Social and cultural anthropology Books
Duke University Press The Value of Comparison
Book SynopsisIn The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations.Trade Review"The Value of Comparison gives a rather unflinching critique of Western cultural assumptions while firmly seated in the very field it scrutinizes. . . . [Van der Veer] does not merely critique traditional methods and pathways of analysis used in sociological research, but offers concrete examples and discussions where a more nuanced and complex comparative method can be applied and produce better results." -- Juli L. Gittinger * Reading Religion *“Self-consciously intent on fragmenting certainty, Peter van der Veer makes a very convincing case for the productive instability and provocative inconclusiveness of definitive conclusions. As all good books do, this one opens outward to suggest as many questions as it answers.” -- Joseph S. Alter * Pacific Affairs *"Van der Veer’s project is not to tell the origin stories of anthropology, but look to the future where the comparative anthropological lens will focus on crucial sociocultural ‘fragments’ to dismantle the logic of Western modernity and rationality. This informative and theoretically sophisticated work will serve as an important reckoner to that end." -- Debjani Chakravarty * International Sociology *"[A] fresh and lucid text. . . . Putting comparison back on the agenda is timely and necessary not only for organizing our research projects but also for finding a way out of the partly imposed and partly self-chosen relative isolation in which anthropologists often find themselves in academia and public debate." -- Birgit Meyer * HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *"I challenge any reader not to come away from it feeling both wiser and better informed about its empirical subject matter, and invigorated about the pragmatic power of anthropological comparison." -- Matei Candea * HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *Table of ContentsForeword / Thomas Gibson vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Fragment and the Whole 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48 Part II. Civilization and Comparison 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61 4. The Afterlife of Images 80 Part III. Comparing Exclusion 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130 A Short Conclusion 147 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 183
£74.70
Duke University Press Plastic Bodies
Book SynopsisIn Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how sex hormones are enrolled to create, mold, and discipline social relations and subjectivities. She shows how hormones have become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity. Through interviews with women and doctors; observations in clinics, research centers and pharmacies; and analyses of contraceptive marketing, Sanabria traces the genealogy of menstrual suppression, from its use in population control strategies in the global South to its remarketing as a practice of pharmaceutical self-enhancement couched in neoliberal notions of choice. She links the widespread practice of menstrual suppression and other related elective medical interventions to Bahian views of the body as a malleable object that requires constant work. Given this bodily plasticity, and its potentially limitless character, the book considers ways to assess the values attribuTrade Review"Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies is a captivating book and a much needed study on perceptions on menstruation and associated biomedical practices. . . . Plastic Bodies is a pleasure to read; it is beautifully written and has a style that at times merges with the genre of travel writing enabling readers to accompany Sanabria to Salvador de Bahia where she conducted her fieldwork." -- Ángela Lavilla Cañedo * Centre for Medical Humanities *"Clearly written and engaging, Plastic Bodies will make an excellent addition to both graduate and undergraduate reading lists, in particular in courses on the anthropology of the body, reproduction, and science and technology studies. It will also be of interest to those who teach courses on Brazil and the Brazilian Northeast region." -- K. Eliza Williamson * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Plastic Bodies is a timely and exhilarating project that contributes to a constellation of emergent, multidisciplinary, feminist scholarship about bodies, hormones, biopolitics, and materiality." -- E. Hella Tsaconas * Feminist Formations *"Rich in ethnographic detail and rigorous in interpretation, Plastic Bodies is a deeply researched, complex, and innovative exploration of an important topic.... [T]his book is a fascinating analysis of gender, the medicalization of the body, and the socialization of biochemistry that has wide applicability across disciplines." -- Okezi T. Otovo * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Sanabria’s work is innovative and inventive, responding to the impacts of neomaterialism, feminist studies of science and the “ontological turn” in anthropology. Instead of taking the bodies’ frontiers for granted, Sanabria prefers to focus on the very process of their making. This is a great contribution to contemporary studies of the body." -- Daniela Tonelli Manica * Somatosphere *"Plastic Bodies is an extraordinary monograph, produced from a decade of careful engagement with techniques of place-making, othering, and ethnographic theory. Anthropology at its very best, this is work that makes evident the plasticity of the binary. Through gripping stories of the self in the other, the here in the there, nature in artifice, and the beauty in mess, readers come to understand that binaries are always socially made." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * Somatosphere *"A highly readable and sophisticated ethnography, Plastic Bodies will appeal to scholars in the fields of Brazilian studies, women and gender studies, global health, science and technology studies, and pharmaceutical anthropology." -- José Amador * The Latin Americanist *"Sanabria has produced a subtle, well-researched and beautifully written book that could be used in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, the Sociology or Anthropology of Health and Medicine and the Globalization of Sexuality and Gender." -- Rafael de la Dehesa * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Plastic Bodies is nuanced and richly detailed. . . . It delivers everything it promises." -- Andrea Ford * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"Convincingly argued and engaging, Plastic Bodies is an ethnography that would work well in a variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, exploring reproduction, medicine, the body, gender, science and technology studies, health policies and inequalities, or in courses focusing on Latin America or Brazil specifically." -- Karolina Kuberska * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Plastic Bodies 1 1. Managing the Inside, Out: Menstrual Blood and Bodily Dys-Appearance 43 2. Is Menstruation Natural? Contemporary Rationales of Menstrual Management 71 3. Sexing Hormones 105 4. Hormonal Biopolitics: From Population Control to Self-Control 129 5. Sex Hormones: Making Drugs, Forging Efficacies 159 Conclusion. Limits That Do Not Foreclose 187 Notes 207 References 223 Index 241
£76.50
Duke University Press Endangered City
Book SynopsisSecurity and risk have become central to how cities are planned, built, governed, and inhabited in the twenty-first century. In Endangered City, Austin Zeiderman focuses on this new political imperative to govern the present in anticipation of future harm. Through ethnographic fieldwork and archival research in Bogotá, Colombia, he examines how state actors work to protect the lives of poor and vulnerable citizens from a range of threats, including environmental hazards and urban violence. By following both the governmental agencies charged with this mandate and the subjects governed by it, Endangered City reveals what happens when logics of endangerment shape the terrain of political engagement between citizens and the state. The self-built settlements of Bogotá’s urban periphery prove a critical site from which to examine the rising effect of security and risk on contemporary cities and urban life.Trade Review"Endangered City offers crucial insights into the contingent and localized assemblage and deployment of security frameworks both as technologies of governance and as platforms for citizen claims. By exploring environmental risk, the book persuasively shows how security logics mutate and are hybridized, continually opening new fields for intervention and mobilization, but also reinscribing securitized conceptions of authority and citizenship." -- Federico Pérez * Anthropological Quarterly *"A comprehensive book we have long owed Bogotá, Endangered City provides an interdisciplinary perspective that is historical, ethnographic, and spatially rich. Appealing to different audiences, including urban planners, risk experts, policy makers, students, and urban geographers, the book offers a de-centered view of urban theory and constitutes an important contribution to critical understandings of security. Moreover, I think this is a recommended reading in uncertain and frustrating times." -- Diana Ojeda * Society & Space *"Zeiderman provides a vivid portrayal of everyday life in Bogota.... The depth of empirical detail is the strength of the book, which convincingly makes the case that more urban ethnographies are needed, especially in geography. Yet, this empirical specificity is also effortlessly interwoven with more general theoretical discussions, questions, and implications in critical urban studies and beyond." -- Matthew B. Anderson * Social & Cultural Geography *"Endangered City is an important contribution to contemporary urban studies and risk management via its nuanced unpacking of critical theory and as a well‐crafted ethnography of endangerment.... The text is well organized, eschewing excessive jargon and thus suitable for both undergraduates and graduates, as well as critical social theorists, Latin Americanists, and those concerned with urban policy, planning, and practice in the new millennium where the dominance of first world models can no longer be assumed for the global South." -- Marilyn Gates * Population, Space and Place *"Endangered City is an original and valuable contribution to scholarship and should be consulted by all students of politics and security in Latin America." -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Security and Risk 1 1. Apocalypse Foretold 33 2. On Shaky Ground 63 3. Genealogies of Endangerment 93 4. Living Dangerously 131 5. Securing the Future 161 Conclusion. Millennial Cities 193 Coda 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 247 Index 269
£80.10
Duke University Press Cold War Ruins
Book SynopsisLisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.Trade Review"Yoneyama critically analyses the normative discourses surrounding Japanese wartime criminality and exposes how the Cold War power relations between Japan and the US continue to influence the terms in which international redress culture is enacted. The book offers a highly critical dissection of the political sensitivities of the post-Cold War era in the Japanese context. . . ." -- Teemu Laulainen * LSE Review of Books *"Readers interested in geopolitical spheres beyond Asia Pacific should find Yoneyama’s approach to transnational cultural critique useful in exposing institutionalized forgetting in a wide variety of situations.... Given the metastasizing violence throughout the post-9/11 world, we can only hope that the methodologies and commitment to unflinching critical analysis evident in Cold War Ruins will find a wide audience." -- Geoffrey White * American Ethnologist *"At a time when no single narrative can now monopolize the 'truth,' a global memory culture is coalescing around a human rights discourse that also monopolizes its own 'truth' originating in the West. Yoneyama's work is a valuable reminder that a multilayered perspective is crucial to discerning the political exploitation of such a paradigm as well." -- Akiko Hashimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *“Tracking ruins across the longue durée of the twentieth century, this impressive study explores the historical forces that have delimited the possibilities for justice for survivors of colonial and military violence in Asia and the Pacific. . . . The methodological and analytical depth of Cold War Ruins provides an exemplary transnational approach to the study of historical justice, which should appeal broadly to researchers and graduate students.” -- Wendy Kozol * Journal of American History *“Cold War Ruins is an innovative and provocative work. It contextualizes and builds connections between a host of thorny issues often receiving separate treatment. . . . A book filled with new questions and fresh answers about facing the past.” -- Dayna Barnes * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Cold War Ruins takes readers beyond polities, geographies, histories, spaces, and times: a book of rare interdisciplinarity and range. Yoneyama has completed a work of fierce advocacy, abstract reasoning, and historical merit. . . . Yoneyama’s most important contribution is connecting post-war Occupation policies to the myth of US exceptionalism . . . The reader is left painfully aware of justice’s ephemerality, yet inspired by human resilience." -- James Burnham Sedgwick * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability 1 Part I. Space of Occupation 1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa 43 2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women 81 Part II. Transnational Memory Borders 3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms 111 4. Contagious Justice: Asian/America 147 5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge 177 Epilogue 203 Acknowledgments 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 285 Index 307
£98.60
Duke University Press Activist Archives
Book SynopsisDoreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth.Trade Review"... the main strength of Activist Archives is that it raises important questions by not providing all the answers. In this way, it invites frequent re-reading, creating a richer understanding of the micropolitics of student activism upon each re-read." -- Yatun Sastramidjaja * Contemporary Southeast Asia *“Activist Archives can be called a definitive work that will be prized as perhaps the best ‘biography’ of a generation of Indonesian urban activism.” -- Abidin Kusno * Pacific Affairs *“Activist Archives is an important exploration of the 1998 Indonesian student movement and its ongoing influence, adding greatly to our knowledge of student movements and democratization in postcolonial settings.” -- Rachel Rinaldo * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Activist Archives undoubtedly offers us a new approach to the analysis of Reformasi, student and youth politics in the recent history of Indonesia. It provides new insights, enriched via an extensive use of fieldwork and archival material." -- John G. Taylor * Asian Affairs *“Activist Archives is undoubtedly a significant contribution to the anthropological analysis of youths and political culture in modern Indonesian history.” -- Farabi Fakih * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“A valuable expansion. Activist Archives should be of interest to students and other scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the ephemerality and endurance of democratic transitions.” -- Mary E. McCoy * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii A Note about Names xvii Introduction. Pemuda Fever 1 1. Archive 25 2. Street 57 3. Style 85 4. Violence 117 5. Home 147 6. Democracy 179 Conclusion. A Return to Home 209 Notes 219 Bibliography 247 Index 269
£76.50
Duke University Press Real Pigs
Book SynopsisIn Real Pigs Brad Weiss traces the desire for creating "authentic" local foods in the Piedmont region of central North Carolina as he follows farmers, butchers, and chefs as they breed, raise, butcher, market, sell, and prepare their pasture-raised hogs for consumption.Trade Review"Because each example of food-centered action is fraught with contradictions, ambiguities and paradoxes, Weiss’s descriptions are appropriately rich and multidimensional to portray those complexities. . . . Brad Weiss invites us to hear the voices of the people involved from all directions." -- Paul Durrenberger * Bronislaw Magazine *"While Real Pigs would be scintillating for anyone interested in the recent rise of the local-food movement, for anthropologists who study food, especially in the United States, it should be required reading. It provides a welcome model for how to integrate the production, circulation, and consumption of food into a single analysis. The book is accessibly written and would be appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses on the anthropology of food or economic anthropology and graduate courses on the same topics, as well as those on the anthropology of the United States. It would work well in courses on ethnographic research methods, too, because it provides a laudable example of research across multiple fields as well as an innovative way to highlight research participants’ views." -- Jillian R. Cavanaugh * American Anthropologist *"Real Pigs will be of interest to practitioners who are developing new markets, with its biographical stories of the people who are building the connections and its portrait of how taste is constructed in place. Making pigs local, according to Weiss, involves animal husbandry, marketing strategies, and social networking. Yet he is sensitive to the cosmopolitan values that inform 'locality.' The book will be of interest also to those who are exploring how markets are built and sustained over time, and how complex relationships support often precarious niche markets and foodways." -- Sarah J. Martin * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development *"Weiss’s ethnography is genuinely readable and, without intending to insult the ethnographer as to the intricacy of his craftsmanship, Real Pigs makes an ideal text through which to engage with undergraduates. Written in plain English, introducing holistic ethnography, participant-observation and ethnographic interviews, the theory is neither overwhelming nor underwhelming in measure." -- Adele Millard * Anthropological Forum *"While much has been written about food systems and small-scale agriculture, Real Pigs is a striking portrait of contemporary debates about food systems from the perspectives of those mostly deeply engaged in one particular system." -- Ashley Stinnett * American Ethnologist *"Ethnography can show how the things people think of as natural are shaped by history, politics, and culture. This is probably most difficult when the ethnographer is working in their own society and when their readers are most likely going to be the natives themselves. The fact that Weiss mostly succeeds in this challenge is one of the most remarkable aspects of this book. . . . Essential reading for food studies scholars, as well as for anthropologists interested in some of the more interesting recent theoretical debates noted above." -- David Beriss * Journal of Anthropological Research *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction 1 1. Pigs on the Ground 21 Profile: Eliza MacLean Profile: John O'Sullivan 2. Pigs in a Local Place 59 Profile: Sarah Blacklin Profile: Jennifer Curtis 3. Heritage, Hybrids, Breeds, and Brands 107 Profile: Will Cramer Profile: Ross Flynn 4. Pigs in Parts 155 Profile: Kevin Callaghan 5. A Taste for Fat 187 Profile: Vimala Rajendran Profile: Sam Suchoff 6. Farm to Fork, Snout to Tail 219 Conclusion. Authentic Connections 243 Notes 255 References 265 Index 277
£25.19
Duke University Press The Value of Comparison
Book SynopsisIn The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer highlights anthropology's continuing ability to gain insights on the whole through the comparative study of the particular and unique while critiquing the quantitative social sciences for their sweeping generalizations.Trade Review"The Value of Comparison gives a rather unflinching critique of Western cultural assumptions while firmly seated in the very field it scrutinizes. . . . [Van der Veer] does not merely critique traditional methods and pathways of analysis used in sociological research, but offers concrete examples and discussions where a more nuanced and complex comparative method can be applied and produce better results." -- Juli L. Gittinger * Reading Religion *“Self-consciously intent on fragmenting certainty, Peter van der Veer makes a very convincing case for the productive instability and provocative inconclusiveness of definitive conclusions. As all good books do, this one opens outward to suggest as many questions as it answers.” -- Joseph S. Alter * Pacific Affairs *"Van der Veer’s project is not to tell the origin stories of anthropology, but look to the future where the comparative anthropological lens will focus on crucial sociocultural ‘fragments’ to dismantle the logic of Western modernity and rationality. This informative and theoretically sophisticated work will serve as an important reckoner to that end." -- Debjani Chakravarty * International Sociology *"[A] fresh and lucid text. . . . Putting comparison back on the agenda is timely and necessary not only for organizing our research projects but also for finding a way out of the partly imposed and partly self-chosen relative isolation in which anthropologists often find themselves in academia and public debate." -- Birgit Meyer * HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *"I challenge any reader not to come away from it feeling both wiser and better informed about its empirical subject matter, and invigorated about the pragmatic power of anthropological comparison." -- Matei Candea * HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory *Table of ContentsForeword / Thomas Gibson vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Part I. The Fragment and the Whole 1. The Comparative Advantage of Anthropology 25 2. Market and Money: A Critique of Rational Choice Theory 48 Part II. Civilization and Comparison 3. Keeping the Muslims Out: Concepts of Civilization, Civility, and Civil Society in India, China, and Western Europe 61 4. The Afterlife of Images 80 Part III. Comparing Exclusion 5. Lost in the Mountains: Notes on Diversity in the Southeast Asian Mainland Massif 107 6. Who Cares? Care Arrangements and Sanitation for the Poor in India and Elsewhere 130 A Short Conclusion 147 Notes 155 Bibliography 171 Index 183
£22.79
Duke University Press Plastic Bodies
Book SynopsisIn Plastic Bodies Emilia Sanabria examines how women's use of sex hormones in Bahia, Brazil for menstrual suppression shapes social relations, having become central to contemporary understandings of the body, class, gender, sex, personhood, modernity, and Brazilian national identity.Trade Review"Emilia Sanabria’s Plastic Bodies is a captivating book and a much needed study on perceptions on menstruation and associated biomedical practices. . . . Plastic Bodies is a pleasure to read; it is beautifully written and has a style that at times merges with the genre of travel writing enabling readers to accompany Sanabria to Salvador de Bahia where she conducted her fieldwork." -- Ángela Lavilla Cañedo * Centre for Medical Humanities *"Clearly written and engaging, Plastic Bodies will make an excellent addition to both graduate and undergraduate reading lists, in particular in courses on the anthropology of the body, reproduction, and science and technology studies. It will also be of interest to those who teach courses on Brazil and the Brazilian Northeast region." -- K. Eliza Williamson * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Plastic Bodies is a timely and exhilarating project that contributes to a constellation of emergent, multidisciplinary, feminist scholarship about bodies, hormones, biopolitics, and materiality." -- E. Hella Tsaconas * Feminist Formations *"Rich in ethnographic detail and rigorous in interpretation, Plastic Bodies is a deeply researched, complex, and innovative exploration of an important topic.... [T]his book is a fascinating analysis of gender, the medicalization of the body, and the socialization of biochemistry that has wide applicability across disciplines." -- Okezi T. Otovo * Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Sanabria’s work is innovative and inventive, responding to the impacts of neomaterialism, feminist studies of science and the “ontological turn” in anthropology. Instead of taking the bodies’ frontiers for granted, Sanabria prefers to focus on the very process of their making. This is a great contribution to contemporary studies of the body." -- Daniela Tonelli Manica * Somatosphere *"Plastic Bodies is an extraordinary monograph, produced from a decade of careful engagement with techniques of place-making, othering, and ethnographic theory. Anthropology at its very best, this is work that makes evident the plasticity of the binary. Through gripping stories of the self in the other, the here in the there, nature in artifice, and the beauty in mess, readers come to understand that binaries are always socially made." -- Emily Yates-Doerr * Somatosphere *"A highly readable and sophisticated ethnography, Plastic Bodies will appeal to scholars in the fields of Brazilian studies, women and gender studies, global health, science and technology studies, and pharmaceutical anthropology." -- José Amador * The Latin Americanist *"Sanabria has produced a subtle, well-researched and beautifully written book that could be used in graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Science and Technology Studies, Latin American Studies, the Sociology or Anthropology of Health and Medicine and the Globalization of Sexuality and Gender." -- Rafael de la Dehesa * International Feminist Journal of Politics *"Plastic Bodies is nuanced and richly detailed. . . . It delivers everything it promises." -- Andrea Ford * Medicine Anthropology Theory *"Convincingly argued and engaging, Plastic Bodies is an ethnography that would work well in a variety of both undergraduate and graduate courses in anthropology, exploring reproduction, medicine, the body, gender, science and technology studies, health policies and inequalities, or in courses focusing on Latin America or Brazil specifically." -- Karolina Kuberska * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Plastic Bodies 1 1. Managing the Inside, Out: Menstrual Blood and Bodily Dys-Appearance 43 2. Is Menstruation Natural? Contemporary Rationales of Menstrual Management 71 3. Sexing Hormones 105 4. Hormonal Biopolitics: From Population Control to Self-Control 129 5. Sex Hormones: Making Drugs, Forging Efficacies 159 Conclusion. Limits That Do Not Foreclose 187 Notes 207 References 223 Index 241
£25.19
Duke University Press Endangered City
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Endangered City offers crucial insights into the contingent and localized assemblage and deployment of security frameworks both as technologies of governance and as platforms for citizen claims. By exploring environmental risk, the book persuasively shows how security logics mutate and are hybridized, continually opening new fields for intervention and mobilization, but also reinscribing securitized conceptions of authority and citizenship." -- Federico Pérez * Anthropological Quarterly *"A comprehensive book we have long owed Bogotá, Endangered City provides an interdisciplinary perspective that is historical, ethnographic, and spatially rich. Appealing to different audiences, including urban planners, risk experts, policy makers, students, and urban geographers, the book offers a de-centered view of urban theory and constitutes an important contribution to critical understandings of security. Moreover, I think this is a recommended reading in uncertain and frustrating times." -- Diana Ojeda * Society & Space *"Zeiderman provides a vivid portrayal of everyday life in Bogota.... The depth of empirical detail is the strength of the book, which convincingly makes the case that more urban ethnographies are needed, especially in geography. Yet, this empirical specificity is also effortlessly interwoven with more general theoretical discussions, questions, and implications in critical urban studies and beyond." -- Matthew B. Anderson * Social & Cultural Geography *"Endangered City is an important contribution to contemporary urban studies and risk management via its nuanced unpacking of critical theory and as a well‐crafted ethnography of endangerment.... The text is well organized, eschewing excessive jargon and thus suitable for both undergraduates and graduates, as well as critical social theorists, Latin Americanists, and those concerned with urban policy, planning, and practice in the new millennium where the dominance of first world models can no longer be assumed for the global South." -- Marilyn Gates * Population, Space and Place *"Endangered City is an original and valuable contribution to scholarship and should be consulted by all students of politics and security in Latin America." -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Politics of Security and Risk 1 1. Apocalypse Foretold 33 2. On Shaky Ground 63 3. Genealogies of Endangerment 93 4. Living Dangerously 131 5. Securing the Future 161 Conclusion. Millennial Cities 193 Coda 209 Notes 213 Bibliography 247 Index 269
£25.19
Duke University Press Cold War Ruins
Book SynopsisLisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture" that has the potential to bring powerful challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.Trade Review"Yoneyama critically analyses the normative discourses surrounding Japanese wartime criminality and exposes how the Cold War power relations between Japan and the US continue to influence the terms in which international redress culture is enacted. The book offers a highly critical dissection of the political sensitivities of the post-Cold War era in the Japanese context. . . ." -- Teemu Laulainen * LSE Review of Books *"Readers interested in geopolitical spheres beyond Asia Pacific should find Yoneyama’s approach to transnational cultural critique useful in exposing institutionalized forgetting in a wide variety of situations.... Given the metastasizing violence throughout the post-9/11 world, we can only hope that the methodologies and commitment to unflinching critical analysis evident in Cold War Ruins will find a wide audience." -- Geoffrey White * American Ethnologist *"At a time when no single narrative can now monopolize the 'truth,' a global memory culture is coalescing around a human rights discourse that also monopolizes its own 'truth' originating in the West. Yoneyama's work is a valuable reminder that a multilayered perspective is crucial to discerning the political exploitation of such a paradigm as well." -- Akiko Hashimoto * Monumenta Nipponica *“Tracking ruins across the longue durée of the twentieth century, this impressive study explores the historical forces that have delimited the possibilities for justice for survivors of colonial and military violence in Asia and the Pacific. . . . The methodological and analytical depth of Cold War Ruins provides an exemplary transnational approach to the study of historical justice, which should appeal broadly to researchers and graduate students.” -- Wendy Kozol * Journal of American History *“Cold War Ruins is an innovative and provocative work. It contextualizes and builds connections between a host of thorny issues often receiving separate treatment. . . . A book filled with new questions and fresh answers about facing the past.” -- Dayna Barnes * Journal of American-East Asian Relations *"Cold War Ruins takes readers beyond polities, geographies, histories, spaces, and times: a book of rare interdisciplinarity and range. Yoneyama has completed a work of fierce advocacy, abstract reasoning, and historical merit. . . . Yoneyama’s most important contribution is connecting post-war Occupation policies to the myth of US exceptionalism . . . The reader is left painfully aware of justice’s ephemerality, yet inspired by human resilience." -- James Burnham Sedgwick * Pacific Affairs *Table of ContentsPreface vii Introduction. Transpacific Cold War Formations and the Question of (Un)Redressability 1 Part I. Space of Occupation 1. Liminal Justice: Okinawa 43 2. Liberation under Siege: Japanese Women 81 Part II. Transnational Memory Borders 3. Sovereignty, Apology, Forgiveness: Revisionisms 111 4. Contagious Justice: Asian/America 147 5. Complicit Amnesia: For Transformative Knowledge 177 Epilogue 203 Acknowledgments 215 Notes 225 Bibliography 285 Index 307
£25.19
Duke University Press Activist Archives Youth Culture and the
Book SynopsisDoreen Lee tells the origin, experiences, and legacy of the radical Indonesian student movement that helped end Suharto's thirty-two year dictatorship in May of 1998, showing how student activists claimed their rich political and historical inheritance passed down by earlier generations of activist youth.Trade Review"... the main strength of Activist Archives is that it raises important questions by not providing all the answers. In this way, it invites frequent re-reading, creating a richer understanding of the micropolitics of student activism upon each re-read." -- Yatun Sastramidjaja * Contemporary Southeast Asia *“Activist Archives can be called a definitive work that will be prized as perhaps the best ‘biography’ of a generation of Indonesian urban activism.” -- Abidin Kusno * Pacific Affairs *“Activist Archives is an important exploration of the 1998 Indonesian student movement and its ongoing influence, adding greatly to our knowledge of student movements and democratization in postcolonial settings.” -- Rachel Rinaldo * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Activist Archives undoubtedly offers us a new approach to the analysis of Reformasi, student and youth politics in the recent history of Indonesia. It provides new insights, enriched via an extensive use of fieldwork and archival material." -- John G. Taylor * Asian Affairs *“Activist Archives is undoubtedly a significant contribution to the anthropological analysis of youths and political culture in modern Indonesian history.” -- Farabi Fakih * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“A valuable expansion. Activist Archives should be of interest to students and other scholars from a range of disciplines concerned with the ephemerality and endurance of democratic transitions.” -- Mary E. McCoy * Journal of Asian Studies *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii A Note about Names xvii Introduction. Pemuda Fever 1 1. Archive 25 2. Street 57 3. Style 85 4. Violence 117 5. Home 147 6. Democracy 179 Conclusion. A Return to Home 209 Notes 219 Bibliography 247 Index 269
£25.19
Duke University Press Ghost Protocol
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.Trade Review"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." -- Fang Xu * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." -- Ellen R. Judd * American Ethnologist *“Given its multidisciplinary background, [Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” -- Meisen Wong * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas 1 Part I. Urbanization 1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester 15 2. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser 36 3. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges 62 Part II. Structural Reconfigurations 4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt 87 5. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 109 6. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang 131 7. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng 150 Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities 8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel 167 9. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger 191 10. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas 205 References 225 Contributors 243 Index 247
£98.60
Duke University Press Ghost Protocol Development and Displacement in
Book SynopsisThis volume's contributors examine the ways the legacies of socialism continue to shape and inform China's capitalist present, contending that contemporary China is shaped by an overlapping mix of socialist and capitalist institutional strategies, political procedures, legal regulations, religious rituals, and everyday practices.Trade Review"This book is an invaluable resource for students and scholars in anthropology, sociology, political science, and cultural studies, or for readers interested in post-socialism, China studies, and migration studies in general." -- Fang Xu * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Ghost Protocol is an important volume that is grounded in solid research and that contributes provocative challenges to received wisdom and even to received counterwisdom." -- Ellen R. Judd * American Ethnologist *“Given its multidisciplinary background, [Ghost Protocol] will not only appeal to scholars of Chinese studies, but researchers who wish to be have an informed take on the variety of substantive issues covered as well.” -- Meisen Wong * Asian Journal of Social Science *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction. Specters of Marx, Shades of Mao, and the Ghosts of Global Capital / Carlos Rojas 1 Part I. Urbanization 1. Traces of the Future: Beijing's Politics of Emergence / Yomi Braester 15 2. The Chinese Eco-City and Suburbanization Planning: Case Studies of Tongzhou, Lingang, and Dujiangyan / Robin Visser 36 3. Hegel's Portfolio: Real Estate and Consciousness in Contemporary Shanghai / Alexander Des Forges 62 Part II. Structural Reconfigurations 4. Dams, Displacement, and the Moral Economy in Southwest China / Bryan Tilt 87 5. Slaughter Renunciation in Tibetan Pastoral Areas: Buddhism, Neoliberalism, and the Ironies of Alternative Development / Kabzung and Emily T. Yeh / 109 6. "You've Got to Rely on Yourself . . . and the State!": A Structural Chasm in the Chinese Political Moral Order / Biao Xiang 131 7. Queer Reflections and Recursion in Homoerotic Bildungsroman / Rachel Leng 150 Part III. Migration and Shifting Identities 8. Temporal-Spatial Migration: Workers in Transnational Supply-Chain Factories / Lisa Rofel 167 9. Regimes of Exclusion and Inclusion: Migrant Labor, Education, and Contested Futurities / Ralph Litzinger 191 10. "I Am Great Leap Liu!": Circuits of Labor, Information, and Identity in Contemporary China / Carlos Rojas 205 References 225 Contributors 243 Index 247
£25.19
Duke University Press Animate Planet
Book SynopsisKath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.Trade Review"The complexity of these readings promotes compassion but also a richer understanding of how humanity inhabits our world. We cannot predict the new directions in which our affects may take us. Through such precarity, and the intimacies, animacies, and enchantments accompanying it, Weston reframes the debates on which the health of our animate planet depends." -- Patricia Wald * Critical Inquiry *"This sophisticated political ecology reveals how the reciprocal impacts between humans and the environment through industrial technology have become intimate and animate in unprecedented ways. The insightful analysis of cases from India, Japan, and the US are thought-provoking perspectives on the environmental resource categories of climate, energy, food, and water. Recommended." -- L.E. Sponsel * Choice *"The question that pervades the book – how can humanity deal with the paradox of being the cause of its own destruction and yet not know how to stop doing so? – is fundamentally important to the way we live in the world today, and one we struggle to look at. For this reason alone, Animate Planet is important, and to some degree a must-read." -- Stephanie Bunn * Times Higher Education *"The merit of Weston’s argumentative thrust lies in consistently highlighting the affective attachments people develop towards the things that harm them.... Positioning questions of affect and desire in this way at the heart of life in a technologically damaged world, Weston opens up a field of inquiry that is as conceptually exciting as it is politically urgent." -- Marlene Schäfers * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“[Animate Planet] nudge[s] the field of political ecology toward a greater exploration of the embodied and affective ties that bind humans and other living entities with the technologies of late capitalism.” -- Teresa Lloro-Bidart * American Ethnologist *“Contributing to fields such as science and technology studies, philosophy, political economy, anthropology, environmental studies, and ecology, Animate Planet is a fascinating read and well suited for a graduate seminar in any of these fields. . . .” -- Garrett Bunyak * Quarterly Review of Biology *"Animate Planet succeeds in making an argument for bridging categories to think about the consequences of modernity and the intimacies it produces. Animate Planet could be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars." -- Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
£98.60
Duke University Press Now Peru Is Mine
Book SynopsisNow Peru is Mine is the account of the life of Manuel Llamojha Mitma, one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists. His compelling life story covers nearly eight decades, providing a window into many key developments in Peru's tumultuous twentieth-century history and political mobilization in Cold War Latin America.Trade Review"Heilman has made a significant contribution to the literature by bringing Llamojha's story to a broad audience. . . . [T]he book works equally as well for general audiences or undergraduate classrooms as for specialists seeking thoughtful reflections on the political uses of identity. . . . Highly recommended. All levels/libraries." -- M. Becker * Choice *"The book is well-written and illustrated with photographs, excerpts from Llamojha's writings, and maps of the area of his activity.... Now Peru is Mine is a useful tool for learning about Peru's politics and history over the last century." -- William O. Deaver, Jr. * Journal of Global South Studies *"Now Peru is Mine is a major academic, intellectual and editorial success. Every specialist and student of Latin America, the Andes and Peru will enjoy this book. This is an exemplary study of how a single life illustrates the complexities of a century." -- Javier Puente * Journal of Latin American Studies *"This is a moving and fascinating account of indigenous activism in a turbulent era that will be of great value to historians and political scientists seeking to understand the motives and sacrifices of those at the heart of their disciplines." -- Eugene Carey * Latin American Review of Books *"We follow this gripping story of travail and turmoil through Llamojha’s simple, but heartfelt narrative, guided by Heilman’s skilled interviewing, as it unfolds on multiple fronts—local, regional and international. . . . Indeed a unique and worthy contribution that helps fill a large void in the historiography of the second half of the twentieth century." -- Peter Klarén * The Americas *“By writing this important book, Heilman and Llamojha have provided general readers, college students, and specialists alike the chance to find both learning and inspiration in the life story of a contemporary Peruvian activist.” -- G. Antonio Espinoza * Ethnohistory *“Now Peru Is Mine succeeds in offering a highly accessible and instructive account for students of Latin America and Peru specialists. One hopes that many readers get to know Llamojha Mitma and that his life story might serve to inspire new scholarship and new struggles.” -- Joseph P. Feldman * Hispanic American Historical Review *“A highly accessible book that provides unique insights on Peruvian society and politics.” -- Dan Cozart * The Latin Americanist *"This book is a handsome contribution to scholarship on Indigenous activists, their historical context, and the activist intellectual role in the Andes. . . . [Now Peru Is Mine] is an excellent piece to teach Modern Latin America and other courses on Indigenous peoples’ history in the Americas." -- Waskar T. Ari-Chachaki * Native American and Indigenous Studies *Table of ContentsA Note on Place ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. "I'm Going to Be President of the Republic": The Formation of an Activist, 1921-1948 19 2. "I Made the Hacendados Tremble": Defending Jhajhamarka Campesinos, 1948-1952 41 3. "Jail Was Like My Home": Fighting for Concepción, 1952-1961 65 4. For Justice, Land, and Liberty: National and International Leadership, 1961-1968 99 5. "Everything Was Division": Political Marginalization, 1968-1980 131 6. A Wound That Won't Heal: Political Violence, Displacement, and Loss, 1980-2000 153 Afterword. "You Have to Stand Firm": The Elderly Activist, 200-2015 175 Notes 189 Bibliography 217 Index 229
£76.50
Duke University Press Gramscis Common Sense
Book SynopsisKate Crehan applies Antonio Gramsci's concepts of subalternity, intellectuals, and common sense to offer new ways to understand the many forms that structural inequality can take and the relationships between the experience of inequality, exploitation, and oppression as well as the construction of political narratives.Trade Review"Kate Crehan’s new book on Antonio Gramsci’s work is an astute and accessible text that attempts to connect his ideas to current events in the United States. Staying true to the Gramscian spirit, Crehan spends the first four chapters contextualizing both his life and his work in order to show how his ideas evolved. Crehan then spends several chapters showing why these ideas remain useful in today’s world; as Gramsci would have wanted, knowledge should be used for social change, not for the sake of knowing alone. What is most striking about the book is the lucid and engaging way in which Crehan writes." -- Sara Salem * Antipode *"Crehan has produced a felicitous and profound intervention that could inform our understanding of both intellectual and political change. In 2016, as a new senso comune begins to develop in an age of ‘post-truth’ politics, Gramsci’s ideas are more timely than ever." -- Marcos González Hernando * LSE US Centre Blog *"Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives, through its analysis of class, subalternity and intellectuals, extensively engages with the Prison Notebooks, offering new ways to describe the different practices that structural inequality can assume through race, gender, sexual orientation and religion in our globalised-capitalist society." -- Mauro Di Lullo * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"It is because Crehan’s book is that good: that prescient, that well written, and that strong of an interpretation of Gramsci’s relevance for our times that it should be read across disciplines, by activists, politically engaged artists, filmmakers, and any cultural worker, critic, or analyst who finds themselves feeling cut off from the world at this point in our current conjuncture." -- Robert Carley * Lateral *"An elegantly written and accessible examination of the meaning of concepts within Gramsci's notebooks." -- Max Shock * Political Studies Review *"Crehan shows at every turn the interpretative, intellectual, and political relevance of Gramsci’s ideas to an understanding of the contemporary moment in and beyond the US." -- Claudio Sopranzetti * Anthropological Quarterly *"The most positive aspect of [Crehan's] critical assessment of this rather difficult-to-understand author, especially for those reading him in English translation, is the lucidity of her text and her ability to make the reader understand even complex ideas in a direct fashion. . . . An important book for all who are attempting to understand inequality as a social phenomenon." -- Subhadra Mitra Channa * Anthropological Notebooks *"A welcome addition to the existing body of knowledge on the question of inequality and the experience of subaltern sections of the contemporary globalised world. . . . A must read reference for scholars and students of anthropology, sociology, tribal/indigenous studies, area studies and development studies." -- Kasi Eswarappa * Capital & Class *"This volume urges us to see an updated Gramsci as indispensable for anthropologists and a contemporary ethnography—that is, if the former want to struggle for transformation and if the latter aspires to become the main science for predicting the shape of the future. I highly recommend this book to anthropologists and social scientists, but also to those people who need new critical tools in order to deal with and to change unfair realities." -- Giovanni Pizza * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *“Gramsci’s Common Sense achieves the substantial feat of combining a sophisticated reading of Gramsci’s views on class, inequality, and ‘popular opinion’ with an accessible style that presupposes no prior knowledge of his writings.” -- Robert P. Jackson * International Gramsci Journal *Table of ContentsPreface ix Abbreviations xv Part I. Subalternity, Intellectuals, and Common Sense 1. Subalternity 3 2. Intellectuals 18 3. Common Sense 43 4. What Subalterns Know 59 Part II. Case Studies 5. Adam Smith: A Bourgeois, Organic Intellectual? 81 6. The Common Sense of the Tea Party 118 7. Common Sense, Good Sense, and Occupy 146 Conclusion. Reading Gramsci in the Twenty-First Century 184 Bibliography 199 Index 207
£72.25
Duke University Press Animate Planet
Book SynopsisKath Weston addresses the emergence of a new animism in the context of food, energy, water, and climate to trace how new intimacies between humans, animals, and the environment are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them.Trade Review"The complexity of these readings promotes compassion but also a richer understanding of how humanity inhabits our world. We cannot predict the new directions in which our affects may take us. Through such precarity, and the intimacies, animacies, and enchantments accompanying it, Weston reframes the debates on which the health of our animate planet depends." -- Patricia Wald * Critical Inquiry *"This sophisticated political ecology reveals how the reciprocal impacts between humans and the environment through industrial technology have become intimate and animate in unprecedented ways. The insightful analysis of cases from India, Japan, and the US are thought-provoking perspectives on the environmental resource categories of climate, energy, food, and water. Recommended." -- L.E. Sponsel * Choice *"The question that pervades the book – how can humanity deal with the paradox of being the cause of its own destruction and yet not know how to stop doing so? – is fundamentally important to the way we live in the world today, and one we struggle to look at. For this reason alone, Animate Planet is important, and to some degree a must-read." -- Stephanie Bunn * Times Higher Education *"The merit of Weston’s argumentative thrust lies in consistently highlighting the affective attachments people develop towards the things that harm them.... Positioning questions of affect and desire in this way at the heart of life in a technologically damaged world, Weston opens up a field of inquiry that is as conceptually exciting as it is politically urgent." -- Marlene Schäfers * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *“[Animate Planet] nudge[s] the field of political ecology toward a greater exploration of the embodied and affective ties that bind humans and other living entities with the technologies of late capitalism.” -- Teresa Lloro-Bidart * American Ethnologist *“Contributing to fields such as science and technology studies, philosophy, political economy, anthropology, environmental studies, and ecology, Animate Planet is a fascinating read and well suited for a graduate seminar in any of these fields. . . .” -- Garrett Bunyak * Quarterly Review of Biology *"Animate Planet succeeds in making an argument for bridging categories to think about the consequences of modernity and the intimacies it produces. Animate Planet could be used in advanced undergraduate courses and graduate seminars." -- Nicolas Sternsdorff-Cisterna * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments. Generosity and Nothing But viii Introduction. Animating Intimacies, Reanimating a World 1 Food 1. Biosecurity and Surveillance in the Food Chain 37 Energy 2. The Unwanted Intimacy of Radiation Exposure in Japan 71 Climate Change 3. Climate Change, Slippery on the Skin 105 Water 4. The Greatest Show on Parched Earth 135 Knowing What We KNow, Why Are We Stuck? 5. Political Ecologies of the Precarious 177 Notes 199 References 217 Index 243
£25.19
Duke University Press Fungible Life
Book SynopsisIn Fungible Life Aihwa Ong traces the revolutionary scientific developments in Asia by investigating how biomedical centers in Biopolis, Singapore and China mobilize ethnicized "Asian" bodies and health data for genomic research.Trade Review"Anyone interested in cosmopolitan flows of knowledge and risk will find this book of value, as the phenomena that it describes and the methodologies that Ong uses seem to me to be readily transferable. . . . I particularly enjoy the way Ong fits the situated nature of her own authorship, including her Asian background, her family history of cancer and so on, seamlessly into her account. . . . [A] beautiful and engaging piece of writing and an important contribution to a wide spectrum of knowledge." -- Flora Samuel * Times Higher Education *"Embracing a new frontier, Ong’s latest work tackles our fear of the unknown in genomic research, concerns about multiple levels of research ethics, and our curiosity about genomic research’s implications for Chinese and Asian identity, which in turn has implications for human identity as a whole. This book on biomedical research is suitable for graduate students and scholars interested in the production of knowledge, science and technology studies, medical anthropology and sociology, ethnic studies, public health, and broadly Asian Studies." -- Fang Xu * New Books Asia *"This book is an essential contribution to a comparative anthropology of biosentinels through a refined and accessible ethnography of two biotech centers in Singapore and Shenzhen, showing how a future is taking shape in which Asia will play a prominent role." -- Frederic Keck * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Ong's book is a deep dive in the complex role of the state, universities, firms, research stars, and knowledge about genetics in shaping the development of Singapore, in particular, as a key space in the development of scientific knowledge. After reading it you can better understand why universities like Duke and Imperial College seek (and need) to have a formal institutional presence in Singapore, and in association with key national partner universities like NUS and NTU. The Ong book, thus, provides insights on the geographical-, historical-, and sectoral -specific developments that these universities are currently navigating." -- Kris Olds * Inside Higher Ed *“Fungible Life is an important addition to the growing literature in area-specific science studies, and an important intervention in the anthropology of science scholarship on racialised science. . . . Well worth the investment for anyone interested in how race, ethnicity and science are made in Asia today.” -- Katherine A. Mason * The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology *“Ong skillfully provides an accessible and lucid account of the intersection of ethnicity, biopolitics and uncertainties in Asia’s bioscientific world. Fungible Life is a valuable addition to fields such as the anthropology of Asia, medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. It is also highly accessible for readers of various levels.” -- Yifeng Cai * Social Anthropology *"The productive uncertainties and ethnic heuristics that Aihwa Ong examines in her study of Singapore’s Biopolis enrich our understanding of ethnicity in postgenomic Asia. These are the major contributions of Fungible Life." -- Wen-Ching Sung * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsPrologue: Enigmatic Variations ix Acknowledgments xxiii Introduction: Inventing a City of Life 1 Part I. Risks 1. Where the Wild Genes Are 29 2. An Atlas of Asian Diseases 51 3. Smoldering Fire 73 Part II. Uncertainties 4. The Productive Uncertainty of Bioethics 93 5. Virtue and Expatriate Scientists 113 6. Perturbing Life 136 Part III. Known Unknowns 7. A Single Wave 157 8. "Viruses Don't Carry Passports" 174 9. The "Athlete Gene" in China's Future 197 Epilogue: A DNA Bridge and an Octopus's Garden 223 Notes 239 Bibliography 257 Index 271
£98.60
Duke University Press Dust of the Zulu
Book SynopsisLouise Meintjes traces the history and the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa, showing how it embodies Zulu masculinity and the expanse of South Africa's violent history.Trade Review"Studies of African performance remain far too few; this one sets a very high bar. Essential." -- A. F. Roberts * Choice *"Crackling with energy and erudition, Dust of the Zulu now vivifies ngoma for the academy." -- Benedict Carton * Journal of Modern African Studies *"Louis Meintjes's Dust of the Zulu leaps out at the reader with the same energy and passion as the Ngoma dancers themselves. It is uncanny how deftly Meintjes captures the vibrancy and rhythm of the performers and performances in her writing, and T.J. Lemon’s photos are the perfect complement to the descriptions of harmonized bodies and voices." -- Aran Mackinnon * African Studies Quarterly *"Meintjes’s fluid ethnographic writing melds analytical precision with a depth of cultural insight gained through long immersion. The book’s dialectical force is sustained by the richness and intimacy of Meintjes’s collaborations. Zulu voices saturate the book’s textures. . . . The prose itself is beautifully wrought. . . . Replete with revelations that are by turns tremendously moving, frightening, disconcerting, and inspiring." -- Thomas M. Pooley * Anthropos *"We travel with Meintjes as she recounts individual narratives of Zulu men maintaining dignity amidst wavering stability in wage-labor, health, and the inconsistent machinations of the international music industry. The humanity, fragility, and mutual constitution of strength through aesthetics is expertly handled in this new classic in the genre of performative ethnography." -- Elizabeth Perrill * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"Louise Meintjes’s book provides a captivating introduction to the vibrant and dramatic spirit of this Southern African art form. . . . Dust of the Zulu contributes to the ever-growing literature on indigenous African theatre and performance; its strength is the author’s captivating descriptions of the dance and the drama of the competitions." -- Osita Okagbue * Theatre Research International *"Dust of the Zulu is a significant contribution to the scholarship of South African music and Zulu ngoma more specifically. The book will be very useful for students and scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies, and African studies. It demonstrates the author’s deep and wide knowledge of Zulu ngoma and her mastery of the art of ethnography writing and is strongly recommended for anyone interested in learning this art. Indeed, whereas Meintjes praises Clegg for successfully translating ngoma into terms that are intelligible within the global popular-music circles, she and the photographer T. J. Lemon should be praised for magnificently translating ngoma in terms that are legible within music and cultural scholarly circles." -- Imani Sanga * Notes *"Visceral and immediate. . . . [Meintjes] makes us hear an alternative to mainstream ethnography by leaving it unspoken. She’s dancing in the scholar’s world." -- Barbara Titus * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Politics of Participation in Ngoma Song and Dance 1 1. Turning to Be Kissed: Praise, Flirtation, and the Work of Men 28 2. The Unwavering Voice: Affect, Eloquence, and the Moral Anger of Men 62 3. Feet of the Centipede: Military Aesthetics and the Politics of Reconciliation 94 4. To Quell the Dancer's Dust: Singing Violence during South Africa's Transition 124 5. The Crossing: World Music and Ngoma at Home 151 6. Dancing Around Disease: Silence, Ambiguity, and Brotherhood 182 7. The Digital Homestead: Having a Voice and the Sound of Marginalization 210 8. Brokering the Body: Culture, Heritage, and the Pleasure of Participation 240 Closing. Ngoma's Masculinity, South Africa's Struggle 266 Notes 273 References 307 Index 329
£80.10
Duke University Press Duress
Book SynopsisIn Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance.Trade Review"Duress: Imperial Durabilities In Our Times is a timely book. It can be read as both a work of postcolonial analysis and a methodological guide to conceptual history. Ann Laura Stoler’s willingness to wrestle uneasy mercurial modern terminologies into valuable approaches to the histories of imperial formations is refreshing and exemplary." -- Ed Jones * LSE Review of Books *"Stoler adds different insights and contexts to much material that is not new. Perhaps one test of the value of this is that it is difficult to read Duress without applying its insights both to the ways we engage in ethnographic enterprises and to current situations. Stoler provides the reader with much to consider and underscores the urgency of doing so." -- James Phillips * American Ethnologist *"Stoler’s book is both timely and innovative. . . . [Duress] takes us on a journey that looks at the genealogy of imperial violence, its traces in the present and its continuous re-shaping of contemporary societies on the one hand, and on the other, how new stories emerge and counterdiscourse shapes imperial violence." -- Olivette Otele * Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History *"Innovative and thoughtful. . . . Stoler has for a long time now moved between different concepts, disciplines, and subdisciplines with an agility that is inspiring. . . . A pressing and timely book that will be of interest to all concerned with questions on liberation and entrapment." -- Shirin Saeidi * Journal of International and Global Studies *"Stoler casts her net wide and deep and convincingly shows that colonialism is more complex, and more present, than most histories acknowledge." -- Aviva Chomsky * American Historical Review *"A tour de force. Stoler’s encyclopedic knowledge of the literature is impressive and the book might be used as a reference for those hoping to move the needle in postcolonial studies—to advance the agenda of the subfield . . . Stoler has ably demonstrated that Foucault’s work is relevant to locales beyond France. And yet, I am left to ask whether, in a sense, Stoler might simply stand alone, without Foucault, now more than ever as her own theoretical proficiencies are brought to bear on our colonial present." -- Anne-Maria Makhulu * Anthropological Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface ix Appreciations xi Part I. Concept Work: Fragilities and Filiations 1. Critical Incisions: On Concept Work and Colonial Recursions 3 2. Raw Cuts: Palestine, Israel, and (Post)Colonial Studies 37 3. A Deadly Embrace: Of Colony and Camp 68 4. Colonial Aphasia: Disabled histories and Race in France 122 Part II. Recursions in a Colonial Mode 5. On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty 173 6. Reason Aside: Enlightenment Projects and Empire's Security Regimes 205 7. Racial Regimes of Truth 237 Part III. "The Rot Remains" 8. Racist Visions and the Common Sense of France's "Extreme" Right 269 9. Bodily Exposures: Beyond Sex? 305 10. Imperial Debris and Ruination 336 Bibliography 381 Index 419
£84.15
Duke University Press Hydraulic City
Book SynopsisNikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship and the rights through which to make demands on the state for public services emerges through the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3000 miles of pipe that bind them.Trade Review"This book is a fine intervention in anthropology, geography and sociology, as it troubles not just conventional understandings of how urban fragmentation works but is also an example of engaging creatively with socio-material assemblages and processes governing everyday life in the city. . . . This book provokes a broader scholarly imagination––one that is as empathetic as it is innovative." -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Using a rich, empirically grounded approach, Anand makes a major contribution to the existing literature on water services, citizenship and difference. . . . An exceptionally good read that will appeal to a broad range of audiences, both specialist and non-specialist." -- Anke Schwarz * City *“Nikhil Anand makes a most significant contribution to the anthropology of the state.” -- Atreyee Majumder * Pacific Affairs *“Hydraulic City is an outstanding work. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of South Asian societies in general, especially those concerned with matters of the development, reproduction and undermining of states.” -- Andrew Dawson * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"Timely, expansive, and thoroughly researched. . . . Undoubtedly an important text that will go on to have important afterlives in scholarship on South Asia, infrastructure, water, cities, and citizenship." -- Tessa Farmer * Anthropological Quarterly *"Insightful and deeply engaging for both an ethnographer as well as a lay person. . . . Brings in a fresh perspective into urban cultural anthropology of water and its users." -- Nakul Mohan Heble * Economic and Political Weekly *"Deftly brings together historic and ethnographic narratives about the quest for water in the city of Mumbai and its long entanglements with the politics of citizenship. It is a work that nimbly shifts between scales and time, moving between historic narratives of installing the public water system and everyday experiences of gathering water. . . . Rife with fluidity and movement . . . This is a book that has a broad appeal that cuts across disciplinary boundaries." -- Chitra Venkataramani * Asian Journal of Social Science *"Anand proficiently merges theories of infrastructure and citizenship to explain the uncertainty surrounding water in Mumbai. Thanks to his clear writing and evocative ethnographic story-telling, readers can gain a solid social and technical understanding of the leaking leviathan of Mumbai . . . A fantastic, highly enjoyable ethnography that will probably have a strong influence on debates about cities and the fluid (i.e. volatile) links between infrastructure and urban citizenship." -- Lukas Ley * City & Society *"An important contribution towards understanding how infrastructure and society interface in complex and dynamic ways. . . . Anand’s ability to draw from multiple bodies of scholarship and communicate the otherwise dense, multilayered and messy real-world precarity of citizenship and access with nuance and detail is impressive. The book helps refocus, re-scale and recontextualize water’s inaccessibility as linked to intimate and dynamic facets of everyday life." -- Sameer H. Shah * Progress in Development Studies *“Hydraulic City is a thoughtful ethnography of how hopes, desires, and distributions of life are mediated by and accrete in the everyday infrastructures that surround us--systems that are perpetually falling apart and, much like our own lives, relations, and imaginaries, require constant upkeep and maintenance. Such a focus is beautifully reflected in the book’s form.” -- Shreyas Sreenath * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface: Water Stories vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Water Works 1 Interlude. A City in the Sea 25 1. Scare Cities 29 Interlude. Fieldwork 61 2. Settlement 65 Interlude. Renewing Water 95 3. Time Pé (On Time) 97 Interlude. Flood 127 4. Social Work 131 Interlude. River/Sewer 159 5. Leaks 161 Interlude. Jharna (Spring) 191 6. Disconnection 193 Interlude. Miracles 219 Conclusion 223 Notes 239 References 265 Index 289
£75.65
Duke University Press Man or Monster
Book SynopsisAlexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.Trade Review"Hinton’s book doesn’t just tackle the complexity of a character like Duch through the lens of the trial. It offers a way to understand the court proceedings, which can often be dry, convoluted, and peppered with legalistic jargon." -- Erin Handley * Phnom Penh Post *"Hinton’s intent is ambitious and unusual; recording is not enough. As he explains in his dense introduction, he wants us to understand this man, this trial and the questions it raises in our very bones. So, contrary to standard academic practice, he presents his material in an astonishing variety of ways. . . . Hinton’s book is profound, insightful and singular, probably even important. Most certainly a boon to anyone interested in Khmer Rouge history, international tribunals, torture or the ambiguities of evil." -- Antonia D. Bryan * Mekong Review *"The book draws on various literary genres in compiling a work which is artistic and scholarly, readable yet theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous and engaging yet approachable by people unfamiliar with the case. . . . This book will become standard reading for anyone studying the portrayal of perpetrators during post-conflict justice processes. . . ." -- Timothy Williams * Genocide Studies and Prevention *"Hinton has written a commendable work offering a new standard in the field of ethnodramatisation linked to the performative realm of an international tribunal where the hybrid nature of the court against the background of a shattered Buddhist society rebuilding from the ashes makes for real spectacle. . . . His book also stands out for its literary and philosophical innovations." -- Geoffrey C. Gunn * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"Hinton has written an interesting and insightful book, with a critical look at the way justice shapes and 'redacts' our understanding of the past, and an invitation for its readers to analyze our own way of seeing the world and overcome the simple categorizations we all use in our everyday life, which can have monstrous consequences." -- Sanne Weber * Historical Dialogues *"Hinton does the reader a tremendous service by not reducing Duch to a single identity. The book is certainly not a sympathetic take on Duch’s character, but it is a concerted effort to create a multidimensional understanding of a complicated man acting in complicated circumstances.... By using Duch’s trial as a case study, Hinton also addresses the many larger questions of transitional justice." -- Sharon Wu * LSE Review of Books *"Hinton expertly weaves trial proceedings, testimonials, and contemporary analyses of Democratic Kampuchea, thereby crafting an ambitious exposé of Duch’s trial and the various forces behind collective memory of him.... Man or Monster? is a thought-provoking literary triumph by Hinton" -- Matthew Galway * Journal of International and Global Studies *"The book, with its chilling but instructive contents, will benefit tremendously Asian experts as well as specialists on pogrom as well as researchers and students interested in the Cambodian story." -- Augustine Adu-Frimpong * African and Asian Studies *"Alexander Laban Hinton has written a highly engaging and experimental ethnography of international justice that narrates the criminal trial of Kaing Guek Eav (aka 'Duch'), a central figure in the 'killing fields’ of 1970s Cambodia." -- Richard A. Wilson * Anthropology Book Forum *"Hinton’s 'ethnodrama' of the trial of Duch is largely a chronological account, interspersed with personal commentary and even some poetic interludes that make it anything but a dry academic tome. . . . Man or Monster is unique in its appeal both to students of post-conflict socio-political issues and to the general reader, and is a major contribution to genocide studies." -- D. Gordon Longmuir * Pacific Affairs *"The book is a stunning achievement. . . . Hinton succeeds beautifully in drawing the reader into a confrontation with our own articulations and redactions of the world around us." -- Catherine Bolten * American Anthropologist *“Man or Monster? will be useful to those studying anthropology, geography, international relations, transitional justice and law, genocide, violence, and post-conflict politics. It will also be of use to those considering the very work we do as social scientists; how what we do is intimately involved in the frames of how others come to understand particular places, people, and events.” -- JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“Compelling. . . . A highly original account.” -- Rachel Hughes * Law & Society Review *"Hinton gives a reader unfamiliar with these proceedings a good picture of how they were conceived, how they have unfolded, and how civil society in Cambodia has interacted with them.” -- John Quigley * Human Rights Quarterly *Table of ContentsThe Accused, Fact Sheet, Public Version—Radacted 1 Foreground. Monster 3 Part I. Confession Interrogation. Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 41 1. Man (Opening Arguments) 44 2. Revolutionary (M-13 Prison) 68 3. Subordinate (Establishment of S-21) 90 4. Cog (Policy and Implementation) 103 5. Commandant (Functioning of S-21) 130 6. Master (Torture and Execution) 142 Erasure. Durch's Apology 168 Part II. Reconstruction Torture, A Collage. The Testimony of Prak Khan, S-21 Interrogator 171 7. Villain (The Civil Parties) 176 8. Zealot (Prosecution) 197 9. Scapegoat (Defense) 213 10. The Accused (Trial Chamber Judgment) 229 Background. Redactic (Final Decision) 243 Epilogue. Man or Monster? (Conviction) 288 Acknowledgments 297 Timeline 301 Abbreviations 303 Notes 305 Bibliography 335 Index 345
£112.20
Duke University Press Punk and Revolution
Book SynopsisIn Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its place in Western culture to situate it as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Experimenting with form and content, Greene redefines how we think about punk subculture and revolutionary politics.Trade Review"Shane Greene’s Punk and Revolution is an impressive and important book. It has interesting things to say about punk as a musical style and subculture, and perhaps more importantly as a disposition, an aesthetic, and a political project." -- Paulo Drinot * The Americas *"Is this work a serious academic query into the impact of punk as a political statement or a ludic, subversive challenge to the reader to question authority on all levels without adhering to any dogma? Most likely, it is both." -- Ana Torres * Journal of Global South Studies *"Punk and Revolution provides a welcome salvo in the struggle to prise analyses of punk away from their Anglo-American moorings, and Greene’s approach in doing so provides an exemplar for all the punkademics out there who see the need to jettison academia’s arcane and conservative traditions, while retaining the essence of ethnographic rigour and critical analysis." -- Jim Donaghey * Anthropological Forum *"Punk and Revolution shines as an archival project. . . . [Greene's] commitment to telling the story of punk through alternative styles, aesthetics, and forms will make his book appeal not only to media scholars and Latin Americanists but also to anyone interested in exploring the possibilities for anthropology through image, voice, and sound." -- Alexandra Lippman * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsThanks Go To . . . ix Warning! 1 Interpretation #1 / On the Risks of Underground Rock Production 7 Interpretation #2 / El Problema de la Sub-Tierra 45 Interpretation #3 / El Problema del Pituco 52 Re:Interpretation #4 / The Tongue Is a Fire, an Agent, a Traitor 83 Interpretation #5 / The Worth of Art in Three Stages of Underproduction 112 Interpretation #6 / A Series of Situations Resulting in X 151 Interprestation #7 / Hot Revolution with Punk Pancakes (a drunken dialogue) 188 PS! 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 219 Index 225
£76.50
Duke University Press Dust of the Zulu
Book SynopsisLouise Meintjes traces the history and the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in South Africa, showing how it embodies Zulu masculinity and the expanse of South Africa's violent history.Trade Review"Studies of African performance remain far too few; this one sets a very high bar. Essential." -- A. F. Roberts * Choice *"Crackling with energy and erudition, Dust of the Zulu now vivifies ngoma for the academy." -- Benedict Carton * Journal of Modern African Studies *"Louis Meintjes's Dust of the Zulu leaps out at the reader with the same energy and passion as the Ngoma dancers themselves. It is uncanny how deftly Meintjes captures the vibrancy and rhythm of the performers and performances in her writing, and T.J. Lemon’s photos are the perfect complement to the descriptions of harmonized bodies and voices." -- Aran Mackinnon * African Studies Quarterly *"Meintjes’s fluid ethnographic writing melds analytical precision with a depth of cultural insight gained through long immersion. The book’s dialectical force is sustained by the richness and intimacy of Meintjes’s collaborations. Zulu voices saturate the book’s textures. . . . The prose itself is beautifully wrought. . . . Replete with revelations that are by turns tremendously moving, frightening, disconcerting, and inspiring." -- Thomas M. Pooley * Anthropos *"We travel with Meintjes as she recounts individual narratives of Zulu men maintaining dignity amidst wavering stability in wage-labor, health, and the inconsistent machinations of the international music industry. The humanity, fragility, and mutual constitution of strength through aesthetics is expertly handled in this new classic in the genre of performative ethnography." -- Elizabeth Perrill * International Journal of African Historical Studies *"Louise Meintjes’s book provides a captivating introduction to the vibrant and dramatic spirit of this Southern African art form. . . . Dust of the Zulu contributes to the ever-growing literature on indigenous African theatre and performance; its strength is the author’s captivating descriptions of the dance and the drama of the competitions." -- Osita Okagbue * Theatre Research International *"Dust of the Zulu is a significant contribution to the scholarship of South African music and Zulu ngoma more specifically. The book will be very useful for students and scholars in the fields of ethnomusicology, anthropology, cultural studies, and African studies. It demonstrates the author’s deep and wide knowledge of Zulu ngoma and her mastery of the art of ethnography writing and is strongly recommended for anyone interested in learning this art. Indeed, whereas Meintjes praises Clegg for successfully translating ngoma into terms that are intelligible within the global popular-music circles, she and the photographer T. J. Lemon should be praised for magnificently translating ngoma in terms that are legible within music and cultural scholarly circles." -- Imani Sanga * Notes *"Visceral and immediate. . . . [Meintjes] makes us hear an alternative to mainstream ethnography by leaving it unspoken. She’s dancing in the scholar’s world." -- Barbara Titus * Ethnomusicology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction. The Politics of Participation in Ngoma Song and Dance 1 1. Turning to Be Kissed: Praise, Flirtation, and the Work of Men 28 2. The Unwavering Voice: Affect, Eloquence, and the Moral Anger of Men 62 3. Feet of the Centipede: Military Aesthetics and the Politics of Reconciliation 94 4. To Quell the Dancer's Dust: Singing Violence during South Africa's Transition 124 5. The Crossing: World Music and Ngoma at Home 151 6. Dancing Around Disease: Silence, Ambiguity, and Brotherhood 182 7. The Digital Homestead: Having a Voice and the Sound of Marginalization 210 8. Brokering the Body: Culture, Heritage, and the Pleasure of Participation 240 Closing. Ngoma's Masculinity, South Africa's Struggle 266 Notes 273 References 307 Index 329
£27.90
Duke University Press Hydraulic City Water and the Infrastructures of
Book SynopsisNikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship and the rights through which to make demands on the state for public services emerges through the relations between residents, plumbers, politicians, engineers, and the 3000 miles of pipe that bind them.Trade Review"This book is a fine intervention in anthropology, geography and sociology, as it troubles not just conventional understandings of how urban fragmentation works but is also an example of engaging creatively with socio-material assemblages and processes governing everyday life in the city. . . . This book provokes a broader scholarly imagination––one that is as empathetic as it is innovative." -- Sneha Annavarapu * International Journal of Urban and Regional Research *"Using a rich, empirically grounded approach, Anand makes a major contribution to the existing literature on water services, citizenship and difference. . . . An exceptionally good read that will appeal to a broad range of audiences, both specialist and non-specialist." -- Anke Schwarz * City *“Nikhil Anand makes a most significant contribution to the anthropology of the state.” -- Atreyee Majumder * Pacific Affairs *“Hydraulic City is an outstanding work. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of South Asian societies in general, especially those concerned with matters of the development, reproduction and undermining of states.” -- Andrew Dawson * Journal of Asian and African Studies *"Timely, expansive, and thoroughly researched. . . . Undoubtedly an important text that will go on to have important afterlives in scholarship on South Asia, infrastructure, water, cities, and citizenship." -- Tessa Farmer * Anthropological Quarterly *"Insightful and deeply engaging for both an ethnographer as well as a lay person. . . . Brings in a fresh perspective into urban cultural anthropology of water and its users." -- Nakul Mohan Heble * Economic and Political Weekly *"Deftly brings together historic and ethnographic narratives about the quest for water in the city of Mumbai and its long entanglements with the politics of citizenship. It is a work that nimbly shifts between scales and time, moving between historic narratives of installing the public water system and everyday experiences of gathering water. . . . Rife with fluidity and movement . . . This is a book that has a broad appeal that cuts across disciplinary boundaries." -- Chitra Venkataramani * Asian Journal of Social Science *"Anand proficiently merges theories of infrastructure and citizenship to explain the uncertainty surrounding water in Mumbai. Thanks to his clear writing and evocative ethnographic story-telling, readers can gain a solid social and technical understanding of the leaking leviathan of Mumbai . . . A fantastic, highly enjoyable ethnography that will probably have a strong influence on debates about cities and the fluid (i.e. volatile) links between infrastructure and urban citizenship." -- Lukas Ley * City & Society *"An important contribution towards understanding how infrastructure and society interface in complex and dynamic ways. . . . Anand’s ability to draw from multiple bodies of scholarship and communicate the otherwise dense, multilayered and messy real-world precarity of citizenship and access with nuance and detail is impressive. The book helps refocus, re-scale and recontextualize water’s inaccessibility as linked to intimate and dynamic facets of everyday life." -- Sameer H. Shah * Progress in Development Studies *“Hydraulic City is a thoughtful ethnography of how hopes, desires, and distributions of life are mediated by and accrete in the everyday infrastructures that surround us--systems that are perpetually falling apart and, much like our own lives, relations, and imaginaries, require constant upkeep and maintenance. Such a focus is beautifully reflected in the book’s form.” -- Shreyas Sreenath * Anthropology Book Forum *Table of ContentsPreface: Water Stories vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Water Works 1 Interlude. A City in the Sea 25 1. Scare Cities 29 Interlude. Fieldwork 61 2. Settlement 65 Interlude. Renewing Water 95 3. Time Pé (On Time) 97 Interlude. Flood 127 4. Social Work 131 Interlude. River/Sewer 159 5. Leaks 161 Interlude. Jharna (Spring) 191 6. Disconnection 193 Interlude. Miracles 219 Conclusion 223 Notes 239 References 265 Index 289
£20.69
Duke University Press Man or Monster
Book SynopsisAlexander Laban Hinton offers a detailed analysis of a former Khmer Rouge security center commandant who was convicted for overseeing the interrogation, torture, and execution of nearly 20,000 Cambodians. Interested in how someone becomes an executioner, Hinton provides numerous ways to consider justice, genocide, memory, truth, and humanity.Trade Review"Hinton’s book doesn’t just tackle the complexity of a character like Duch through the lens of the trial. It offers a way to understand the court proceedings, which can often be dry, convoluted, and peppered with legalistic jargon." -- Erin Handley * Phnom Penh Post *"Hinton’s intent is ambitious and unusual; recording is not enough. As he explains in his dense introduction, he wants us to understand this man, this trial and the questions it raises in our very bones. So, contrary to standard academic practice, he presents his material in an astonishing variety of ways. . . . Hinton’s book is profound, insightful and singular, probably even important. Most certainly a boon to anyone interested in Khmer Rouge history, international tribunals, torture or the ambiguities of evil." -- Antonia D. Bryan * Mekong Review *"The book draws on various literary genres in compiling a work which is artistic and scholarly, readable yet theoretically grounded, empirically rigorous and engaging yet approachable by people unfamiliar with the case. . . . This book will become standard reading for anyone studying the portrayal of perpetrators during post-conflict justice processes. . . ." -- Timothy Williams * Genocide Studies and Prevention *"Hinton has written a commendable work offering a new standard in the field of ethnodramatisation linked to the performative realm of an international tribunal where the hybrid nature of the court against the background of a shattered Buddhist society rebuilding from the ashes makes for real spectacle. . . . His book also stands out for its literary and philosophical innovations." -- Geoffrey C. Gunn * Journal of Contemporary Asia *"Hinton has written an interesting and insightful book, with a critical look at the way justice shapes and 'redacts' our understanding of the past, and an invitation for its readers to analyze our own way of seeing the world and overcome the simple categorizations we all use in our everyday life, which can have monstrous consequences." -- Sanne Weber * Historical Dialogues *"Hinton does the reader a tremendous service by not reducing Duch to a single identity. The book is certainly not a sympathetic take on Duch’s character, but it is a concerted effort to create a multidimensional understanding of a complicated man acting in complicated circumstances.... By using Duch’s trial as a case study, Hinton also addresses the many larger questions of transitional justice." -- Sharon Wu * LSE Review of Books *"Hinton expertly weaves trial proceedings, testimonials, and contemporary analyses of Democratic Kampuchea, thereby crafting an ambitious exposé of Duch’s trial and the various forces behind collective memory of him.... Man or Monster? is a thought-provoking literary triumph by Hinton" -- Matthew Galway * Journal of International and Global Studies *"The book, with its chilling but instructive contents, will benefit tremendously Asian experts as well as specialists on pogrom as well as researchers and students interested in the Cambodian story." -- Augustine Adu-Frimpong * African and Asian Studies *"Alexander Laban Hinton has written a highly engaging and experimental ethnography of international justice that narrates the criminal trial of Kaing Guek Eav (aka 'Duch'), a central figure in the 'killing fields’ of 1970s Cambodia." -- Richard A. Wilson * Anthropology Book Forum *"Hinton’s 'ethnodrama' of the trial of Duch is largely a chronological account, interspersed with personal commentary and even some poetic interludes that make it anything but a dry academic tome. . . . Man or Monster is unique in its appeal both to students of post-conflict socio-political issues and to the general reader, and is a major contribution to genocide studies." -- D. Gordon Longmuir * Pacific Affairs *"The book is a stunning achievement. . . . Hinton succeeds beautifully in drawing the reader into a confrontation with our own articulations and redactions of the world around us." -- Catherine Bolten * American Anthropologist *“Man or Monster? will be useful to those studying anthropology, geography, international relations, transitional justice and law, genocide, violence, and post-conflict politics. It will also be of use to those considering the very work we do as social scientists; how what we do is intimately involved in the frames of how others come to understand particular places, people, and events.” -- JoAnn DiGeorgio-Lutz * Journal of Southeast Asian Studies *“Compelling. . . . A highly original account.” -- Rachel Hughes * Law & Society Review *"Hinton gives a reader unfamiliar with these proceedings a good picture of how they were conceived, how they have unfolded, and how civil society in Cambodia has interacted with them.” -- John Quigley * Human Rights Quarterly *Table of ContentsThe Accused, Fact Sheet, Public Version—Radacted 1 Foreground. Monster 3 Part I. Confession Interrogation. Comrade Duch's Abecedarian 41 1. Man (Opening Arguments) 44 2. Revolutionary (M-13 Prison) 68 3. Subordinate (Establishment of S-21) 90 4. Cog (Policy and Implementation) 103 5. Commandant (Functioning of S-21) 130 6. Master (Torture and Execution) 142 Erasure. Durch's Apology 168 Part II. Reconstruction Torture, A Collage. The Testimony of Prak Khan, S-21 Interrogator 171 7. Villain (The Civil Parties) 176 8. Zealot (Prosecution) 197 9. Scapegoat (Defense) 213 10. The Accused (Trial Chamber Judgment) 229 Background. Redactic (Final Decision) 243 Epilogue. Man or Monster? (Conviction) 288 Acknowledgments 297 Timeline 301 Abbreviations 303 Notes 305 Bibliography 335 Index 345
£27.90
Duke University Press Punk and Revolution
Book SynopsisIn Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its place in Western culture to situate it as a crucial element in Peru's culture of subversive militancy and political violence. Experimenting with form and content, Greene redefines how we think about punk subculture and revolutionary politics.Trade Review"Shane Greene’s Punk and Revolution is an impressive and important book. It has interesting things to say about punk as a musical style and subculture, and perhaps more importantly as a disposition, an aesthetic, and a political project." -- Paulo Drinot * The Americas *"Is this work a serious academic query into the impact of punk as a political statement or a ludic, subversive challenge to the reader to question authority on all levels without adhering to any dogma? Most likely, it is both." -- Ana Torres * Journal of Global South Studies *"Punk and Revolution provides a welcome salvo in the struggle to prise analyses of punk away from their Anglo-American moorings, and Greene’s approach in doing so provides an exemplar for all the punkademics out there who see the need to jettison academia’s arcane and conservative traditions, while retaining the essence of ethnographic rigour and critical analysis." -- Jim Donaghey * Anthropological Forum *"Punk and Revolution shines as an archival project. . . . [Greene's] commitment to telling the story of punk through alternative styles, aesthetics, and forms will make his book appeal not only to media scholars and Latin Americanists but also to anyone interested in exploring the possibilities for anthropology through image, voice, and sound." -- Alexandra Lippman * American Ethnologist *Table of ContentsThanks Go To . . . ix Warning! 1 Interpretation #1 / On the Risks of Underground Rock Production 7 Interpretation #2 / El Problema de la Sub-Tierra 45 Interpretation #3 / El Problema del Pituco 52 Re:Interpretation #4 / The Tongue Is a Fire, an Agent, a Traitor 83 Interpretation #5 / The Worth of Art in Three Stages of Underproduction 112 Interpretation #6 / A Series of Situations Resulting in X 151 Interprestation #7 / Hot Revolution with Punk Pancakes (a drunken dialogue) 188 PS! 205 Notes 211 Bibliography 219 Index 225
£26.09
Duke University Press Energy without Conscience
Book SynopsisDavid McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.Trade Review“Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.” -- Sandra Moore * Anthropology Book Forum *"Energy without Conscience is a thoughtful take on how climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide collective conscience of wrongdoing." -- Trey Murphy * Geographical Review *"Hughes offers us a rich and important ethnographic account of Trinidad that marks the Caribbean nation not only as the site of Christopher Columbus’ third exploration to the Americas, but also as the world’s first petro- extractive geography. . . . Energy Without Conscience is a powerful and urgent book, one that furthers an understanding of global interconnectedness, not as a neoliberal project of unity, but through a web of danger, unequal outcomes, and a matrix of complicity." -- Macarena Gomez-Barris * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Overall, Hughes’s Energy Without Conscience gives us a deeply historicized description of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil economy. Most importantly, he describes the potentiality of the past to have led to different presents and inspires us to consider different futures…. [The book] raises important questions about the ethical considerations and responsibilities of doing research in a world facing climate catastrophe. Owing to the methodical issues it covers, it will be of particular interest to anyone planning and conducting research in the broad fields of energy humanities, the anthropology of climate change, and extractive industries.” -- Kari Dahlgren * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Energy with Conscience 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel 29 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment 41 Part II. Ordinary Oil 3. The Myth of Inevitability 65 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility 95 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot 120 Conclusion 141 Notes 153 References 165 Index 183
£22.79
Duke University Press Downwardly Global
Book SynopsisLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.Trade Review“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium." -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Bodies and Bureaucracies 25 2. Pedagogies of Affect 53 3. Sanitizing Citizenship 75 4. Racializing South Asia 101 5. The Catastrophic Present 127 Conclusion 153 Notes 169 References 181 Index 201
£76.50
Duke University Press Energy without Conscience
Book SynopsisDavid McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change is not yet a moral issue by examining the history of energy use in Trinidad and Tobago. Drawing parallels between Trinidad's history of slavery and its oil industry, Hughes shows how treating oil as "ordinary" prevents us from making the moral choice to abandon it.Trade Review“Hughes has contributed greatly to an understanding of how climate change is viewed in locations outside of the modern Western world.” -- Sandra Moore * Anthropology Book Forum *"Energy without Conscience is a thoughtful take on how climate change complicity can exist without a countrywide collective conscience of wrongdoing." -- Trey Murphy * Geographical Review *"Hughes offers us a rich and important ethnographic account of Trinidad that marks the Caribbean nation not only as the site of Christopher Columbus’ third exploration to the Americas, but also as the world’s first petro- extractive geography. . . . Energy Without Conscience is a powerful and urgent book, one that furthers an understanding of global interconnectedness, not as a neoliberal project of unity, but through a web of danger, unequal outcomes, and a matrix of complicity." -- Macarena Gomez-Barris * Journal of Latin American Geography *“Overall, Hughes’s Energy Without Conscience gives us a deeply historicized description of Trinidad and Tobago’s oil economy. Most importantly, he describes the potentiality of the past to have led to different presents and inspires us to consider different futures…. [The book] raises important questions about the ethical considerations and responsibilities of doing research in a world facing climate catastrophe. Owing to the methodical issues it covers, it will be of particular interest to anyone planning and conducting research in the broad fields of energy humanities, the anthropology of climate change, and extractive industries.” -- Kari Dahlgren * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. Energy with Conscience 1. Plantation Slaves, the First Fuel 29 2. How Oil Missed Its Utopian Moment 41 Part II. Ordinary Oil 3. The Myth of Inevitability 65 4. Lakeside, or the Petro-pastoral Sensibility 95 5. Climate Change and the Victim Slot 120 Conclusion 141 Notes 153 References 165 Index 183
£74.70
Duke University Press Pharmocracy
Book SynopsisKaushik Sunder Rajan traces the structure and operation of what he calls pharmocracy—a concept explaining the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He outlines pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India to demonstrate the stakes of its intersection with health, politics, democracy, and global capital.Trade Review"Through extensive ethnographic interviewing of a range of individuals from patients to parents, from the producer of generic drugs in India to civil society advocates in both the Gleevec and Gardasil cases, Pharmocracy provides a rich account of some of the more complex emotive concerns surrounding these moral, legal and financial questions of knowledge, value and politics. These are substantiated with in-depth triangulation of policy and legal documentation and philosophical thought. It is expertly researched and presented by a world-leading academic in the field who has devoted considerable research to the moral and philosophical concerns of the biomedical." -- Clare Wenham * LSE Review of Books *"Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s highly anticipated book Pharmocracy is a rich, multilayered look at the pharmaceutical industry in India. . . . Sunder Rajan provides an insightful analysis of the regimes of value of the Indian pharmaceutical industry as it has become increasing aligned with the multinational pharmaceutical industry." -- Anne Pollock * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Pharmocracy draws attention to the myriad forms of labor mobilized by the pharmaceutical (legal, clinical, volunteer, affective, and political) as well as the unruly properties of biological life itself and the growing ability to harness its (re)generative energies. These are vital questions, given how much pharmaceuticals have come to matter—as economic force, governmental conundrum, and active agent in the lives of humans and increasingly the environment— and to Pharmocracy we owe the debt of having begun to ask them." -- Vinh-Kim Nguyen * Current Anthropology *"Pharmocracy is an important and essential book, one that pays attention to these multiple iterations of power across institutions, industries, legal regimes, and place. It is one of the first ethnographic studies that articulates the politics of global biomedicine through several sites of analysis: clinical research, treatment access, trade-related intellectual property, and the future of generic drug manufacturing." -- Kristin Peterson * Biosocieties *"Presents an impressively holistic view of the world. . . . There is much to be praised in this book. The aims are very ambitious, and Sunder Rajan lays out no fewer than nineteen points of intersection around value, knowledge, and representation in the introduction. . . . It is in these representations of scale that Sunder Rajan’s work really shines." -- Jennifer J. Carroll * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Pharmocracy is an important discussion of events involving the Indian government, pharmaceutical companies—Indian and multinational—and civil society organizations. . . . A valuable addition to the social science of global medicine, its political economy, and its limitations." -- Roger Jeffery * American Journal of Sociology *". . . The argument Sunder Rajan presents is a compelling one.… This is a text that will surely be often referenced in any discussion of access to medicines in years to come." -- Sara L.M. Davis * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Value, Politics, and Knowledge in the Pharmocracy 1 1. Speculative Values: Pharmaceutical Crisis and Financialized Capital 37 2. Bioethical Values: HPV Vaccines, Public Scandal, and Experimental Subjectivity 62 3. Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics 112 4. Philanthropic Values: Corporate Social Responsibility and Monopoly in the Pharmocracy 157 5. Postcolonial Values: National Industries in Pharmaceutical Empire 193 Conclusion. Constitutions of Health, Responsibility, and Democracy 229 Notes 247 References 301 Index 321
£98.60
Duke University Press Downwardly Global
Book SynopsisLalaie Ameeriar follows the experiences of immigrant Pakistani women in Toronto who—despite being skilled, white-collar workers—suffer high levels of unemployment and poverty and who are advised by government-sanctioned worker programs to conform to an embodied form of multiculturalism that privileges whiteness and erases difference.Trade Review“Ameeriar’s book echoes an important refrain from diasporic feminist scholars, insisting that despite the various scales at which disenfranchisement and violence function, migrant women resourcefully find ways to persist.” -- Kareem Khubchandani * Journal of Asian American Studies *“Radically subversive, superbly written.” -- Pnina Werbner * Pacific Affairs *"Of interest to scholars of citizenship and governance, globalization and neoliberalism, gender and embodiment, multiculturalism and race, this book is a rich read for its deployment of analytical concepts and the creation of two new ones: pedagogies of affect and sanitized sensorium." -- Alison Shaw * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Introduction 1 1. Bodies and Bureaucracies 25 2. Pedagogies of Affect 53 3. Sanitizing Citizenship 75 4. Racializing South Asia 101 5. The Catastrophic Present 127 Conclusion 153 Notes 169 References 181 Index 201
£22.49
Duke University Press Pharmocracy
Book SynopsisKaushik Sunder Rajan traces the structure and operation of what he calls pharmocracy—a concept explaining the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He outlines pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India to demonstrate the stakes of its intersection with health, politics, democracy, and global capital.Trade Review"Through extensive ethnographic interviewing of a range of individuals from patients to parents, from the producer of generic drugs in India to civil society advocates in both the Gleevec and Gardasil cases, Pharmocracy provides a rich account of some of the more complex emotive concerns surrounding these moral, legal and financial questions of knowledge, value and politics. These are substantiated with in-depth triangulation of policy and legal documentation and philosophical thought. It is expertly researched and presented by a world-leading academic in the field who has devoted considerable research to the moral and philosophical concerns of the biomedical." -- Clare Wenham * LSE Review of Books *"Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s highly anticipated book Pharmocracy is a rich, multilayered look at the pharmaceutical industry in India. . . . Sunder Rajan provides an insightful analysis of the regimes of value of the Indian pharmaceutical industry as it has become increasing aligned with the multinational pharmaceutical industry." -- Anne Pollock * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"Pharmocracy draws attention to the myriad forms of labor mobilized by the pharmaceutical (legal, clinical, volunteer, affective, and political) as well as the unruly properties of biological life itself and the growing ability to harness its (re)generative energies. These are vital questions, given how much pharmaceuticals have come to matter—as economic force, governmental conundrum, and active agent in the lives of humans and increasingly the environment— and to Pharmocracy we owe the debt of having begun to ask them." -- Vinh-Kim Nguyen * Current Anthropology *"Pharmocracy is an important and essential book, one that pays attention to these multiple iterations of power across institutions, industries, legal regimes, and place. It is one of the first ethnographic studies that articulates the politics of global biomedicine through several sites of analysis: clinical research, treatment access, trade-related intellectual property, and the future of generic drug manufacturing." -- Kristin Peterson * Biosocieties *"Presents an impressively holistic view of the world. . . . There is much to be praised in this book. The aims are very ambitious, and Sunder Rajan lays out no fewer than nineteen points of intersection around value, knowledge, and representation in the introduction. . . . It is in these representations of scale that Sunder Rajan’s work really shines." -- Jennifer J. Carroll * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Pharmocracy is an important discussion of events involving the Indian government, pharmaceutical companies—Indian and multinational—and civil society organizations. . . . A valuable addition to the social science of global medicine, its political economy, and its limitations." -- Roger Jeffery * American Journal of Sociology *". . . The argument Sunder Rajan presents is a compelling one.… This is a text that will surely be often referenced in any discussion of access to medicines in years to come." -- Sara L.M. Davis * PoLAR *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments xi Introduction. Value, Politics, and Knowledge in the Pharmocracy 1 1. Speculative Values: Pharmaceutical Crisis and Financialized Capital 37 2. Bioethical Values: HPV Vaccines, Public Scandal, and Experimental Subjectivity 62 3. Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics 112 4. Philanthropic Values: Corporate Social Responsibility and Monopoly in the Pharmocracy 157 5. Postcolonial Values: National Industries in Pharmaceutical Empire 193 Conclusion. Constitutions of Health, Responsibility, and Democracy 229 Notes 247 References 301 Index 321
£25.19
Duke University Press Everyday Conversions
Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265
£98.60
Duke University Press Everyday Conversions
Book SynopsisAttiya Ahmad examines the practice of conversion to Islam by South Asian migrant domestic workers in the Arabian Peninsula and Persian Gulf region and how these women's conversions stem from an ongoing process rooted in their everyday experiences as migrant workers rather than a clean break from their preexisting lives.Trade Review"[T]his study offers new insights into the inner-workings of migration and breaks from static readings of religious conversions. . . . Bridging the gap between religion and migration is an important direction in scholarship on transnationalism, and Ahmad’s work markedly joins other projects on this urgent venture." -- Sasha Sabherwal * Anthropological Quarterly *"Everyday Conversions is a poignant and patient engagement with the gendered spaces and relations that are easy to overlook but are vital to state formation, social reproduction and religious life in multiple countries." -- Leya Mathew * Contemporary South Asia *“An enormous contribution. Everyday Conversions will be of interest to a variety of people—those interested in Islam, migrant experiences, the Indian Ocean world, and gender studies, especially.” -- Keely Sutton * Reading Religion *“Everyday Conversions is not only a valuable addition to the growing literature on Gulf identities, but also to the wider literature on religion, belonging and identity.” -- Idil Akinci * Ethnic and Racial Studies *"Beautifully written . . . Attiya Ahmad’s groundbreaking research sheds light on the complex process of conversion and the ways that South Asian migrant women domestic workers in Kuwait rework their lives and reshape their sense of self and belonging." -- Claire Beaugrand * Journal of Middle East Women's Studies *"This beautifully written book . . . skillfully weaves together women’s stories, which are contextualized within the history of the Indian Ocean trade, the feminization of Kuwait’s labour market, and the Islamic revival movement. A significant addition to scholarship on foreign workers in the Gulf, Attiya Ahmad’s volume adds ethnographic material that is missing from other studies: details of private religious lives." -- Mara A. Leichtman * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Everyday Conversions was very enjoyable to read; it was very thoughtful and thought-provoking in making sure that these women spoke their own truth. . . . The book expresses the intricacies of navigating one’s conditions between doing what one must do with meeting one’s basic human needs." -- Mirna Lattouf * Journal of Women of the Middle East and the Islamic World *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction. Everyday Conversions 1 1. Temporariness 37 2. Suspension 67 3. Naram 101 4. Housetalk 124 5. Fitra 157 Epilogue. Ongoing Conversions 191 Appendix 1. Notes on Fieldwork 201 Appendix 2. Interlocutors' Names and Connections to One Another 207 Glossary 211 Notes 219 References 245 Index 265
£25.19
Duke University Press Degrees of Mixture Degrees of Freedom
Book SynopsisPeter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, arguing that genomics produces biologized versions of racialized difference within the nation and the region and that a comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized societies give rise to highly racialized genomics.Trade Review“This book will be of great interest to historians of race in Latin America, as it is one of the first to extend the considerable scholarship on mestizaje and racial democracy (with its attendant debates) into a new era of genetics and genomics.… By opening a host of research paths for other scholars, the monograph proves itself to be ambitious and well executed.” -- Kelly Urban * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom is an invaluable resource on the topic of race mixture for race scholars and Latin Americanists alike.” -- G. Reginald Daniel * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Wade’s research probes the nexus of cutting-edge scientific research, historical memory, and socio-cultural scholarship. Scholars of modern Latin America, race, and the history of science will find much of use in this well written and conceptually ambitious study." -- Alex K. Diamond * EIAL *"Overall, Wade creates a remarkably even-handed account, which is neither alarmist nor evangelistic about the potential for genomics to transform or reinforce racial ideologies. . . . the clear and concise descriptions of genetic theory and practices will serve as an excellent introduction to these concepts for uninitiated readers, and the book makes important contributions to existing social science discussions about the anti-racist and democratising potential of mixture and genomics in contemporary societies." -- Sarah Abel * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Due to its breath and depth this is an essential book, one that will become a key academic reference about Latin American genomics, politics, and nationhood." -- Ernesto Schwartz-Marin * Ethnohistory *"This book provides a significant and unusual contribution to the field of sciences by centering the analysis on Latin American scientists. For scholars of race in Latin America, Wade updates and complicates our understandings of how race has been made, unmade, and remade by scientists and policymakers." -- Nancy P. Appelbaum * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Mixture as a Biological Process 1 I. Purity and Mixture 1. Purity and Mixture in Human Population Genetics 27 2. From Eugenics to Blood Types 53 II. Genetics and Multiculturalism 3. Changing Practices 85 4. Colombia, Country of Regions 99 5. Brazil, Race, and Affirmative Action 122 6. Mexico, Public Health, and State Genomics 146 7. Genomics & Multiculturalism: Comparisons and Continuities 166 III. Narrating Mixture 8. Gender, Genealogy, and Mestizaje 191 9. The Geneticization of Race and Diversity in Everyday Life 223 Conclusion 258 Notes 267 References 273 Index 315
£98.60
Duke University Press Competing Responsibilities
Book SynopsisWith a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the "responsible subject" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.Trade Review“Competing Responsibilities makes a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to social scientific understandings of responsibility at a key moment in the world’s unfolding. . . . This is an accomplished collection with a sustained argument running through it, thus offering substantive and always eloquent interpretations of responsibility and creating a text that has broad-ranging value to the academy and indeed, beyond.” -- Fiona Murphy * Social Anthropology *"Competing Responsibilities builds on the centrality of ‘responsibilization’ in neoliberal technologies of governance. . . . This insightful collection will provide food for thought for both researchers and advanced students." -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Competing Responsibilities: Reckoning Personal Responsibility, Care for the Other, and the Social Contract in Contemporary Life / Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle 1 Part I. Theoretical Departures 1. Making Us Resilient: Responsible Citizens for Uncertain Times / Nikolas Rose and Filippa Lentzos 27 2. Attunement: Rethinking Responsibility / Jarrett Zigon 49 Part II. States, Companies, and Communities 3. Reciprocal Responsibilities: Struggles over (New and Old) Social Contracts, Environmental Pollution, and Childhood Asthma in the Czech Republic / Susanna Trnka 71 4. Audit Culture and the Politics of Responsibility: Beyond Neoliberal Responsibilization? / Cris Shore 96 5. From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry / Jessica M. Smith 118 Part III. Violence 6. "The Information Is Out There": Transparency, Responsibility, and the Missing in Cyprus / Elizabeth Anne Davis 135 7. Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw 156 Part IV. Intimate Ties 8. The Politics of Responsibility in HIV / Barry D. Adam 181 9. Responsibilities of the Third Age and the Intimate Politics of Sociality in Poland / Jessica Robbins-Ruszowski 193 10. Genetic Bystanders: Familial Responsibility and the State's Accountability to Veterans of Nuclear Tests / Catherine Trundle 213 References 233 Contributors 263 Index 267
£98.60
Duke University Press Stuart Halls Voice
Book SynopsisIn these series of letters—which David Scott wrote to Stuart Hall following his death—Scott characterizes Hall's voice and his practice of speaking, listening, and generosity as the foundational elements of Hall's intellectual work.Trade Review"Scott’s small and eminently readable book is written as a series of epistolary letters to his late friend and mentor..... When the book merits our attention, it is in its keen attention and responsiveness to central themes in Halls oeuvre, and Hall’s mode of thinking and engaging as a public intellectual. For Scott calls attention to Hall’s using his particular and characteristic voice as a public intellectual as a mode of thinking itself; and speaking and listening a way of clarification." -- Sindre Bangstad * Africa is a Country *"Scott is an anthropologist at Columbia and to my mind one of the most provocative and interesting figures in the constellation of literary criticism and political philosophy that falls under post-colonial theory.... [A] very lively conversation and an interesting introduction to the thought and style of both Stuart Hall and David Scott." -- Michael Schapira * Full Stop *"David Scott’s Stuart Hall’s Voice consists of a wonderfully original format, a series of letters written to Hall after his death exploring the significance of his legacy to so many contemporary intellectuals who remain enthralled by his influence." -- Mark Perryman * Open Democracy *"[A] triumphant and sensitive exploration into a tricky and fascinating topic. . . . Scott’s book serves as a welcome reminder that to think comprehensively with and through the work of Stuart Hall, we cannot neglect his powerful voice which, in exhibiting a particular kind of stylistic ethos, embraced listening and learning as much, if not more, than it did speaking and teaching." -- Nick Malherbe * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"This is an unusual and unusually beautiful book." -- John Clarke * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *"Scott maps an uncommon history of his intellectual friendship with Hall. But their relationship is obviously more than just one of scholarly admiration. Scott shows deep care in how the book dialogically speaks to and listens with Hall’s thinking voice through writing. It is as if the two are in actual material communion. Scott’s epistolary style is rich in its possibilities as use for other similar academic enterprises and sits at the intersections of fiction, exposition, memory and critical analysis." -- Agostinho Pinnock * Postcolonial Studies *Table of ContentsApology: On Intellectual Friendship 1 1. A Listening Self: Voice and the Ethos of Style 23 2. Responsiveness to the Present: Thinking through Contingency 53 3. Attunement to Identity: What We Make of What We Find 85 4. Learning to Learn from Others: An Ethics of Receptive Generosity 115 Adieu: Walk Good 143 Acknowledgments 147 Notes 149 Index 179
£27.90
Duke University Press Degrees of Mixture Degrees of Freedom
Book SynopsisPeter Wade draws on a multidisciplinary research study in Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia, arguing that genomics produces biologized versions of racialized difference within the nation and the region and that a comparative approach nuances the simple idea that highly racialized societies give rise to highly racialized genomics.Trade Review“This book will be of great interest to historians of race in Latin America, as it is one of the first to extend the considerable scholarship on mestizaje and racial democracy (with its attendant debates) into a new era of genetics and genomics.… By opening a host of research paths for other scholars, the monograph proves itself to be ambitious and well executed.” -- Kelly Urban * H-LatAm, H-Net Reviews *“Degrees of Mixture, Degrees of Freedom is an invaluable resource on the topic of race mixture for race scholars and Latin Americanists alike.” -- G. Reginald Daniel * Hispanic American Historical Review *"Wade’s research probes the nexus of cutting-edge scientific research, historical memory, and socio-cultural scholarship. Scholars of modern Latin America, race, and the history of science will find much of use in this well written and conceptually ambitious study." -- Alex K. Diamond * EIAL *"Overall, Wade creates a remarkably even-handed account, which is neither alarmist nor evangelistic about the potential for genomics to transform or reinforce racial ideologies. . . . the clear and concise descriptions of genetic theory and practices will serve as an excellent introduction to these concepts for uninitiated readers, and the book makes important contributions to existing social science discussions about the anti-racist and democratising potential of mixture and genomics in contemporary societies." -- Sarah Abel * Journal of Latin American Studies *"Due to its breath and depth this is an essential book, one that will become a key academic reference about Latin American genomics, politics, and nationhood." -- Ernesto Schwartz-Marin * Ethnohistory *"This book provides a significant and unusual contribution to the field of sciences by centering the analysis on Latin American scientists. For scholars of race in Latin America, Wade updates and complicates our understandings of how race has been made, unmade, and remade by scientists and policymakers." -- Nancy P. Appelbaum * Latin American Research Review *Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Mixture as a Biological Process 1 I. Purity and Mixture 1. Purity and Mixture in Human Population Genetics 27 2. From Eugenics to Blood Types 53 II. Genetics and Multiculturalism 3. Changing Practices 85 4. Colombia, Country of Regions 99 5. Brazil, Race, and Affirmative Action 122 6. Mexico, Public Health, and State Genomics 146 7. Genomics & Multiculturalism: Comparisons and Continuities 166 III. Narrating Mixture 8. Gender, Genealogy, and Mestizaje 191 9. The Geneticization of Race and Diversity in Everyday Life 223 Conclusion 258 Notes 267 References 273 Index 315
£25.19
Duke University Press Competing Responsibilities
Book SynopsisWith a mix of ethnography and social theory, the contributors to Competing Responsibilities challenge contemporary understandings of responsibility in political, social, and ethical life by showing how neoliberalism's reification of the "responsible subject" masks the myriad forms of individual and collective responsibility that people engage with in their everyday lives.Trade Review“Competing Responsibilities makes a valuable theoretical and empirical contribution to social scientific understandings of responsibility at a key moment in the world’s unfolding. . . . This is an accomplished collection with a sustained argument running through it, thus offering substantive and always eloquent interpretations of responsibility and creating a text that has broad-ranging value to the academy and indeed, beyond.” -- Fiona Murphy * Social Anthropology *"Competing Responsibilities builds on the centrality of ‘responsibilization’ in neoliberal technologies of governance. . . . This insightful collection will provide food for thought for both researchers and advanced students." -- John Gledhill * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Competing Responsibilities: Reckoning Personal Responsibility, Care for the Other, and the Social Contract in Contemporary Life / Susanna Trnka and Catherine Trundle 1 Part I. Theoretical Departures 1. Making Us Resilient: Responsible Citizens for Uncertain Times / Nikolas Rose and Filippa Lentzos 27 2. Attunement: Rethinking Responsibility / Jarrett Zigon 49 Part II. States, Companies, and Communities 3. Reciprocal Responsibilities: Struggles over (New and Old) Social Contracts, Environmental Pollution, and Childhood Asthma in the Czech Republic / Susanna Trnka 71 4. Audit Culture and the Politics of Responsibility: Beyond Neoliberal Responsibilization? / Cris Shore 96 5. From Corporate Social Responsibility to Creating Shared Value: Contesting Responsibilization and the Mining Industry / Jessica M. Smith 118 Part III. Violence 6. "The Information Is Out There": Transparency, Responsibility, and the Missing in Cyprus / Elizabeth Anne Davis 135 7. Justice and Its Doubles: Producing Postwar Responsibilities in Sierra Leone / Rosalind Shaw 156 Part IV. Intimate Ties 8. The Politics of Responsibility in HIV / Barry D. Adam 181 9. Responsibilities of the Third Age and the Intimate Politics of Sociality in Poland / Jessica Robbins-Ruszowski 193 10. Genetic Bystanders: Familial Responsibility and the State's Accountability to Veterans of Nuclear Tests / Catherine Trundle 213 References 233 Contributors 263 Index 267
£25.19
Duke University Press How Development Projects Persist
Book SynopsisErin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working with poor, rural women in Guatemala to show how these women creatively and strategically use the NGOs to their own benefit in ways that do not necessarily match the goals of the NGOs, demonstrating that development projects are often transformed and persist in unexpected ways.Trade Review"Erin Beck has made a lasting contribution to the field of development studies in theorising development as a social interaction while also raising important issues for policy and practice. How Development Projects Persist is a call to contemplate, assess and study development not simply according to the goals of policymakers and organisations, but according to the larger vision and life goals of the people that interventions hope to serve." -- Bronwen Gillespie * Anthropology in Action *"The strength of Why Development Projects Persist is the quality of Beck’s data. . . . Beck writes her ethnographic data with completeness and clarity, which allows the reader to understand the intentions of these organizations, the worldviews of participants, and the ways these clashed as the NGOs’ visions of development were put into practice." -- Laura J. Heideman * American Journal of Sociology *"The text’s strength lies in its conceptual breadth and accessibility. . . . An easy, yet enlightening read. . . . Beck effectively shows rather than just tells what development encounters look like and how they are interpreted by the actors involved." -- Monica DeHart * Anthropological Quarterly *“This book. . . is useful to those interested in international studies, development studies, as well as development practitioners. . . . Further, Beck’s detailed analysis is well-written and jargon-free, and presents us with a balanced and longitudinal view of NGO development projects in Guatemala.” -- Michelle Moran-Taylor * Journal of Latin American Geography *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii 1. Social Engineering from Above and Below 1 2. Repackaging Development in Guatemala 29 3. Namaste's Bootstrap Model 64 4. Women and Workers Responding to Bootstrap Development 90 5. The Fraternity's Holistic Model 134 6. The Uneven Practices and Experiences of Holistic Development 162 7. The Implications of Socially Constructed Development 208 Appendix. Research Methods and Ethical Dilemmas 225 Notes 233 References 239 Index 259
£25.19
Duke University Press Fractivism
Book SynopsisSara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking in the United States and how scientists, nonprofits, landowners, and everyday people are coming together to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through the creation of digital platforms and databases that document fracking's devastating environmental and human health impacts.Trade Review"Wylie makes an exciting and timely scholarly contribution that is relevant well beyond the scope of those concerned with the anthropology of energy. This book is useful to social scientists to inform research and teaching on topics spanning science and technology studies, energy policy, sustainability,environmental health, digital humanities, and applied and design anthropology. The relevance of this work also extends beyond academia, and would be of great value not only to gas patch communities that are still struggling to demonstrate the links between chemical exposure and illness, but to community leaders and activists that are engaged in a growing array of citizen science initiatives." -- Amanda Poole * Conservation and Society *"Fractivism is an incredibly well-sourced book that presents and represents a kind of historical account of the newer applications of fracking technology (fracking reservoirs isn’t actually new) and various approaches scientists and communities are using to hold exploration companies accountable for the environmental problems resulting from fracking operations. . . . Well worth reading. Highly recommended. All readers." -- M. S. Field * Choice *"Written with a strong sense of conviction and urgency. . . . An important and timely book that offers essential reading for students, researchers, and activists interested in civic science and the David-and-Goliath struggle of the popular epidemiology movement to help grassroots groups document the toxic burden posed by petrochemical and fossil fuel facilities." -- Anthony E. Ladd * Mobilization *"It is a credit to the book that every chapter has its share of galling information about corporate malfeasance. . . . As forests burn and famine grows, the need for Wylie’s radical science and activism is ever more necessary." -- Miles Taylor * Synoptique *"Fracktivism is a meticulously researched and supported text. . . . For academics, lawmakers, and activists, Fracktivism may give either the insight, data, or motivation for a new platform in piercing the 'regimes of imperceptibility.'" -- Victor Hall * Natural Resources Journal *"Fractivism truly is an interdisciplinary work, combining insights and methodologies from anthropology, sociology, science and technology studies, environmental science, and physiology. Wylie does a good job of integrating these perspectives to produce a compelling and detailed guide for collaborative environmental justice work." -- Kristen M. Schorpp * Nature and Culture *"Positioning matters of science and technology at the heart of environmental justice and the study of extractive industries, Wylie contributes to important debates in anthropology, applied social sciences and STS which concern the methodological and conceptual ability of these disciplines to challenge dominant paradigms." -- Anna Szolucha * Cambridge Journal of Anthropology *"Fractivism is especially useful for the classroom and for interdisciplinary researchers and students alike to understand how 'STS in practice' can be a model for material projects that unite those who want to try and find solutions with others—not in isolation. This book is a tool for those looking to utilize research, data, or analytical methods for social and environmental justice movements broadly." -- Leslie Quintanilla * Catalyst *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xiii Introduction. An STS Analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United States 1 1. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oilfield Service Companies and Hydraulic Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions 19 2. Methods for Following Chemicals: Seeing a Disruptive System and Forming a Disruptive Science 41 3. HEIRship: TEDX and Collective Inheritance 64 4. Stimulating Debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's Generative Database 86 5. Industrial Relations and an Introduction to STS in Practice 115 6. ExtrAct: A Case Study in Methods for STS in Practice 137 7. Landman Report Card: Developing Web Tools for Socially Contentious Issues 165 8. From LRC to WellWatch: Designing Infrastructure for Participatory and Recursive Publics 191 9. WellWatch: Reflections on Designing Digital Media for Multisited Para-ethnography of Industrial Systems 219 10. The Fossil-Fuel Connection (with coauthor Len Albright) 247 Conclusion. Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds: A Call for Industrial Embodiment 279 Notes 305 References 333 Index 383
£112.20
Duke University Press Everyday Intimacies of the Middle East
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£12.34
Duke University Press Erotic Islands
Book SynopsisLyndon K. Gill foregrounds a queer presence in foundational elements of Trinidad and Tobago's national imaginary—Carnival masquerade design, Calypso musicianship, and queer HIV/AIDS activism—to show how same-sex desire provides the means for the nation's queer population to develop survival and community building strategies.Trade Review"Highly recommended." -- E. Pappas * Choice *"Part history and part ethnography, Lyndon K. Gill’s Erotic Islands offers an innovative approach to nascent and long-established fields such as black diaspora studies and anthropology, correspondingly. Scholars of Caribbean studies or queer studies will likewise benefit from Erotic Islands." -- Alejandro Stephano Escalante * ASAP/Journal *"Reading Erotic Islands is a sensual exercise. The chapters, organized based on the senses, visual, aural and tactile engagement in art and activism, are punctuated by excerpts from Gill’s field diaries, also rich with sensory descriptions. . . . The text successfully engages the reader on multiple levels. Erotic Islands provides rich and provocative explorations of same-sex desire and instructions for applying the erotic lens, while making invaluable contribution to deeper understandings of the queer Caribbean." -- Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan * Anthropos *“I celebrate this book for resisting dominant imaginings of paradise and refuting the idea that the region is unlivable for same-sex-desiring persons. This work takes seriously the spaces of our Queer Caribbean lives with caring analysis.” -- Angelique V. Nixon * GLQ *“Some ethnographers are griots who rely on ethnography to reveal certain truths about the world. Lyndon Gill is one such scholar. Attentive to the transformative power of language, story-telling, and multiple registers of world-making, he reveals the power of ‘eros as a lens, vital for surveying the elaborate topography of connections we share as political, sensual, and spiritual beings’ (p. 11).” -- Ana-Maurine Lara * Asian Journal of Social Science *“Erotic Islands is a thought-provoking text that offers integral concepts to queer, diaspora, Black, and Caribbean studies. It is a pivotal tool that excavates the dynamism of queer Caribbean efforts toward recognition, safety, and autonomy.” -- Sabia McCoy-Torres * Transforming Anthropology *
£112.20
Duke University Press Erotic Islands
Book SynopsisLyndon K. Gill foregrounds a queer presence in foundational elements of Trinidad and Tobago's national imaginary—Carnival masquerade design, Calypso musicianship, and queer HIV/AIDS activism—to show how same-sex desire provides the means for the nation's queer population to develop survival and community building strategies.Trade Review"Highly recommended." -- E. Pappas * Choice *"Part history and part ethnography, Lyndon K. Gill’s Erotic Islands offers an innovative approach to nascent and long-established fields such as black diaspora studies and anthropology, correspondingly. Scholars of Caribbean studies or queer studies will likewise benefit from Erotic Islands." -- Alejandro Stephano Escalante * ASAP/Journal *"Reading Erotic Islands is a sensual exercise. The chapters, organized based on the senses, visual, aural and tactile engagement in art and activism, are punctuated by excerpts from Gill’s field diaries, also rich with sensory descriptions. . . . The text successfully engages the reader on multiple levels. Erotic Islands provides rich and provocative explorations of same-sex desire and instructions for applying the erotic lens, while making invaluable contribution to deeper understandings of the queer Caribbean." -- Krystal Nandini Ghisyawan * Anthropos *“I celebrate this book for resisting dominant imaginings of paradise and refuting the idea that the region is unlivable for same-sex-desiring persons. This work takes seriously the spaces of our Queer Caribbean lives with caring analysis.” -- Angelique V. Nixon * GLQ *“Some ethnographers are griots who rely on ethnography to reveal certain truths about the world. Lyndon Gill is one such scholar. Attentive to the transformative power of language, story-telling, and multiple registers of world-making, he reveals the power of ‘eros as a lens, vital for surveying the elaborate topography of connections we share as political, sensual, and spiritual beings’ (p. 11).” -- Ana-Maurine Lara * Asian Journal of Social Science *“Erotic Islands is a thought-provoking text that offers integral concepts to queer, diaspora, Black, and Caribbean studies. It is a pivotal tool that excavates the dynamism of queer Caribbean efforts toward recognition, safety, and autonomy.” -- Sabia McCoy-Torres * Transforming Anthropology *
£28.80
Duke University Press Grateful Nation Student Veterans and the Rise of
Book SynopsisTracing the college experiences of Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans, Ellen Moore challenges the popular narratives that explain student veterans' academic difficulties while showing how these narratives and institutional support for the military lead to suppression of campus debate about the wars, discourage anti-war activism, and encourage a growing militarization.Trade Review"Through extensive work with hundreds of veterans and a detailed investigation into veterans in college, Ellen Moore has powerfully illuminated and analyzed the ways the military has strategically positioned itself in US society. She has done something unique and powerful in the scholarship of war and peace—a work that should be broadly disseminated and debated." -- Rick Ayers * Huffington Post *“Grateful Nation raises important insights as to what the veterans’ presence on campus might mean. And, much like the paratrooper’s rucksack, there is a lot in Grateful Nation to unpack.” -- Robert G. Young * Military Review *"An insightful new book. Grateful Nation will contribute to both future research and practice among those who study and work on questions related to veterans and to higher education." -- Alair MacLean * Social Forces *"Due to its wide-ranging theoretical grounding and implications, Grateful Nation is a strong contribution for those interested in a variety of topics including education, militarism, and veteran experiences. This is an excellent book for those who work with student veterans and want to engage in depth with the complexity of this student population." -- Michelle Sandhoff * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsPreface ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. Basic Training: Making the Soldier, Militarizing the Civilian 25 2. What They Bring with Them: Effects of Military Training on Student Veterans 43 3. Campus Veteran Support Initiatives 77 4. Veteran Self-Help: Embracing, Re-creating, and Contesting Gendered Military Relations 97 5. Spectral Wars and the Myth of the Antimilitary Campus 127 6. "Thank You for Your Service": Gratitude and Its Discontents 165 Conclusion 189 Notes 201 Bibliography 237 Index 253
£76.50
Duke University Press The Look of a Woman
Book SynopsisEric Plemons explores the ways in which facial feminization surgery is changing the ways in which trans- women are not only perceived of as women, but in the ways it is altering the project of surgical sex reassignment and the understandings of what sex means.Trade Review"This is a well-written and thought-provoking contribution not only to transgender studies but also to our debate about how we necessarily and constantly refashion ourselves." -- Sander L. Gilman * Critical Inquiry *“An exceptionally well-written book, based on highly engaged fieldwork . . . and filled with elegant and innovative theoretical insights about the material (in)stability and social urgency of sex/gender.” -- Christine Labuski * American Anthropologist *“A wonderfully terse and insightful first book. Eric Plemons’s work counts as the best of trans studies.” -- Cressida J. Heyes * American Journal of Bioethics *“In The Look of a Woman, Eric Plemons gives us a very thoughtful, well-researched, and important statement about the role of facial feminization surgery in trans-medicine.” -- Juliana Hansen * Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery *“The Look of a Woman is a new and important examination of the world of trans medicine, particularly the question of gendered identity, facial physiognomy, and most importantly the face-to-face determination of sex. An excellent and enriching engagement.” -- Bernadette Wegenstein * Medical Anthropology Quarterly *"In both style and content this book is eminently teachable: a great demonstration of how to build and hone an argument. It is an admirably slim volume, afforded its modest size by Plemons’ writerly technique. The prose is lucid and not unnecessarily adjectival. The more complex ideas benefit from a clarifying portrayal that will bring non-academic readers on side. . . . The book’s clarity lends it an effortless feel, which I suspect is actually an effect of labour at every scale: word, sentence, chapter, argument. This labour has certainly paid off: The Look of a Woman is a lovely addition to anthropology’s bookshelves." -- Courtney Addison * The Australian Journal of Anthropology *"This book brilliantly raises some fundamental and very broad questions about the link between medicine and social norms, sex and gender, the body and the self." -- Andrae Thomazo * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. On Origins 21 Interlude. The Procedures 39 2. Femininity in the Clinic 43 Interlude. Celebrate! 67 3. Cutting as Caring 71 4. Recognition and Refusal 89 Interlude. My Adam's Apple 109 5. The Operating Room 113 6. And After 135 Conclusion 151 Notes 157 References 169 Index 185
£70.55
Duke University Press Spiritual Citizenship
Book SynopsisFadeke Castor explores the roles African religious practice play in the formation of social and political identities play in post-independence Trinidad and Tobago, showing how Ifá/Orisha practitioners build and perceive a sense of diasporic belonging that leads them to work toward black liberation and a decolonial future.Trade Review"The author deftly describes the ritual practices of African-based religions in the African diaspora and highlights the role of international conferences in the formation of religious identity. Additionally, she successfully relates the contemporary Orisa movement in Trinidad to the 1970s Trinidad black power movement. . . . Castor does an outstanding job of portraying the flow of ritual and ritual performance. Highly recommended." -- S. D. Glazier * Choice *"Spiritual Citizenship is an important text. . . . An essential teaching text on questions of multiculturalism, citizenship, race, and religion. Its engaging writing style on these timely issues and its focus on the under-studied (but fascinating) religious context of Trinidad make Spiritual Citizenship a must-read." -- J. Brent Crosson * Reading Religion *"Spiritual Citizenship is a groundbreaking ethnography. . . . With vivid, engaging and descriptive writing, Castor examines how Ifá/Orisha religious communities that were for decades persecuted and maligned have been re-evaluated in the context of the Black Power Movement in Trinidad—later defined as integral to the pluralistic and multicultural nation and simultaneously incorporated into transnational spiritual networks of priests and practitioners." -- Yolanda D. Covington-Ward * Transforming Anthropology *"Spiritual Citizenship makes an important ethnographic contribution to Caribbean anthropology and Afro-Atlantic history. . . . This study is notable for the unique and timely ethnographic contributions it makes." -- Keith E. McNeal * Journal of Anthropological Research *"What this book does best is to show how competing transnational and national dynamics offer multiple possibilities for religious authority and achievement, and how these possibilities generate friction. . . . Given how well Castor writes herself and her processes of learning and initiation into the ethnography, the book offers insights on transforming returns at multiple levels." -- Paul Johnson * Anthropos *Table of ContentsNote on Orthography ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 Part I. Spiritual Engagements with Black Cultural Citizenship 1. The Spirit of Black Power: An Ancestral Calling 25 2. Multicultural Moments: From Margins to Mainstream 54 Part II. Emerging Spiritual Citizenship 3. Around the Bend: Festive Practices in a Yorùbá-Centric Shrine 71 4. Trini Travels: Spiritual Citizenship as Transnational 99 5. Ifá in Trinidad's Ground 128 Appendixes I-III 169 Notes 179 Glossary 191 References 197 Index 221
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