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Movement and the Ordering of Freedom: On Liberal Governances of Mobility by Hagar Kotef
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14We live within political systems that increasingly seek to control movement, organized around both the desire and ability to determine who is permitted to enter what sorts of spaces, from gated... -
Wake the Town and Tell the People: Dancehall Culture in Jamaica by Norman C. Stolzoff
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.78Jamaican dancehall has long been one of the most vital and influential cultural and artistic forces within contemporary global music. Wake the Town and Tell the People presents, for the first time, a... -
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 by Anna Everett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Returning the Gaze Anna Everett revises American film history by recuperating the extensive and all-but-forgotten participation of black film critics during the early twentieth century. While much... -
That Affair Next Door and Lost Man's Lane by Anna Katherine Green
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Anna Katharine Green was the most famous and prolific writer of detective fiction in the United States prior to Dashiell Hammett. Her first novel, The Leavenworth Case, was the bestseller of 1878... -
The Argentina Reader: History, Culture, Politics by Gabriela Nouzeilles
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.13Excessively European, refreshingly European, not as European as it looks, struggling to overcome a delusion that it is European. Argentina-in all its complexity-has often been obscured by variations... -
Suffering for Territory: Race, Place, and Power in Zimbabwe by Donald S. Moore
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Since 2000, black squatters have forcibly occupied white farms across Zimbabwe, reigniting questions of racialized dispossession, land rights, and legacies of liberation. Donald S. Moore probes these... -
Writing Taiwan: A New Literary History by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91Writing Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading... -
Mediterranean Crossings: The Politics of an Interrupted Modernity by Iain Chambers
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £20.89The cultural theorist Iain Chambers is known for his historically grounded, philosophically informed, and politically pointed inquiries into issues of identity, alterity, and migration, and the... -
Afro Asia: Revolutionary Political and Cultural Connections between African Americans and Asian Americans by Fred Ho
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91With contributions from activists, artists, and scholars, Afro Asia is a groundbreaking collection of writing on the historical alliances, cultural connections, and shared political strategies... -
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value by Edward Mack
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature... -
Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 3rd edition with a new introduction by the author by Steven Feld
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.12This thirtieth anniversary edition of Sound and Sentiment makes Steven Feld's landmark, field-defining book available to a new generation of scholars and students. A sensory ethnography set in the... -
The Edge of Islam: Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast by Janet McIntosh
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected... -
Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java by Karen Strassler
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £30.04A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses... -
Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America by Rodolfo Kusch
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Originally published in Mexico in 1970, Indigenous and Popular Thinking in America is the first book by the Argentine philosopher Rodolfo Kusch (1922-79) to be translated into English. At its core is... -
Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century by Angela Ki Che Leung
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61This collection expands the history of colonial medicine and public health by exploring efforts to overcome disease and improve human health in Chinese regions of East Asia from the late nineteenth... -
Mondo Nano: Fun and Games in the World of Digital Matter by Colin Milburn
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.91In Mondo Nano Colin Milburn takes his readers on a playful expedition through the emerging landscape of nanotechnology, offering a light-hearted yet critical account of our high-tech world of fun and... -
The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity by Yael Navaro-Yashin
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21The Make-Believe Space is a book of ethnographic and theoretical meditation on the phantasmatic entanglement of materialities in the aftermath of war, displacement, and expropriation. "Northern... -
Listening in Detail: Performances of Cuban Music by Alexandra T. Vazquez
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Listening in Detail is an original and impassioned take on the intellectual and sensory bounty of Cuban music as it circulates between the island, the United States, and other locations. It is also a... -
The Echo of Things: The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands by Christopher Wright
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.70The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of... -
The Privatization of Hope: Ernst Bloch and the Future of Utopia, SIC 8 by Peter Thompson
RRP: £86.00Booksplease Price: £69.59The concept of hope is central to the work of the German philosopher Ernst Bloch (1885-1977), especially in his magnum opus, The Principle of Hope (1959). The "speculative materialism" that he first... -
The First Anglo-Afghan Wars: A Reader by Antoinette Burton
Booksplease Price: £34.56Designed for classroom use, The First Anglo-Afghan Wars gathers in one volume primary source materials related to the first two wars that Great Britain launched against native leaders of the Afghan... -
We Dream Together: Dominican Independence, Haiti, and the Fight for Caribbean Freedom by Anne Eller
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.32In We Dream Together Anne Eller breaks with dominant narratives of conflict between the Dominican Republic and Haiti by tracing the complicated history of Dominican emancipation and independence... -
Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government by Tony Bennett
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in... -
Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America by Jennifer Terry
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Attachments to War Jennifer Terry traces how biomedical logics entangle Americans in a perpetual state of war. Focusing on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2002 and 2014, Terry identifies the... -
Considering Emma Goldman: Feminist Political Ambivalence and the Imaginative Archive by Clare Hemmings
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02In Considering Emma Goldman Clare Hemmings examines the significance of the anarchist activist and thinker for contemporary feminist politics. Rather than attempting to resolve the tensions and... -
Diaspora's Homeland: Modern China in the Age of Global Migration by Shelly Chan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Diaspora's Homeland Shelly Chan provides a broad historical study of how the mass migration of more than twenty million Chinese overseas influenced China's politics, economics, and culture. Chan... -
Atmospheric Things: On the Allure of Elemental Envelopment by Derek P. McCormack
RRP: £112.00Booksplease Price: £90.20In Atmospheric Things Derek P. McCormack explores how atmospheres are imagined, understood, and experienced through experiments with a deceptively simple object: the balloon. Since the invention of... -
Genres of Listening: An Ethnography of Psychoanalysis in Buenos Aires by Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.24In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires. She traces how psychoanalytic listening circulates beyond the clinical setting... -
Colonial Racial Capitalism by Susan Koshy
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.02The contributors to Colonial Racial Capitalism consider anti-Blackness, human commodification, and slave labor alongside the history of Indigenous dispossession and the uneven development of... -
The Transsexual/Transvestite Issue by Emmett Harsin Drager
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £8.11Contributors to this special issue challenge the racialization, relegation, and invisibilization of trans experience. While "transsexual" and "transvestite" were central categories that organized... -
Kin: Thinking with Deborah Bird Rose by Thom van Dooren
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The contributors to Kin draw on the work of anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose (1946-2018), a foundational voice in environmental humanities, to examine the relationships of interdependence and... -
September 11 in History: A Watershed Moment? by Mary L. Dudziak
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £72.71Hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers, the idea that the September 11 attacks had "changed everything" permeated American popular and political discussion. In the period since then, the events... -
What's Love Got to Do with It?: Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic by Denise Brennan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In locations around the world, sex tourism is a booming business. What's Love Got to Do with It? is an in-depth examination of the motivations of workers, clients, and others connected to the sex... -
Callaloo Nation: Metaphors of Race and Religious Identity among South Asians in Trinidad by Aisha Khan
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48Mixing-whether referred to as mestizaje, callaloo, hybridity, creolization, or multiculturalism-is a foundational cultural trope in Caribbean and Latin American societies. Historically entwined with... -
Materiality by Daniel Miller
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £19.58Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief-whether religious or secular-have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely... -
Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power by Elizabeth Grosz
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.21Recently the distinguished feminist theorist Elizabeth Grosz has turned her critical acumen toward rethinking time and duration. Time Travels brings her trailblazing essays together to show how... -
Capitalist Humanitarianism by Lucia Hulsether
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46The struggle against neoliberal order has gained momentum over the last five decades---to the point that economic elites have not only adapted to the Left's critiques but incorporated them for... -
For a Pragmatics of the Useless by Erin Manning
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.19What has a use in the future, unforeseeably, is radically useless now. What has an effect now is not necessarily useful if it falls through the gaps. In For a Pragmatics of the Useless Erin Manning... -
Elementary Aspects of the Political: Histories from the Global South by Prathama Banerjee
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Elementary Aspects of the Political Prathama Banerjee moves beyond postcolonial and decolonial critiques of European political philosophy to rethink modern conceptions of "the political" from the... -
Thought Crime: Ideology and State Power in Interwar Japan by Max M. Ward
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.48In Thought Crime Max M. Ward explores the Japanese state's efforts to suppress political radicalism in the 1920s and 1930s. Ward traces the evolution of an antiradical law called the Peace...