Duke University Press: 2463 books
The Edge of Islam
Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2009
In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected in and shaped by the different ways the two groups relate to Islam. While Swahili and Giriama peoples...
Ethnography as Commentary
Writing from the Virtual Archive
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives. Electronically archived fieldwork documents can be accessed at any time by the writer, his or her readers, and the people studied. Johannes Fabian, a leading theorist of anthropological...
New Directions in Telecommunications
Volume 2, Information Policy and Economic Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Communications policy as been a fertile area for testing theories of regulation, subsidy and incentives, free speech, political participation, and the public interest. The capacities of new communications technology have changed markedly since much of the governing legislation in the communications...
by Sara Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
In Living a Feminist Life Sara Ahmed shows how feminist theory is generated from everyday life and the ordinary experiences of being a feminist at home and at work. Building on legacies of feminist of color scholarship in particular, Ahmed offers a poetic and personal meditation on how feminists become...
Beyond the European Left
Ideology and Political Action in the Belgian Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Drawing on recent research on the internal politics of the Belgian ecology parties, Agalev and Ecolo, this work demonstrates how political careers in contemporary social movements lead to activism in left-libertarian politics and influence political ideology. Beyond the European Left is the first...
by Donald F. Stevens
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 1991
In the decades following independence, Mexico was transformed from a strong, stable colony into a republic suffering from economic decline and political strife. Marked by political instability—characterized by Antonio López de Santa Anna’s rise to the presidency on eleven distinct occasions—this...
Globalization and Race
Transformations in the Cultural Production of Blackness
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2006
Kamari Maxine Clarke and Deborah A. Thomas argue that a firm grasp of globalization requires an understanding of how race has constituted, and been constituted by, global transformations. Focusing attention on race as an analytic category, this state-of-the-art collection of essays explores the changing...
Unfree Masters
Popular Music and the Politics of Work
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The widespread perception of singers and musicians as free individuals doing enjoyable and fulfilling work obscures the realities of their occupation. In Unfree Masters Matt Stahl examines recording artists' labor in the music industry as a form of creative work. He begins by considering the television...
Africanizing Anthropology
Fieldwork, Networks, and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2001
Africanizing Anthropology tells the story of the anthropological fieldwork centered at the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) during the mid-twentieth century. Focusing on collaborative processes rather than on the activity of individual researchers, Lyn Schumaker gives...
Spectacular Passions
Cinema, Fantasy, Gay Male Spectatorships
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2000
The image of the movie-obsessed gay man is a widely circulating and readily recognizable element of the contemporary cultural landscape. Using psychoanalytic theory as his guide while inflecting it with insights from both film theory and queer theory, Brett Farmer moves beyond this cliché to develop...
by Thomas E. Yingling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Thomas Yingling was a rising star in American studies, a leading figure in gay and lesbian studies, and a prominent theorist of AIDS and cultural politics when he died in 1992. AIDS and the National Body is a brilliant excursion into the mind and heart of Yingling, author of the critically acclaimed...
The Audible Past
Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2003
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological...
Statistical Panic
Cultural Politics and Poetics of the Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of gender, race, and age by our culture’s scripts for “emotional” behavior and that the accelerating...
Global/Local
Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1996
This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping...