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Decay by Ghassan Hage
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62In 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... -
Decay by Ghassan Hage 9781478013808
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $126.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478013808Author Ghassan HageFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Duke University PressPublisher... -
Waiting by Ghassan Hage 9780522856934
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $45.26In this rich and insightful collection of essays, leading anthropologist Ghassan Hage brings together academics across political science, philosophy, anthropology and sociology for an examination... -
Responsibility by Ghassan Hage 9780522862263
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $45.26The concept of responsibility permeates social life. While it has many meanings, they often centre around questions of practical and moral accountability, culpability and liability. One can learn a... -
Alter-Politics by Ghassan Hage 9780522867381
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $45.26This book is a contribution to a long history of critical writing against an increasingly destructive global order marked by an excessive instrumentalisation, exploitation and degradation of the... -
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage 9780745692265
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $62.50The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the... -
Is Racism an Environmental Threat? Ghassan Hage 9780745692272
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $28.24The ecological crisis is the most overwhelming to have ever faced humanity and its consequences permeate every domain of life. This trenchant book examines its relation to Islamophobia as the... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage
Booksplease Price: $48.36Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with... -
White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society by Ghassan Hage
RRP: $107.23Booksplease Price: $96.54Anthropologist and social critic Ghassan Hage explores one of the most complex and troubling of modern phenomena: the desire for a white nation.About the AuthorGhassan Hage has lived and studied in... -
The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World by Ghassan Hage 9780226546902
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $156.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226546902Author Ghassan HageFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint University of Chicago... -
Force, Movement, Intensity: The Newtonian Imagination in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Ghassan Hage 9780522860818
RRP: $105.30Booksplease Price: $45.26Of all the scientific works that have influenced the social sciences and humanities, none has matched the profound effect of the work of Isaac Newton. In his 1687 masterpiece Principia Mathematica he... -
Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being: Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being Ghassan Hage 9781478029267
RRP: $161.85Booksplease Price: $131.70In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist's work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on... -
Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being: Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being Ghassan Hage 9781478032625
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01In Pierre Bourdieu's Political Economy of Being, Ghassan Hage explores the great French social theorist's work and revitalizes conventional and undertheorized aspects of his thinking. Hage focuses on... -
Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast Thomas Hylland Eriksen 9780745338262
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $46.88Sitting next to the Great Barrier Reef, marinated in coal and gas, the industrial boomtown of Gladstone, Australia embodies many of the contradictions of the 'overheated' world: prosperous yet... -
Bourdieusian Prospects by Lisa Adkins 9780367871673
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19Bourdieusian Prospects considers the ongoing relevance of Bourdieu's social theory for contemporary social science. Breaking with the tendency to reflect on Bourdieu's legacies, it brings established... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism by Duncan Ivison 9780815386063
RRP: $70.18Booksplease Price: $65.38The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism brings together a collection of new essays by leading and emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences on some of the key issues facing... -
The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism by Duncan Ivison
RRP: $185.23Booksplease Price: $163.96The Ashgate Research Companion to Multiculturalism brings together a collection of new essays by leading and emerging scholars in the humanities and social sciences on some of the key issues facing... -
Beirut by Samir Kassir 9780520256682
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $84.88Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work... -
Multicultural Horizons: Diversity and the Limits of the Civil Nation Anne-Marie Fortier (University of Lancaster, UK) 9780415396073
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21The intensity of feeling that multiculturalism invariably ignites is considered in this timely analysis of how the 'New Britain' of the twenty-first century is variously re-imagined as multicultural... -
Beirut by Samir Kassir 9780520271265
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $49.74Widely praised as the definitive history of Beirut, this is the story of a city that has stood at the crossroads of Mediterranean civilization for more than four thousand years. The last major work... -
Ethnographies of Waiting: Doubt, Hope and Uncertainty Manpreet K. Janeja 9781350126817
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $70.75We all wait - in traffic jams, passport offices, school meal queues, for better weather, an end to fighting, peace. Time spent waiting produces hope, boredom, anxiety, doubt, or uncertainty... -
Racism and Media by Gavan Titley 9781446298541
Booksplease Price: $152.94Digital media have radically altered understandings of racism, so that an issue that has too often been assumed to belong to the past has been thrust into contemporary mainstream debates, news and... -
Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic by Daniella Trimboli 9781785273902
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $150.33Using digital storytelling-a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s-as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in... -
Mediating Multiculturalism: Digital Storytelling and the Everyday Ethnic by Daniella Trimboli 9781839985638
Booksplease Price: $50.13Using digital storytelling-a new media genre that began in California in the late 1990s and that proliferated across 'the West' in the 2000s-as a site of analysis, this book asks, 'What is done in... -
Comparative Metaphysics: Ontology After Anthropology by Pierre Charbonnier 9781783488582
Booksplease Price: $100.82How does the ontological turn in anthropology redefine what modern, Western ontology is in practice, and offer the beginnings of a new ontological pluralism? On a planet that is increasingly... -
'Race', Culture and the Right to the City: Centres, Peripheries, Margins by Gareth Millington 9780230202702
Booksplease Price: $91.14Adopting a perspective inspired by Henri Lefebvre, this book considers the spread of multiculture from the central city to the periphery and considers the role that 'race' continues to play in... -
The Ground Between: Anthropologists Engage Philosophy by Veena Das
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89The 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... -
If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography by Didier Fassin 9780822369653
RRP: $249.60Booksplease Price: $200.27What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public... -
If Truth Be Told: The Politics of Public Ethnography by Didier Fassin
Booksplease Price: $75.17What happens when ethnographers go public via books, opinion papers, media interviews, court testimonies, policy recommendations, or advocacy activities? Calling for a consideration of this public... -
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950 by Kirsten L. Scheid
RRP: $148.20Booksplease Price: $107.25In Lebanon, the study of modern art-rather than power or hierarchy-has compelled citizens to confront how they define themselves as a postcolonial nation.In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid... -
Fantasmic Objects: Art and Sociality from Lebanon, 1920-1950 by Kirsten L. Scheid 9780253064240
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $46.37In Lebanon, the study of modern art-rather than power or hierarchy-has compelled citizens to confront how they define themselves as a postcolonial nation.In Fantasmic Objects, Kirsten L. Scheid... -
Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas by Dalia Abdelhady 9781032304403
RRP: $99.43Booksplease Price: $88.98Bringing together different strands of research on Middle Eastern diasporas, the Routledge Handbook on Middle Eastern Diasporas sheds light on diverse approaches to investigating diaspora groups in... -
Migrant Dreams: Egyptian Workers in the Gulf States by Samuli Schielke 9789774169564
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $29.33A vivid ethnography of Egyptian migrants to the Arab Gulf states, Migrant Dreams is about the imagination which migration thrives on, and the hopes and ambitions generated by the repeated experience... -
Learning Whiteness: Education and the Settler Colonial State by Arathi Sriprakash
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $35.55Whiteness is not innate - it is learned. The systems of white domination that prevail across the world are not pregiven or natural. Rather, they are forged and sustained in social and political life... -
Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment by Carole McGranahan
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $37.09In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the... -
Writing Anthropology: Essays on Craft and Commitment by Carole McGranahan 9781478006848
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $136.29In Writing Anthropology, fifty-two anthropologists reflect on scholarly writing as both craft and commitment. These short essays cover a wide range of territory, from ethnography, genre, and the... -
Fields, Capitals, Habitus: Australian Culture, Inequalities, and Social Divisions by Tony Bennett
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $223.65Fields, Capitals, Habitus provides an insightful analysis of the relations between culture and society in contemporary Australia. Presenting the findings of a detailed national survey of Australian... -
Rock Water Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa by Lesley Green
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $148.47In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and... -
Rock Water Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa by Lesley Green 9781478003991
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79In Rock | Water | Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and... -
Precarious Lives: Waiting and Hope in Iran by Shahram Khosravi
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $83.89In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of...