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Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment by David Scott
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.13At 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... -
Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership by Brenna Bhandar
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.31In Colonial Lives of Property Brenna Bhandar examines how modern property law contributes to the formation of racial subjects in settler colonies and to the development of racial capitalism... -
On the Inconvenience of Other People by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.10In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encounter with and the desire for the bother of other... -
Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis by Katherine McKittrick
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.49The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore... -
A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock by Carolyn J. Dean
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.10A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the interpretation of non-Western art. Carolyn Dean... -
Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of our leading theorists of sexuality, politics, and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the unbearable they don't propose... -
Art beyond Itself: Anthropology for a Society without a Story Line by Nestor Garcia Canclini
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.33First published in Spanish in 2010, Art beyond Itself is Nestor Garcia Canclini's deft assessment of contemporary art. The renowned cultural critic suggests that, ideally, art is the place of... -
The African Roots of Marijuana by Chris S. Duvall
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28After arriving from South Asia approximately a thousand years ago, cannabis quickly spread throughout the African continent. European accounts of cannabis in Africa-often fictionalized and reliant... -
Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization by Jeffrey S. Juris
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $12.26Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples' Global Action (PGA)-including the mobilization against the November 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle-anti-corporate... -
Given to the Goddess: South Indian Devadasis and the Sexuality of Religion by Lucinda Ramberg
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44Who and what are marriage and sex for? Whose practices and which ways of talking to god can count as religion? Lucinda Ramberg considers these questions based upon two years of ethnographic research... -
Gut Feminism by Elizabeth A. Wilson
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40In Gut Feminism Elizabeth A. Wilson urges feminists to rethink their resistance to biological and pharmaceutical data. Turning her attention to the gut and depression, she asks what conceptual and... -
Selected Political Writings: The Great Moving Right Show and Other Essays by Stuart Hall
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $27.28Selected Political Writings gathers Stuart Hall's best-known and most important essays that directly engage with political issues. Written between 1957 and 2011 and appearing in publications such as... -
Empire of Neglect: The West Indies in the Wake of British Liberalism by Christopher Taylor
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46Following the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations, nineteenth-century liberal economic thinkers insisted that a globally hegemonic Britain would profit only by abandoning the formal... -
Trans Studies en las Americas by Cole Rizki
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87Shifting the geopolitics of trans studies, travesti theory is a Latinx American body of work with an extensive transregional history. As a particular body politics, travesti identification is not... -
Dark Continents: Psychoanalysis and Colonialism by Ranjana Khanna
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.10Sigmund Freud infamously referred to women's sexuality as a "dark continent" for psychoanalysis, drawing on colonial explorer Henry Morton Stanley's use of the same phrase to refer to Africa. While... -
Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History by Stuart Hall
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall... -
Facing the Planetary: Entangled Humanism and the Politics of Swarming by William E. Connolly
RRP: $32.15Booksplease Price: $28.33In Facing the Planetary William E. Connolly expands his influential work on the politics of pluralization, capitalism, fragility, and secularism to address the complexities of climate change and to... -
Queer Fire: Liberation and Abolition by Marquis Bey
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87This special issue brings together scholars, artists, and activists working at the intersections of queer theory, critical race studies, and radical movements to consider prison abolition as a... -
Reading Sex Work by Heather Berg
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95In this special issue, contributors theorize sexual labor as both work and a site of labor resistance and transformation. Rather than critiquing sex work itself, they consider what scholars of... -
Code: From Information Theory to French Theory by Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $23.40In Code Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan reconstructs how Progressive Era technocracy as well as crises of industrial democracy and colonialism shaped early accounts of cybernetics and digital media by... -
Possessing Polynesians: The Science of Settler Colonial Whiteness in Hawai`i and Oceania by Maile Renee Arvin
RRP: $29.47Booksplease Price: $25.49From their earliest encounters with Indigenous Pacific Islanders, white Europeans and Americans asserted an identification with the racial origins of Polynesians, declaring them to be racially almost... -
Security from the South: Intersections of Religion, Gender, and Race by Samar Al-Bulushi
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Contributors to this special issue use a pluriversal lens to trace the colonial continuities, the imperial geographies, and the forms of difference through which people become subjects of, resist,... -
Black Feminisms in the Americas by Ginetta E. B. Candelario
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $18.17Bringing together Black feminist conversations and debates taking place across the transnational Americas, North and South, this special issue covers, among other topics, #BlackGirlMagic, Black... -
The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos by Dionne Brand
RRP: $26.73Booksplease Price: $16.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478000204Author Dionne BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint < -
Intimate Empire: Collaboration and Colonial Modernity in Korea and Japan by Nayoung Aimee Kwon 9780822359258
RRP: $36.17Booksplease Price: $31.46In Intimate Empire Nayoung Aimee Kwon examines intimate cultural encounters between Korea and Japan during the colonial era and their postcolonial disavowal. After the Japanese empire's collapse in... -
Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution by James Ferguson 9780822358862
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $24.44In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South... -
Microgroove: Forays into Other Music by John Corbett 9780822358701
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $36.06Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues,... -
Class and Consent by Christopher Phelps 9781478017387
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93Since numerous allegations of sexual harassment and assault were leveled at Harvey Weinstein in 2017, the #MeToo movement has affected public discussions of sexual abuse in the workplace, the... -
Sexual Politics, Sexual Panics by Robyn Wiegman 9781478004936
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93This special issue of differences provides spirited commentaries on the critical and political stakes of contemporary sexual politics in the United States. In a series of short keyword essays in the... -
This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace by Swanee Hunt 9780822333555
RRP: $171.52Booksplease Price: $20.90"Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how."-William Jefferson ClintonThis Was Not Our War shares amazing... -
On Chantal Akerman by Patricia White 9781478004912
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87The milestone 100th issue of Camera Obscura recognizes the work and legacy of Belgian filmmaker Chantal Akerman (1950-2015). Arguably the most important figure in feminist film culture, Akerman is... -
Violence and Policing by Madiha Tahir 9781478005230
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Contributors to this special issue examine the discourse and practices of policing, providing insights into how policing transforms societal relationships and develops and maintains order... -
May '68 by Donald Matthew Reid 9781478000501
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $12.93This issue presents new directions in the study of the civil unrest in France during May 1968 on its fiftieth anniversary. Authors from France and the United States emphasize the nature and... -
The Lettered City by Angel Rama 9780822317661
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31Posthumously published to wide acclaim, The Lettered City is a vitally important work by one of Latin America's most highly respected theorists. Angel Rama's groundbreaking study-presented here in... -
Curating Crisis by Tom Sellar 9780822368618
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $10.87This issue examines how performance curators are responding to today's crises both within the world of theater and performance and in the broader spheres of politics, economics, and history... -
Critical Theory and Pre-Modern Chinese Literature by Stephen J Roddy 9781478017363
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Contributors to this special issue evaluate the influence of Western critical theory on the development of Chinese literary studies since the mid-twentieth century. By examining the development of... -
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El Alto, Rebel City: Self and Citizenship in Andean Bolivia by Sian Lazar 9780822341291 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $1.65Combining anthropological methods and theories with political philosophy, Sian Lazar analyzes everyday practices and experiences of citizenship in a satellite city to the Bolivian capital of La Paz:... -
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Acid Rain and Friendly Neighbors: The Policy Dispute Between Canada and the United States by Jurgen Schmandt 9780822308706 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $8.58From reviews of the first edition:"Covers a wide range of issues with balance and clarity. . . . I can recommend the book highly as an intermediate-level source of information and insight into the... -
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Universities and the Future of America by Derek Bok 9780822310365 [USED COPY]
RRP: $53.60Booksplease Price: $5.36Since World War II, says the author, industrialized nations have come to depend so heavily on expert knowledge, scientific discovery, and highly trained personnel that universities have become "the... -
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On Faulkner: The Best from American Literature by Edwin H. Cady 9780822309604 [USED COPY]
RRP: $128.64Booksplease Price: $3.40From 1929 to the latest issue, American Literature has been the foremost journal expressing the findings of those who study our national literature. The journal has published the best work of...