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Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2001
The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously...
by Marc Abélès, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In this provocative analysis of global politics, the anthropologist Marc Abélès argues that the meaning and aims of political action have radically changed in the era of globalization. As dangers such as terrorism and global warming have moved to the fore of global consciousness, foreboding has...
Brothers and Strangers
Black Zion, Black Slavery, 1914–1940
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2004
Unprecedented in scope and detail, Brothers and Strangers is a vivid history of how the mythic Africa of the black American imagination ran into the realities of Africa the place. In the 1920s, Marcus Garvey—convinced that freedom from oppression was not possible for blacks in the Americas—led...
Neoliberalism as Exception
Mutations in Citizenship and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Neoliberalism is commonly viewed as an economic doctrine that seeks to limit the scope of government. Some consider it a form of predatory capitalism with adverse effects on the Global South. In this groundbreaking work, Aihwa Ong offers an alternative view of neoliberalism as an extraordinarily malleable...
by Domenico Losurdo, Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2004
Available in English for the first time, Hegel and the Freedom of Moderns revives discussion of the major political and philosophical tenets underlying contemporary liberalism through a revolutionary interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s thought. Domenico Losurdo,one of the world’s leading Hegelians,...
by Carl Schmitt, Christopher Thornhill
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2008
Carl Schmitt’s magnum opus, Constitutional Theory, was originally published in 1928 and has been in print in German ever since. This volume makes Schmitt’s masterpiece of comparative constitutionalism available to English-language readers for the first time. Schmitt is considered by many to be...
Chinese Modern
The Heroic and the Quotidian
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2000
Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of...
Punishing the Poor
The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009
The punitive turn of penal policy in the United States after the acme of the Civil Rights movement responds not to rising criminal insecurity but to the social insecurity spawned by the fragmentation of wage labor and the shakeup of the ethnoracial hierarchy. It partakes of a broader reconstruction...
by Edward LiPuma, Benjamin Lee, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2004
The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990...
Evolution's Eye
A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2000
In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates...
Unveiling Traditions
Postcolonial Islam in a Polycentric World
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2000
In Unveiling Traditions Anouar Majid issues a challenge to the West to reimagine Islam as a progressive world culture and a participant in the building of a multicultural and more egalitarian world civilization. From within the highly secularized space it inhabits, a space endemically suspicious of...
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Effects on Economies, Societies and Peoples in Africa, the Americas, and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1992
Debates over the economic, social, and political meaning of slavery and the slave trade have persisted for over two hundred years. The Atlantic Slave Trade brings clarity and critical insight to the subject. In fourteen essays, leading scholars consider the nature and impact of the transatlantic slave...
The Environment and the People in American Cities, 1600s-1900s
Disorder, Inequality, and Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
In The Environment and the People in American Cities, Dorceta E. Taylor provides an in-depth examination of the development of urban environments, and urban environmentalism, in the United States. Taylor focuses on the evolution of the city, the emergence of elite reformers, the framing of environmental...