and human trafficking, but in ways that are entirely unanticipated." -- Omnia El Shakry * GLQ *“Through the lenses of the intensely overlapping realms of morality and urban politics, The Security Archipelago provides a new map that refigures how rule works and how it fails to work. … Amar poses the labor of the activist as a form of theorization. Dissidents and revolutionaries are, after all, the social theorists whomthe experts must finally listen to, as Amar does so carefully and attentively in this work.” -- Sherene Seikaly * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *“[T]his is an ambitious text, and one that offers much for scholars to work with and on which they may build. Amar has articulated a generative framework for thinking about the ways in which political formations develop and spread. Furthermore, he has linked a variety of social, cultural, and economic phenomena to processes of governance and securitization in novel ways that may be productively mobilized in future scholarship.” -- Claire Panetta * Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology *“The Security Archipelago is a prescient interdisciplinary analysis that anticipates the Arab rebellions in Cairo and locates them in a longer history of what Amar calls ‘human security states.’ … The Security Archipelago helps us understand how both visions for the global South employ a discourse of human security.” -- Alex Lubin * American Quarterly *“The book is smart, creative, and deserves to be widely read. . . . [A]dvanced students and scholars of the anthropology of policing, governmentality, sexual politics, the rising Global South, Brazil, or Egypt, will find The Security Archipelago to be a bold and intellectually provocative contribution to these fields of inquiry.” -- Avram Bornstein * American Ethnologist *“[W]ide-ranging case studies ground the book’s critical security analysis in sites of struggle, making important contributions to the understanding of the spread of urban violence and progressive social policy in Brazil and the rise of left-right coalitions in Islamic urban planning and revolutionary uprisings in Egypt. … Amar’s book offers a two-pronged challenge to dominant theories of neoliberalism.” -- Neel Ahuja * boundary 2 *"Paul Amar’s The Security Archipelago has received (well-deserved) attention for its interventions into political science discussions of security, into queer studies discussions of sexuality, and within the general academic humanities for its arguments concerning a transition from neoliberalism to human security. What Amar’s The Security Archipelago proposes is nothing less than the thesis that neoliberal forms of governance in the Global South, which feature market legitimation and consumer subjectivity, have been overcome by forms of human security governance. … Amar’s work gives Latin Americanists a way into discussions of sexuality and race which don’t collapse into the dreaded identity politics." -- Brian Whitener * Pública Común *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. The Archipelago of New Security-State Uprisings 1 1. Mooring a New Global Order between Cairo and Rio de Janeiro: World Summits and Human-Security Laboratories 39 2. Policing the Perversions of Globalization in Rio de Janeiro and Cairo: Emerging Parastatal Security Regimes Confront Queer Globalisms 65 3. Muhammad Atta's Urbanism: Rescuing Islam, Saving Humanity, and Securing Gender's Proper Place in Cairo 99 4. Saving the Cradle of Samba in Rio de Janeiro: Shadow-State Uprisings, Urban Infranationalisms, and the Racial Politics of Human Security 139 5. Operation Princess in Rio de Janeiro: Rescuing Sex Slaves, Challenging the Labor-Evangelical Alliance, and Defining the Sexuality Politics of an Emerging Human-Security Superpower 172 6. Feminist Insurrections and the Egyptian Revolution: Harassing Police, Recognizing Classphobias, and Everting the Logics of the Human-Security State in Tahrir Square 200 Conclusion. The End of Neoliberalism? 235 Notes 253 References 261 Index 297

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Book SynopsisSeeking to reinvigorate the political Left, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift advocate an experimental "world-making" politics that is able to adapt to changing circumstances, shifting categories, and emergent problems.Trade Review“This is a fine and rousing book, and required reading for Messrs Miliband and Cruddas. What its heroic authors say is true, timely and damned difficult. But to outface the monster of corporate capitalism, protean, international but nonetheless fissiparous, often cowardly, always corrupt, Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift have contrived this novel and vigorous weapon of dissent, so much required to fight the rough beast of a new epoch now slouching towards Wall Street to be born." -- Fred Inglis * Times Higher Education *“This book makes a much-needed attempt to revamp the Left’s struggle to ‘voice a politics of social equality and justice’. Problematizing the Left’s ongoing failure to capture and cohere people’s aspirations, to organize politically and to secure achievements, they focus on an essential and, as they rightly claim, neglected aspect of Left politics: the art of doing politics." -- Jessica Schmidt * Radical Philosophy *"This book is about what the Left should be proud of, what it can do to recapture the imagination of peoples to energize them into social action, and what horizons lay ahead in terms of actionable strategies. . . . [M]any of us interested in tipping the scales of justice on the side of integrity and dignity should be reading this wonderful and very useful book.” -- Eduardo Mendieta * City *"The authors of this provocative and insightful book promote an attitude of innovation and experimentation as a means to revive the fortunes of the western Left." -- James Martin * European Political Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Prologue ix 1. The Grounds of Politics 1 2. Leftist Beginnings 17 3. Reinventing the Political 39 4. Contemporary Leftist Thought 77 5. Organizing Politics 111 6. Eurocracy and Its Publics 135 7. Affective Politics 157 Epilogue 187 Notes 201 References 211 Index 227

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research with taxi drivers, frequent-flyer business travelers, devotees of the slow-food and slow-living movements, and others, Sarah Sharma argues that people's relations to labor shape their experiences of time.Trade Review"In The Meantime reads like a novel. Sharma’s sharp attack on speedup believers is accentuated with detailed portraits of the lives at the core and at the margins of global capital. It is this vivid composite of detailed narratives that describe the social fabric of time which drives you through the pages.... Sharma has found a very convincing perspective in which the human body becomes the nexus of the shift from spatial to temporal power relations. Her image of the social fabric of time is great in its vividness and physicality." -- Hartmut Wilkening * Institute of Network Cultures blog *"In the Meantime persuasively argues a provocative thesis about temporality in society. The thesis is bold, compelling, and would be widely interesting to scholars in cultural studies and media studies.... Sharma achieves a sophisticated balance of cultural theory, ethnographic research, and personal prose." -- Timothy Ballingall * Itineration *“Any scholars interested in the work of those theorists or who are engaging with issues of temporality, globalization, neoliberalism, governmentality, labor, and/or embodiment will find valuable insights and discussions in this book.” -- Josh Smicker * International Journal of Communication *"There are hugely enjoyable moments in this book. Many will recognise the 'public display of busyness' of people on their laptops in cafes and transport hubs (p. 53).... Sharma's portraits and vignettes are required reading for academics and non-academics alike." -- Ben O’Loughlin * Media, Culture & Society *“Sharma’s call for a collective sharing of time, a reimagining of the temporal that would free it from our individual fixations on having too little time, and thus incorporate those who live in the shadows or margins of our global, temporal, capital world, is an ambitious and laudable project. In the Meantime , then, provides, through a mix of personal anecdotes and interviews, an engaging account from both the margins and heart of global capitalism.” -- Johannes Grow * Spectra *"In providing rich insight into temporal inequalities and interdependencies, this book surely deserves a place in the canon of eye-opening, empirically rich but theoretically sweeping forays into the social, cultural, political, and market structures that dictate the terms of everyday life." -- Melissa Mazmanian * ILR Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Tempo Tantrums: Speed and the Cultural Politics of Time 1 1. Jet-Lag Luxury: The Architecture of Time Maintenance 27 2. Temporal Labor and the Taxicab: Maintaining the Time of Others 55 3. Dharma at the Desk: Recalibrating the Sedentary Worker 81 4. Slow Space: Another Pace and Time 108 Conclusion. Toward a Temporal Public 137 Notes 151 Bibliography 177 Index 187

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Book SynopsisBased on ethnographic research in the foothills of the Argentine Andes, Gastón R. Gordillo reveals the spatial, historical, and affective ruptures embodied in debris. For the rural poor, the rubble left in the wake of capitalist and imperialist endeavors is not romanticized ruin but the material manifestation of the violence and dislocation that created it.Trade Review"[I]t is the signal merit of Gordillo’s book to remind us of the value of the loose, but productive and fertile, horizontal connections and communities that make up the network of nodes and constellations that we too easily dismiss as 'mere' rubble." -- Jon Beasley-Murray * Posthegemony blog *“Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction is theoretically dense and richly illustrated with diagrams and photographs. The ethnographic detail is often engrossing, while the overall argument challenges heritage and regional specialists to engage in more penetrating analysis of how historic forces of destruction shape the world and add to the rubble that piles up along the way.” -- Diane Barthel-Bouchier * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Rubble is remarkable because Gordillo does not shy away from complex theorizing while also providing us with rich ethnographic storytelling. The result is a book that is as engaging as it is innovative, and which should capture the interest of a diverse audience. … dealing with the social production of space, racialized and ethnicized relations in Latin and South America, human-environment relationships, and affect theory. If the purpose of a book is to change the way one sees the world, Rubble succeeds.” -- Roberto E. Barr * Journal of Anthropological Research *“Both the idea of rethinking ruins and going deep into the Chaco region are original and a welcome foray into events and people that have been side-lined by official histories. ...Rubble gives us layers of history, of rubble, overlapping stories of indigenous identity and conquering violence.” -- Marcela López Levy * Latin America Bureau blog *“Rubble makes a series of generative interventions into the vast literature on memory and heritage studies in Latin America. Particularly rewarding for historians, anthropologists, and geographers interested in critical perspectives on modernity.” -- Mónica Salas Landa * Hispanic American Historical Review *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction: Constellations 1 Part One. Ghosts of Indians 1. A Haunted Frontier 31 2. On the Edge of the Void 53 Part Two. Lost Cities The Destruction of Space 77 3. Land of Curses and Miracles 85 4. The Ruins of Ruins 111 Part Three. Residues of a Dream World Treks across Fields of Rubble 125 5. Ships Stranded in the Forest 131 6. Bringing a Destroyed Place Back to Life 153 7. Railroads to Nowhere 169 Part Four. The Debris of Violence Bright Objects 185 8. Topographies of Oblivion 191 9. Piles of Bones 209 10. The Return of the Indians 229 Conclusion: We Aren't Afraid of Ruins 253 Notes 271 References 287 Index 303

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book, one that refuses to accept the sexual contours of prostitution in the context of empire and insists instead on the legislative, spatial, judicial, disciplinary, and narrative aspects of colonial preoccupation with Indian morality.... The scalar reading the book employs is an elegant formulation of the need to consider the multiple trajectories of nation, city, gender, agency, and governance not only through the dualities of the colonial relationship between England and India but also within the expanded scope of the interwar period in Europe and Asia." -- Harleen Singh * American Historical Review *"This book is crisp and compelling and will be read with interest by those studying colonial South Asia, the regulation of sexuality, governmentality, scale, and empire, among others....Legg convincingly and provocatively argues for a study of empire that reveals its ‘nodes of violence, fragility, contradiction, and complexity’ (p.38), and that in this case this included a scale-inflected shaming of sex workers and deployment of scandal to defend empire and intervention, even as these interventions deepened the suffering of many women." -- Sara Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *"[A] smart and original contribution to the expansive literature on colonialism and prostitution.... Legg’s efforts to interweave archival and theoretical insights—to write across scales—makes Prostitution and the Ends of Empire a bold, exciting and ambitious project." -- Renisa Mawani * Pacific Affairs *"[T]his book sheds new light onto still occluded areas and evokes productive questions that reach beyond the specific areas and topics under discussion." -- Lesley A. Hall * Canadian Journal of History *"Legg has produced a detailed and well-researched account of colonial governmentality offering novel insights into the relationship between the state and civil society which speaks to scholars across many disciplines." -- Amil Mohanan * Social & Cultural Geography *"The fabric Legg weaves is indeed rich, and accessible to many different readerships, all of which will benefit from the important work undertaken here." -- Jessica Namakkal * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Legg opens up the constitution of state/civil society, province/nation, international/national, and metropole/periphery.....Nimbly moving through a range of literatures, archives, and materials in a way that is itself multiply scaled, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire offers insights for scholars across disciplines." -- Tara Suri * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Spatial Genealogies from Segregation to Suppression 1 1. Civil Abandonment: The Inclusive Exclusion of Delhi's Prostitutes 41 2. Assembling India: The Birth of SITA 95 3. Imperial Moral and Social Hygiene 169 Conclusion. Within and beyond the City 239 Notes 247 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is an important book, one that refuses to accept the sexual contours of prostitution in the context of empire and insists instead on the legislative, spatial, judicial, disciplinary, and narrative aspects of colonial preoccupation with Indian morality.... The scalar reading the book employs is an elegant formulation of the need to consider the multiple trajectories of nation, city, gender, agency, and governance not only through the dualities of the colonial relationship between England and India but also within the expanded scope of the interwar period in Europe and Asia." -- Harleen Singh * American Historical Review *"This book is crisp and compelling and will be read with interest by those studying colonial South Asia, the regulation of sexuality, governmentality, scale, and empire, among others....Legg convincingly and provocatively argues for a study of empire that reveals its ‘nodes of violence, fragility, contradiction, and complexity’ (p.38), and that in this case this included a scale-inflected shaming of sex workers and deployment of scandal to defend empire and intervention, even as these interventions deepened the suffering of many women." -- Sara Smith * Journal of Historical Geography *"[A] smart and original contribution to the expansive literature on colonialism and prostitution.... Legg’s efforts to interweave archival and theoretical insights—to write across scales—makes Prostitution and the Ends of Empire a bold, exciting and ambitious project." -- Renisa Mawani * Pacific Affairs *"[T]his book sheds new light onto still occluded areas and evokes productive questions that reach beyond the specific areas and topics under discussion." -- Lesley A. Hall * Canadian Journal of History *"Legg has produced a detailed and well-researched account of colonial governmentality offering novel insights into the relationship between the state and civil society which speaks to scholars across many disciplines." -- Amil Mohanan * Social & Cultural Geography *"The fabric Legg weaves is indeed rich, and accessible to many different readerships, all of which will benefit from the important work undertaken here." -- Jessica Namakkal * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Legg opens up the constitution of state/civil society, province/nation, international/national, and metropole/periphery.....Nimbly moving through a range of literatures, archives, and materials in a way that is itself multiply scaled, Prostitution and the Ends of Empire offers insights for scholars across disciplines." -- Tara Suri * H-Law, H-Net Reviews *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Spatial Genealogies from Segregation to Suppression 1 1. Civil Abandonment: The Inclusive Exclusion of Delhi's Prostitutes 41 2. Assembling India: The Birth of SITA 95 3. Imperial Moral and Social Hygiene 169 Conclusion. Within and beyond the City 239 Notes 247 References 259 Index 277

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Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.Trade Review"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." -- Fang Xu * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." -- Ellen R. Judd * American Ethnologist *“Given its multidisciplinary background, [Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” -- Meisen Wong * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas 1 Part I. Urbanization 1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester 15 2. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser 36 3. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges 62 Part II. Structural Reconfigurations 4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt 87 5. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 109 6. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang 131 7. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng 150 Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities 8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel 167 9. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger 191 10. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas 205 References 225 Contributors 243 Index 247

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Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.Trade Review"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." -- Fang Xu * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." -- Ellen R. Judd * American Ethnologist *“Given its multidisciplinary background, [Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” -- Meisen Wong * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas 1 Part I. Urbanization 1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester 15 2. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser 36 3. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges 62 Part II. Structural Reconfigurations 4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt 87 5. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 109 6. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang 131 7. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng 150 Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities 8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel 167 9. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger 191 10. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas 205 References 225 Contributors 243 Index 247

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