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The Republic of Therapy
Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen...
Oxford Street, Accra
City Life and the Itineraries of Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2014
In Oxford Street, Accra, Ato Quayson analyzes the dynamics of Ghana's capital city through a focus on Oxford Street, part of Accra's most vibrant and globalized commercial district. He traces the city's evolution from its settlement in the mid-seventeenth century to the present day. He combines his...
Moral Economies of Corruption
State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Nigeria is famous for "419" e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers. Corruption permeates even minor official interactions, from traffic control to university admissions. In Moral Economies...
by Olufemi Vaughan
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria. Using a wealth of archival sources and extensive Africanist scholarship,...
Chinese Poetry, 2nd ed., Revised
An Anthology of Major Modes and Genres
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1997
This is the first paperback edition of a classic anthology of Chinese poetry. Spanning two thousand years—from the Book of Songs (circa 600 B.C.) to the chü form of the Yuan Dynasty (1260–1368)—these 150 poems cover all major genres that students of Chinese poetry must learn.
Newly designed,...
Ariel Dorfman
An Aesthetics of Hope
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2010
Ariel Dorfman: An Aesthetics of Hope is a critical introduction to the life and work of the internationally renowned writer, activist, and intellectual Ariel Dorfman. It is the first book about the author in English and the first in any language to address the full range of his writing to date. Consistently...
by Vladimir Jankelevitch
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives....
Averting the Apocalypse
Social Movements in India Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 1990
There are two Indias: the caste and class elite who hold all power and make up 10 to 15 percent of the population, and everyone else. Averting the Apocalypse is about everyone else. Arthur Bonner, a former New York Times reporter with long experience as a foreign correspondent in Asia, conducted interviews...
by Mladen Dolar, Alenka Zupancic
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 1998
The Cartesian cogito—the principle articulated by Descartes that "I think, therefore I am"—is often hailed as the precursor of modern science. At the same time, the cogito's agent, the ego, is sometimes feared as the agency of manipulative domination responsible for all present woes,...
Always More Than One
Individuation's Dance
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
In Always More Than One, the philosopher, visual artist, and dancer Erin Manning explores the concept of the "more than human" in the context of movement, perception, and experience. Working from Whitehead's process philosophy and Simondon's theory of individuation, she extends the concepts...
Censorium
Cinema and the Open Edge of Mass Publicity
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
In the world of globalized media, provocative images trigger culture wars between traditionalists and cosmopolitans, between censors and defenders of free expression. But are images censored because of what they mean, what they do, or what they might become? And must audiences be protected because...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Vulnerability and resistance have often been seen as opposites, with the assumption that vulnerability requires protection and the strengthening of paternalistic power at the expense of collective resistance. Focusing on political movements and cultural practices in different global locations, including...
Medium Cool
Music Videos from Soundies to Cellphones
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Music videos are available on more channels, in more formats, and in more countries than ever before. While MTV—the network that introduced music video to most viewers—is moving away from music video programming, other media developments signal the longevity and dynamism of the form. Among these...
No Future
Queer Theory and the Death Drive
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2004
In this searing polemic, Lee Edelman outlines a radically uncompromising new ethics of queer theory. His main target is the all-pervasive figure of the child, which he reads as the linchpin of our universal politics of “reproductive futurism.” Edelman argues that the child, understood as innocence...