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On Decoloniality
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...
Neoliberalism from Below
Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other...
by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Suzana Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a...
How Nature Speaks
The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality—situated rather than...
New Masters, New Servants
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their...
Whither China?
Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2002
Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that...
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility...
Cities Surround The Countryside
Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2010
Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop the countryside, not only geographically and demographically but also in terms of cultural impact. Robin...
by Krista Comer
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In Surfer Girls in the New World Order, Krista Comer explores surfing as a local and global subculture, looking at how the culture of surfing has affected and been affected by girls, from baby boomers to members of Generation Y. Her analysis encompasses the dynamics of international surf tourism in...
Trolling Big-Water Walleyes
Secrets of the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Experts reveal surefire methods for walleye trolling, equipment techniques, tactics, and more
On big, open water like the Great Lakes, sprawling Western reservoirs, and large North American rivers, trolling puts more walleyes in the boat—hour for hour—than any other fishing method. Why?...
The Quality of Home Runs
The Passion, Politics, and Language of Cuban Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2008
In parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. Thomas F. Carter contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, games, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. The Quality...
The Color of Liberty
Histories of Race in France
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2003
France has long defined itself as a color-blind nation where racial bias has no place. Even today, the French universal curriculum for secondary students makes no mention of race or slavery, and many French scholars still resist addressing racial questions. Yet, as this groundbreaking volume shows,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future. The contributors, all leading figures in anthropology today, reflect back on the "writing culture"...
Nightwatch
The Politics of Protest in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1999
Organized in the mid-1970s as a means of communal protection against livestock rustling and general thievery in Peru’s rugged northern mountains, the rondas campesinas (peasants who make the rounds) grew into an entire system of peasant justice and one of the most significant Andean social movements...