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This Was Not Our War
Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2004
“Replacing tyranny with justice, healing deep scars, exchanging hatred for hope . . . the women in This Was Not Our War teach us how.”—William Jefferson Clinton
This Was Not Our War shares amazing first-person accounts of twenty-six Bosnian women who are reconstructing their society following...
The Rio de Janeiro Reader
History, Culture, Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Spanning a period of over 450 years, The Rio de Janeiro Reader traces the history, culture, and politics of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, through the voices, images, and experiences of those who have made the city's history. It outlines Rio's transformation from a hardscrabble colonial outpost and strategic...
William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism
A Biography and Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
In 1906, William J. Seymour (1870–1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gastón Espinosa provides new insight into the life and ministry of Seymour, the...
We Are the Face of Oaxaca
Testimony and Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
A massive uprising against the Mexican state of Oaxaca began with the emergence of the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO) in June 2006. A coalition of more than 300 organizations, APPO disrupted the functions of Oaxaca's government for six months. It began to develop an inclusive and...
Little Manila Is in the Heart
The Making of the Filipina/o American Community in Stockton, California
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In the early twentieth century—not long after 1898, when the United States claimed the Philippines as an American colony—Filipinas/os became a vital part of the agricultural economy of California's fertile San Joaquin Delta. In downtown Stockton, they created Little Manila, a vibrant community...
Street Archives and City Life
Popular Intellectuals in Postcolonial Tanzania
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
In Street Archives and City Life Emily Callaci maps a new terrain of political and cultural production in mid- to late twentieth-century Tanzanian urban landscapes. While the postcolonial Tanzanian ruling party (TANU) adopted a policy of rural socialism known as Ujamaa between 1967 and 1985, an influx...
by Elspeth Probyn
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
In Eating the Ocean Elspeth Probyn investigates the profound importance of the ocean and the future of fish and human entanglement. On her ethnographic journey around the world's oceans and fisheries, she finds that the ocean is being simplified in a food politics that is overwhelmingly land based...
No Tea, No Shade
New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The follow-up to the groundbreaking Black Queer Studies, the edited collection No Tea, No Shade brings together nineteen essays from the next generation of scholars, activists, and community leaders doing work on black gender and sexuality. Building on the foundations laid by the earlier volume, this...
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras
Gender, Labor, and Globalization in Nicaragua
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras is a major contribution to the study of globalization, labor, and women’s movements. Jennifer Bickham Mendez presents a detailed ethnographic account of the Nicaraguan Working and Unemployed Women’s Movement, “María Elena Cuadra” (mec), which emerged...
Native Men Remade
Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Many indigenous Hawaiian men have felt profoundly disempowered by the legacies of colonization and by the tourist industry, which, in addition to occupying a great deal of land, promotes a feminized image of Native Hawaiians (evident in the ubiquitous figure of the dancing hula girl). In the 1990s...
The Dictator Next Door
The Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
The question of how U.S. foreign policy should manage relations with autocratic governments, particularly in the Caribbean and Latin America, has always been difficult and complex. In The Dictator Next Door Eric Paul Roorda focuses on the relations between the U.S. and the Dominican Republic following...
Pacifism As Pathology
Reflections on the Role of Armed Struggle in North America, third edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
Pacifism as Pathology is a dissident classic. Originally written during the '80s, the seminal essay 'Pacifism as Pathology' was prompted by Ward Churchill's frustration with what he diagnosed as a growing - and deliberately self-neutralising - 'hegemony of nonviolence' on the North American left....
Designs for the Pluriverse
Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies...
Made in China
Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2005
As China has evolved into an industrial powerhouse over the past two decades, a new class of workers has developed: the dagongmei, or working girls. The dagongmei are women in their late teens and early twenties who move from rural areas to urban centers to work in factories. Because of state laws...