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Bringing It All Back Home: Essays on Cultural Studies by Lawrence Grossberg 9780822319160
Booksplease Price: $51.50As one of the founding figures of cultural studies, Lawrence Grossberg was an early participant in the Birmingham Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies' project, one which sought to develop a... -
Black Skins, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity by Shirley Anne Tate
RRP: $58.04Booksplease Price: $54.49Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation. The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations... -
Race, Identity and Citizenship: A Reader Rodolfo D. Torres (California State University, Long Beach) 9780631210221
RRP: $60.57Booksplease Price: $57.04In recent years, race and ethnicity have been the focus of theoretical, political, and policy debates. This comprehensive and timely reader covers the range of topics that have been at the center of... -
Irreparable Evil: An Essay in Moral and Reparatory History by David Scott 9780231213042
RRP: $150.93Booksplease Price: $117.98What was distinctive about the evil of the transatlantic slave trade and New World slavery? In what ways can the present seek to rectify such historical wrongs, even while recognizing that they lie... -
Change and the Politics of Certainty by Jenny Edkins 9781526119018
RRP: $103.20Booksplease Price: $79.48How do we transform the world when we are ourselves inescapably part of it? If we cannot know what makes the world the way it is, or what impact our actions will have, where do we begin? Renowned... -
The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture by Toby Miller 9781978817517
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence,... -
22 Fictions: New Writing from Desperate Literature and Brick Lane Bookshop 9781917283069
RRP: $19.35Booksplease Price: $13.55A curated selection drawn from the first five years of two indie bookseller-run projects-Madrid's Desperate Literature Short Fiction Prize and London's Brick Lane Bookshop Short Story Prize-these 22... -
Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies by Patricia Noxolo (University of Birmingham, UK) 9780367682842
RRP: $69.65Booksplease Price: $62.15The Routledge Handbook of Caribbean Studies provides a critical collection of world-class scholarship about this fascinating, diverse and dynamic region.Bringing together new and established voices... -
Violence by Toby Miller
Booksplease Price: $77.50Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus... -
Media Studies: A Reader by Sue Thornham
RRP: $43.85Booksplease Price: $39.62Media Studies: A Reader introduces a full range of theoretical perspectives through which the media may be explored, analysed, critiqued, and understood. The Reader reaches back to essential... -
The Persistence of Violence: Colombian Popular Culture by Toby Miller
RRP: $154.80Booksplease Price: $126.94Colombia's headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence,... -
Against Racism: Organizing for Social Change in Latin America by Monica Moreno
Booksplease Price: $67.13Powerful narratives often describe Latin American nations as fundamentally mestizo. These narratives have hampered the acknowledgement of racism in the region, but recent multiculturalist reforms... -
Identity: A Reader by Jessica Evans 9780761969167
Booksplease Price: $117.83Identity provides an essential resource of key statements drawn from cultural studies, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, and includes three editorial essays, which place the readings in their... -
Social Justice for the Oppressed: Critical Educators and Intellectuals Speak Out by Pierre Wilbert Orelus 9781475804478
Booksplease Price: $55.19This book draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Molefi... -
Dancing in Spite of Myself: Essays on Popular Culture by Lawrence Grossberg
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $30.29In Dancing in Spite of Myself, Lawrence Grossberg-well known as a pioneering figure in cultural studies-has collected essays written over the past twenty years that have also established him as one... -
James Baldwin: American and Beyond by Cora Kaplan 9780472071524
Booksplease Price: $108.18"This fine collection of essays represents an important contribution to the rediscovery of Baldwin's stature as essayist, novelist, black prophetic political voice, and witness to the Civil Rights... -
Critique for What?: Cultural Studies, American Studies, Left Studies by Joel Pfister
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03Students want to know: What does one do with critique? Fortunately, some of the most provocative self-critical intellectuals, from the postwar period to the postmodern present, have wrestled with... -
Urbanism without Guarantees: The Everyday Life of a Gentrifying West Side Neighborhood by Christian M. Anderson
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.53A unique more-than-capitalist take on urban dynamics Vigilante action. Renegades. Human intrigue and the future at stake in New York City. In Urbanism without Guarantees, Christian M. Anderson offers... -
Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World by Daniel Horowitz 9780812243956
RRP: $72.24Booksplease Price: $59.91How is it that American intellectuals, who had for 150 years worried about the deleterious effects of affluence, more recently began to emphasize pleasure, playfulness, and symbolic exchange as the... -
Profiles in Contemporary Social Theory by Anthony Elliott 9780761965893
Booksplease Price: $91.82This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel... -
Change and the Politics of Certainty by Jenny Edkins 9781526119032
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.37How do we transform the world when we are ourselves inescapably part of it? If we cannot know what makes the world the way it is, or what impact our actions will have, where do we begin? Renowned... -
Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix by Erica B. Edwards
RRP: $61.91Booksplease Price: $57.78Intersectional Analysis as a Method to Analyze Popular Culture: Clarity in the Matrix explores how race, class, gender, sexuality, and other social categories are represented in, and constructed by,... -
Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics, and Policy by David R. Berman
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $47.91This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the... -
Violence by Toby Miller 9780367523152
RRP: $32.24Booksplease Price: $31.45Using discourses from across the conceptual and geographical board, Toby Miller argues for a different way of understanding violence, one that goes beyond supposedly universal human traits to focus... -
Cultural Hybridity by Peter Burke 9780745646961
Booksplease Price: $59.71The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to... -
Cultural Hybridity Peter Burke (Emmanuel College, Cambridge) 9780745646978
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $18.68The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to... -
Sonic Bodies: Reggae Sound Systems, Performance Techniques, and Ways of Knowing by Julian Henriques 9781441144294
Booksplease Price: $48.66Breaking new ground in the field of Sound Studies, this book provides an in-depth study of the culture and physicality of dancehall reggae music. The reggae sound system has exerted a major influence... -
On Living in an Old Country: The National Past in Contemporary Britain by Patrick Wright
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.63The hulk of Henry VIII's flagship is raised from the seabed in an operation that captures the mind of the nation. The leader of the Labour party wears an informal coat at the Cenotaph and provokes a... -
The Live Art Almanac: Volume 4 by Lois Keidan
Booksplease Price: $27.09Drawing together all kinds of writing about and around Live Art, The Live Art Almanac is both a useful resource and a great read for artists, writers, students and others interested in the field of... -
How Green is Your Smartphone? Richard Maxwell 9781509534722
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $12.41Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be "green." All... -
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye by Andaiye 9780745341262
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $85.59Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through... -
Visual Culture: The Reader by Jessica Evans 9780761962489
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $49.45`This collection of classic essays in the study of visual culture fills a major gap in this new and expanding intellectual field. Its major strength is its insistence on the importance of three... -
Holding Aloft the Banner of Ethiopia: Caribbean Radicalism in Early Twentieth Century America by Winston James 9781788736459
RRP: $25.79Booksplease Price: $18.37Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, Claudia Jones, C.L.R. James, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farakhan-the roster of immigrants from the Caribbean who have made a profound impact on the development of radical... -
How Green is Your Smartphone? by Richard Maxwell 9781509534715
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.34Every day we are inundated by propaganda that claims life will be better once we are connected to digital technology. Poverty, famine, and injustice will end, and the economy will be "green." All... -
Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies: On Refusing to be Realistic John Storey 9781138706873
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09In Radical Utopianism and Cultural Studies, John Storey looks at the concept of utopianism from a cultural studies perspective and argues that radical utopianism can awaken the political promise of... -
The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye Andaiye 9780745341279
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $27.34Radical activist, thinker, comrade of Walter Rodney, Andaiye was one of the Caribbean's most important political voices. For the first time, her writings are published in one collection. Through... -
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $23.23At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history-when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism-David Scott argues the... -
Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott 9780822334330
RRP: $105.78Booksplease Price: $85.73At this stalled and disillusioned juncture in postcolonial history-when many anticolonial utopias have withered into a morass of exhaustion, corruption, and authoritarianism-David Scott argues the... -
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends by Hammad Nasar 9781904561781
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $22.81Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends is the first book to document the extraordinary activity at the LYC Museum & Art Gallery in Banks, Cumbria between 1972 and 1983. The LYC was the... -
Cultural Studies 50 Years On: History, Practice and Politics by Kieran Connell 9781783483938
Booksplease Price: $58.44Stuart Hall conceptualized his time at the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies as a series of interruptions. It was this fluidity that gave rise to Hall's conception of cultural studies as a...