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Setting Sights
Histories and Reflections on Community Armed Self-Defense
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
This wide-ranging anthology uncovers the hidden histories and ideas of community armed self-defence, exploring how it has been used by marginalised and oppressed communities as well as anarchists and radicals within significant social movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Far from...
Classic Cavs
The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History, Second Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970–71 through the franchise’s renaissance following the triumphant return of LeBron James. The rich, colorful history of the Cavs is woven into tales that...
A Coincidence of Desires
Anthropology, Queer Studies, Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2007
In A Coincidence of Desires, Tom Boellstorff considers how interdisciplinary collaboration between anthropology and queer studies might enrich both fields. For more than a decade he has visited Indonesia, both as an anthropologist exploring gender and sexuality and as an activist involved in HIV prevention...
The Tatars of Crimea
Return to the Homeland
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 1998
This new edition of Edward A. Allworth’s The Tatars of Crimea has been extensively updated. Five new chapters examine the situation of Crimean Tatars since the breakup of the USSR in 1991 and detail the continuing struggle of the Tatars to find peace and acceptance in a homeland.
Contributors to...
Strip Cultures
Finding America in Las Vegas
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2015
On the Las Vegas Strip, blockbuster casinos burst out of the desert, billboards promise "hot babes," actual hot babes proffer complimentary drinks, and a million happy slot machines ring day and night. It’s loud and excessive, but, as the Project on Vegas demonstrates, the Strip is not...
The South Africa Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped...
Organizing Empire
Individualism, Collective Agency, and India
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003
Organizing Empire critically examines how concepts of individualism functioned to support and resist British imperialism in India. Through readings of British colonial and Indian nationalist narratives that emerged in parliamentary debates, popular colonial histories, newsletters, memoirs, biographies,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2015
In twenty essays on subjects such as noise, acoustics, music, and silence, Keywords in Sound presents a definitive resource for sound studies, and a compelling argument for why studying sound matters. Each contributor details their keyword's intellectual history, outlines its role in cultural, social...
Remaking New Orleans
Beyond Exceptionalism and Authenticity
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
Approached as a wellspring of cultural authenticity and historical exceptionality, New Orleans appears in opposition to a nation perpetually driven by progress. Remaking New Orleans shows how this narrative is rooted in a romantic cultural tradition, continuously repackaged through the twin engines...
Hit Me, Fred
Recollections of a Sideman
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2002
With Hit Me, Fred, sensational sideman Fred Wesley Jr. moves front and center to tell his life story. A legendary funk, soul, and jazz musician, Wesley is best known for his work in the late sixties and early seventies with James Brown and as the leader of Brown’s band, Fred Wesley and the JB’s....
In Case of Fire in a Foreign Land
New and Collected Poems from Two Languages
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2002
In the world of Chilean poet Ariel Dorfman, men and women can be forced to choose between leaving their country or dying for it. The living risk losing everything, but what they hold onto—love, faith, hope, truth—might change the world. It is this subversive possibility that speaks through these...
Finite Media
Environmental Implications of Digital Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
While digital media give us the ability to communicate with and know the world, their use comes at the expense of an immense ecological footprint and environmental degradation. In Finite Media Sean Cubitt offers a large-scale rethinking of theories of mediation by examining the environmental and...
Soundtrack Available
Essays on Film and Popular Music
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2001
From the silent era to the present day, popular music has been a key component of the film experience. Yet there has been little serious writing on film soundtracks that feature popular music. Soundtrack Available fills this gap, as its contributors provide detailed analyses of individual films as...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu had a broader theoretical agenda than is generally acknowledged. Introducing this innovative collection of essays, Philip S. Gorski argues that Bourdieu's reputation as a theorist of social reproduction is the misleading result of his work's initial reception...