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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The World Economy
Book SynopsisThis is the eighteenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level The 2011 issue analyses global trade policy in areas such as Malaysia, West Africa and China Includes a review of antidumping, safeguards and countervailing duties from 19902009 Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a special section on agricultural trading issues Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization''s current Trade Policy Reviews A vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vi TRADE POLICY REVIEWS 1 Trade Policy Review – Malaysia 2010 CAMILLA JENSEN AND NASRA KARA 1 2 China’s Economic and Trade Development: Imbalance to Equilibrium XIANGUO YAO AND MINGHAI ZHOU 19 ISSUES IN AGRICULTURAL TRADE 3 Free Trade in Agriculture and Global Poverty MAURIZIO BUSSOLO, RAFAEL DE HOYOS AND DENIS MEDVEDEV 35 4 Agricultural Export Subsidies and Domestic Support Reform under the WTO System: What Does It Mean for Welfare in West Africa? JOHN ALEXANDER NUETAH, TING ZUO AND XIN XIAN 61 SPECIAL TOPICS 5 Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards and Countervailing Duties, 1990–2009 CHAD P. BOWN 81 6 Special and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries and Export Promotion Policies under the WTO JAI S. MAH 125 Index 145
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Nothing Personal
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking new study, Nick Gill provides a conceptually innovative account of the ways in which indifference to the desperation and hardship faced by thousands of migrants fleeing persecution and exploitation comes about. Features original, unpublished empirical material from four Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded projects Challenges the consensus that border controls are necessary or desirable in contemporary society Demonstrates how immigration decision makers are immersed in a suffocating web of institutionalized processes that greatly hinder their objectivity and limit their access to alternative perspectives Theoretically informed throughout, drawing on the work of a range of social theorists, including Max Weber, Zygmunt Bauman, Emmanuel Levinas, and Georg Simmel Table of ContentsSeries Editors’ Preface viii List of Figures ix Acronyms xi Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 2 Moral Distance and Bureaucracy 21 3 Distant Bureaucrats 48 4 Distance at Close Quarters 76 5 Indifference Towards Suffering Others During Sustained Contact 107 6 Indifference and Emotions 135 7 Examining Compassion 156 8 Conclusion 179 Methodological Appendix 191 References 196 Index 216
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Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
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Bristol University Press Indigenous Criminology
Book SynopsisIndigenous Criminology comprehensively explores Indigenous people's contact with criminal justice systems in a contemporary and historical context. It addresses both the theoretical underpinnings of the development of a specific Indigenous criminology, and canvasses the broader policy and practice implications for criminal justice.Trade Review"A welcome contribution to the decolonization paradigm in Criminology, a discipline that is complicit in the enslavement, colonization, genocidization and criminalization of Others with repressive fetishes of western modernity." Biko Agozino, editor, African Journal of Criminology“A major original contribution providing a valuable theoretical comparative perspective to the limits of traditional Western criminology by defying the status quo and giving Indigenous people a criminological voice.” Stuart Henry, San Diego State University"Thoroughly researched, brilliantly argued, this powerful critique of mainstream criminology carves an elegant and welcome path to critical and responsive Indigenous-informed criminology." L. Jane McMillan, St. Francis Xavier University, CanadaTable of ContentsPreface ~ Andrew Millie; Introduction; Towards an Indigenous Criminology; Understanding the Impact of Colonialism; Policing, Indigenous Peoples and Social Order; Indigenous Women and Settler Colonial Crime Control; Reconceptualising Sentencing and Punishment from an Indigenous Perspective; Indigenous Peoples and the Globalisation of Crime Control; Critical Issues in the Development of an Indigenous Criminology.
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Bristol University Press What Kind of Democracy Is This
Book SynopsisHas there ever been a period in modern history when democratic politics seemed more unpredictable or unruly? Matthew Flinders ranges expertly across architecture, art, fell running and fairy tales in an attempt to understand the emerging democratic landscape. This refreshing and stimulating book seeks to provoke and inform in equal measure.Trade Review"This is awesome!" Isabelle Engeli, University of Bath, customer review "Essential, effervescent reading for anyone wishing to gain an insight into the rapidly evolving politics of our time" Judith Haire, customer review "An accessible series of thought-provoking posts, Flinders draws on political science to bring a fresh interpretation to many of today's most topical political events." Claire Ainsley Joseph Rowntree Foundation "What an engaging and FUN book! Flinders' thoughts are accessible, challenging and insightful. A must-read not just for politics academics but for anyone interested in the apparent `madness' of our contemporary democracy." Angelia R. Wilson, University of Manchester "A skilfully crafted succession of humorous, scholarly and thought provoking insights into contemporary democratic politics and more....should most definitely be on the coffee tables of all serious politicos." Rosie Campbell, Birkbeck University "This a book that the interested reader can read a couple of chapters of before bed or on the train and get insight, enlightenment and an occasional smile. It captures many of the issues and discontents facing many democracies and begins to talk about how they might be addressed." Gerry Stoker, University of Southampton and University of Canberra "A brilliant effort by one of our most prolific writers to engage us in the public dialogue so urgently needed in a world of Trumps, Brexits and other populist challenges." Melvin J. Dubnick, University of New Hampshire "Democratic politics is a glorious, dangerous, and ever-changing game. These short commentaries are insightful, easily read, and just as lively as the game itself." Alasdair Roberts, University of Missouri "An extremely unusual, accessible and innovative way of getting across crucial messages not only about the importance of democracy but how it affects a whole range of aspects of our lives. I hope that people will find it as entertaining and intriguing as I do." Rt. Hon, the Prof Lord Blunkett "A very elegant collection of concise comments on contemporary politics - witty, thought-provoking and a great read." Mark Bovens, Utrecht University School of GovernanceTable of Contents1st Post: Democracy & Life, Feral Forks & Fell Running; 1. Fire and Ashes: Success and Failure in Politics; 2. Down and Out in Bloemfontein and Rio; 3. Reveries of a Long Distance Fell Runner; 4. Feral Politics: Searching for Meaning in the 21st Century; 5. Sharks, Asylum Seekers and Australian Politics; 6. The Smart Fork and the Crowding Out of Thought; 7. Vape – A Word that Encapsulates the Nothingness of Today; 8. Saints and Sinners, Politicians and Priests; 9. Why Satire is no joke anymore; 2nd Post: Democracy & Disgust, Love & Loathing; 10. In our Name; 11. The Problems with Democracy; 12. Hyper-Democracy; 13. Calming the Storm; 14. Look Beneath the Vote; 15. More than a Vote; 16. Beastly Eastleigh and the ‘None-of-the-Above’ Party; 17. New Politics, Kinder Politics and the Myth of Anti-Politics; 3rd Post: Democracy & Representation, Disintegration & Desire; 18. What a mess! The politics and governance of the British constitution; 19. The Dis-United Kingdom; 20. What does Scotland’s vote mean for Constitutional Reform?; 21. Looking beyond the Scottish referendum; 22. Cameron makes lightning bid to become the great reformer; 23. Learning to love democracy; 24. Let the people speak!; 25. Raw Politics; 4th Post: Democracy & Personality, Politics & Pressure; 26. Vote Jeremy Clarkson on 7 May!; 27. After the Storm: Failure, Fallout and Farage; 28. Tony Benn was a true man of the people; 29. Dear Russell Brand- On the Politics of Comedy and Disengagement; 30. Foolish, but no fool- Boris Johnson and the Art of Politics; 31. Remembering Margaret Thatcher; 32. Trump That! The Failure and Farce of American Politics; 33. Mad Politics; 5th Post: Art & Architecture, Politics & Protest; 34. Shake your Chains: Politics, Poetry and Protest; 35. DIY Democracy: Festivals, Parks and Fun; 36. Participatory Arts and Active Citizenship; 37. The Body Politic: Art, Pain, Putin; 38. It’s a Joke!; 39. Left Behind? The Future of Progressive Politics; 40. Why Parliament Matters; 41. The Palace of Westminster: Rip it up and start again; 42. Democracy Day: We need to break free; 6th Post: Fig Leaves & Fairy Tales, Blunders & Buffoons; 43. Attack Ads and American Presidential Politics; 44. Dante and the Spin Doctors; 45. Democratic Realism; 46. Bang, Bang - Democracy’s Dead: Obama and the Politics of Gun Control; 47. Fig Leaves and Fairy Tales: Political Promises and the ‘truth-o-meter’; 48. Disengaged Britain: ‘Don’t vote, it just encourages the B***ards’; 49. The Blunders of Our Governments; 50. Dear Maria Miller, it really wasn’t all your fault; 51. Bring me a scapegoat to destroy: Babies, Blame and Bargains; The Last Post: Professors & Irrelevance, Standing - Up & Sitting Down; 52. Explaining Political Disaffection: Closing the Expectations Gap; 53. Politics Without Vision; 54. Dangerous Minds; 55. Claims of increasing irrelevance of universities are ideology masquerading as evidence; 56. The Dismal Debate; 57. Post-Truth, Post-Political, Post-Democracy; 58. A Talent for Politics? The ‘Great Scholar, Poor Politician’ Thesis; 59. Standing Up and Shaping the Agenda; 60. Welcom to the Year of Living Dangerously; A Special Delivery: 'So, What type of Democracy is this?'
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Bristol University Press The Pandemic Within
Book SynopsisThis book offers a blend of moral imagination and social-political analysis to overcome the defects COVID-19 has exposed in our political-economic order. It shows how hegemony and complexity prevent societies from envisioning better practices and institutions and presents feasible solutions.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The pandemic within 2. At home in the world: overcoming the predicament of complexity and hegemony 3. Ensuring a well-functioning public infrastructure 4. Housing is a public good, not a commodity 5. Redefining work and income 6. The return of good government 7. Real corporate responsibility 8. Money as a public good 9. Living in the Anthropocene 10. Towards an ecological society
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BUP - Policy Press Youth Unemployment and Devolution
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BUP - Policy Press Planning in a Failing State
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BUP - Policy Press StreetLevel Bureaucracy in Weak State
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BUP - Policy Press Universal Health Coverage
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BUP - Policy Press Digital Public Employment Services in Action
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BUP - Policy Press Transformational Change in Public Policy
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BUP - Policy Press A Critical Approach to Youth Sector Peacebuilding
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BUP - Policy Press A Critical Approach to Youth Sector Peacebuilding
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BUP - Policy Press Public Policy Evaluation in the Middle East and
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BUP - Policy Press Social Policy Review 37
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MP-WBK World Bank Group Publ Off the Books
Book SynopsisFiscal risks associated with infrastructure are both more frequent and larger than previously assumed. Off the Books quantifies the magnitude and prevalence of these risks in electricity and transport and identifies their root causes across a range of low- and middle-income countries.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina Germanys Cold War The Global Campaign to Isolate East Germany 19491969
Book SynopsisUsing newly available material from both sides of the Iron Curtain, William Glenn Gray explores West Germany's efforts to prevent international acceptance of East Germany as a legitimate state following World War II.
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MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina The Three Graces of ValKill Eleanor Roosevelt
Book SynopsisExamines the most formative period in Eleanor Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women's relationship, which blended the political with the personal.
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The University of North Carolina Press Making Moral Citizens
Book SynopsisTakes readers inside the world of faith-based progressive community organising, one of the largest and most effective social justice movements in the United States. Drawing on rich ethnographic observation and in-depth interviews, Jack Delehanty shows how organizers use religion to build power for change.Trade ReviewJack Delehanty has written the best book on faith- and broad-based community organizing in a generation, and one of the best books in cultural sociology and the sociology of religion."—Sociology of Religion
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The University of North Carolina Press A Man of Bad Reputation
Book SynopsisIn recounting North Carolina Republican state senator John W. Stephens's murder, the subsequent investigation and court proceedings, and the long-delayed confessions that revealed what actually happened at the courthouse in 1870, Drew Swanson tells a story of race, politics, and social power shaped by violence and profit.
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University of Texas Press Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism Attraction
Book SynopsisThis collection rethinks old paradigms and widely accepted assumptions about the Arab response to fascism and Nazism, bringing to light Arab support for the Allied forces during World War II and its effect on the fate of the Middle East.Trade Review"Gershoni has written an important work, showing that history and human motivations are never simple, and that much of what we think we know about the past is probably wrong." * Shepherd Express *"A compelling new collection edited by Israel Gershoni . . . Its comprehensive overview of the topic, engaging prose, and historiographical rigor combine to produce a cumulative work highly recommended for specialists and general readers alike." * American Historical Review *"[A] major contribution to the growing literature on this subject . . . Gershoni may be seeking to establish a revised narrative on this subject but there is a refreshing range of opinions in his volume." * Middle Eastern Studies *Table of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Analysis of Arab Responses to Fascism and Nazism in Middle Eastern StudiesIsrael GershoniPart I: Syria and Lebanon1. A Challenge to the Local Order: Reactions to Nazism in the Syrian and Lebanese PressGötz Nordbruch2. Against the Tide: The Secret Alliance between the Syrian National Bloc Leaders and Great Britain, 1941–1942Meir Zamir3. Memoirs Do Not Deceive: Syrians Confront Fascism and Nazism--as Reflected in the Memoirs of Syrian Political Leaders and IntellectualsEyal ZisserPart II: Palestine4. More than the Mufti: Other Arab-Palestinian Voices on Nazi Germany, 1933–1945, and Their Postwar NarrationsRené Wildangel5. The Spanish Civil War as Reflected in Contemporary Palestinian PressMustafa KabhaPart III: Iraq6. Iraqi Shadows, Iraqi Lights: Anti-Fascist and Anti-Nazi Voices in Monarchic Iraq, 1932–1941Orit BashkinPart IV: Egypt7. The View from the Embassy: British Assessments of Egyptian Attitudes during World War IIJames Jankowski8. The Rise of Homemade Egyptian Communism: A Response to the Challenge Posed by Fascism and Nazism?Rami Ginat9. "The Crime of Nazism against Humanity": Ahmad Hasan al-Zayyat and the Outbreak of the World War IIIsrael Gershoni10. The War and the Holocaust in the Egyptian Public Discourse, 1945–1947Esther WebmanPart V: Other Arab Voices11. The Tiger and the Lion: Fascism and Ethiopia in Arab EyesHaggai ErlichNotesSelected BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex
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University of Texas Press Poverty and ProblemSolving under Military Rule
Book SynopsisMany countries in Latin America have experienced both rapid urbanization and military involvement in politics. Yet few studies examine how military regimes react to the political pressures that wide-spread urban poverty creates or how the poor operate under authoritative rule. Henry Dietz investigates Lima's poor during the revolution of General Juan Velasco (19681975). His study examines both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor. The poor join together in several ways to resolve politicized communal needs; Dietz's data indicate that the local neighborhood plays a crucial role in determining modes of involvement. Considerable attention is given to government attempts to encourage and control political activities by the poor. Dietz analyzes the failure of SINAMOS, the regime's mobilization agency, and in so doing raises general questions about corporatist solutions to social problems. The wide range of original survey, informant,Table of Contents Acknowledgments Part I: Urbanization, Participation, and Poverty 1. Participation and Authoritarian Rule: The Urban Poor and the Military in Peru 2. The Velasco Administration 3. Urbanization, the Urban Poor, and Poor Neighborhoods 4. Six Low-Income Neighborhoods Part II: The Urban Poor and Their Spokesmen 5. Poverty, the Pobladores, and Their Neighborhoods 6. Modes of Participation and the Community Activist: An Empirical Analysis Part III: The Urban Poor and the Revolutionary Government 7. National-Level Political Demand-Making 8. SINAMOS, the Pobladores, and Corporatist Participation Conclusion Appendices Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Black Bodies Black Rights
Book SynopsisUnder a provision in the Brazilian constitution, rural black communities identified as the modern descendants of quilombos—runaway slave communities—are promised land rights as a form of reparations for the historic exclusion of blacks from land ownership. The quilombo provision has been hailed as a success for black rights; however, rights for quilombolas are highly controversial and, in many cases, have led to violent land conflicts. Although thousands of rural black communities have been legally recognized, only a handful have received the rights they were promised. Conflict over quilombola rights is widespread and carries important consequences for race relations and political representations of blackness in twenty-first century Brazil.Drawing on a year of field research in a quilombola community, Elizabeth Farfán-Santos explores how quilombo recognition has significantly affected the everyday lives of those who experience the often-complicated politicaTrade Review"[A] brilliantly researched and argued book…a much-needed investigation of the differences between how state actors understand ideas of black land rights and how an Afro-Brazilian community effectively makes space on their own terms and in the process maintains a centuries-long commitment to sustaining themselves amidst racialized poverty." * AAG Review of Books *"Black Bodies, Black Rights is…a case study of bureaucracy, race, power, and wealth in contemporary Brazil. For anyone who wants an illuminating look at these phenomena at the grass-roots level, this is the book to read." * Bulletin of Latin American Research *Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgments List of Acronyms Introduction: A “Problematic” Field 1. Black Heroes: Rewriting Black Resistance and Quilombo History 2. Black Identities: Conceiving Blackness and Quilombolismo 3. Black Lives: "We Are Quilombolas!" 4. Black Rights: Documentation, Proof, and Authenticity 5. Black Justice: Grande Paraguaçu and the Growing Fight for Quilombola Justice Conclusion Epilogue Notes References Index
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University of Texas Press Modernizing Patriarchy
Book SynopsisThis ethnographic study breaks the silence on women's rights and contemporary development in Morocco, where legal and educational advances are actually leaving some women behind, especially educated, single women.Table of Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: Ethnographic Reflections Chapter Two: Politicization of Gender Chapter Three: The State, the Public, and Women's Rights Chapter Four: Twenty-First-Century Marriage: Gender Equality or Complementarity Chapter Five: Rural, Educated, and Single Conclusion Appendix Notes Glossary Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Kuxlejal Politics
Book SynopsisThis work of activist anthropology investigates the decolonializing cultural practices that the Zapatistas of Chiapas employed to resist the racialized policies of the Mexican neoliberal state and assert their autonomy.Trade ReviewRemarkable…Mora does not limit her analysis to examine Zapatista indigenous autonomy from a de-colonial framework, but also decolonizes her own research methods...Kuxlejal Politics contributes to expand the discussion on the various autonomous projects underway in Latin America and to challenge the research methodology of the anthropology in contact with indigenous peoples. * European Review of Latin American and Carribean Studies *A brilliant ethnography of a movement from below that simply refused to accept the prevailing ideological, social, and political structures of oppression. * Latin American Perspectives *[An] innovative book…decolonial approaches are needed to reframe research and knowledge production in geography; such a reframing should be attentive to multiple and diverse ontologies and epistemologies…Kuxlejal Politics is exemplary of how the work of reframing might be done. More than that, it is a vision of a life politics that gives me hope. * Journal of Latin American Geography *Mora’s project is a model of collaborative research with the communities she did research in....Mora does not romanticise the Zapatista movement; rather, she allows her research subjects to step out of the background of data collection. In this way, her conceptualisation helps us to understand the historical roots and current practices of Zapatista communities by placing them centre stage. * ALMA Reviews *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction One. A Brief Overview of the First Years of the Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities (1996–2003) Two. The Production of Knowledge on the Terrain of Autonomy: Research as a Topic of Political Debate Three. Social Memories of Struggle and Racialized (E)states Four. Zapatista Agrarian Reform within the Racialized Fields of Chiapas Five. Women’s Collectives and the Politicized (Re)production of Social Life Six. Mandar Obedeciendo; or, Pedagogy and the Art of Governing Conclusion: Zapatismo as the Struggle to Live within the Lekil Kuxlejal Tradition of Autonomy Notes Bibliography Index
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University of Texas Press Pitching Democracy
Book SynopsisHow Dominicans contribute to Major League Baseball and what they receive in return. From Juan Marichal and Pedro Martínez to Albert Pujols and Juan Soto, Dominicans have long been among Major League Baseball’s best. How did this small Caribbean nation become a hothouse of baseball talent? To many fans, the answer is both obvious and disconcerting: pro teams use their riches to develop talent abroad, creating opportunities for superhuman athletes and corrupt officials, while the rest of the population sees little benefit. Yet this interpretation of history is incomplete. April Yoder traces how baseball has empowered Dominicans in their struggles for democracy and social justice. While the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo saw the sport as a means of cementing its power at home and abroad, the Dominican people fashioned an emancipated civic sphere by seeing their potential for democratic success in their compatriots’ baseball success. Later,Trade ReviewEnriched by Yoder’s passion for the sport and extensive knowledge of Cold War Latin American politics, this is a detailed study of the links between sport and social change. * Publishers Weekly *Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction. Baseball, Democracy, and Latin America in the Cold War Chapter 1. Mens sana in corpore sano: Baseball and Trujillista Politics Chapter 2. Politics at the Plate: The Threat of Communism and the Showcase for Democracy Chapter 3. Criticizing Baseball, Debating Democracy Chapter 4. Así se hace Patria: Baseball and the Bloodless Revolution Chapter 5. Sliding into Third: The Cibao Summer League and Baseball as Development Chapter 6. Making the Majors: The Baseball Industry and Dominican Democracy Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Duke University Press The Politics of Taste
Book SynopsisIn The Politics of Taste Ana María Reyes examines the works of Colombian artist Beatriz González and Argentine-born art critic, Marta Traba, who championed González''s art during Colombia''s National Front coalition government (1958–74). During this critical period in Latin American art, artistic practice, art criticism, and institutional objectives came into strenuous yet productive tension. While González’s triumphant debut excited critics who wanted to cast Colombian art as modern, sophisticated, and universal, her turn to urban lowbrow culture proved deeply unsettling. Traba praised González''s cursi (tacky) recycling aesthetic as daringly subversive and her strategic localism as resistant to U.S. cultural imperialism. Reyes reads González''s and Traba''s complex visual and textual production and their intertwined careers against Cold War modernization programs that were deeply embedded in the elite''s fear of the Trade Review“Ana María Reyes tackles an important but understudied subject that is absolutely essential to understanding contemporary Colombian politics, culture, and society: the relationship between aesthetics and the Cold War in Colombia. Her analysis of Beatriz González's artistic practices, Marta Traba's art criticism, the institutions where they worked and exhibited, and Colombia's cultural politics and Cold War policies during the National Front period is brilliant and compelling.” -- Mary Roldán, author of * Blood and Fire: La Violencia in Antioquia, Colombia, 1946–1953 *“In this exciting and enlightening book, Ana María Reyes provides an entirely new perspective on the art of Beatriz González, on Latin American engagements with pop, and on Marta Traba's assessment of González's work. By offering a clear sense of the cultural dynamics of the Cold War in Colombia and class politics within Bogota during this period, Reyes allows readers to better appreciate González's subject matter, style, color sensibility, and use of appropriation.” -- Mary Coffey, author of * Orozco’s American Epic: Myth, History, and the Melancholy of Race *“Rich, multivalent context as means to weighing Colombian Beatriz González’s early artistic production (1964–70) is exactly what this assistant professor of Latin American art at Boston University offers readers with her monograph The Politics of Taste. The author’s analysis is buttressed by field research including access to the artist’s personal archive, twelve hours of personal interviews with her, and archival work in Medellín, Colombia…. Reyes’s skillfully crafted text is the first single-author monograph on the artist in English.” -- Teresa Eckmann * Art Journal *"Reyes’s study is rich in information, illustrations, and ideas. . . . This book is authoritative, rigorous, and consistently insightful." -- Luis Rebaza-Soraluz * E.I.A.L. *
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Duke University Press Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history.Trade Review“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times *“Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” -- Minkah Makalani, author of * In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 *Table of ContentsEditor's Note vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James xi Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution Introduction | 1977 Edition 5 Part I 1. The Myth 23 2. The Masses Set the Stage 33 3. The People in 1947 41 4. The Revolution in Theory 50 5. The Men on the Spot 65 6. The People and the Leader 76 7. Positive Action 104 8. The Party under Fire 113 9. The Tip of the Iceberg 124 Part II 1. Government and Party 135 2. 1962: Twenty Years After 149 3. Slippery Descent 152 4. Lenin and the Problem 158 5. “ . . . Always out of Africa” 179 Appendix 1 | Correspondence, 1957 189 Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James 189 Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman 190 Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee 191 Appendix 2 | “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe—A Necessary Introduction,” 1964 199 Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James 199 Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now” 200 Notes 221 Index 229
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Duke University Press Militarization
Book SynopsisMilitarization: A Reader offers a range of critical perspectives on the dynamics of militarization as a social, economic, political, cultural, and environmental phenomenon. It portrays militarism as the condition in which military values and frameworks come to dominate state structures and public culture both in foreign relations and in the domestic sphere. Featuring short, readable essays by anthropologists, historians, political scientists, cultural theorists, and media commentators, the Readerprobes militarism''s ideologies, including those that valorize warriors, armed conflict, and weaponry. Outlining contemporary militarization processes at work around the world, the Reader offers a wide-ranging examination of a phenomenon that touches the lives of billions of people. In collaboration with Catherine Besteman, Andrew Bickford, Catherine Lutz, Katherine T. McCaffrey, Austin Miller, David H. Price, David VineTrade Review“This wonderfully innovative, distinctive, and timely book has the additional value of taking an anthropological approach to militarism. Its editors have been among the key actors in crafting sharp and valuable critiques of the creeping militarization of their disciplines, particularly as practiced by U.S.-based scholars. This volume offers some of the most cogent explorations of the many-layered workings of militarism.” -- Cynthia Enloe, author of * Globalization and Militarism *“Militarism's reach extends far beyond the weapons and armed police and soldiers prowling our streets and deployed around the world, as its rhetoric normalizes violence and war. This deeply intersectional collection insists on the vantage point of militarism's victims, historically and today, while exposing those who profit from it. This volume provides an astonishingly comprehensive introduction to the globalized systems threatening not only individuals, but whole nations, peoples, and cultures, all captured by a profoundly militarized United States.” -- Phyllis Bennis, Institute for Policy Studies, author of * Understanding ISIS and the New Global War on Terror *“At just over 400 pages, including a very useful twenty-seven-page bibliography, [Militarization] reflects an enormous and dedicated effort. . . . The book offers us a path to think past our disciplinary fetishization of the lone wordsmith in knowledge production.” -- Keith Brown * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“The editors bring a compelling and timely ethic of demilitarization to our discipline. . . . The volume’s strength is its comprehensive coverage and intersectional, multidisciplinary approach to militarization and its impacts.” -- Leah Zani * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsEditors' Note xiii Acknowledgments xv Introduction / Roberto J. González and Hugh Gusterson 1 Section I. Militarization and Political Economy Introduction / Catherine Lutz 27 1.1. The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending / John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney 29 1.2. Farewell Address to the Nation, January 17, 1961 / Dwight D. Eisenhower 36 1.3. The Militarization of Sports and the Redefinition of Patriotism / William Astore 38 1.4. Violence, Just in Time: War and Work in Contemporary West Africa / Daniel Hoffman 42 1.5. Women, Economy, War / Carolyn Nordstrom 51 Section II. Military Labor 2.1. Soldiering as Work: The All-Volunteer Force in the United States / Beth Bailey 59 2.2. Sexing the Globe / Sealing Cheng 62 2.3. Military Monks / Michael Jerryson 67 2.4. Child Soldiers after War / Brandon Kohrt and Robert Koenig 71 2.5. Asian Labor in the Wartime Japanese Empire / Paul H. Kratoska 73 2.6. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry / P. W. Singer 76 Section III. Gender and Militarism Introduction / Katherine T. McCaffery 83 3.1. Gender in Transition: Common Sense, Women, and War / Kimberly Theidon 85 3.2. The Compassionate Warrior: Wartime Sacrifice / Jean Bethke Elshtain 91 3.3. Creating Citizens, Making Men: The Military and Masculinity in Bolivia / Lesley Gill 95 3.4. One of the Guys: Military Women and the Argentine Army / Máximo Badaró 101 Section IV. The Emotional Life of Militarism Introduction / Catherine Lutz 109 4.1. Militarization and the Madness of Everyday Life / Nancy Scheper-Hughes 111 4.2. Fear as a Way of Life / Linda Green 118 4.3. Evil, the Self, and Survival / Robert Jay Lifton (Interviewed by Harry Kreisler) 127 4.4. Target Audience: The Emotional Impact of U.S. Governmental Films on Nuclear Testing / Joseph Masco 130 Section V. Rhetorics of Militarism Introduction / Andrew Bickford 141 5.1. The Militarization of Cherry Blossoms / Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney 143 5.2. The "Old West" in the Middle East: U.S. Military Metaphors in Real and Imagined Indian Country / Stephen W. Silliman 148 5.3. Ideology, Culture, and the Cold War / Naoko Shidusawa 154 5.4. The Military Normal: Feeling at Home with Counterinsurgency in the United States / Catherine Lutz 157 5.5. Nuclear Orientalism / Hugh Gusterson 163 Section VI. Militarization, Place, and Territory Introduction / Roberto J. González 167 6.1. Making War at Home / Catherine Lutz 168 6.2. Spillover: The U.S. Military's Sociospatial Impact / Mark L. Gillen 175 6.3. Nuclear Landscapes: The Marshall Islands and Its Radioactive Legacy / Barbara Rose Johnston 181 6.4. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet 186 6.5. The Border Wall Is a Metaphor / Jason de León (Interviewed by Micheline Aharońian Marcom) 192 Section VII. Militarized Humanitarianism Introduction / Catherine Besteman 197 7.1. Laboratory of Intervention: The Humanitarian Governance of the Postcommunist Balkan Territories / Mariella Pandolfi 199 7.2. Armed for Humanity / Michael Barnett 203 7.3. The Passions of Protection: Sovereign Authority and Humanitarian War / Anne Orford 208 7.4. Responsibility to Protect or Right to Punish? / Mahmood Mamdani 212 7.5. Utopias of Power: From Human Security to the Presponsibility to Protect / Chowra Makaremi 218 Section VIII. Militarism and the Media Introduction / Hugh Gusterson 223 8.1. Pentagon Pundits / David Barstow (Interview by Amy Goodman) 224 8.2. Operation Hollywood / David L. Robb (Interviewed by Jeff Fleischer) 230 8.3. Discipline and Publish / Mark Pedelty 234 8.4. The Enola Gay on Display / John Whittier Treat 239 8.5. War Porn: Hollywood and War, from World War II to American Sniper / Peter van Buren 243 Section IX. Militarizing Knowledge Introduction / David H. Price 249 9.1. Boundary Displacement: The State, the Foundations, and International and Area Studies during and after the Cold War / Bruce Cumings 251 9.2. The Career of Cold War Psychology / Ellen Herman 254 9.3. Scientific Colonialism / Johan Galtung 259 9.4. Research ni Foreign Areas / Ralph L. Beals 265 9.5. Rethinking the Promise of Critical Education / Henry A. Giroux (Interviewed by Chronis Polychroniou) 270 Section X. Militarization and the Body Introduction / Roberto J. González 275 10.1. Nuclear War, the Gulf War, and the Disappearing Body / Hugh Gusterson 276 10.2. The Structure of War: The Juxtaposition of Injuried Bodies and Unanchored Issues / Elaine Scarry 283 10.3. The Enhanced Warfighter / Kenneth Ford and Clark Glymour 291 10.4. Suffering Child: An Embodiment of War and Its Aftermath in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua / James Quesada 296 Section XI. Militarism and Technology Introduction / Hugh Gusterson 303 11.1. Giving Up the Gun: Japan's Reversion to the Sword, 1543–1879 / Noel Perrin 305 11.2. Life Underground: Building the American Bunker Society / Joseph Masco 307 11.3. Militarizing Space / David H. Price 316 11.4. Embodiment and Affect in a Digital Age: Understanding Mental Illness among Military Drone Personnel / Alex Edney-Browne 319 11.5. Land Mines and Cluster Bombs: "Weapons of Mass Destruction in Slow Motion" / H. Patricia Hynes 324 11.6. Pledge of Non-Participation / Lisbeth Gronlund and David Wright 328 11.7. The Scientists' Call to Ban Autonomous Lethal Robots / International Committee for Robot Arms Control 329 Section XII. Alternatives to Militarization Introduction / David Vine 333 12.1. War Is Only an Invention—Not a Biological Necessity / Margaret Mead 336 12.2. Reflections on the Possibility of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology / Leslie E. Sponsel 339 12.3. U.S. Bases, Empire, and Global Response / Catherine Lutz 344 12.4. Down Here / Julian Aguon 347 12.5. War, Culture, and Counterinsurgency / Roberto J. González, Hugh Gusterson, and David H. Price 349 12.6. Hope in the Dark: Untold Stories, Wild Possibilities / Rebecca Solnit 350 References 355 Contributors 383 Index 389 Credits 403
£112.20
Duke University Press Revolution and Disenchantment
Book SynopsisThe Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency. In Revolution and Disenchantment Fadi A. Bardawil redescribes for our present how an earlier generation of revolutionaries, the 1960s Arab New Left, addressed this question. Bardawil excavates the long-lost archive of the Marxist organization Socialist Lebanon and its main theorist, Waddah Charara, who articulated answers in their political practice to fundamental issues confronting revolutionaries worldwide: intellectuals as vectors of revolutionary theory; political organizations as mediators of theory and praxis; and nonemancipatory attachments as impediments to revolutionary practice. Drawing on historical and ethnographic methods and moving beyond familiar reception narratives of Marxist thought in the postcolony, Bardawil engages in 'fieldwork in theory' that analyzes how theory seduces intellectuals, cultivates sensibilities, and Trade Review“Fadi A. Bardawil's Revolution and Disenchantment is at once a rich redescription and rehistoricization of the rise and fall of the Lebanese New Left, and an exemplary illustration of how to rework the problem of theory in relation to the practices of nonmetropolitan political intellectuals. With a timely attunement to the paradoxical conundrums of his present and an uncommon generosity of spirit, Bardawil challenges us to reconceive the contemporary demand for a dialogue between Arab intellectual traditions and the traditions of Western critical theory.” -- David Scott, Columbia University“Conceptually brilliant, prodigiously researched, and appealingly written, Revolution and Disenchantment tracks the theoretical innovations and political stakes of Arab revolutionary Marxism in the postwar era, contributing to timely debates about the necessity of decolonizing critical theory and the relationship between revolutionary militancy and political disenchantment. Fadi A. Bardawil's innovative archival excavation recovers the theoretical labor of Arab intellectuals, theorists, and militants from Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, and Palestine in the midst of a multiplicity of political upheavals.” -- Omnia El Shakry, author of * The Arabic Freud: Psychoanalysis and Islam in Modern Egypt *"Is the question of social inequality eclipsed by sectarianism in the Near East? Is it possible to found a Left which is both autonomous and critical of nationalism? Fadi Bardawil brings this important episode of theoretical elaboration back to the history of Arab thought. Further, he invites us to break away from the colonial perspective which stipulates that social theory is created in the North and applied to the South." (translated from French) -- Jean-Michel Landry * Le Monde Diplomatique *"Revolution and Disenchantment brings Lebanon back into the story of the twentieth century francophone left and elegantly delivers a new framework for understanding the translation and transformation of theory." -- Sarah K. Miles * Global Intellectual History *“Revolution and Disenchantment…dismantles the ‘critique of Eurocentrism’ as the only way to conduct critical scholarship in Arab thought. Most significantly, it deftly and incisively performs the theoretical ground-clearing that will enable scholars of Arab and postcolonial thought to stage the fine-grained, sustained, generous-yet-critical readings of Arab intellectuals as thinkers….” -- Yasmeen Daifallah * Postcolonial Studies *"Revolution and Disenchantment is a different kind of academic book, profoundly interdisciplinary as it weaves together the crux of postcolonial studies, intellectual history, political theory and anthropological inquiries…. The book truly pries open the epistemological categories of modern social sciences." -- Myriam Amri * LSE Review of Books *"This volume is an impressive example of critical scholarship examining the intellectual and political dynamics of the modern history of Lebanon and its Arab neighbors. It vividly demonstrates the revolutionary hope and political disenchantment that continue to characterize the Middle East today." -- A. Rassam * Choice *“[Bardawil’s] thoughtful excavation of [a] forgotten archive of Arab Marxist theory, critical attention to social and political conditions, and nuanced analysis of the relationship between theory and practice produce a provocative argument about the pitfalls of adopting binary visions of power relations.” -- Kevin M. Jones * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Translation ix Prologue xi Introduction 1 Part I. Time of History 1. O Youth, O Arabs, O Nationalists: Recalling the High Tides of Anticolonial Pan-Arabism 27 2. Dreams of a Dual Birth: Socialist Lebanon's Theoretical Imaginary (1964–1970) 53 3. June 1967 and Its Historiographical Afterlives 82 Part II. Times of the Sociocultural 4. Paradoxes of Emancipation: Revolution and Power in Light of Mao 113 5. Exit Marx/Enter Ibn Khaldun: Wartime Disenchantment and Critique 138 6. Traveling Theory and Political Practice: Orientalism in the Age of the Islamic Revolution 165 Epilogue 187 Acknowledgments 195 Notes 201 Bibliography 241 Index 255
£72.25
Duke University Press Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution
Book SynopsisIn this new edition of Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution, C. L. R. James tells the history of the socialist revolution led by Kwame Nkrumah, showing how Ghana’s independence movement brought a new phase of revolutionary history.Trade Review“This little-known text holds a well-kept secret: Ghana was far more important than Haiti in transforming C. L. R. James’s theory of revolution. Leslie James’s illuminating introduction situates the book within a broader radical Pan-African context. Assembled from over a decade of critical observation, Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution demolishes the myth of the beneficent West and reveals the perils and possibilities of Africa’s postcolonial revolutions to chart a socialist future for the world.” -- Robin D. G. Kelley, author of * Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times *“Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution helps bring into focus a key feature of C. L. R. James’s intellectual preoccupations from the mid-1940s into the 1960s: how he thought about Africa and African independence for a decolonizing Caribbean. A fulsome portrait of his political thought.” -- Minkah Makalani, author of * In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London, 1917–1939 *Table of ContentsEditor's Note vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Ghana and the Worlds of C.L.R. James / Leslie James xi Nkrumah and the Ghana Revolution Introduction | 1977 Edition 5 Part I 1. The Myth 23 2. The Masses Set the Stage 33 3. The People in 1947 41 4. The Revolution in Theory 50 5. The Men on the Spot 65 6. The People and the Leader 76 7. Positive Action 104 8. The Party under Fire 113 9. The Tip of the Iceberg 124 Part II 1. Government and Party 135 2. 1962: Twenty Years After 149 3. Slippery Descent 152 4. Lenin and the Problem 158 5. “ . . . Always out of Africa” 179 Appendix 1 | Correspondence, 1957 189 Notes on Appendix 1 / Leslie James 189 Extract of letter from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee, Addressed to Martin Glaberman 190 Letters from C.L.R. James to the Correspondence Publishing Committee 191 Appendix 2 | “Africa: The Threatening Catastrophe—A Necessary Introduction,” 1964 199 Note on Appendix 2 / Leslie James 199 Introduction from “Nkrumah Then and Now” 200 Notes 221 Index 229
£19.79
Duke University Press Biopolitics of the MoreThanHuman
Book SynopsisIn Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human Joseph Pugliese examines the concept of the biopolitical through a nonanthropocentric lens, arguing that more-than-human entities—from soil and orchards to animals and water—are actors and agents in their own right with legitimate claims to justice. Examining occupied Palestine, Guantánamo, and sites of US drone strikes in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, and Yemen, Pugliese challenges notions of human exceptionalism by arguing that more-than-human victims of war and colonialism are entangled with and subject to the same violent biopolitical regimes as humans. He also draws on Indigenous epistemologies that invest more-than-human entities with judicial standing to argue for an ethico-legal framework that will enable the realization of ecological justice. Bringing the more-than-human world into the purview of justice, Pugliese makes visible the ecological effects of human war that would otherwise remain outside the domains oTrade Review“A mesmerizing exploration of the more-than-human dimensions of later modern war that is never less than deeply human. Linguistically inventive, analytically sobering—you keep wondering why it has taken us so long to see like this—Joseph Pugliese's vision of forensic ecology initiates an arrestingly novel critique of military violence. At once profoundly political and deeply ethical, this is a magnificently vital achievement.” -- Derek Gregory, Peter Wall Distinguished Professor and Professor of Geography, University of British Columbia“Joseph Pugliese’s reconfiguration of biopolitics does not simply take the politics of populations and life and extend its range to include the more-than-human; the very threshold between the human and ‘other’ life-forms falls away. What is revealed is a new political-legal ethics entirely: not a question of how ‘we’ humans grant rights to others, but of how the more-than-human offers itself as an imperative to rethink the anthropocentrism of European law. Exploring Indigenous and non-Western cosmologies provides a way to think about life, value, and politics that does not rely on the dignity of the human and its concomitant violence for all that is other-than-human. It is rare to read a book that combines such theoretical dexterity with fascinating empirical analysis of some of our most pressing ethical issues.” -- Claire Colebrook, author of * Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction *"Pugliese’s book makes a valuable contribution to the fields of critical legal studies, critical security studies, and geopolitical ecology. . . . He admirably weaves a decolonial lens with new materialism and draws effectively on Indigenous cosmoepistemologies to expand the way we conceptualize, perceive, and feel these forms of more-than-human violence.” -- Michael J. Albert * Law, Culture, and the Humanities *"Pugliese's retheorization of biopolitics offers new ways of understanding military violence by attending to the different technologies used to manage life and death. . . . Pugliese's interventions powerfully unearth the 'forensic ecologies of saturated violence,' their more-than-human witnesses, and their possibilities for resistance." -- Nicole Nguyen * Journal of Palestine Studies *"Biopolitics of the More-Than-Human contributes to debates on violence and conflict in environmental politics on whether and why Israeli occupation, settler colonialism, anti-black racism, and US toxic militarism should be challenged as environmental justice problems. Moreover, this book helps educators to teach Foucauldian discourse, biopolitics, and power relations through a critical postcolonial lens via a life and death example that is still occurring every single day." -- Rezvaneh Erfani * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Zoopolitics of the Cage 39 2. Biopolitical Modalities of the More-Than-Human and Their Forensic Ecologies 81 3. Animal Excendence and Inanimal Torture 124 4. Drone Sparagmos 166 Afterword 203 Notes 217 Bibliography 255 Index
£75.65
Duke University Press Colonial Debts
Book SynopsisRocío Zambrana uses the current political-economic moment in Puerto Rico to outline how debt functions as both an apparatus that strengthens neoliberalism and the island's colonial relation to the United States.Trade Review“At a time when many are turning to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, there is a dire need for sophisticated texts like this that can help unsettle much of the commonsense thinking about Puerto Rico's debt and its colonial relationship to the United States. It is rare to see a book of this theoretical heft so well grounded in contemporary politics. Colonial Debts makes a unique and urgent contribution.” -- Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor of * Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm *“There are few better sites than Puerto Rico to take as a case study for the exploration of the entanglement between neoliberalism, colonialism, and coloniality. Rocío Zambrana offers a creative theoretical account that expands the horizon of examination from financial debts to historical debts and from juridico-political colonialism to coloniality. Colonial Debts provides an indispensable philosophical analysis to understand our current time. It is essential reading in critical and political theory, as well as in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies.” -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of * Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity *"Offering an account that weaves together philosophies of debt, American exceptionalism, and a description of attempts by various coalitions of leftists, students, women, and workers to resist, Zambrana not only details the experience of economic exploitation in Puerto Rico but confronts its particular effects on an array of marginalized groups, thereby showing that debt knows no divisions between identity and class and that the inequalities it imposes or creates must be met by an equally undivided left." -- Ed Morales * The Nation *"Colonial Debts is a brilliant book, one that 'thinks' Puerto Rico with/from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican global diaspora. . . . I highly recommend Zambrana’s Colonial Debts to economic, political, Caribbean, and Latin American geographers working closely with financial geographies and geographies of debt. Decolonial geographers will also find the book’s theoretical contributions provocative, particularly as it relates to the geographies of knowledge production." -- Joaquín Villanueva * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Colonial Debts makes an important and timely contribution to Puerto Rican studies, to philosophies of coloniality and decoloniality, and theories of political economy. It opens windows to worlds that for many only show up on the fringes of history, as an afterthought. . . . Our understandings of debt, reparations, coloniality, and its resistances must, at minimum, include Puerto Rico. To this effect, Colonial Debts succeeds in demonstrating how debt operates in the colony that is still a very present reality, revealing a past that continues to violently permeate the present and thus demands critical attention." -- Stephanie Rivera Berruz * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"It seems to me that Zambrana has gifted us one of the most thorough philosophical meditations on the material conditions of contemporary Puerto Rico. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that Zambrana’s text will become a classic of Puerto Rican studies, decolonial theory, and the broad corpus of Caribbean anticolonial thought." -- Pedro Lebrón Ortiz * Candela Review *“Colonial Debts is a must-read critique of Puerto Rico’s ongoing political and economic crisis. . . . This outstanding text is deeply engaged in theory and its practical implications. Essential.” -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Zambrana has made an outstanding theoretical contribution for analyzing coloniality in Puerto Rico and broader topics associated with neoliberalism, debt, austerity and coloniality. This book will be very useful for academics in Caribbean Studies, Political Theory, Political Economy, and Decolonial Studies." -- Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones * New West Indian Guide *"Magnificent... Colonial Debts challenges the reader to rethink what they know about the logic of coloniality in its relation to our neoliberal moment; it is in fact a remarkable exemplification of how decolonial theories can function to critically engage the logic sustaining finance capitalism." -- Jason Cortés * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Colonial Debts is an in-depth philosophical reflection on how debt has been theorized by other scholars while engaging thoughtfully in conceptual work that offers important insights into how debt can be resisted and transformed. Reader-activists would want to read this book, especially anti-debt activists. Scholars of and on Puerto Rico would also be interested in having a different look at the colonial relation at play here through historical debt." -- Valérie Vézina * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"With this book, Rocío Zambrana generously shares with us a multilevel compass for the understanding and the overturning of the neoliberal and colonial predicaments that are profoundly violent." -- Rosa M. O’Connor Acevedo * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Colonial Debts 1 1. Neoliberal Coloniality 21 2. Colonial Exceptionality 53 3. Historical Reckoning 82 4. Subversive Interruption 110 Conclusion. Decoloniality as Reparations 139 Notes 167 Bibliography 229 Index 257
£70.55
Duke University Press Colonial Debts
Book SynopsisWith the largest municipal debt in US history and a major hurricane that destroyed much of the archipelago''s infrastructure, Puerto Rico has emerged as a key site for the exploration of neoliberalism and disaster capitalism. In Colonial Debts Rocío Zambrana develops the concept of neoliberal coloniality in light of Puerto Rico''s debt crisis. Drawing on decolonial thought and praxis, Zambrana shows how debt functions as an apparatus of predation that transforms how neoliberalism operates. Debt functions as a form of coloniality, intensifying race, gender, and class hierarchies in ways that strengthen the colonial relationship between Puerto Rico and the United States. Zambrana also examines the transformation of protest in Puerto Rico. From La Colectiva Feminista en Construcción''s actions, long-standing land rescue/occupation in the territory, to the July 2019 protests that ousted former governor Ricardo “Ricky” Rosselló, protests pursue variatTrade Review“At a time when many are turning to Puerto Rico in the wake of Hurricane María, there is a dire need for sophisticated texts like this that can help unsettle much of the commonsense thinking about Puerto Rico's debt and its colonial relationship to the United States. It is rare to see a book of this theoretical heft so well grounded in contemporary politics. Colonial Debts makes a unique and urgent contribution.” -- Yarimar Bonilla, coeditor of * Aftershocks of Disaster: Puerto Rico Before and After the Storm *“There are few better sites than Puerto Rico to take as a case study for the exploration of the entanglement between neoliberalism, colonialism, and coloniality. Rocío Zambrana offers a creative theoretical account that expands the horizon of examination from financial debts to historical debts and from juridico-political colonialism to coloniality. Colonial Debts provides an indispensable philosophical analysis to understand our current time. It is essential reading in critical and political theory, as well as in Puerto Rican and Caribbean Studies.” -- Nelson Maldonado-Torres, author of * Against War: Views from the Underside of Modernity *"Offering an account that weaves together philosophies of debt, American exceptionalism, and a description of attempts by various coalitions of leftists, students, women, and workers to resist, Zambrana not only details the experience of economic exploitation in Puerto Rico but confronts its particular effects on an array of marginalized groups, thereby showing that debt knows no divisions between identity and class and that the inequalities it imposes or creates must be met by an equally undivided left." -- Ed Morales * The Nation *"Colonial Debts is a brilliant book, one that 'thinks' Puerto Rico with/from Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican global diaspora. . . . I highly recommend Zambrana’s Colonial Debts to economic, political, Caribbean, and Latin American geographers working closely with financial geographies and geographies of debt. Decolonial geographers will also find the book’s theoretical contributions provocative, particularly as it relates to the geographies of knowledge production." -- Joaquín Villanueva * Journal of Latin American Geography *"Colonial Debts makes an important and timely contribution to Puerto Rican studies, to philosophies of coloniality and decoloniality, and theories of political economy. It opens windows to worlds that for many only show up on the fringes of history, as an afterthought. . . . Our understandings of debt, reparations, coloniality, and its resistances must, at minimum, include Puerto Rico. To this effect, Colonial Debts succeeds in demonstrating how debt operates in the colony that is still a very present reality, revealing a past that continues to violently permeate the present and thus demands critical attention." -- Stephanie Rivera Berruz * H-Diplo, H-Net Reviews *"It seems to me that Zambrana has gifted us one of the most thorough philosophical meditations on the material conditions of contemporary Puerto Rico. . . . There is no doubt in my mind that Zambrana’s text will become a classic of Puerto Rican studies, decolonial theory, and the broad corpus of Caribbean anticolonial thought." -- Pedro Lebrón Ortiz * Candela Review *“Colonial Debts is a must-read critique of Puerto Rico’s ongoing political and economic crisis. . . . This outstanding text is deeply engaged in theory and its practical implications. Essential.” -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"Zambrana has made an outstanding theoretical contribution for analyzing coloniality in Puerto Rico and broader topics associated with neoliberalism, debt, austerity and coloniality. This book will be very useful for academics in Caribbean Studies, Political Theory, Political Economy, and Decolonial Studies." -- Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones * New West Indian Guide *"Magnificent... Colonial Debts challenges the reader to rethink what they know about the logic of coloniality in its relation to our neoliberal moment; it is in fact a remarkable exemplification of how decolonial theories can function to critically engage the logic sustaining finance capitalism." -- Jason Cortés * Dialogues in Human Geography *"Colonial Debts is an in-depth philosophical reflection on how debt has been theorized by other scholars while engaging thoughtfully in conceptual work that offers important insights into how debt can be resisted and transformed. Reader-activists would want to read this book, especially anti-debt activists. Scholars of and on Puerto Rico would also be interested in having a different look at the colonial relation at play here through historical debt." -- Valérie Vézina * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"With this book, Rocío Zambrana generously shares with us a multilevel compass for the understanding and the overturning of the neoliberal and colonial predicaments that are profoundly violent." -- Rosa M. O’Connor Acevedo * Centro Journal *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Colonial Debts 1 1. Neoliberal Coloniality 21 2. Colonial Exceptionality 53 3. Historical Reckoning 82 4. Subversive Interruption 110 Conclusion. Decoloniality as Reparations 139 Notes 167 Bibliography 229 Index 257
£18.99
Duke University Press The Doctor Who Would Be King
Book SynopsisGuillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David—a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II—whose failed attempt to create a medical utopia continues to be felt in Cameroon.Trade Review“In this riveting account, Guillaume Lachenal discovers that French doctors seeking police powers and administrative control in colonial Cameroon did not lead to a health utopia, nor did these arrangements reverse decades of demographic decline in the battered colony. What they got was their own transformation into colonial governors. A superb translation of a gifted scholar and stylist, The Doctor Who Would Be King is as alive as any ethnography to social life in poorly known but much roiled parts of the French empire that once circled the globe.” -- Paul Farmer, author of * Fevers, Feuds, and Diamonds: Ebola and the Ravages of History *"An absorbing . . . account of a French colonial doctor who was handed absolute political control of an African territory the size of Switzerland in the years 1939-44. . . . It is impossible not to feel the presence of Joseph Conrad’s tale of lordly isolation and madness. It is as if, by assembling this story from archival fragments and the oral accounts of present-day residents, Mr. Lachenal is seeking to bring Dr. David back to our metropolitan gaze in much the way Conrad’s Marlow sought to bring Kurtz back from the jungle." -- Tunku Varadarajan * Wall Street Journal *“[Lachenal] leaves us at a crossroads, torn as we are today between the WHO’s proclamations about the advent of global health and the disenchantment caused by emerging microbes and the worsening of inequalities. Depending on whether one reads The Doctor Who Would Be King as a novel . . . or as an essay on contemporary biopolitics, the reader will come out of it reinvigorated or shaken, but not unscathed.” -- Anne Marie Moulin * L’Histoire *“[The Doctor Who Would Be King] is an expansive and masterful project whose major contributions are to the history of French colonialism and to historical research methodologies more broadly. . . . Readers . . . will enjoy the ride.” -- Caitlin Barker * H-Sci-Med-Tech, H-Net Reviews *“[Lachenal’s] investigation, in which dreams of grandeur, violence, and the tragedy of power are intertwined, is as fascinating as it is disturbing.” -- Laurent Lemire * L’Obs *"The Doctor Who Would Be King is a beautifully written, engrossing book that analyzes the career of a French colonial doctor in both Central Africa and Polynesia but also reflects on the thrills and pitfalls of historical research, the instability of historical narratives, and how traces of the past live on in the present. ... This superb book will be of interest to wide-ranging audiences, including historians of medicine, Africa, Polynesia, European empire, and beyond." -- Sarah Runcie * Isis *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Part I. The Mandated Territory of Cameroon, 1939–1944 1. A Showcase for Colonial Humanism 17 2. An Archipelago of Camps 22 3. Madame Ateba 26 4. Advocating for a Regime of Exception 31 5. A French Dream 36 6. Haut-Nyong Must Be Saved 40 7. Lessons in Medical Administration 45 8. Paradise: A Guided Tour (December 2013) 52 9. A Real-Life Experiment 58 10. The Invisible Men 63 11. Social Medicine, French-Style 69 12. Life Has Returned 75 13. Colonel David Will Become a General 84 14. The Missionaries' Nightmare 92 15. The Dark Waters of the Haut-Nyong 95 16. Rubber for the Emperor 100 17. "Here We Are the Masters" 106 18. Koch! Koch! 111 Part II. The French Protectorate of Wallis and Futuna, 1933–1938 19. King David 125 20. Uvea, Desert Island 129 21. Chronicles of the Golden Age 140 22. I te Temi o Tavite (In the Time of David) 153 23. Doctor Machete 160 24. Becoming King, Part I: Coup d'état at the Dispensary 165 25. Becoming King, Part II: The Wallisian Art of Governing 172 26. Becoming King, Part III: Kicking Custom to the Curb 178 27. Te Hau Tavite 183 28. Tavite Lea Tahi (David-Only-Speaks-Once) 190 29. Doctor Disaster 198 Part III. Epilogues 30. Afelika (Africa) 215 31. Dachau, Indochina 223 32. The Light Riots 232 Afterword: Global Health Utopias from David to COVID-19 238 Acknowledgments 245 Notes 249 Index 293
£75.65
Duke University Press Settler Garrison
Book SynopsisJodi Kim examines how the United States extends its sovereignty across Asia and the Pacific in the post-World War II era through a militarist settler imperialism that is leveraged on debt.Trade Review“Settler Garrison is a stunning, magisterial work that provides an entirely original definition of US empire as predicated on the production of its legitimation to wield power. Jodi Kim frames spaces heretofore deemed anomalous or marginal—the camptown, the POW camp, and the unincorporated territory—as the very sites where US empire establishes its authority to rule. In the process of redefining and reframing US empire, Kim offers a unique and sorely needed relational methodology for understanding the connection between its various modes, in particular between military empire and settler colonialism." -- Grace Kyungwon Hong, author of * Death beyond Disavowal: The Impossible Politics of Difference *Table of ContentsIntroduction. US Exceptionalisms, Metapolitical Authority, and the Aesthetics of Settler Imperial Failure 1 1. Perverse Temporalities: Primitive Accumulation and the Settler Colonial Foundations of Debt Imperialism 39 2. The Military Base and Camptown: Seizing Land "by Bulldozer and Bayonet" and the Transpacific Masculinist Compact 62 3. The POW Camp: Waging Psychological Warfare and a New Settler Frontier 113 4. The Unincorporated Territory: Constituting Indefinite Deferral and "No Page Is Ever Terra Nullius" 138 Epilogue. Climate Change, Climate Debt, Climate Imperialism 174 Acknowledgments 185 Notes 189 Bibliography 229 Index 249
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Duke University Press Hailing the State
Book SynopsisLisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable.Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Spelling ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Hailing the State: Collective Assembly, Democracy, and Representation 1 Part I. Seeking Audience 1. Sit-In Demonstrations and Hunger Strikes: From Dharna as Door-Sitting to Dharna Chowk 43 2. Seeking Audience: Refusals to Listen, “Style,” and the Politics of Recognition 67 3. Collective Assembly and the “Roar of the People”: Corporeal Forms of “Making Known” and the Deliberative Turn 94 4. The General Strike: Collective Action at the Other End of the Commodity Chain 122 Part II. The Criminal and the Political 5. Alarm Chain Pulling: The Criminal and the Political in the Writing of History 151 6. Rail and Road Blockades: Illiberal or Participatory Democracy? 168 7. Rallies, Processions and Yātrās: Ticketless Travel and the Journey to “Political Arrival” 197 Conclusion. Of Human Chains and Guinness Records: Attention, Recognition, and the Fate of Democracy amidst Changing Mediascapes 216 Notes 225 Bibliography 265 Index 287
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Duke University Press Rising Up Living On
Book SynopsisIn Rising Up, Living On, Catherine E. Walsh examines struggles for existence in societies deeply marked by the systemic violences and entwinements of coloniality, capitalism, Christianity, racism, gendering, heteropatriarchy, and the continual dispossession of bodies, land, knowledge, and life, while revealing practices that contest and live in the cracks of these matrices of power. Through stories, narrations, personal letters, conversations, lived accounts, and weaving together the thought of many—including ancestors, artists, students, activists, feminists, collectives, and Indigenous and Africana peoples—in the Americas, the Global South, and beyond, Walsh takes readers on a journey of decolonial praxis. Here, Walsh outlines individual and collective paths that cry out and crack, ask and walk, deschool, undo the nation-state, and break down boundaries of gender, race, and nature. Rising Up, Living On is a book that sows re-existences, nurtures relationalitTable of ContentsGratitudes ix Beginnings 1 1. Cries and Cracks 13 2. Asking and Walking 75 3. Traversing Binaries and Boundaries 123 4. Undoing Nation-State 180 5. Sowing Re-existences 230 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 297 Index 321
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Duke University Press Hailing the State
Book SynopsisLisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable.Table of ContentsA Note on Transliteration and Spelling ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Hailing the State: Collective Assembly, Democracy, and Representation 1 Part I. Seeking Audience 1. Sit-In Demonstrations and Hunger Strikes: From Dharna as Door-Sitting to Dharna Chowk 43 2. Seeking Audience: Refusals to Listen, “Style,” and the Politics of Recognition 67 3. Collective Assembly and the “Roar of the People”: Corporeal Forms of “Making Known” and the Deliberative Turn 94 4. The General Strike: Collective Action at the Other End of the Commodity Chain 122 Part II. The Criminal and the Political 5. Alarm Chain Pulling: The Criminal and the Political in the Writing of History 151 6. Rail and Road Blockades: Illiberal or Participatory Democracy? 168 7. Rallies, Processions and Yātrās: Ticketless Travel and the Journey to “Political Arrival” 197 Conclusion. Of Human Chains and Guinness Records: Attention, Recognition, and the Fate of Democracy amidst Changing Mediascapes 216 Notes 225 Bibliography 265 Index 287
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Duke University Press The Coloniality of the Secular
Book SynopsisAn Yountae investigates the collusive ties between the modern concepts of the secular, religion, race, and coloniality in the Americas, showing how decolonial thought incorporates religion into its vision of liberation.Trade Review“How are religious sensibilities mobilized in decolonial thought, a tradition that rebels against the legacy of Christianity in shaping colonial ideologies? Challenging the widespread assumption of decolonial thought as ‘secular,’ The Coloniality of the Secular offers an attentive and insightful reading of some of its most celebrated theorists, surfacing their gestures toward a notion of the sacred. This is an indispensable contribution to theorizing religion in the Americas and reconceiving decolonial thought and practice!” -- Mayra Rivera, author of * Poetics of the Flesh *“The Coloniality of the Secular takes on, with critical precision and erudition, the thorny concepts of religion and secularism as both have been mediated by the colonizing and hegemonic yoke of Christianity and its mirror images. Drawing upon a rich array of Africana and decolonial scholarship to make his case, An Yountae presents a provocative decolonial analysis and theory in which creolizing the sacred shines through, transcending the colonial religion/secular divide. A valuable contribution not only to decolonial thought but also to critical modernity studies, religious studies, race studies, and global southern thought.” -- Lewis R. Gordon, author of * Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. A Decolonial Theory of Religion 1 Part I. Genealogies 1. Modernity/Coloniality/Secularity: The Cartography of Struggle 25 2. Crisis and Revolutionary Praxis: Philosophy and Theology of Liberation 57 Part II. Poetics 3. Phenomenology of the Political: Fanon’s Religion 97 4. Phenomenology of Race: Poetics of Blackness 113 5. Poetics of World-Making: Creolizing the Sacred, Becoming Archipelago 139 Conclusion 177 Notes 181 Bibliography 205 Index 223
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Duke University Press Black Enlightenment
Book SynopsisExamining the work of Black Enlightenment authors, Surya Parekh reimagines the Enlightenment from the position of the Black subject.Trade Review“Black Enlightenment does not excuse or accuse a monolithized ‘West,’ but rather shows how European theory could not acknowledge its transformation by Africa rising. Unusual and meticulous documentation, brilliant textual readings. Highly relevant to our annihilation of white supremacy.” -- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, author of * A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present *“Offering careful and close readings of key texts written by eighteenth-century Black thinkers, Surya Parekh decenters Kant and Hume from the Enlightenment to emphasize questions around enslavement, freedom, and subjecthood. This strong and important book will touch and inform many fields in current scholarship around the Black Atlantic and the intellectual history of the Enlightenment and beyond.” -- Laurent Dubois, coauthor of * Freedom Roots: Histories from the Caribbean *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Black Enlightenment 23 2. (Dis)Figuring Kant 50 3. The Changing Rhetoric of Race 74 4. The Character of Ignatius Sancho 106 5. Phillis Wheatley’s Providence 131 Notes 153 Bibliography 177 Index 195
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Duke University Press Primitive Normativity
Book SynopsisElizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations.Trade Review“Elizabeth W. Williams brings fresh insights from queer theory and Black feminist theory to the study of settler colonialism in East Africa. Through analyzing an expansive set of textual sources, she helpfully introduces discourses of sexual normativity and deviance as key to understanding colonial processes of racial formation and ongoing politics in the region.” -- Lynn M. Thomas, author of * Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya *“Primitive Normativity is a brilliant synthesis of queer theory, colonial history, and African studies. For Elizabeth W. Williams, the ‘strange settler space’ of Kenya depended upon a view of Africans as temporally backward and therefore safe from the dangers of sexually deviant, ‘over-civilized’ Europeans. Nimbly tracing discourses from the colonial archive, Williams offers an assessment of colonial sexuality and power that is as witty as it is incisive and compelling.” -- T. J. Tallie, author of * Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Primitive Normativity 1 1. The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity 24 2. Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the Silberrad Scandal of 1908 42 3. “Stoop Low to Conquer”: Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the Kenyan “Indian Crisis” of 1923 69 4. White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination 92 5. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange’s Kenyan Novels 117 6. Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse 139 Conclusion 163 Notes 169 Bibliography 211 Index 223
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Duke University Press Waiting for the Cool Moon
Book SynopsisWendy Matsumura examines the history of the colonial projects and violence of interwar Japan while critiquing Japan studies’ participation of the erasure of this history in its study of the formation of the Japanese nation-state.Trade Review“Waiting for the Cool Moon is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” -- Rebecca E. Karl, author of * China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History *“Waiting for the Cool Moon is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” -- Christopher T. Nelson, author of * Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Empire and Oikonomia 17 2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37 3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60 4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83 5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108 6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134 7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161 Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 261
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Duke University Press From Crisis to Catastrophe Lineages of the
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Duke University Press Primitive Normativity
Book SynopsisElizabeth W. Williams traces the genealogy of a narrative about the primitive normativity of African sexuality that British colonial authorities in Kenya used to justify their control over African populations.Trade Review“Elizabeth W. Williams brings fresh insights from queer theory and Black feminist theory to the study of settler colonialism in East Africa. Through analyzing an expansive set of textual sources, she helpfully introduces discourses of sexual normativity and deviance as key to understanding colonial processes of racial formation and ongoing politics in the region.” -- Lynn M. Thomas, author of * Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya *“Primitive Normativity is a brilliant synthesis of queer theory, colonial history, and African studies. For Elizabeth W. Williams, the ‘strange settler space’ of Kenya depended upon a view of Africans as temporally backward and therefore safe from the dangers of sexually deviant, ‘over-civilized’ Europeans. Nimbly tracing discourses from the colonial archive, Williams offers an assessment of colonial sexuality and power that is as witty as it is incisive and compelling.” -- T. J. Tallie, author of * Queering Colonial Natal: Indigeneity and the Violence of Belonging in Southern Africa *Table of ContentsAbbreviations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Primitive Normativity 1 1. The Intellectual Roots of Primitive Normativity 24 2. Sleeping Dictionaries and Mobile Metropoles: Female (A)Sexuality in the Silberrad Scandal of 1908 42 3. “Stoop Low to Conquer”: Primitive Normativity and Trusteeship in the Kenyan “Indian Crisis” of 1923 69 4. White Peril: Rape, Race, and Contamination 92 5. Queering Settler Romance: The Reparative Eugenic Landscape in Nora Strange’s Kenyan Novels 117 6. Eating the Other: Erotic Consumption in Anti-Mau Mau Discourse 139 Conclusion 163 Notes 169 Bibliography 211 Index 223
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Duke University Press Waiting for the Cool Moon
Book SynopsisWendy Matsumura examines the history of the colonial projects and violence of interwar Japan while critiquing Japan studies' participation of the erasure of this history in its study of the formation of the Japanese nation-state.Trade Review“Waiting for the Cool Moon is rigorous, invigorating, and consequential for how we read, see, study, research, and understand both the history of Japan in the interwar years and history more generally. This hugely impressive book is a magnificent achievement.” -- Rebecca E. Karl, author of * China’s Revolutions in the Modern World: A Brief Interpretive History *“Waiting for the Cool Moon is a fierce, passionate book, one that is as suited to these times as it is to the period it explores. Wendy Matsumura brings a powerful theoretical apparatus to bear: the Marxian analysis of her earlier work is transformed by her intense engagement with the theoretical and comparative work of Black and Indigenous women scholars. The effects of this encounter are profound. By attending to revolutionary practice and acknowledging the pain and sadness of absence, Matsumura locates the urgent ethical commitment of a radical historian. An outstanding critical history.” -- Christopher T. Nelson, author of * Dancing with the Dead: Memory, Performance, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Empire and Oikonomia 17 2. Enclosure and the Community of the Commons 37 3. Buraku Women against Tripled Sufferings 60 4. Housewifization, Invisibilization, and the Myth of the New Small Farm Household 83 5. Interimperial Korean Struggle in Fertilizer’s Global Circuit 108 6. Empire Through the Prism of Phosphate 134 7. Water Struggles in a Colonial City 161 Conclusion. Waiting, Witnessing, Withholding 185 Notes 193 Bibliography 241 Index 261
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New York University Press Women Rising
Book SynopsisGroundbreaking essays by female activists and scholars documenting women's resistance before, during, and after the Arab SpringImages of women protesting in the Arab Spring, from Tahrir Square to the streets of Tunisia and Syria, have become emblematic of the political upheaval sweeping the Middle East and North Africa. In Women Rising, Rita Stephan and Mounira M. Charrad bring together a provocative group of scholars, activists, artists, and more, highlighting the first-hand experiences of these remarkable women. In this relevant and timely volume, Stephan and Charrad paint a picture of women's political resistance in sixteen countries before, during, and since the Arab Spring protests first began in 2011. Contributors provide insight into a diverse range of perspectives across the entire movement, focusing on often-marginalized voices, including rural women, housewives, students, and artists. Women Rising offers an on-the-ground understanding of an important twenty-first century moveTrade ReviewAn amazing, timely, and spectacular contribution to the scholarship on women’s empowerment in the context of the Arab world. The volume brings together works by the field’s most renowned experts. It captures theoretical debates, empirical nuances and a remarkable and sophisticated lens that captures the daily lives and experiences of Arab women. This is a must-read! Stephan and Charrad have assembled a masterpiece! -- Amaney A. Jamal, author of Barriers to Democracy: The Other Side of Social Capital in Palestine and the Arab WorldIn Women Rising, activists, scholars, politicians, and artists tell a compelling story of women’s mobilization before, during, and after the Arab uprising of 2011. Well written and analytically powerful, these essays show us the important role women have played in the struggle for democracy, social justice, and women’s rights across the diverse communities in the region. Pushing the boundaries of the study of feminist resistance, this book will inspire students, scholars, and activists. -- Verta Taylor, co-editor of Feminist FrontiersA rich collection that records the life and efforts of women during a critical point of history for Arab women as they struggle against odds that often seem insurmountable. -- Amira Sonbol, author of The New Mamluks: Egyptian Society and Modern FeudalismThe message of this inspiring collection of personal reflections from Arab women activists of various types is that the Arab Spring is far from over - even bloody civil wars are not extinguishing women’s efforts to be heard in calling for reform, resistance and even revolution! The activist chorus so effectively captured here includes poetry, academic essays, accounts of organizing experiences and political reflections from more or less successfully democratized countries. Each contribution is a striking solo, but they harmonize nicely, pointing together to the variety of roots of women’s rebellions in 2010 and the diversity of blooms still opening since! -- Myra Marx Ferree, author of Varieties of Feminism: German Gender Politics in Global PerspectiveA uniquely stimulating and timely compendium teeming with Arab women’s voices and multiple forms of activism before, during and after the Arab uprisings. Using varied forms of expression, from art and literary production to political commentary, this volume offers a definitive challenge to misrepresentations of Arab women’s agency and their ongoing roles in democratic struggles. -- Deniz Kandiyoti, co-editor of Gender, Governance, and IslamThis exciting and unique collection of essays by Arab activists, politicians, scholars, and others is remarkable in its breadth, covering a wide range of Arab countries and contexts to explore the activism of women before, during and after the Arab Spring uprisings. This important and impressive contribution to the study of women’s activism in the region reveals distinctive features of Arab women’s struggles and the national and local origins of their protests. It shows how women, through their very presence in protests, transformed the relationship of women to public space. Women were emboldened through their organizations; they increased political representation; and made legislative changes. But they also asserted their creative agency through literature, film, street art, the photographic lens, and many other forms of expression. -- Aili Mari Tripp, author of Seeking Legitimacy: Why Arab Autocracies Adopt Women's RightsA welcomed reaffirmation that women have been and successfully continue to work for change as well as a much needed resource for area scholars and those who want to know women can accomplish. * Al Jadid *Delivers theoretical and empirical insights to the field of Middle East, gender and women’s studies. Stephan and Charrad bring together different stories of resistances and diverse voices of change and thus challenge essentialist and ahistorical readings of women and gender in the region. * Comparative Politics *For educators teaching about the region, selections from the anthology are an excellent source of potential course material ... The editors have done a truly impressive job of collating work by a wide range of individuals writing about a large number of countries. * The Middle East Journal *Through a reading of Women Rising, one can observe how Arab women’s activism has repositioned following the Arab Spring and increasingly, Arab women are using new modes of mobilizing and organizing to better represent themselves and simultaneously, upset normative ideas of Arab women. This in itself is a reclamation of Arab women’s identity, which as this volume clearly indicates, is not a monolith. * Journal of International Women's Studies *
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