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Hybrid Constitutions
Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
In Hybrid Constitutions, Vicki Hsueh contests the idea that early-modern colonial constitutions were part of a uniform process of modernization, conquest, and assimilation. Through detailed analyses of the founding of several seventeenth-century English proprietary colonies in North America, she reveals...
After Spanish Rule
Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2003
Insisting on the critical value of Latin American histories for recasting theories of postcolonialism, After Spanish Rule is the first collection of essays by Latin Americanist historians and anthropologists to engage postcolonial debates from the perspective of the Americas. These essays extend and...
Telling to Live
Latina Feminist Testimonios
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2001
Telling to Live embodies the vision that compelled Latina feminists to engage their differences and find common ground. Its contributors reflect varied class, religious, ethnic, racial, linguistic, sexual, and national backgrounds. Yet in one way or another they are all professional producers of testimonios—or...
Fear of Small Numbers
An Essay on the Geography of Anger
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2006
The period since 1989 has been marked by the global endorsement of open markets, the free flow of finance capital and liberal ideas of constitutional rule, and the active expansion of human rights. Why, then, in this era of intense globalization, has there been a proliferation of violence, of ethnic...
Terrifying Muslims
Race and Labor in the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Terrifying Muslims highlights how transnational working classes from Pakistan are produced, constructed, and represented in the context of American empire and the recent global War on Terror. Drawing on ethnographic research that compares Pakistan, the Middle East, and the United States before and...
Women, War, and the Making of Bangladesh
Remembering 1971
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2011
Fought between India and what was then East and West Pakistan, the war of 1971 led to the creation of Bangladesh, where it is remembered as the War of Liberation. For India, the war represents a triumphant settling of scores with Pakistan. If the war is acknowledged in Pakistan, it is cast as an act...
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness
Writings, 2000–2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist,...
On Decoloniality
Concepts, Analytics, Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In On Decoloniality Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh explore the hidden forces of the colonial matrix of power, its origination, transformation, and current presence, while asking the crucial questions of decoloniality's how, what, why, with whom, and what for. Interweaving theory-praxis with...
Neoliberalism from Below
Popular Pragmatics and Baroque Economies
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
In Neoliberalism from Below—first published in Argentina in 2014—Verónica Gago examines how Latin American neoliberalism is propelled not just from above by international finance, corporations, and government, but also by the activities of migrant workers, vendors, sweatshop workers, and other...
by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Suzana Sawyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2004
The essays collected here offer important new reflections on the multiple images of and rhetoric surrounding the rain forest. The slogan “Save the Rain Forest!”—emblazoned on glossy posters of tall trees wreathed in vines and studded with monkeys and parrots—promotes the popular image of a...
How Nature Speaks
The Dynamics of the Human Ecological Condition
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
How Nature Speaks illustrates the convergence of complexity theory in the biophysical and social sciences and the implications of the science of complexity for environmental politics and practice. This collection of essays focuses on uncertainty, surprise, and positionality—situated rather than...
New Masters, New Servants
Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
On March 9, 1996, tens of thousands of readers of a daily newspaper in China’s Anhui province saw a photograph of two young women at a local long-distance bus station. Dressed in fashionable new winter coats and carrying luggage printed with Latin letters, the women were returning home from their...
Whither China?
Intellectual Politics in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2002
Whither China? presents an in-depth and wide-angled picture of Chinese intellectual life during the last decade of the millennium, as China struggled to move beyond the shadow of the Tiananmen tragedy. Because many cultural and intellectual paradigms of the previous decade were left in ruins by that...
China Urban
Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2001
China Urban is an ethnographic account of China’s cities and the place that urban space holds in China’s imagination. In addition to investigating this nation’s rapidly changing urban landscape, its contributors emphasize the need to rethink the very meaning of the “urban” and the utility...