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How Development Projects Persist: Everyday Negotiations with Guatemalan NGOs by Erin Beck
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In How Development Projects Persist Erin Beck examines microfinance NGOs working in Guatemala and problematizes the accepted wisdom of how NGOs function. Drawing on twenty months of ethnographic... -
Eros Ideologies: Writings on Art, Spirituality, and the Decolonial by Laura E. Perez
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.68In Eros Ideologies Laura E. Perez explores the decolonial through Western and non-Western thought concerning personal and social well-being. Drawing upon Jungian, people-of-color, and spiritual... -
In the Name of Women's Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism by Sara R. Farris
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53Sara R. Farris examines the demands for women's rights from an unlikely collection of right-wing nationalist political parties, neoliberals, and some feminist theorists and policy makers. Focusing on... -
This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States by Manijeh Moradian
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In This Flame Within Manijeh Moradian revises conventional histories of Iranian migration to the United States as a post-1979 phenomenon characterized by the flight of pro-Shah Iranians from the... -
In the Event of Women by Tani Barlow
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In the Event of Women outlines the stakes of what Tani Barlow calls "the event of women." Focusing on the era of the late nineteenth century through the mid 20th century Cultural... -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as... -
Extinct Lands, Temporal Geographies: Chicana Literature and the Urgency of Space by Mary Pat Brady
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29A train station becomes a police station; lands held sacred by Apaches and Mexicanos are turned into commercial and residential zones; freeway construction hollows out a community; a rancho becomes a... -
Unsustainable Empire: Alternative Histories of Hawai'i Statehood by Dean Itsuji Saranillio
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In Unsustainable Empire Dean Itsuji Saranillio offers a bold challenge to conventional understandings of Hawai'i's admission as a U.S. state. Hawai'i statehood is popularly remembered as a civil... -
Sexuality, Disability, and Aging: Queer Temporalities of the Phallus by Jane Gallop
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.52Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging work to... -
Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology by Jennifer A. Gonzalez
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $31.32This anthology provides an overview of the history and theory of Chicano/a art from the 1960s to the present, emphasizing the debates and vocabularies that have played key roles in its... -
Ecologics: Wind and Power in the Anthropocene by Cymene Howe
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97Between 2009 and 2013 Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer conducted fieldwork in Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec to examine the political, social, and ecological dimensions of moving from fossil fuels to... -
Captivating Technology: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life by Ruha Benjamin
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.34From electronic ankle monitors and predictive-policing algorithms to workplace surveillance systems, technologies originally developed for policing and prisons have rapidly expanded into nonjuridical... -
Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem by Benjamin Piekut
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26In its open improvisations, lapidary lyrics, errant melodies, and relentless pursuit of spontaneity, the British experimental band Henry Cow pushed rock music to its limits. Its rotating personnel,... -
Politics of Rightful Killing: Civil Society, Gender, and Sexuality in Weblogistan by Sima Shakhsari
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54In the early 2000s, mainstream international news outlets celebrated the growth of Weblogistan-the online and real-life transnational network of Iranian bloggers-and depicted it as a liberatory site... -
Long Term: Essays on Queer Commitment by Scott Herring
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53The contributors to Long Term use the tension between the popular embrace and legalization of same-sex marriage and the queer critique of homonormativity as an opportunity to examine the myriad forms... -
Homosexual Desire by Guy Hocquenghem
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.23Originally published in 1972 in France, Guy Hocquenghem's Homosexual Desire has become a classic in gay theory. Translated into English for the first time in 1978 and out of print since the early... -
The Memoirs of Princess Dashkova by Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.92Ekaterina Romanovna Dashkova (1743-1810), Russian princess, playwright, author, President of the Academy of Sciences, and founder and Director of the Russian Academy, was one of the first women in... -
Critical Moves: Dance Studies in Theory and Politics by Randy Martin
Booksplease Price: $43.65In Critical Moves Randy Martin sets in motion an inquiry into the relationship between dance, politics, and cultural theory. Drawing on his own experiences as a dancer as well as his observations as... -
A New Criminal Type in Jakarta: Counter-Revolution Today by James T. Siegel
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26In A New Criminal Type in Jakarta, James T. Siegel studies the dependence of Indonesia's post-1965 government on the ubiquitous presence of what he calls criminality, an ensemble of imagined forces... -
Cities and Citizenship by James Holston
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Cities and Citizenship is a prize-winning collection of essays that considers the importance of cities in the making of modern citizens. For most of the modern era the nation and not the city has... -
Stand-up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America by John Limon
RRP: $29.66Booksplease Price: $26.26Stand-Up Comedy in Theory, or, Abjection in America is the first study of stand-up comedy as a form of art. John Limon appreciates and analyzes the specific practice of stand-up itself, moving beyond... -
Agrarian Environments: Resources, Representations, and Rule in India by Arun Agrawal
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Agrarian Environments questions the dichotomies that have structured earlier analyses of environmental processes in India and offers a new way of looking at the relationship between agrarian... -
Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies by Sarah Franklin
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71The essays in Relative Values draw on new work in anthropology, science studies, gender theory, critical race studies, and postmodernism to offer a radical revisioning of kinship and kinship theory... -
German Women for Empire, 1884-1945 by Lora Wildenthal
Booksplease Price: $49.60When Germany annexed colonies in Africa and the Pacific beginning in the 1880s, many German women were enthusiastic. At the same time, however, they found themselves excluded from what they saw as a... -
White Men Aren't by Thomas DiPiero
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33Psychoanalytic theory has traditionally taken sexual difference to be the fundamental organizing principle of human subjectivity. White Men Aren't contests that assumption, arguing that other forms... -
English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China by James L. Hevia
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.71Inserting China into the history of nineteenth-century colonialism, English Lessons explores the ways that Euroamerican imperial powers humiliated the Qing monarchy and disciplined the Qing polity in... -
Political Cultures in the Andes, 1750-1950 by Nils Jacobsen
RRP: $129.00Booksplease Price: $104.26A major contribution to debates about Latin American state formation, Political Cultures in the Andes brings together comparative historical studies focused on Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Peru... -
Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred by M. Jacqui Alexander
Booksplease Price: $39.50M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her... -
Queer/Early/Modern by Carla A. Freccero
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $26.95In Queer/Early/Modern, Carla Freccero, a leading scholar of early modern European studies, argues for a reading practice that accounts for the queerness of temporality, for the way past, present, and... -
Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are Shaping Class and Status in China by Carolyn L. Hsu
RRP: $30.95Booksplease Price: $27.27In the midst of China's post-Mao market reforms, the old status hierarchy is collapsing. Who will determine what will take its place? In Creating Market Socialism, the sociologist Carolyn L. Hsu... -
Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader by Sourayan Mookerjea
Booksplease Price: $52.89Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations... -
The Proletarian Gamble: Korean Workers in Interwar Japan by Ken C. Kawashima
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Koreans constituted the largest colonial labor force in imperial Japan during the 1920s and 1930s. Caught between the Scylla of agricultural destitution in Korea and the Charybdis of industrial... -
Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform by Enrique Mayer
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process... -
Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America by Paulo Drinot
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.54Ernesto "Che" Guevara twice traveled across Latin America in the early 1950s. Based on his accounts of those trips (published in English as The Motorcycle Diaries and Back on the Road), as well as... -
Border Dilemmas: Racial and National Uncertainties in New Mexico, 1848-1912 by Anthony P. Mora
RRP: $39.99Booksplease Price: $34.33The U.S.-Mexican War officially ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which called for Mexico to surrender more than one-third of its land. The treaty offered Mexicans... -
Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture by David Palumbo-Liu
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In this collection of essays, leading cultural theorists consider the meaning and implications of world-scale humanist scholarship by engaging with Immanuel Wallerstein's world-systems analysis. The... -
Patients of the State: The Politics of Waiting in Argentina by Javier Auyero
Booksplease Price: $38.49Patients of the State is a sociological account of the extended waiting that poor people seeking state social and administrative services must endure. It is based on ethnographic research in the... -
Writing across Cultures: Narrative Transculturation in Latin America by Angel Rama
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Angel Rama was one of twentieth-century Latin America's most distinguished men of letters. Writing across Cultures is his comprehensive analysis of the varied sources of Latin American literature... -
Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City by Daniel M. Goldstein
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Outlawed, Daniel M. Goldstein reveals how indigenous residents of marginal neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, struggle to balance security with rights. Feeling abandoned to the crime and... -
Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination by Ann Laura Stoler
Booksplease Price: $40.38Imperial Debris redirects critical focus from ruins as evidence of the past to "ruination" as the processes through which imperial power occupies the present. Ann Laura Stoler's introduction is a...