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Missing: Youth, Citizenship, and Empire after 9/11 by Sunaina Marr Maira
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61In Missing, Sunaina Marr Maira explores how young South Asian Muslim immigrants living in the United States experienced and understood national belonging (or exclusion) at a particular moment in the... -
The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela by Miguel Tinker Salas
Booksplease Price: £35.21Oil has played a major role in Venezuela's economy since the first gusher was discovered along Lake Maracaibo in 1922. As Miguel Tinker Salas demonstrates, oil has also transformed the country's... -
Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America by Jane S. Jaquette
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Latin American women's movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written... -
Life between Two Deaths, 1989-2001: U.S. Culture in the Long Nineties by Philip E. Wegner
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Through virtuoso readings of significant works of American film, television, and fiction, Phillip E. Wegner demonstrates that the period between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the... -
A Certain Age: Colonial Jakarta through the Memories of Its Intellectuals by Rudolf Mrazek
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48A Certain Age is an unconventional, evocative work of history and a moving reflection on memory, modernity, space, time, and the limitations of traditional historical narratives. Rudolf Mrazek... -
Cities Surround The Countryside: Urban Aesthetics in Postsocialist China by Robin Visser
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Denounced as parasitical under Chairman Mao and devalued by the norms of traditional Chinese ethics, the city now functions as a site of individual and collective identity in China. Cities envelop... -
In the Shadows of the State: Indigenous Politics, Environmentalism, and Insurgency in Jharkhand, India by Alpa Shah
Booksplease Price: £33.25In the Shadows of the State suggests that well-meaning indigenous rights and development claims and interventions may misrepresent and hurt the very people they intend to help. It is a powerful... -
Transpacific Femininities: The Making of the Modern Filipina by Denise Cruz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this groundbreaking study, Denise Cruz investigates the importance of the figure she terms the "transpacific Filipina" to Philippine nationalism, women's suffrage, and constructions of modernity... -
The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities by Doris Sommer
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46Celebrating art and interpretation that take on social challenges, Doris Sommer steers the humanities back to engagement with the world. The reformist projects that focus her attention develop... -
The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy by Veena Das
Booksplease Price: £38.58The guiding inspiration of this book is the attraction and distance that mark the relation between anthropology and philosophy. This theme is explored through encounters between individual... -
Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology by Orin Starn
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Using the influential and field-changing Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropology address anthropology's past, present, and future... -
Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid by Frank B. Wilderson
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.31In 1995, a South African journalist informed Frank Wilderson, one of only two American members of the African National Congress (ANC), that President Nelson Mandela considered him "a threat to... -
Owners of the Sidewalk: Security and Survival in the Informal City by Daniel M. Goldstein
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61Many of Bolivia's poorest and most vulnerable citizens work as vendors in the Cancha mega-market in the city of Cochabamba, where they must navigate systems of informality and illegality in order to... -
Photography after Photography: Gender, Genre, History by Abigail Solomon-Godeau
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.55Presenting two decades of work by Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Photography after Photography is an inquiry into the circuits of power that shape photographic practice, criticism, and historiography. As... -
Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing by Anand Pandian
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field... -
Decay by Ghassan Hage
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In eleven sharp essays, the contributors to Decay attend to the processes and experiences of symbolic and material decay in a variety of sociopolitical contexts across the globe. They examine decay... -
Trouillot Remixed: The Michel-Rolph Trouillot Reader by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.44Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean... -
Composing Violence: The Limits of Exposure and the Making of Minorities by Moyukh Chatterjee
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68In 2002, armed Hindu mobs attacked Muslims in broad daylight in the west Indian state of Gujarat. The pogrom, which was widely seen over television, left more than one thousand dead. In Composing... -
Divided Bodies: Lyme Disease, Contested Illness, and Evidence-Based Medicine by Abigail A. Dumes
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61While many doctors claim that Lyme disease-a tick-borne bacterial infection-is easily diagnosed and treated, other doctors and the patients they care for argue that it can persist beyond standard... -
The Social Medicine Reader, Volume I, Third Edition: Ethics and Cultures of Biomedicine by Jonathan Oberlander
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The extensively updated and revised third edition of the bestselling Social Medicine Reader provides a survey of the challenging issues facing today's health care providers, patients, and caregivers... -
The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery: Biocapitalism and Black Feminism's Philosophy of History by Alys Eve Weinbaum
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In The Afterlife of Reproductive Slavery Alys Eve Weinbaum investigates the continuing resonances of Atlantic slavery in the cultures and politics of human reproduction that characterize contemporary... -
Anti-Japan: The Politics of Sentiment in Postcolonial East Asia by Leo T. S. Ching
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In... -
Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank by Kareem Rabie
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.24In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating... -
Entertaining the Third Reich: Illusions of Wholeness in Nazi Cinema by Linda Schulte-Sasse
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In this persuasive reversal of previous scholarship, Linda Schulte-Sasse takes an unorthodox look at Nazi cinema, examining Nazi films as movies that contain propaganda rather than as propaganda... -
Between Legitimacy and Violence: A History of Colombia, 1875-2002 by Marco Palacios
Booksplease Price: £28.59Between Legitimacy and Violence is an authoritative, sweeping history of Colombia's "long twentieth century," from the tumultuous civil wars of the late nineteenth century to the drug wars of the... -
Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles by Cindy Garcia
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Los Angeles, night after night, the city's salsa clubs become social arenas where hierarchies of gender, race, and class, and of nationality, citizenship, and belonging are enacted on and off the... -
The Children of 1965: On Writing, and Not Writing, as an Asian American by Min Hyoung Song
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Since the 1990s, a new cohort of Asian American writers has garnered critical and popular attention. Many of its members are the children of Asians who came to the United States after the Immigration... -
The Anagonist by Timothy Bewes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478014812Author Timothy BewesFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint -
Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation by Francesco Adinolfi
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12Tiki torches, cocktails, la dolce vita, and the music that popularized them-Mondo Exotica offers a behind-the-scenes look at the sounds and obsessions of the Space Age and Cold War period as well as... -
Fugitive Life: The Queer Politics of the Prison State by Stephen Dillon
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £79.74During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global... -
Puta Life: Seeing Latinas, Working Sex by Juana María Rodríguez
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In Puta Life, Juana Maria Rodriguez probes the ways that sexual labor and Latina sexuality become visual phenomena. Drawing on state archives, illustrated biographies, documentary films,... -
Screening Social Justice: Brave New Films and Documentary Activism by Sherry B. Ortner
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.90In Screening Social Justice, award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner presents an ethnographic study of Brave New Films, a nonprofit film production company that makes documentaries intended to... -
Policing Chinese Politics: A History by Michael Dutton
Booksplease Price: £39.24Beginning with the bloody communist purges of the Jiangxi era of the late 1920s and early 1930s and moving forward to the wild excesses of the Cultural Revolution, Policing Chinese Politics explores... -
Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas by Aaron Bobrow-Strain
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Intimate Enemies is the first book to explore conflicts in Chiapas from the perspective of the landed elites, crucial but almost entirely unexamined actors in the state's violent history. Scholarly... -
Punk and Revolution: Seven More Interpretations of Peruvian Reality by Shane Greene
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71In Punk and Revolution Shane Greene radically uproots punk from its iconic place in First World urban culture, Anglo popular music, and the Euro-American avant-garde, situating it instead as a... -
The Magic of Concepts: History and the Economic in Twentieth-Century China by Rebecca E. Karl
RRP: £102.00Booksplease Price: £82.08In The Magic of Concepts Rebecca E. Karl interrogates "the economic" as concept and practice as it was construed historically in China in the 1930s and again in the 1980s and 1990s. Separated by the... -
The End of Pax Americana: The Loss of Empire and Hikikomori Nationalism by Naoki Sakai
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36In The End of Pax Americana, Naoki Sakai focuses on U.S. hegemony's long history in East Asia and the effects of its decline on contemporary conceptions of internationality. Engaging with themes of... -
Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body by Elizabeth A. Wilson
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78How can scientific theories contribute to contemporary accounts of embodiment in the humanities and social sciences? In particular, how does neuroscientific research facilitate new approaches to... -
Zapotec Women: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Globalized Oaxaca by Lynn M. Stephen
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In this extensively revised and updated second edition of her classic ethnography, Lynn Stephen explores the intersection of gender, class, and indigenous ethnicity in southern Mexico. She provides a... -
Postsocialism and Cultural Politics: China in the Last Decade of the Twentieth Century by Xudong Zhang
Booksplease Price: £78.14In Postsocialism and Cultural Politics, Xudong Zhang offers a critical analysis of China's "long 1990s," the tumultuous years between the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown and China's entry into the...Qty in Cart: 0Price:Booksplease Price: £78.14Subtotal: