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Failure Arjun Appadurai 9781509504725
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $17.14Wall Street and Silicon Valley - the two worlds this book examines - promote the illusion that scarcity can and should be eliminated in the age of seamless "flow." Instead, Appadurai and Alexander... -
Modernity At Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization by Arjun Appadurai 9780816627936
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Examines the role of imagination in the cultural development of our shrinking world. The world is growing smaller. Every day we hear this idea expressed and witness its reality in our lives-through... -
Narratives of Debt by Peter Szendy
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93As the problem of debt grows more and more urgent in light of the central role it plays in neoliberal capitalism, scholars have analyzed debt using numerous approaches: historical analysis, legal... -
At Home in Diaspora: South Asian Scholars and the West by Jackie Assayag 9780253216366
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98During the past two decades, at the same time that the South Asian presence in the U.S. and Europe has become an increasingly visible part of mainstream social life and popular culture, scholars of... -
![Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology by Andrew C. Willford 9780804760201 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9484884/10518732/9780804760201__35904.1768985907.jpg?c=1 "Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology by Andrew C. Willford 9780804760201 [USED COPY]")
Clio/Anthropos: Exploring the Boundaries between History and Anthropology by Andrew C. Willford 9780804760201 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11The intersection between history and anthropology is more varied now than it has ever been-a look at the shelves of bookstores and libraries proves this. Historians have increasingly looked to the... -
The Great Regression Heinrich Geiselberger 9781509522361
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $16.54We are living through a period of dramatic political change - Brexit, the election of Trump, the rise of extreme right movements in Europe and elsewhere, the resurgence of nationalism and xenophobia... -
After the Internet Ramesh Srinivasan (UCLA) 9781509506187
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $19.40In the wake of Edward Snowden's revelations, and concern that the internet has heightened rather than combated various forms of political and social inequality, it is time we ask: what comes after a... -
![Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta 9780822321835 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5081720/5080899/9780822321835__34393.1723053190.jpg?c=1 "Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta 9780822321835 [USED COPY]")
Postcolonial Developments: Agriculture in the Making of Modern India by Akhil Gupta 9780822321835 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $1.53This definitive study brings together recent critiques of development and work in postcolonial studies to explore what the postcolonial condition has meant to rural people in the Third World... -
99 Theses on the Revaluation of Value: A Postcapitalist Manifesto by Brian Massumi 9781517905873
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.11A speculative exploration of value, emphasizing practical experimentation in its future forms How can we begin to envision a postcapitalist economy without first engineering a radically new concept... -
Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India by Ranajit Guha
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96Foreword by James ScottThis classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha-intellectual founder of the... -
Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern: Political Oratory and the Social Imaginary in South Asia by Bernard Bate
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Throughout history, speech and storytelling have united communities and mobilized movements. Protestant Textuality and the Tamil Modern examines this phenomenon in Tamil-speaking South India over the... -
The Homegrown City: Reclaiming the Metropolis For Those Who Use It by Matias Sendoa Echanove 9781788730136
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08Slums, informal settlements, and other unplanned habitats are seen as the antithesis of the metropolis. Matias Echanove and Rahul Srivastava, found ers of the design practice urbz, explore how such... -
Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space by Keller Easterling 9781784783648
Booksplease Price: $29.13Extrastatecraft is the operating system of the modern world: the skyline of Dubai, the subterranean pipes and cables sustaining urban life, free-trade zones, the standardized dimensions of credit... -
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis by Walter D. Mignolo
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.17In 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... -
Losing Culture: Nostalgia, Heritage, and Our Accelerated Times by David Berliner
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $20.26We're losing our culture... our heritage... our traditions... everything is being swept away. Such sentiments get echoed around the world, from aging Trump supporters in West Virginia to young... -
Medium Design: Knowing How to Work on the World by Keller Easterling
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $13.96Everyone is a designer. But while many practitioners may be looking for solutions or ideological certainties, Easterling argues that solutions are mistakes and ideologies are unreliable markers... -
Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason by Martijn Konings 9781503604438
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.35Critics of capitalist finance tend to focus on its speculative character. Our financial markets, they lament, encourage irresponsible bets on the future that reflect no real underlying value. Why is... -
Necropolitics by Achille Mbembe
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.52In Necropolitics Achille Mbembe, a leader in the new wave of francophone critical theory, theorizes the genealogy of the contemporary world, a world plagued by ever-increasing inequality,... -
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Signal and Noise: Media, Infrastructure, and Urban Culture in Nigeria by Brian Larkin 9780822340904 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $1.38Mainstream media and film theory are based on the ways that media technologies operate in Europe and the United States. In this groundbreaking work, Brian Larkin provides a history and ethnography of...