Books Books Press imprint: 2592 books
by Neil L. Whitehead, Jo Ellen Fair, Leigh A. Payne
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2010
Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs,...
Endangered City
The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
Security 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...
Exiled Home
Salvadoran Transnational Youth in the Aftermath of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
In Exiled Home, Susan Bibler Coutin recounts the experiences of Salvadoran children who migrated with their families to the United States during the 1980–1992 civil war. Because of their youth and the violence they left behind, as well as their uncertain legal status in the United States, many grew...
Poor People's Politics
Peronist Survival Networks and the Legacy of Evita
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“Political clientelism” is a term used to characterize the contemporary relationships between political elites and the poor in Latin America in which goods and services are traded for political favors. Javier Auyero critically deploys the notion in Poor People’s Politics to analyze the political...
Securing the City
Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011
Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
Cuba
Religion, Social Capital, and Development
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
When Cuba’s centralized system for providing basic social services began to erode in the early 1990s, Christian and Afro-Cuban religious groups took on new social and political responsibilities. They began to work openly with state institutions on projects such as the promotion of Afro-Cuban heritage...
Long Live Atahualpa
Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
Long Live Atahualpa is an innovative ethnographic study of indigenous political movements against discrimination in modern Ecuador. Exploring the politicizing of Indianness—the right of indigenous peoples to self-determination and political agency—Emma Cervone analyzes how the Quichuas mobilized...
Not Hollywood
Independent Film at the Twilight of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner combines her trademark ethnographic expertise with critical film interpretation to explore the independent film scene in New York and Los Angeles since the late 1980s. Not Hollywood is both a study of the lived experience of that scene and a critical...
Television Cities
Paris, London, Baltimore
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2018
In Television Cities Charlotte Brunsdon traces television's representations of metropolitan spaces to show how they reflect the medium's history and evolution, thereby challenging the prevalent assumptions about television as quintessentially suburban. Brunsdon shows how the BBC's presentation of...
Appropriately Indian
Gender and Culture in a New Transnational Class
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Appropriately Indian is an ethnographic analysis of the class of information technology professionals at the symbolic helm of globalizing India. Comprising a small but prestigious segment of India’s labor force, these transnational knowledge workers dominate the country’s economic and cultural...
The Commodification of Childhood
The Children’s Clothing Industry and the Rise of the Child Consumer
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2004
In this revealing social history, Daniel Thomas Cook explores the roots of children’s consumer culture—and the commodification of childhood itself—by looking at the rise, growth, and segmentation of the children’s clothing industry. Cook describes how in the early twentieth century merchants,...
Double Negative
The Black Image and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
From the antics of Flavor Flav on Flavor of Love to the brazen behavior of the women on Love & Hip Hop, so-called negative images of African Americans are a recurrent mainstay of contemporary American media representations. In Double Negative Racquel J. Gates examines the generative potential of such...
One Night on TV Is Worth Weeks at the Paramount
Popular Music on Early Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Elvis Presley's television debut in January 1956 is often cited as the moment when popular music and television came together. Murray Forman challenges that contention, revealing popular music as crucial to television years before Presley's sensational small-screen performances. Drawing on trade and...
Advertising Diversity
Ad Agencies and the Creation of Asian American Consumers
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
In Advertising Diversity Shalini Shankar explores how racial and ethnic differences are created and commodified through advertisements, marketing, and public relations. Drawing from periods of fieldwork she conducted over four years at Asian American ad agencies in New York, San Francisco, and Los...