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My Tibetan Childhood: When Ice Shattered Stone by Naktsang Nulo 9780822357124
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €90.61In My Tibetan Chldhood, Naktsang Nulo recalls his life in Tibet's Amdo region during the 1950s. From the perspective of himself at age ten, he describes his upbringing as a nomad on Tibet's eastern... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter by Colin Milburn 9780822357292
RRP: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.01In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and... -
We Are Left without a Father Here: Masculinity, Domesticity, and Migration in Postwar Puerto Rico by Eileen J. Suarez Findlay 9780822357667
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €107.34We Are Left without a Father Here is a transnational history of working people's struggles and a gendered analysis of populism and colonialism in mid-twentieth-century Puerto Rico. At its core are... -
The East Is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination by Robeson Taj Frazier 9780822357681
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €83.17During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals-including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and... -
Cosmopolitan Conceptions: IVF Sojourns in Global Dubai by Marcia C. Inhorn 9780822359135
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €96.18In their desperate quest for conception, thousands of infertile couples from around the world travel to the global in vitro fertilization (IVF) hub of Dubai. In Cosmopolitan Conceptions Marcia C... -
Feminist Surveillance Studies by Rachel E. Dubrofsky 9780822359203
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Questions of gender, race, class, and sexuality have largely been left unexamined in surveillance studies. The contributors to this field-defining collection take up these questions, and in so doing... -
The Transparent Traveler: The Performance and Culture of Airport Security by Rachel Hall 9780822359395
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52At the airport we line up, remove our shoes, empty our pockets, and hold still for three seconds in the body scanner. Deemed safe, we put ourselves back together and are free to buy the beverage we... -
Alchemy in the Rain Forest: Politics, Ecology, and Resilience in a New Guinea Mining Area by Jerry K. Jacka 9780822359791
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52In Alchemy in the Rain Forest Jerry K. Jacka explores how the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea's highlands struggle to create meaningful lives in the midst of extreme social conflict and... -
Bioinsecurities: Disease Interventions, Empire, and the Government of Species by Neel Ahuja 9780822360483
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €86.52In Bioinsecurities Neel Ahuja argues that U.S. imperial expansion has been shaped by the attempts of health and military officials to control the interactions of humans, animals, viruses, and... -
Domesticating Organ Transplant: Familial Sacrifice and National Aspiration in Mexico by Megan Crowley-Matoka 9780822360520
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €90.61Organ transplant in Mexico is overwhelmingly a family matter, utterly dependent on kidneys from living relatives-not from stranger donors typical elsewhere. Yet Mexican transplant is also a public... -
Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria by Steven Pierce 9780822360773
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates... -
Animate Planet: Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World by Kath Weston 9780822362104
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they... -
Decolonizing Dialectics by George Ciccariello-Maher 9780822362234
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98Anticolonial theorists and revolutionaries have long turned to dialectical thought as a central weapon in their fight against oppressive structures and conditions. This relationship was never easy,... -
Fungible Life: Experiment in the Asian City of Life by Aihwa Ong 9780822362494
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Fungible Life Aihwa Ong explores the dynamic world of cutting-edge bioscience research, offering critical insights into the complex ways Asian bioscientific worlds and cosmopolitan sciences are... -
Dust of the Zulu: Ngoma Aesthetics after Apartheid by Louise Meintjes 9780822362500
RRP: €111.86Booksplease Price: €90.61In Dust of the Zulu Louise Meintjes traces the political and aesthetic significance of ngoma, a competitive form of dance and music that emerged out of the legacies of colonialism and apartheid in... -
Citizenship in Question: Evidentiary Birthright and Statelessness by Benjamin N. Lawrance 9780822362913
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94Citizenship is often assumed to be a clear-cut issue-either one has it or one does not. However, as the contributors to Citizenship in Question demonstrate, citizenship is not self-evident; it... -
Sovereignty in Ruins: A Politics of Crisis by George Edmondson 9780822363026
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought... -
The Lima Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Carlos Aguirre 9780822363378
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21Covering more than 500 years of history, culture, and politics, The Lima Reader seeks to capture the many worlds and many peoples of Peru's capital city, featuring a selection of primary sources that... -
Asian Video Cultures: In the Penumbra of the Global by Joshua Neves 9780822368915
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21The contributors to this volume theorize Asian video cultures in the context of social movements, market economies, and local popular cultures to complicate notions of the Asian experience of global... -
Grateful Nation: Student Veterans and the Rise of the Military-Friendly Campus by Ellen Moore 9780822369097
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94In today's volunteer military many recruits enlist for the educational benefits, yet a significant number of veterans struggle in the classroom, and many drop out. The difficulties faced by student... -
A Theory of Regret by Brian Price 9780822369516
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.23In A Theory of Regret Brian Price contends that regret is better understood as an important political emotion than as a form of weakness. Price shows how regret allows us to see that our convictions... -
Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy by Gabriel Rockhill 9780822369646
RRP: €90.44Booksplease Price: €73.51In Counter-History of the Present Gabriel Rockhill contests, dismantles, and displaces one of the most widespread understandings of the contemporary world: that we are all living in a democratized... -
Street Archives and City Life: Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania by Emily Callaci 9780822369844
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian... -
Domestic Economies: Women, Work, and the American Dream in Los Angeles by Susanna Rosenbaum 9780822369974
RRP: €97.58Booksplease Price: €79.09In Domestic Economies, Susanna Rosenbaum examines how two groups of women-Mexican and Central American domestic workers and the predominantly white, middle-class women who employ them-seek to achieve... -
Aerial Aftermaths: Wartime from Above by Caren Kaplan 9780822370178
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.67From the first vistas provided by flight in balloons in the eighteenth century to the most recent sensing operations performed by military drones, the history of aerial imagery has marked the... -
Feeling Religion by John Corrigan 9780822370376
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.94The contributors to Feeling Religion analyze the historical and contemporary entwinement of emotion, religion, spirituality, and secularism. They show how attending to these entanglements transforms... -
Shock Therapy: Psychology, Precarity, and Well-Being in Postsocialist Russia by Tomas Matza 9780822370611
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €107.34After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia witnessed a dramatic increase in psychotherapeutic options, which promoted social connection while advancing new forms of capitalist subjectivity amid... -
Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production by Leticia Alvarado 9780822370635
RRP: €140.42Booksplease Price: €112.55In Abject Performances Leticia Alvarado draws out the irreverent, disruptive aesthetic strategies used by Latino artists and cultural producers who shun standards of respectability that are typically... -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo 9780822370949
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €82.41In 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... -
Human Rights and the Care of the Self by Alexandre Lefebvre 9780822371229
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self... -
A Primer for Teaching Environmental History: Ten Design Principles by Emily Wakild 9780822371373
RRP: €117.81Booksplease Price: €94.89A Primer for Teaching Environmental History is a guide for college and high school teachers who are teaching environmental history for the first time, for experienced teachers who want to... -
In Senghor's Shadow: Art, Politics, and the Avant-Garde in Senegal, 1960-1995 by Elizabeth Harney 9780822333951
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €31.32In Senghor's Shadow is a unique study of modern art in postindependence Senegal. Elizabeth Harney examines the art that flourished during the administration of Leopold Sedar Senghor, Senegal's first... -
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation by Daniel Fischlin 9780822354642
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €82.81The Fierce Urgency of Now links musical improvisation to struggles for social change, focusing on the connections between the improvisation associated with jazz and the dynamics of human rights... -
The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands by Christopher Wright 9780822354963
RRP: €129.71Booksplease Price: €104.54The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of... -
Anthropology in the Meantime: Experimental Ethnography, Theory, and Method for the Twenty-First Century by Michael M. J. Fischer 9781478000402
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €122.21In Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to rebuild theory for the twenty-first century. Providing a history... -
Infrahumanisms: Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood by Megan H. Glick 9781478001164
RRP: €133.28Booksplease Price: €106.98In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health... -
Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity during the Cold War by Kristen Ghodsee 9781478001393
RRP: €102.34Booksplease Price: €83.17Women from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe-what used to be called the Second World-once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely... -
Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India by Amit S. Rai 9781478001461
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €25.16In India, the practice of jugaad-finding workarounds or hacks to solve problems-emerged out of subaltern strategies of negotiating poverty, discrimination, and violence but is now celebrated in... -
Radical Histories of Sanctuary by A. Naomi Paik 9781478005247
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €11.48In "Radical Histories of Sanctuary," contributors explore both contemporary and historical invocations of "sanctuary," paying particular attention to its genealogies in social movements against state... -
Invisibility by Design: Women and Labor in Japan's Digital Economy by Gabriella Lukacs 9781478005810
RRP: €121.38Booksplease Price: €96.81In the wake of labor market deregulation during the 2000s, online content sharing and social networking platforms were promoted in Japan as new sites of work that were accessible to anyone. Enticed...