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The Official World by Mark Seltzer
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In his virtuosic new book noted cultural critic Mark Seltzer shows how suspense, as art form and form of life, depicts and shapes the social systems that organize our modern world. Modernity's... -
Contracting Colonialism: Translation and Christian Conversion in Tagalog Society Under Early Spanish Rule by Vicente L. Rafael
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In an innovative mix of history, anthropology, and post-colonial theory, Vicente L. Rafael examines the role of language in the religious conversion of the Tagalogs to Catholicism and their... -
Arrogant Beggar by Anzia Yezierska
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The target of intense critical comment when it was first published in 1927, Arrogant Beggar's scathing attack on charity-run boardinghouses remains one of Anzia Yezierska's most devastating works of... -
Wet: On Painting, Feminism, and Art Culture by Mira Schor
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Taking aim at the mostly male bastion of art theory and criticism, Mira Schor brings a maverick perspective and provocative voice to the issues of contemporary painting, gender representation, and... -
Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices by John Law
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Although much recent social science and humanities work has been a revolt against simplification, this volume explores the contrast between simplicity and complexity to reveal that this dichotomy,... -
Rubble: The Afterlife of Destruction by Gaston R. Gordillo
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02At the foot of the Argentine Andes, bulldozers are destroying forests and homes to create soy fields in an area already strewn with rubble from previous waves of destruction and violence. Based on... -
Immortal Wishes: Labor and Transcendence on a Japanese Sacred Mountain by Ellen Schattschneider
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of... -
The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early-Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society by Walter G. Andrews
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91The Age of Beloveds offers a rich introduction to early modern Ottoman culture through a study of its beautiful lyric love poetry. At the same time, it suggests provocative cross-cultural parallels... -
Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians by Jane Lydon
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk... -
Mexican American Mojo: Popular Music, Dance, and Urban Culture in Los Angeles, 1935-1968 by Anthony Macias
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.54Stretching from the years during the Second World War when young couples jitterbugged across the dance floor at the Zenda Ballroom, through the early 1950s when honking tenor saxophones could be... -
Moral Spectatorship: Technologies of Voice and Affect in Postwar Representations of the Child by Lisa Cartwright
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Why were theories of affect, intersubjectivity, and object relations bypassed in favor of a Lacanian linguistically oriented psychoanalysis in feminist film theory in the 1980s and 1990s? In Moral... -
Genocide: Truth, Memory, and Representation by Alexander Laban Hinton
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61What happens to people and the societies in which they live after genocide? How are the devastating events remembered on the individual and collective levels, and how do these memories intersect and... -
Vampire Nation: Violence as Cultural Imaginary by Tomislav Z. Longinovic
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Vampire Nation is a nuanced analysis of the cultural and political rhetoric framing 'the serbs' as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century, as well as the cultural... -
Revolutionary Medicine: Health and the Body in Post-Soviet Cuba by Pierre Sean Brotherton
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Revolutionary Medicine is a richly textured examination of the ways that Cuba's public health care system has changed during the past two decades and of the meaning of those changes for ordinary... -
An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti by Marcus Rainsford
Booksplease Price: £31.21As the first complete narrative in English of the Haitian Revolution, Marcus Rainsford's An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti was highly influential in establishing nineteenth-century... -
Postcolonial Modernism: Art and Decolonization in Twentieth-Century Nigeria by Chika Okeke-Agulu
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.55Written by one of the foremost scholars of African art and featuring 129 color images, Postcolonial Modernism chronicles the emergence of artistic modernism in Nigeria in the heady years surrounding... -
Love, H: The Letters of Helene Dorn and Hettie Jones by Hettie Jones
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £33.95"It works, we're in business, yeah Babe!" So begins this remarkable selection from a forty-year correspondence between two artists who survived their time as wives in the Beat bohemia of the 1960s... -
Entry Points: The Vera List Center Field Guide on Art and Social Justice No. 1 by Carin Kuoni
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New... -
Media Theory in Japan by Marc Steinberg
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Providing an overview of Japanese media theory from the 1910s to the present, this volume introduces English-language readers to Japan's rich body of theoretical and conceptual work on media for the... -
Collective Situations: Readings in Contemporary Latin American Art, 1995-2010 by Bill Kelley
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Collective Situations scholars, artists, and art collectives present a range of socially engaged art practices that emerged in Latin America during the Pink Tide period, between 1995 and 2010... -
Life in the Age of Drone Warfare by Lisa Parks
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91This volume's contributors offer a new critical language through which to explore and assess the historical, juridical, geopolitical, and cultural dimensions of drone technology and warfare. They... -
Archiveology: Walter Benjamin and Archival Film Practices by Catherine Russell
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Archiveology Catherine Russell uses the work of Walter Benjamin to explore how the practice of archiveology-the reuse, recycling, appropriation, and borrowing of archival sounds and images by... -
The Bolivia Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Sinclair Thomson
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.55The Bolivia Reader provides a panoramic view, from antiquity to the present, of the history, culture, and politics of a country known for its ethnic and regional diversity, its rich natural resources... -
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Social Media's Influence on Fashion, Ethics, and Property by Minh-Ha T. Pham
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai "rainbow bag," using Balenciaga's hashtags to circulate memes revealing... -
The Geographies of Social Movements: Afro-Colombian Mobilization and the Aquatic Space by Ulrich Oslender
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Geographies of Social Movements Ulrich Oslender proposes a critical place perspective to examine the activism of black communities in the lowland rain forest of Colombia's Pacific Coast region... -
Spirit on the Move: Black Women and Pentecostalism in Africa and the Diaspora by Judith Casselberry
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Pentecostalism is currently the fastest-growing Christian movement, with hundreds of millions of followers. This growth overwhelmingly takes place outside of the West, and women make up 75 percent of... -
Makers of Democracy: A Transnational History of the Middle Classes in Colombia by A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo Lopez-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the... -
Blood Work: Life and Laboratories in Penang by Janet Carsten
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to... -
Technocrats of the Imagination: Art, Technology, and the Military-Industrial Avant-Garde by John Beck
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14In Technocrats of the Imagination John Beck and Ryan Bishop explore the collaborations between the American avant-garde art world and the military-industrial complex during the 1960s, in which... -
Subalternity and Representation: Arguments in Cultural Theory by John Beverley
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14The term "subalternity" refers to a condition of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic, and/or cultural dominance. Subaltern studies is,... -
The Creativity Question by Albert Rothenberg
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.66Albert Rothenberg, a psychiatrist, and Carl R. Hausman, a philosopher, have prepared a truly comprehensive interdisciplinary book of readings on creativity. This group of selections from the works of... -
Exile and Creativity: Signposts, Travelers, Outsiders, Backward Glances by Susan Rubin Suleiman
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91A major historical phenomenon of our century, exile has been a focal point for reflections about individual and cultural identity and problems of nationalism, racism, and war. Whether emigres,... -
Blutopia: Visions of the Future and Revisions of the Past in the Work of Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton by Graham Lock
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Blutopia Graham Lock studies the music and thought of three pioneering twentieth-century musicians: Sun Ra, Duke Ellington, and Anthony Braxton. Providing an alternative to previous analyses of... -
Between Two Fires: Gypsy Performance and Romani Memory from Pushkin to Post-Socialism by Alaina Lemon
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Since tsarist times, Roma in Russia have been portrayed as both rebellious outlaws and free-spirited songbirds-in each case, as if isolated from society. In Soviet times, Russians continued to harbor... -
The Vanishing: Shakespeare, the Subject, and Early Modern Culture by Christopher Pye
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89In The Vanishing Christopher Pye combines psychoanalytic and cultural theory to advance an innovative interpretation of Renaissance history and subjectivity. Locating the emergence of the modern... -
Subject Without Nation: Robert Musil and the History of Modern Identity by Stefan Jonsson
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This innovative study of the works of Robert Musil opens a new window on the history of modern identity in western culture. Stefan Jonsson argues that Musil's Austria was the first postimperial state... -
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The Nation's Tortured Body: Violence, Representation, and the Formation of a Sikh "Diaspora" by Brian Keith Axel
Booksplease Price: £34.24In The Nation's Tortured Body Brian Keith Axel explores the formation of the Sikh diaspora and, in so doing, offers a powerful inquiry into conditions of peoplehood, colonialism, and postcoloniality... -
In from the Cold: Latin America's New Encounter with the Cold War by Gilbert M. Joseph
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Over the last decade, studies of the Cold War have mushroomed globally. Unfortunately, work on Latin America has not been well represented in either theoretical or empirical discussions of the... -
The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction by Jonathan Sterne
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.22The 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... -
Discipline and the Other Body: Correction, Corporeality, Colonialism by Anupama Rao
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Discipline and the Other Body reveals the intimate relationship between violence and difference underlying modern governmental power and the human rights discourses that critique it. The comparative...